Analysis and Reduction of Permeability Parameter Uncertainty in Carbonate Reservoir Modeling

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The problem of variability of the absolute permeability of a carbonate complex reservoir in the vertical and lateral directions was analyzed. As part of the work, a detailed analysis of all available core material of the studied carbonate object was carried out. Based on the results of full-size core studies, it was established that the absolute permeability variability depends on the carbonate rock type, which could be complicated by secondary changes, such as the presence of fracturing and vugginess. The methodological approach described in this work made it possible to typify a complex carbonate reservoir, identifying several types of dense, low-porosity, porous, cavernous-porous, and fractured rocks. It was revealed that each type of carbonate reservoir had a certain correlation with the permeability parameter and its variability in different directions of the formation. It was established that the proportion of carbonate reservoir types differed significantly from well to well, therefore, this fact affected filtration processes, the degree and uniformity of production, as well as the rate of well watering. The next stage of the work took into account the variability of the permeability parameter in the current geological-hydrodynamic model of the studied object by creating cubes of absolute permeability in the Y and Z directions through a system of multipliers according to the identified correlation dependencies. The effectiveness of the presented method for typing and accounting for permeability variability was assessed by comparing modeling results with actual field data. In total, two options for implementing the geological-hydrodynamic model of a productive carbonate reservoir were considered. The first version of the model implied a standard method of creation, the second option corresponded to the developed methodological approach. When compared, it was revealed that the geological and hydrodynamic model, created taking into account typification and the corresponding variability, reproduced actual production with higher accuracy.

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absolute permeabilitycomplex carbonate reservoirvariability of absolute permeabilitycarbonate reservoir typificationgeological and hydrodynamic modelingpetrophysical dependence

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Published
31 March 2024
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31 March 2024
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Vol. 24, No. 1 (2024)
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