Characterization of a Delaware slope basin reservoir for optimal development
- New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center, Socorro, NM (United States)
A reliable reservoir description is essential to various scenarios for successful field development. In this study, various new tools have been applied to fully characterize the East Livingston Ridge Delaware reservoir. The Delaware formations in their slope/basin environment are difficult to characterize due to the channels in the submarine fans. Using well logs, a complex 3-D reservoir model composed of a channel through the bottom three layers of a seven layer model with one non-oil bearing zone was constructed to represent this complex depositional setting. Drastic changes in layer lithologies resulting in multiple oil/water contacts and varying water saturations required detailed log interpretation. The porosity logs were tuned with available sidewall core information. Log porosity was determined for each layer at each well and kriging was used to estimate the areal distribution of the porosity. Porosity-permeability correlations for each layer were developed from sidewall core data. The correlations were used to make an initial estimate of the interwell permeabilities. A production history match was not possible with the initial characterization of the reservoir. The production rates of the oil, gas, and water phases of each of the twenty-three wells in the East Livingston Ridge field and the pressure data were automatically history matched using a recently developed simulated annealing technique. The absolute and relative permeabilities of the layers were varied automatically during the history matching phase of the reservoir study. The larger scale properties resulting from the calibrated model were used to forecast the results of continued primary, infill drilling and/or waterflooding.
- OSTI ID:
- 170097
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950331-; TRN: IM9605%%116
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Joint Rocky Mountain regional meeting and low-permeability reservoirs symposium and exhibition, Denver, CO (United States), 20-22 Mar 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Joint Rocky Mountain meeting/low-permeability reservoirs symposium: Proceedings; PB: 592 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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