Detailed geoscience reinterpretation of Indonesia's Mahakam delta scores

Abstract

This paper reports that extensive reinterpretation of geological and geophysical data from the Mahakam delta of Indonesia has recently been completed, allowing the petroleum system of the entire area to be clearly understood. Handicaps related to the huge volume of data and scarcity of accurate stratigraphic information were overcome by using specially designed data sheets and by applying sequence stratigraphy and a number of specific and specially designed geological tools that proved very effective.