The location of this study is in the south of Papua Island, to be precise in the southwest of the city of Merauke.

This study uses seismic data acquired by the Geological Agency in 2017, other seismic data, and three drilled well data. There are three drilling wells in the research area, namely the E-1X, E-2X, and E-3X wells. The status of these three wells is a dry hole with plugged and abandoned. Therefore, this study uses the newly acquired data to reveal other types of play that have the potential to trap hydrocarbons.The stratigraphy of the study area was obtained from the correlation of the three exploration wells. Starting from the rocks of Pre-Cambrian, Upper Paleozoic, Triassic, Cretaceous and Miocene. The first analysis to be carried out is the seismic interpretation of the results of the binding of the E-2X well and the ARSEL_06 line. The oldest rock is the intrusive sill which is estimated to be 748 mya. Above these rocks are Permian age rocks obtained from the seismic cross section on the right side of the ARSEL-06 line. The Permian age rocks are overwritten by Cretaceous rocks, namely Aptian and Albian ages. This Cretaceous age rock begins with Lowstand Cretaceous sandstone, on the left it is continued by Aptian Prograding Shoreface, transgressive marine, and regressive. The Cretaceous rocks are covered by Miocene rocks.

Based on the results of the seismic facies interpretation, two potential reservoirs were found in the study area, namely the Aptian Prograding Shoreface and the Permian Fluvio-Deltaic Lacustrine pinchout play. Volumetric calculations were performed on both plays, and the volumes were 3242.32 MMBO for the oil case and 3884 TCF for the gas case for the Aptian Prograding Shoreface play and 2902.25 MMBO for the oil case and 3.4 TCF for the gas case for the Permian Fluvio-Deltaic Lacustrine pinchout play.Geochemical analysis was carried out to determine the potential of source rock in the study area, geochemical analysis showed that the potential source rock in the research area is Paleozoic age rock, as seen from the vitrinite reflectance curve which has passed the number 0.6 and also this Paleozoic age rock has a transformation ratio value. However, it is hoped that rocks that are younger than Permian age rocks can also become source rocks in deeper parts