Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 755-764.doi: 10.11743/ogg20210320

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Non-deterministic method for tight oil reserves upgrade potential assessment and its application

Jun Li()   

  1. Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2020-04-28 Online:2021-06-28 Published:2021-06-23

Abstract:

Reserves upgrade potential assessment of continental tight oil reservoirs in China encounters a series of problems such as high reservoir heterogeneity, great uncertainties caused by limited geological understanding of certain stages, and marked differences between static and dynamic evaluation results.All these are difficult to be dealt with conventional deterministic methods.Therefore, a systematic non-determinstic reserves upgrade potential assessment method was proposed.The method is an improved version in terms of the following three aspects.Firstly, with uncertainties considered, the reserves with upgrading potential are quantitatively determined under diverse reliabilities.Secondly, a mutual correction and comprehensive evaluation of the static and dynamic methods is made possible by applying the posteriori probability theory.Thirdly, reserves upgrade probabilities and scales are quantitatively evaluated based on probability method by introducing the concept of upgrade probability.The reserves upgrade probability and scale under different oil prices and engineering technology conditions were clearly seen when applying the method to the possibility assessment of upgrading 'controlled reserves' to a higher reserves category for tight oil reservoirs in the Chang 8 Member of Well Block A, Ordos Basin.This shows that the method could be of effective technical support to tight oil reserves upgrade evaluation and exploration target optimization in China.

Key words: reserves upgrade scale, reserves upgrade probability, non-deterministic assessment method, posteriori probability distribution, tight oil reservoir

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