577 registers of bottom-hole temperature (BHT) from 207 wells distributed throughout the Recôncavo, 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.
bottom-hole temperature; BHT correction; geothermal gradient
