Sound Completes Basin Modelling

Monday, July 2, 2018

Sound Energy has now finalized a new geochemical and Basin Modelling study across its Tendrara-Lakbir, Matarka and Anoual permits, in eastern Morocco.

The key conclusions from the geochemical study and Basin Model include:

• The hydrocarbon charge across the eastern Morocco Portfolio is predominantly generated from a carbonate rich marine source rock, interpreted as of Devonian age. The Basin Model predicts that there is sufficient gas charge available to fill the high graded TAGI leads and prospects.
• The prediction of a potentially significant oil play within the Palaeozoic on the Anoual permit area (in addition to the Paleozoic gas play already identified).  Further 2D seismic data is currently being acquired and processed over this play fairway, which is being evaluated as a candidate for the planned third exploration well (TE-11).
• The Basin Model also enables Sound to provide estimated volumes for the range of hydrocarbons available for migration into mapped prospects and leads across the Eastern Morocco Portfolio and is an update on the work undertaken in early 2017.

The company commissioned the Basin Model from the leading independent petroleum systems analysis consultancy, Integrated Geochemical Interpretation Ltd (IGI). IGI built the model to assess the overall basin potential, to provide further data to derisk specific prospects and to evaluate the range of parameters that control the magnitude, phase and timing of hydrocarbon generation, expulsion and migration across the Eastern Morocco Portfolio areas.

The Basin Model utilizes horizons derived from the recently acquired Full Tensor Gravity gradiometry (FTG) survey and new calibration data from the TE-6, TE-7 and TE-8 wells. The FTG data has been processed and interpreted to produce a series of permit wide surfaces that have been used to define the extent of the potential Paleozoic basins, the source of the hydrocarbons. The Basin Model has allowed Sound to model in 3-dimensions the evolution of the petroleum system, and migration of the hydrocarbons through time.

The results of the modelling provide the company with material to further derisk the extent of the Palaeozoic petroleum system across its Eastern Morocco acreage.

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