Abdul Latif Ashadi, Yardenia Martinez, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Tilman Hanstein, Xiayu Xu, Abid Khogali, Andri Yadi Paembonan, Ahmed AlShaibani, Assem Al-Karnos, Maxim Smirnov, Kurt Strack, Pantelis Soupios
We conducted an initial high-power CSEM (controlled-source electromagnetic method) survey in a coastal salt-flat area in the broader area of Half Moon Bay, in the southern part of Dammam Peninsula in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. The primary purpose of this work was to verify the technology, but we were also able to detect and characterize potential economic brines in the study area. For a high-quality data acquisition, several transmitter–receiver configurations, different acquisition parameters, and passive and active EM data were collected, evaluated, processed, and interpreted to characterize the subsurface. The long-offset EM (LOTEM) and the focused-source EM (FSEM) were the optimum configurations due to the high-quality of the collected data. This is a starting point for using the CSEM method towards the O&G, geothermal, CO2 sequestration, groundwater, lithium brine, and other natural resources’ exploration and exploitation in the Gulf countries. © 2022 by the authors.
Department of Geosciences, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia; Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, 50923, Germany; KMS Technologies—KJT Enterprises, Houston, 77079, TX, United States; Department of Geophysical Engineering, Sumatera Institute of Technology, Lampung, 35365, Indonesia; Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Department of Civil, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, 97187, Sweden; IRC-Center of Integrated Petroleum Research-CIPR and IRC-Renewable Energy and Power System Center-REPSC, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia