Carbonate,tight sandstone,and shale reservoirs have many pore types,and the relationship between the porosity and elastic parameters is extremely discrete due to the complex pore shape.This paper presents a method for...Carbonate,tight sandstone,and shale reservoirs have many pore types,and the relationship between the porosity and elastic parameters is extremely discrete due to the complex pore shape.This paper presents a method for predicting reservoir pore types based on pore shape substitution.The pore shape substitution allows for accurately characterizing the changes in the elastic properties of the rock with the changes in pore shape,assuming there are no changes in terms of minerals,porosity,or fl uids.By employing a multiple-porosity variable critical porosity model,the eff ective pore aspect ratio could be inverted from the velocities of the rock.To perform pore shape substitution,we could replace the eff ective pore aspect ratio with another pore aspect ratio or increase/decrease the volume content of diff erent pore shapes.The reservoir pore types could be evaluated by comparing the differences in the reservoir velocities before and after the substitution of the pore shape.The test results pertaining to the theoretical model and the well logging data indicated that the pore shape substitution method could be applied to characterize pore types in terms of separating the eff ects of the pore shapes from the eff ects of the minerals,porosity,or fl uids on the velocities.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42074136,41674130)National Key S&T Special Project of China(No.2016ZX05027-004-001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University(No.18CX02061A).
文摘Carbonate,tight sandstone,and shale reservoirs have many pore types,and the relationship between the porosity and elastic parameters is extremely discrete due to the complex pore shape.This paper presents a method for predicting reservoir pore types based on pore shape substitution.The pore shape substitution allows for accurately characterizing the changes in the elastic properties of the rock with the changes in pore shape,assuming there are no changes in terms of minerals,porosity,or fl uids.By employing a multiple-porosity variable critical porosity model,the eff ective pore aspect ratio could be inverted from the velocities of the rock.To perform pore shape substitution,we could replace the eff ective pore aspect ratio with another pore aspect ratio or increase/decrease the volume content of diff erent pore shapes.The reservoir pore types could be evaluated by comparing the differences in the reservoir velocities before and after the substitution of the pore shape.The test results pertaining to the theoretical model and the well logging data indicated that the pore shape substitution method could be applied to characterize pore types in terms of separating the eff ects of the pore shapes from the eff ects of the minerals,porosity,or fl uids on the velocities.
