The technicians who performed the Geochemical studies of Hydrocarbons source rock In different parts of the country, to detect if the Dominican Republic has exploitable depositsrecommended to continue with the survey in the area of Gas associated with coal In the Sánchez region, since this resource can constitute an important reserve.
The final report of the research project entitled: “Reconstruction of the thermal history of the sedimentary basins of the Dominican Republic”, published by the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (Refidomsa), together with the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University, also indicated that some wells of the Pale field They present a Continuous oil flow and water, which is estimated could be between five and 10 barrels per day of oil.
“This oil flow has affected the surrounding environment by contaminating the soil and groundwater aquifers for 100 years. It is suggested to carry out an intervention of the intervention of the Pale field In order to control the oil flow and store it in tanks for later transport to the Dominican refinery, in Santo Domingo, “said the document.
The conclusions of the results obtained from the Geochemical studies of the Hydrocarbons source rockthey indicated that in the basins of Azua, San Juan, Enriquillo and Cibao, you have presence of strong rocks of Hydrocarbons related to marine environment limestones with a Moderate Toc contentQuerogen Type II and states of thermal maturity in the generation window of Hydrocarbons.
“The potential of recoverable reserves of the Cibao and Enriquillo basins is mainly gas, according to the presence of gas chimneys identified in some seismic lines and gas rezumader reported in these two basins. Gas reserves in the western and Enriquillo Cibao basins add 867.65 x 109 cubic feet, “he said.
The researchers concluded that Geochemical models of the Enriquillo and Cibao basins indicate that these present a gas potential.
They stressed that potential reserves of oil and gas in the Azua-San Juan basins, Enriquillo and Cibao are relatively low when comparing them with countries with oil tradition. “However, they are economically exploitable And of great Strategic importance For the Dominican Republic. “
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Through the document it was explained that the Petrophysical information allowed to identify oil reservoirs with Effective porosity Between 15 and 19 %, Poraal space oil between 59 and 86 %, water saturation between 16 to 31 %and thickness of the oil deposits between 10 and 19 meters.
In addition, the potential reserves of oil determined by the deterministic method They are 63.65 million barrels. Those estimated by the Mount Carlo Probabilistic Method They indicated that they vary between 46.9 and 107.2 million barrels with a P50.14 million barrels of oil pens.
