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Xu, C., 2010, Previous HitPorosityNext Hit partitioning and Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit quantification in vuggy carbonates, Permian Basin, west Texas, U.S.A., in M. Poppelreiter, C. Garcia-Carballido, and M. Kraaijveld, eds., Dipmeter and borehole image log technology: AAPG Memoir 92, p. 309319.

DOI:10.1306/13181290M923411

Copyright copy2010 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Previous HitPorosityNext Hit Partitioning and Previous HitPermeabilityNext Hit Quantification in Vuggy Carbonates, Permian Basin, West Texas, U.S.A.

Chunming Xu1

1Shell International Exploration and Production, Woodcreek, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This chapter was modified from ldquoPrevious HitPorosityNext Hit partitioning and Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit quantification in vuggy carbonates using wireline logs, Permian Basin, west Texasrdquo published in the Petrophysics Journal, Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), v. 47, no. 1, p. 13–22. The author thanks ExxonMobil Production Company for the permission to publish these data. Special thanks go to Bill Newberry of Schlumberger for his contribution of the Previous HitporosityNext Hit partitioning analysis.

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Using high-resolution electrical borehole images and other open-hole log data in 13 wells, a case study was conducted to analyze the Previous HitporosityNext Hit and Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit heterogeneity in the Means field in the Permian Basin, west Texas. Because of negligible clay and other conductive minerals in the predominantly dolomitic rocks, the electrical images are converted into microporosity maps of the boreholes using a modified Archie equation. The vug Previous HitporosityNext Hit is then partitioned from the total Previous HitporosityNext Hit by analyzing the Previous HitporosityNext Hit spectra around the boreholes in the sliding windows of 1-in. (2.5-cm)-thick interval. A practical workflow was also developed to compute a sonic vug-Previous HitporosityNext Hit index using the sonic, neutron, and density logs. The two vug porosities based on the independent measurements support each other in the Means field except that the sonic vug-Previous HitporosityNext Hit index has much lower resolution than the image-derived Previous HitporosityNext Hit. Through iterative experiments, a synthetic Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit model is established using the total Previous HitporosityNext Hit and vug-Previous HitporosityNext Hit logs. The core Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit in the vuggy dolomites varies exponentially with the product of the vug-Previous HitporosityNext Hit and vug-connectivity factor. Thin superpermeable vuggy zones below the resolution of the conventional logs are revealed by the electrical images and the Previous HitpermeabilityNext Hit quantification. These superpermeable zones sandwiching thick oil-bearing reservoir rocks are the primary cause for the early high water cut and the bypassed oil. Integration of the continuous high-resolution Previous HitpermeabilityTop logs, the petrophysical facies from supervised neural network (SNN) processing, and the production data from both producers and injectors provide valuable insights to reservoir modeling.

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