High-resolution crosswell imaging of a west Texas carbonate reservoir. Part 5: Core analysis
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Chevron Petroleum Technology Co., La Habra, CA (United States)
The authors conducted a core analysis program to provide supporting data to a series of crosswell field experiments being carried out in McElroy Field by Stanford University`s Seismic Tomography Project. The objective of these experiments is to demonstrate the use of crosswell seismic profiling for reservoir characterization and for monitoring CO{sub 2} flooding. For these west Texas carbonates, they estimate that CO{sub 2} saturation causes P-wave velocity to change by {minus}1.9% (pooled average, range = {minus}6.3 to +0.1%), S-wave velocity by +0.6% (range = 0 to 2.7%), and the P-to-S velocity ratio by {minus}2.4% (range = {minus}6.4 to {minus}0.3%). When one compares these results to the precisions they can expect from traveltime tomography (about {+-} 1% for P- and S-wave velocity and about {+-} 2% for the P-to-S velocity ratio), they conclude that time-lapse traveltime tomography is sensitive enough to resolve changes in the P-wave velocity, S-wave velocity, and P-to-S velocity ratio that result from CO{sub 2} saturation. They concentrated here don the potential for CO{sub 2} saturation to affect seismic velocities. The potential for CO{sub 2} saturation to affect other seismic properties, not discussed here, may prove to be more significant (e.g., P-wave and S-wave impedance).
- OSTI ID:
- 87541
- Journal Information:
- Geophysics, Journal Name: Geophysics Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 60; ISSN GPYSA7; ISSN 0016-8033
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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