INTEGRATING PETROPHYSICAL AND ELASTIC ROCK PROPERTIES

📄 Project Abstract

As reservoirs become more complex and drilling operations more expensive, the need to reduce both inefficiencies and costs for constructing and analyzing high quality static models is essential. The effective and efficient production of petroleum from a reservoir lies on the proper characterization of the reservoir. Once the static model resulting from reservoir characterization is satisfactory and heterogeneities taken care of, it is but evident that the uncertainties will be minimized, hence proper optimization of production. The problem to be solved is that of appropriately classifying log-facies for static reservoir modelling using an integrated approach (combining both petrophysical and elastic rock properties) which arises from the need to better characterise a reservoir as a function of its log-facies. The aim of this work is to integrate petrophysical properties (porosity, water saturation and density) derived from formation evaluation analysis and elastic properties (velocitie...