Roberto Max de Argollo

Teores de potássio, urânio, tório e taxa de produção de calor radiogênico no embasamento adjacente às bacias sedimentares de Camamu e Almada, Bahia, Brasil

The bedrock adjacent to Camamu and Almada sedimentary basins is characterized mainly by rocks of granulite and amphibolite facies, with archean and paleoproterozoic ages, which belong to orogen Itabuna-Salvador-Curaca. The units in major proportion in this context are the metatonalites associated with basic and metamonzonites belonging to Itabuna belt. In smaller area occur the Teolândia granite and the Moenda granodiorite associated with the Ipiau band amphibolites, the charnockites and charnoenderbites of Jequie bloc, the neoproterozoic sienites and the mafic dikes. The K, U and Th contents of the rocks vary from 0,02 to 6,33% for K, from < 0,2 to 9,10 ppm for U and from < 0,4 to 64,38 ppm for Th. These contents are higher in the charnockites, Moenda granodiorite, Teolândia granite and sienites, intermediate in the metatonalites and metamonzonites and lower in the basic granulites. The heat production rates are higher in the lithologies where K, U and Th are also higher, varying from 0,58 to 5,57 µW m-3. The coverage areas of such lithologies are, however, small compared with that of the metatonalitic granulites, metamonzonitic granulites and sienites where the rates vary from 0,10 to 1,44 µW m-3, 0,23 to 5,55 µW m-3 and 0,60 to 2,24 µW m-3, respectively. In this case, the heat production rates vary from 0,10 to 1,44 µW m-3. The basic granulites have the smaller rates, from 0,06 to 0,36 µW m-3. The observation of the lithologies in the margins of the two basins suggest that, in the bedrock under the younger sediments, may predominate the metatonalites, followed by the metamonzonites, with some significant participation of sienites in the Almada basin. In those lithologies, the volumetric heat production rates, with one standard deviation range, are 0,41 ± 0,30 µW m-3 for metatonalites, 0,71 ± 0,57 µW m-3 for metamonzonites and 1,20 ± 0,51 µW m-3 for sienites.

Characterization of organic matter in a sediment Core near the Mataripe refinery, Bahia-Brazil.

A sediment core was taken from the Todos os Santos Bay, near the Mataripe Bahia-Brazil refinery. The results of dating, (210)Pb and (137)Cs methods, combined with organic indicators, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), n-alkanes and total organic carbon (TOC), showed significant change with the start of production of the oil fields of Aratu, Itaparica and Dom João (1939-1947) and the construction of the Mataripe refinery (1949-1950). This event was marked by a series of significant changes, including an abrupt increase in TOC and the growth of PAH concentrations and the presence Unresolved/Resolved ratio (UR/R)>4 in n-alkanes fraction, which indicated that the contamination was of petrogenic origin. The δ(13)C of specific n-alkanes compounds showed gradual deplete with the depth.

Correção de dados de temperatura de fundo de poço (TFP)

577 registers of bottom-hole temperature (BHT) from 207 wells distributed throughout the Reconcavo, Camamu, Almada, Cumuruxatiba and Jequitinhonha sedimentary basins, Bahia-Brazil, were corrected to obtain true temperatures of the formations. The methodology used to correct these temperatures consisted in using the Eq.(1) numerically resolved as the data set shows two or more registers of temperatures at the same depth (exponential integral method) and in application of the time-depth scheme as we had only one temperature registered per depth. The corrections obtained by the two methods show that the formation static temperatures are 5 to 20oC greater than the non-corrected ones. We tested the validity of the time-depth scheme applying the empirical equation developed in this work on the multiple temperature registers taking the higher ones among them. The average geothermal gradient within the basins, obtained with the temperatures corrected by that method, presents a discrepancy of only 2,8% as compared to the one obtained with the corrected data by the exponential integral method, shows that it is a valid method to correct temperatures in the basins studied. The mean geothermal gradient obtained with corrected BHTs within all basins was (27,9 ±2,1) × 10-3 oC m-1.