Description and correlation of reservoir heterogenity within the Big Injun sandstone, Granny Creek field, West Virginia

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States)

OSTI ID:6107425

Vargo, A; McDowell, R; Matchen, D ^[1]

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1. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Morgantown, WV (United States)

The Granny Creek field (approximately 6 sq. miles in area), located in Clay and Roane counties, West Virginia, produces oil from the Big Injun sandstone (Lower Mississippian). Analysis of 15 cores, 22 core analyses, and approximately 400 wireline logs (gamma ray and bulk density) show that the Big Injun (approximately 12 to 55 feet thick) can be separated into an upper, coarse-grained sandstone and a lower, fine-grained sandstone. The Big Injun is truncated by an erosional unconformity of Early to Middle Mississippian age which removes the coarse-grain upper unit in the northwest portion of the field. The cores show nodules and zones (1 inch to 6 feet thick) of calcite and siderite cement. Where the cements occur as zones, porosity and permeability are reduced. Thin shales (1 inch to 1 foot thick) are found in the coarse-grained member of the Big Injun, whereas the bottom of the fine-grained, lower member contains intertongues of dark shale which cause pinchouts in porosity at the bottom of the reservoir. Calcite and siderite cement are recognized on wireline logs as high bulk density zones that form horizontal, inclined, and irregular pods of impermeable sandstone. At a 400 foot well spacing, pods may be confined to a single well or encompass as many as 30 wells creating linear and irregular barriers to flow. These pods increase the length of the fluid flow path and may divide the reservoir into discrete compartments. The combination of sedimentologic and diagenetic features contribute to the heterogeneity observed in the field.

• OSTI ID: 6107425
• Report Number(s): CONF-921058-; CODEN: GAAPBC
• Journal Information: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States), Vol. 24:7; Conference: 1992 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Cincinnati, OH (United States), 26-29 Oct 1992; ISSN 0016-7592
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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