This course explains how to derive and use saturation height functions in your daily petrophysical work and incorporate them seamlessly into your default evaluations. All aspects of saturation height are covered in detail including how to avoid common mistakes, correct and fit the lab results and apply the saturation function with logs. Mercury, air-brine, oil-brine, porous plate and centrifuge experiments are compared and contrasted with recommendations on how to achieve optimal results. Reservoir Types and Rock Types, including complex carbonate pore systems, are covered along with the proper selection of plug samples, lab corrections and the various data fitting techniques.
All the commonly used fit equations are described from the simple FOIL (BVW) to the author’s modified J as well as the Winland R35 and Thomeer methods. Critical (Solver) fitting techniques and check plots are shown to ensure precise functions. A long and detailed, step-by-step practical from the lab and reservoir’s raw data, through to reservoir saturations and HPV is an important focus of this course and provides a re-usable evaluation template. The quick-look micro-practicals also include an example of the very simple but useful FOIL function. Following derivation of the SCAL function the practical goes on to fully integrate all routine core analysis plugs and logged resistivity via the Archie or Waxman Smits equations - a unique feature of this course consistent with modern, real-world petrophysical integration. The process creates a robust and fully integrated [SCAL – RCA – Log driven] petrophysical model for use in both petrophysics and geomodels by any member of the reservoir team. This model can be quickly re-run from logs for “what if?” scenarios by any team member. Integrating the Swht model through to logs in this way, so it can be re-run identically by anyone in geology, petrophysics or reservoir engineering, provides a powerful and transparent quality control which tends to focus and harmonise team thinking throughout the exploration to development process.
Time is spent on understanding and addressing carbonate complex pore system saturation-height issues, including vugs, fractures and wettability.
A similar process is then outlined but this time deriving the [Por-k-Sw-height] relationship from resistivity and NMR logs - a method employed where the petrophysicist believes logs reveal the true reservoir Sw more properly than the available core (some N.Sea fields).
Core-Log integration has been the central topic of the author’s Imperial College Ph.D. and over 30 years of consulting, reading and lecturing on core-log integration. It is also the central purpose of the PetroDB software which expands essential core-log integration to SCAL and modern logs.
Course Level: Skill Duration: 3 days Instructor: Mark Deakin
Designed for you, if you are...
A petrophysicist, reservoir engineer, core analyst, geologist, geo-modeler or engineer who builds or uses static or dynamic reservoir models
A professional with a year’s experience in core-log integration
How we build your confidence
This course explains the industry wide saturation-height method and shows how to integrate all routine core analysis plugs and logs with special core analysis
The benefits from attending
Topics
Day 1
Intro and Lab
Why Saturation Height? Sw = f.(por, k, ht)
Reservoir Pc and its effect on Saturation - what we model in the lab
What are Reservoir Rock Types (RRTs) and why they are important for Swht
Clastic vs Carbonate RRTs
Rocktyping: after RCA before SCAL
What is Capillary Pressure?
Laboratory Pc
Micro-practical. Quick Look Swht
Capillary Pressure Lab apparatus
Is your lab setup a genuine analogy with your initial conditions reservoir?
Lab Problems: are plugs representative? Temperature, pressure & salinity. Altered wettability. Lab vs Reservoir Pc range
Lab Vetting Samples. Vetting lab results
Lab Corrections
Practical - corrections and impact
Day 2
Daily Recap
Which? Mercury Injection, Air-Brine, Oil-Brine
Does porosity, permeability, facies or all three drive reservoir Swht? PTSD – throats
Petrophysicist: Always plot Swht with Swlogs
Lab Swht Interpretation
Capillary Pressure Fit equations - Fit each plug or fit all?