SPE 48880 The Integration of Geology and Well Testing For Improved Fluvial Reservoir Characterisation
SPE 48880 The Integration of Geology and Well Testing For Improved Fluvial Reservoir Characterisation
The Integration of Geology and Well Testing for Improved Fluvial Reservoir
Characterisation
Patrick Corbett*, Shi-Yi Zheng*, Moe Pinisetti* and Abdallah Mesmari, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and
George Stewart*, Edinburgh Petroleum Services Ltd. (EPS), Edinburgh
*SPE Members
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Abstract
Fluvial reservoirs are important hydrocarbon reservoirs
world-wide. It is the fluvial depositional characteristics that
give rise to the complex reservoir architectures/geometries,
spatial
distributions/patterns,
internal
heterogeneities/petrophysical properties as well as the
connectivity between flow units/channel sands that combine to
give great uncertainty in characterising the effective reservoir
properties.
Well testing, which measures the dynamic response of the
reservoir, is potentially a very important tool for investigating
these properties in fluvial reservoir systems. Through the
integration of geoscience and engineering, the uncertainty
resulting from reservoir description and well test analysis in
such heterogeneous systems can be substantially reduced.
This paper reviews the latest techniques developed from
the integration of geology and well testing for fluvial reservoir
characterisation. Starting from the classification of fluvial
systems, deterministic geological models, based on the two
end members of fluvial systems (Meandering and Braided),
have been mapped out.
A well test interpretation model for meandering channel
reservoirs, the Pseudo-channel model has been distilled,
which removes the assumption of the uniform formation
thickness. Numerical solutions, termed Geotype curves have
been derived. A new measure for the reservoir heterogeneity
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