the prediction of lithology is necessary in all areas of petroleum engineering. this means that todesign a project in any branch of petroleum engineering, the lithology must be well known. supportvector machines (svm’s) use an analytical approach to classification based on statistical learningtheory, the principles of structural risk minimization, and empirical risk minimization. in thisresearc...

Heterogeneity of permeability is an important factor affecting the production of a carbonate reservoir. How to correctly characterize the heterogeneity of permeability has become a key issue for carbonate reservoir development. In this study, the reservoirs were categorized into four superimposed modes based on the actual logging data from a super-giant heterogeneous carbonate reservoir in the ...

Received: January 14, 2017 Revised: April 13, 2017 Accepted: May 15, 2017 Abstract: Introduction: To address reservoir quality assessment in highly complex and heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs, a methodology utilizing fuzzy logic is developed and presented in this paper. Based on carbonate reservoir characteristics, three parameters reflecting the macroscopic and microscopic of storage abunda...

  Application of Archie equation in carbonate reservoirs is not easy due to high dependence of its parameters on carbonate characteristics. Carbonates are very heterogeneous in nature and hydrocarbon reserve estimation in these reservoirs of mostly oil-wet and intermediate-wet is highly influenced by the input values of saturation exponent. To our knowledge, non representative oils have been us...

application of archie equation in carbonate reservoirs is not easy due to high dependence of its parameters on carbonate characteristics. carbonates are very heterogeneous in nature and hydrocarbon reserve estimation in these reservoirs of mostly oil-wet and intermediate-wet is highly influenced by the input values of saturation exponent. to our knowledge, non representative oils have been used...

The Class 2 Project at West Welch was designed to demonstrate the use of advanced technologies to enhance the economics of improved oil recovery (IOR) projects in lower quality Shallow Shelf Carbonate (SSC) reservoirs, resulting in recovery of additional oil that would otherwise be left in the reservoir at project abandonment. Accurate reservoir description is critical to the effective evaluati...

Several countries, including Canada, contain sizeable bitumen resources in highly fractured carbonate rocks. Any possible recovery of bitumen from these reservoirs will be highly dependent on proper understanding of the rock and fluid properties and how they vary in the reservoir. These carbonates are extremely heterogeneous, and as a result proper reservoir characterization is challenging. In ...

Many world class large carbonate reservoirs leave behind at least half of the initial oil in place. Typically water injection is used to improve oil recovery while gas injection is used to maintain pressure or to promote oil gravity drainage. Immiscible gas injection, including injection of CO2, has been considered but not implemented on a large scale for economic reasons. Furthermore, interest...

Carbonate reservoirs are a highly heterogeneous type of reservoir characterized by the presence large amount vugs and pores. During two-phase displacement, flow regime in might be gravity segregated. The distribution pattern fluid would accelerate water downward horizontal directions, meanwhile decelerating an upward direction, resulting different oil recovery ratio. This gives rise to question...

pore pressureis defined as the pressure of the fluid inside the pore space of the formation, which is also known as the formation pressure. when the pore pressure is higher than hydrostatic pressure, it is referred to as overpressure. knowledge of this pressure is essential for cost-effective drilling, safe well planning, and efficient reservoir modeling. the main objective of this study is to ...