Quantitative Fault-Seal Prediction In ‘Ikeuka’ Field, Onshore Niger Delta Nigeria

INTRODUCTION The aim of hydrocarbon exploration is to locate economic quantities of hydrocarbon in the subsurface and to consider viable ways to develop them. The accumulations are usually found to be trapped within certain stratigraphic as well as structural or combined features. One of such structural features are fault-dependent traps and other stratigraphic and structural features comprise of salt or shale diapirs, sand lenses, stratigraphic pinch-outs, unconformities and anticlinal structures. Faults do not only control the presence of hydrocarbons in a trap, but they also control the volume of the hydrocarbons that have accumulated as well as their distributions among a series of stacked sands and within a single sand body amongst many fault compartments (Adagunodo et al., 2017).