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      • Carbonates, buried at 800 to 1200m below sea-level, show increased porosity over known oil and gas fields. Their high porosity yields a low density, making them ideally suited for detection with FTG.

      Air-FTG® Tzz component over Luconia. White polygons locate known carbonate build-ups; purple line locates composite seismic line shown in Figure 2.
      Figure 1. Air-FTG® Tzz component over Luconia. White polygons locate known carbonate build-ups; purple line locates composite seismic line shown in Figure 2.

      FTG is a multi tensor-component technology that simultaneously measures the rate of change of gravity in all directions of the field as presented by sub-surface geological density contrasts. This makes FTG an ideal technology of choice for assessing carbonate build-ups and their likely composition. Varying degrees of porosity correspond to varying degrees of density and so directly influence the FTG response.

      Profiled Tzz coincident with located seismic. Negative Tzz anomaly indicates high porosity, positive Tzz indicates lower porosity
      Figure 2: Profiled Tzz coincident with located seismic. Negative Tzz anomaly indicates high porosity, positive Tzz indicates lower porosity

      Conventional gravity shown in Figure 3 identifies low-density areas associated with known gas fields (black outline) from known carbonate bodies (white outline). However, it is FTG’s full tensor measurement offering high accuracy and ultra high resolution that permits assessment of compositional complexity.

      Invariant tensor analysis of the FTG data (Figure 3) clearly identifies and locates potential for additional low density (increased porosity) material both within and proximal to the known gas fields.

      Conventional Gravity from FTG (left) and Invariant Tensor from FTG (right). Negative anomalies locate areas of low density / high porosity. White polygons outline known carbonates; black polygons outline known Gas fields
      Figure 3: Conventional Gravity from FTG (left) and Invariant Tensor from FTG (right). Negative anomalies locate areas of low density / high porosity. White polygons outline known carbonates; black polygons outline known Gas fields