224 ASQUITH ANO KRYGOWSKI
Case Study 6:
ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN CHIMNEYHILL SUBGROUP,
HUNTON GROUP, ANADARKO BASIN, U.S.A.:
The Problem.
The well that is the subject of Case Study 6 is in a
carbonate-rock province. Logs of this well show infor-
mation that can be attributed to variation in both lithol-
ogy and fo1mation fluid. Because this case study is in
the latter part of the sequence of case studies, interpre-
tation is left almost entirely to the reader.
Background
A well owned by your company has just reached
final depth after penetration of the target zone, car-
bonate rocks of the Hunton Group, in the Anadarko
Basin. The top ofthe zone is at 16,303 ft. The well was
drilled because subsurface geologic maps indicated an
updip fault and a structurally low well that produced
gas and water. When the log evaluation is finished, you
will make a decision about whether to set casing and
test the well for its production potential. If the well is
to be tested, then you will be responsible for selecting
depths for perforations.
Well site information and other pertinent information
• Logs of this well were correlated with logs of
the offset well, which produced gas and water.
This well is 40 ft structurally high to the offset
well.
• When this well penetrated the Chimneyhill Sub-
group of the Hunton Group (Figures 10.30,
10.31), a drilling break was recorded. The pene-
tration rate decreased from 1O min/ft to 5 min/ft,
and the mud logger's chromatograph increased
by 20 gas units.
• Examination of the bit cuttings showed that this
part of the Hunton is dolomite, with minor
amounts of chert. The dolomite is gray to gray-
brown, medium crystalline, and sucrosic with
vuggy porosity.
• Samples collected through the interval of the
drilling break did not show evidence of fluores-
cence or oil-cut.
• Formation temperature, T¡, is 221 ºF; mean sur-
face temperature is 70ºF; Rm¡is 0.249 ohm-m at
T¡.
• Recoverable volumetric gas reserves are calcu-
lated with these parameters:
• drainage area (DA)= 640 acres
• gas gravity = 0.63 (estimated)
• reservoir temperature (estimated) = 221 ºF
• bottom-hole pressure (BHP, estimated) =
7,260 psi
• recovery factor (RF) = 0.75
• Z factor= 1.165
Tasks required far interpretation of the logs
To complete the calculation of reserves, the follow-
ing information is needed: porosity ($), water satura-
tion (Sw), and reservoir thickness (h).
In deep, hot wells-generally, wells deeper than
12,000 ft-correction of the neutron log usually is
required for effects of temperature, and possibly, for
effects of pressure. In Chapter 4, the influence of envi-
ronmental conditions on the neutron log was explained.
Of all the conditions, pressure and temperature were
described as being the basis for the greatest correction
of the neutron log. Also explained was the fact that
charts used for correction must correspond to the serv-
ice company and the type of neutron tool that was used.
A shortcut for computation-which will provide
accuracy sufficient for this evaluation-is to determine
the amount of correction needed for a high porosity
value anda low porosity value in the formation, aver-
age the corrections, and apply the average cmTection
to each neutron-log porosity value before using that
measurement in additional calculations of porosity. In
this well, that correction is +0.015 (an additional 1.5%
porosity) to be added to each value of neutron porosi-
ty read from the log.
Table 10.11 will help you organize the information.
A list of depths is provided, but you are free to deter-
mine your own depths for analysis.