Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 407-418.doi: 10.11743/ogg20170222

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New method for reservoir petrophysical modeling of submarine fan channels:A case from Oilfield A in West Africa

Zhang Jiajia1, Wu Shenghe1, Fan Ting'en2, Fan Hongjun2, Lin Peng1, Jiang Shining1   

  1. 1. College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China;
    2. CNOOC Research Institute, Beijing 100028, China
  • Received:2015-10-30 Revised:2017-02-15 Online:2017-04-28 Published:2017-05-04

Abstract: Submarine fan channels,mainly deep-water gravity flow deposits,are generally characterized by diverse lithofacies types and poor correlation of porosity-permeability due to the complicated genetic mechanisms,which brings significant challenges to reservoir petrophysical modeling.Taking oilfield A in West Africa as an example,this paper proposes a new method for reservoir petrophyscial modeling of the submarine fan channels based on a comprehensive analysis of re-servoir features and their correlation with seismic attributes.This method features in "multi-facies control and multi-attributes collaboration".In contrast with the traditional facies-controlled modeling in which porosity modeling is simply controlled by sedimentary facies,this method first builds a reservoir facies model under the control of facies architecture model and then build porosity model under the control of the reservoir facies model.Given that the deep-water channel sandbodies show poor porosity-permeability correlation as a whole but good porosity-permeability correlation for different lithofacies,this method further supplements "lithofacies-control" in permeability modeling.Besides,this method also adds seismic-collaboration in the reservoir facies modeling in comparison with the common collaborative modeling.

Key words: reservoir petrophysical modeling, facies-controlled modeling, collaborative modeling, submarine fan channel, West Africa

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