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Comparison of magnetic and gamma ray logging for correlations in chronology and lithology: example from the Aquitanian Basin (France) |
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| Authors: | J Thibal A Etchecopar J-P Pozzi V Barthès & J Pocachard |
| Institution: | Schlumberger, 50 avenue J. Jaurès, 92541 Montrouge, France,; Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Géologie, CNRS. UMR 8538, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. E-mail:;, Centre Etudes Nucléaires, Laboratoire d'Electronique de Technologie et Instrumentation, 38041 Grenoble, France |
| Abstract: | Precise time and facies correlations between drilled holes are fundamental for a better understanding of the geological evolution of sedimentary basins. A downhole magnetic measurement device called the geological high-sensitivity magnetic tool (GHMT) has been run within two wells drilled by Gaz de France in the Landes oil-field (southwest France) as part of a gas storage exploration program. The method of interpretation of downhole magnetic measurements yielded a magnetostratigraphy within each well, allowing absolute dating and time correlations between the wells. Magnetic susceptibility and natural gamma ray intensity are useful parameters for establishing high-resolution lithological correlations at a basin scale. We present a correlation parameter established from a simultaneous analysis of the susceptibility and the gamma ray logs within each well. The correlation parameter appears to provide a new tool for delineating lithological elements when local lithological changes are too subtle to show clear well-to-well correlations either from susceptibility logs or from gamma ray logs. This new approach is interpreted as a sensitive way to detect relative variations between the detrital and clay content of the penetrated sediment. |
| Keywords: | gamma ray lithological correlation magnetic susceptibility magnetostratigraphy |