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Volume: 68 (1984)

Issue: 9. (September)

First Page: 1222

Last Page: 1222

Title: Cotton Valley Sandstone of East Texas: A Log-Core Study: ABSTRACT

Author(s): D. A. Wilson, W. M. Hensel, Jr.

Abstract:

A comparison of calculations of various reservoir parameters, from logs and cores, provides guidelines for understanding reservoir evaluation in the Cotton Valley Sandstone of east Texas. The cores and logs are from the Carthage field area in Panola County. In these rocks, grain size distribution and the degree of shaliness, in addition to porosity, control permeability and irreducible water saturation. Clays in the Cotton Valley are mainly illite and chlorite. Cementation factor and saturation exponent values vary on a bed-by-bed basis; however, values of a = 1, m = 1.83, and an average value of n = 1.89 are acceptable for general evaluations. Sun's BITRI program was used to compute values for lithology porosity and water saturation, in good agreement with standard core nd x-ray analysis. Cotton Valley Sandstone intervals with porosities less than 4% appear to be nonproductive.

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