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SPE Distinguished Lecturer Program
Primary funding is provided by
The SPE Foundation through member donations and a contribution from Offshore Europe
The Society is grateful to those companies that allow their professionals to serve as lecturers
Additional support provided by AIME
Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer Programwww.spe.org/dl
Maximizing the Value of an Asset through the Integration of Log and Core data
Tim OSullivanCairn India Ltd
Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer Programwww.spe.org/dl
Colleagues: Hal Warner Dick WoodhouseDennis BeliveauRon ZittelStuart Wheaton
Where is the data area ?
Discovery Well
Mangala, Aishwariya &
Bhagyam Fields
150m - 350m oil columns
2004
( about 2 Billion Barrels STOOIP)
Porosity:Permeability:
17% 33%
200md 20 Darcies
The Reservoir - Excellent Quality Sandstone
26%
5 D
Clastic Fluvial
Reservoirs
Upper Fatehgarh
Lower Fatehgarh
What’s Interesting? (to Reservoir Teams)
Fatehgarh Sand Reservoirs
Quite a LOT of Interesting Oil
An EXCELLENT Dataset
Excellent Reservoir Quality Sands
* Porosity 17-33% (average ~26%)
* Permeability up to 20 Darcies (average ~5D)
* Weakly-to-Moderately Oil-Wet
* VERY LOW Water Saturations – Field Avg. 5%
* Mangala Field – Over 1 Billion Barrels Oil In Place
* An Economic Incentive for Petrophysical ACCURACY
* Very Waxy, Sweet Crude – 27 o API Avg.
* All Wells with Full “Basic” Logging Suites
* Many Wells with “Specialty” Logs – CMR+, etc.
* 1.7 km of Core in MBA
LPSA Mean Grain Size
0.01
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Porosity
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mea
bili
ty
Fatehgarh Sand Reservoirs
Routine Core Analysis – Mangala Field
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Porosity (OBC), %
P
erm
eab
ilit
y (
OB
C),
md
Coarse Sand
Silt
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-1 -0.75 -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1
Amott- Harvey Wettability Index
Perm
eabi
lity
(md)
Oil Wet Water Wet
Intermediate
Fatehgarh Sand ReservoirsWettability Index Data – Mangala Field
Average Sw 0 100
0
10
-10
1
5
4
2
3Initial Oil DriveFree Imbibition of BrineBrine DriveFree Imbibition of OilOil Drive
1 2 3 4 5
IAH = WWI - OWI
Ca
pil
lary
Pre
ss
ure
(p
si)
Combined Amott/USBM Wettability Experiment
WWI = proportion of the total oil production produced spontaneously
OWI = proportion of the total brine production produced spontaneously
~ -0.35 Weakly oil wetNo R
elat
ionsh
ip w
ith P
erm
eabili
ty!
WWI = water wetting index
OWI = oil wetting index
Wettability vs. Various Parameters
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-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
Wettability
K/P
hi
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Wettability
Me
an
Gra
in S
ize
(m
m)
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Wettability
Vo
l C
lay
(%)
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-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
Wettability
TV
D s
s
Probably Wettability predominantly a function of oil composition, with some natural variation/heterogeneity
No Relatio
nship w
ith K
/Phi!
No Relatio
nship w
ith Vol C
lay
No Relatio
nship w
ith G
rain Size
No Relatio
nship w
ith D
epth
Wettability, Transition Zones and Saturation Ht Functions
Wettability impacts the contact angle in conversions from laboratory to reservoir conditions
PcR = PcL * (TCos0)R/(TCos0)L
Hydrophobic(Oil Wet)
0
Hydrophilic(Water Wet)
0
Neutral Wetting
0
Cos0 > 0 Cos0 = 0 Cos0 < 0
FWL (FOL !)FWL
FWL
OWC above FWL OWCBelow FWL
OWC ~ FWL
OWC
At Mangala, OWC & small Transition Zone below FWL due to Weakly Oil Wet Rock !!
OWC
T = Interfacial Tension0 = Contact Angle
OWC
Mangala-5 oil looks interesting
Mangala-5 oil Looks VERY interesting
Mangala-5 oil Looks EXTREMELY interesting
Mangala Field
Well Name
Sample Type R. Pr
B Point API
Viscosity @ RP
MDT/BHS psig psigDegree
s cP
Mangala-1
BHS 1515 1496 28.3 9.7
MDT 1474 1360.5 27.3 13.2
MDT 1620.6 1045.5 21.7 50.2
Mangala-1ST MDT 1463 1463 29 10.5
Mangala-2 MDT 1598 1345 21.8 64.2
Mangala-3MDT 1521 1397 28.3 18.6
MDT 1598 1197 23 11.5
Mangala-4MDT 1404 1363 28.8 17.1
MDT 1582 950 24.9 Not Measured
Mangala-5
MDT 1356 1078 28.8 21.1
MDT 1469 649 29.2 26.5
Mangala-5
BHS-1 1561 1525 27.3 18.4
BHS-4 1523 1529 28.6 13.1
BHS-91496
1479 29.3 12.1
Fatehgarh Sand ReservoirsPVT Data – Mangala Field
Variation in oil
composition
High pour point - solid at ambient temperatures
600km heated pipeline – world’s longest
SEHMS = Skin Effect Heat Management System (also known as STS/SECT)
SEHMS ensures temperature maintenance above 65 deg
Quite a LOT of Oil…. But…. EXACTLY How Much?
What’s Interesting? (to Management)
Fatehgarh Sand Reservoirs
Oil = V * Porosity * (1 – Sw)
Sw
)
Conventional“Archie” Log
AnalysisCalculation
And
Assumptions
Sw
An Exercise in Classical PetrophysicsOr… “How to Get to Sw”Direct
Measurement
Sw!!
Dean-Stark
Core Analysis
Capillary Pressure
Saturation-HeightFunctions
NMRLogging
?
With only log data,
and using a value of n of 2.3 (oil
wet reservoir) – Sw of 15%
Swn = Rw/Rt *a/phitm
Swn = Rw/Rt *a/phitm
Are low Sw’s 5% and less possible ?
Mangala, Aishwariya and Bhagyam FieldsAn EXCELLENT Dataset
SIXTEEN Cored Wells• Routine Core Analysis
• Mostly Drilled with WBM
Mangala 1ST • First Core – Early 2004
• Water-Based Mud
• Initial SCAL Data
Dean-Stark Cores• Bhagyam 5
• Mangala 7ST
Summary - Available Core Analysis Data Field Well Mud Type Fatehgarh Core SCAL Dean- Stark
Mangala 1 Water-Based
Mangala 1ST Water- Based x xMangala 2 Water-Based x
Mangala 3 Water-Based x
Mangala 4 Water-Based x
Mangala 5 Water-Based x
Mangala 6 Oil-Based x
Mangala 7 Oil-Based
Mangala 7ST Oil- Based x xAishwariya 1 Water-Based x
Aishwariya 1Z Water-Based
Aishwariya 2 Water-Based x
Aishwariya 2Z Water-Based
Aishwariya 3 Water-Based
Aishwariya 4 Water-Based
Aishwariya 5 Water-Based x
Aishwariya 6 Water-Based
Aishwariya 6Z Water-Based
Bhagyam 1 Water-Based
Bhagyam 1Z Water-Based x
Bhagyam 1ST Water-Based x
Bhagyam 2 Oil-Based
Bhagyam 2ST1 Oil-Based x
Bhagyam 3 Oil-Based
Bhagyam 3Z Oil-Based x
Bhagyam 4 Oil-Based x
Bhagyam 5 Oil- Based x xBhagyam 6 Oil-Based
Bhagyam 7 Oil-Based
Man
gala
Ais
hwar
iya
Bha
gyam
Compan
y Cultu
re o
f tak
ing C
ORES!
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Sw (%)
He
igh
t a
bo
ve
FW
L (
m)
Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Data
Mangala Field
Sw < 10%
O
il C
olu
mn
Low Sw !
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50Sw (%)
Hei
gh
t ab
ove
FW
L (
m)
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70000
00.20.40.60.81
Straight line TailsQuartz compression
Validity of MICP data?
Probably reasonable in high quality clean reservoirs(Honarpour - 2004 )
Main issues : Hg may not replicate reservoir fluid displacement : destructive – normally conducted on small chips
: remove the effects of quartz compression
Quartz compression can account for 3 to 4 Sw units, as modern MICP machines can reach up to 60,000 psi.
0
100
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Hei
gh
t ab
ove
FW
L (
m)
Dean-Stark Fluid Saturations
SCAL Plug
Dean Stark
Extraction Oil based mud cores
Plugs cut at wellsiteMinimize fluid lossMinimize surfactantsMinimize core exposure to airand to sun
Uninvaded core centre
Horizontal Plug Vertical
Plug
Minimize invasion of mudMaximize retaining of fluids in plugs
3Initial Oil DriveFree Imbibition of BrineBrine DriveFree Imbibition of OilOil Drive
1 2 3 4 5
IAH = WWI - OWI
Ca
pil
lary
Pre
ss
ure
(p
si)
Combined Amott/USBM Wettability Experiment
WWI = proportion of the total oil production produced spontaneously
OWI = proportion of the total brine production produced spontaneously
Principle - the wetting phase will tend to spontaneously imbibe into a pore system, while an applied pressure is necessary to push the non-wetting phase into the pores. Capillary Pressure” (Pc) is defined as the pressure of the non-wetting phase minus the pressure of the wetting phase, and thus is always a positive number.
In petroleum engineering typically define Pc as the pressure in the oil phase minus the pressure in the water phase (Pc = Po – Pw); so Pc would be positive for a water-wet system and negative for an oil-wet system.
The experiment starts with a core at initial oil saturation and looks at how much water will spontaneously imbibe (“spontaneous production”), as shown on step 2 of Figure 2. This is followed by a measurement of how much water enters the core under an applied pressure gradient as the core is flooded to the residual oil saturation (Sorw). This is the “forced production”
shown in step 3 of Figure 2. Note that the production measured is actually oil, since for each unit of water that enters the core an equivalent amount of oil is produced into a collection device. Obviously if the core was strongly water-wet, most of the oil production would happen spontaneously, with little need to apply an external pressure. The water-wetting index (WWI) is defined as the proportion of the total oil production that is produced spontaneously, and would be 1.0 for a strongly water-wet system and 0.0 for an oil-wet system.