The third porosity system: Understanding the role of hidden pore systems in well-test interpretation in carbonates

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-81

  Corbett, P W M ^a   Geiger, S ^a   Borges, L ^a   Garayev, M ^a   Valdez, C ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; CLASTIC RESERVOIRS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CRITICAL PARTS; CROSS FLOWS; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE POROSITY; FRACTURE RESPONSE; FRACTURE SYSTEMS; FRACTURE-MATRIX INTERACTION; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HIGH POROSITY; LOW PERMEABILITY; LOW POROSITY; MACRO-POROSITY; MATRIX POROSITY; PERMEABILITY CONTRASTS; PORE SYSTEM; POROUS MATRIXS; PRESSURE DISSIPATION; PRESSURE RESPONSE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SUB-DOMINANT; THEORETICAL MODELS; WELL TEST;

CARBONATES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROPOROSITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL TESTING;

FRACTURE;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MACROPORE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; WELL TESTING;

EID: 84857875339     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079311-010     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Belayneh, M. 2004. Paleostress orientation inferred from surface morphology of joints on the southern margin of the Bristol Channel basin, UK. In: Cosgrove, J.W. & Engelder, T. (eds) The Initiation, Propagation, and Arrest of Joints and Other Fractures. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 231, 243-255.
2. Bourdet, D. 2002. Well Test Analysis: The Use of Advanced Interpretation Models. Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
3. Chierici, G. L. 1994. Principles of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Vol. 1. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
4. Cinco-Ley, H. 1996. Well-test analysis for naturally fractured reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Technology, 48(1), 51-54.
5. Corbett, P.W.M. 2009. Petroleum Geoengineering: Integration of Static and Dynamic Models. SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Series, 12.
6. Corbett, P.W.M. & Jensen, J.L. 1992. Estimating the mean permeability: How many measurements do you need? First Break, 10, 89-94.
7. Corbett, P.W.M., Mesmari, A. & Stewart, G. 1996. A method for using the naturally-occuring negative geoskin in the description of fluvial reservoirs. Paper SPE 36882, presented at Europec, 22-24 October, Milan.
8. Corbett, P.W.M., Ellabad, Y., Egert, K. & Zheng, S.Y. 2005. The geochoke test response in a catalogue of systematic geotype well test responses. Paper SPE 93992, presented at Europec, June, Madrid.
9. Corbett, P.W.M., Geiger, S., Borges, L., Garayev, M., Gonzalez, J. & Camilo, V. 2010. Limitations in the numerical well test modeling of fractured carbonate rocks. Paper SPE 130252, presented at Europec/EAGE, June, Barcelona.
10. Corbett, P.W.M., Hamdi, H. & Gurev, H. 2012. Layered reservoirs with internal crossflow: A well-connected family of well-test pressure transient responses. Petroleum Geoscience, 18, (in press).
11. Dijk, P. & Berkowitz, B. 1999. Investigation of flow in water-saturated rock fractures using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI). Water Resources Research, 35(2), 347-360.
12. Jensen, J.L., Lake, L.W., Corbett, P.W.M. & Goggin, D. 2000. Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists, 2nd edn. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
13. Kerans, C., Lucia, F.J. & Senger, R.K. 1994.Integrated characterization of carbonate ramp reservoirs using Permian San Andres Formation outcrop analogs. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 78, 181-216.
14. Kuchuk, F.J., Onur, M. & Hollaender, F. 2010. Pressure Transient Test Design and Interpretation: Convolution, Deconvolution and Nonlinear Estimation, Developments in Petroleum Science, 57. Elsevier Science & Technology, Amsterdam.
15. Martin, A.J., Solomon, S.T. & Hartmann, D.J. 1997. Characterization of petrophysical flow units in carbonate reservoirs. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 81(5), 734-759.
16. Massonnat, G. & Bandiziol, D. 1991. Interdependence between geology and well test interpretation. Paper SPE 22740.
17. Matthäi, S.K., Geiger, S., Roberts, S.G. et al. 2007. Numerical simulations of multiphase fluid flow in structurally complex reservoirs. In: Jolley, S.J., Barr, D., Walsh, J.J., Knipe, R.J. (eds) Structurally Complex Reservoirs. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 292, 405-429.
18. Rawnsley, K. & Wei, L. 2001. Evaluation of a new method to build geological models of fractured reservoirs calibrated to production data. Petroleum Geoscience, 7(1), 23-33.
19. Rawnsley, K., De Keijzer, M., Wei, L. et al. 2007. Characterizing fracture and matrix heterogeneities in folded Devonian carbonate thrust sheets, Waterton tight gas fields, Western Canada. Fractured Reservoirs, 270, 265-279.
20. Zheng, S.Y., Corbett, P.W.M. & Stewart, G. 1996. The impact of variable formation thickness on pressure transient behaviour and well test permeability in fluvial meander-loop reservoirs. Paper SPE 36552, presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 6-9 October, Denver.