SPE-187905-MS

Formation Evaluation for Thin Bed Shaly Sand Reservoirs

Alexander Kolomytsev and Alexey Kalistratov, Schlumberger

Copyright 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers

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Abstract
When developing oil and gas fields, there are often the reservoirs consisting of alternating thin sedimentary
thin layers of various rocks, clays, siltstone and sandstone (Fig. 1). Current low oil prices driving
reexploration of mature fields and, therefore, the interest in interpretation of such non-standard, thin and/
or low resistivity and low resistivity contrast formations is increasing. Over time, they ceased to be simply
a phenomenon and turned into objects of careful attention. The vertical thickness of these layers varies
from a few millimeters to several centimeters. Such deposits are widespread on the territory of Russia
(Volga-Urals, Timan-Pechora, West Siberian and East Siberian oil and gas provinces, Pre-Caucasian region,
Sakhalin, etc). Thin-bedded Reservoirs are a promising oil and gas objects, but quantification of individual
petrophysical properties of thin layers, such as porosity and saturation, with standard set of logging and
standard methods of interpretation involve considerable complexity. In case of thin-laminated reservoirs
logging data are the averaged characteristics of interlayers of sandstones and clays, with a thickness less
than the vertical resolution of standard logs. In this regard, traditional approaches to data interpretation
in thinly bedded reservoirs do not allow to reliably estimate their reservoir properties to determine the
volumetric parameters for the subsequent estimation of hydrocarbon reserves or even just for involvement
in the development of hydrocarbons.

Figure 1—Silty sand mudstone