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Integrated geophysical study of Lower Indus basin at regional scale

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The Lower Indus Basin in Pakistan has its significance and has proven oil and gas potential in Pakistan. To explore its hidden realities on basis of advance technologies of exploration geophysics, the present study has carried out to open new horizons in the field of exploration geophysics. It combines study of stratigraphical and structural trends of Lower Indus basin for each formation on regional scales including evaluation of resource potential based on seismic and well log data. The seismic interpretation models are based on iso velocity depth contour method and seismic inversion models are based on sparse spike models. The seismic inversion data approach was used first time on Indus basin to understand trapping mechanism of hydrocarbons with performing reservoir characterization. Tomography imaging has reveal earth properties and the focal mechanism inversion covered the geological formations. The data integration techniques such as co-kriging or neural networks were used for single and multiobjective function optimization for formations evaluation of entire area. The seismic amplitude and inversion anomaly, potentially indicative of porous reservoirs, are located in each formation. The results of cretaceous sand’s reserve for lower Indus basin prove compressionional tectonics with many anticlinal and faults. The study is an important support for prospect evaluation and hydrocarbon reserve estimations and was necessary to delineate unexplored parts.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by two Grants (I) Govt. of Pakistan; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources with Grant No. DB-1(2)/2013-RL (Vol-III).and (II) Govt. of China, Ministry of Education, with Grant No. 2012GXZC30. We appreciated helpful comments from anonymous reviewer.

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  1. Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

    Nasir Khan & Peimin Zhu

  2. Laboratoire de Recherche Appliquée en Géoscience et Environnement, Institut Supérieur des Mines et Géologie de Boké, 84, Boké, BP, Guinea

    Ahmed Amara Konaté

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Khan, N., Zhu, P. & Konaté, A.A. Integrated geophysical study of Lower Indus basin at regional scale. Arab J Geosci 14, 1214 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-07568-4

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