Production from Muschelkalk carbonates (Triassic, NE Netherlands) - Unique play or overlooked opportunity? ...

producing hydrocarbons onshore the Netherlands. This paper aims at comprehensively describing these relatively unknown reservoirs and speculating on additional play potential outside of the current production areas. The Muschelkalk formation consists of partially porous Lower and Upper Muschelkalk carbonates separated by tight Middle Muschelkalk evaporites. The 100 meter thick Lower Muschelkalk holds 1.9 bcm gas in the De Wijk field. The reservoir is a limestone-dolomite-marl succession producing from several decimetres thick calcisilitic dolo-mudstones encased in tight lime-mudstones. The res... Mehr ...