Method and system for determining heterogeneous carbonate reservoir saturation exponent

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11112527-B2
Application number	US-201716095432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2017
Priority date	Aug 10, 2016
Publication date	Sep 7, 2021
Grant date	Sep 7, 2021

Abstract

The present application provides a method and a system for determining a saturation exponent of a heterogeneous carbonate reservoir. The method comprises: dividing a target reservoir into at least two reservoir types in accordance with a predetermined rule; obtaining a correspondence relationship between a saturation exponent and a bound water saturation in each of the reservoir types; determining the reservoir type to which a to-be-measured core belongs in accordance with the predetermined rule; obtaining a bound water saturation of the to-be-measured core; and calculating the saturation exponent of the to-be-measured core according to the bound water saturation of the to-be-measured core on the basis of the correspondence relationship of the reservoir type to which the to-be-measured core belongs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for determining a saturation exponent of a heterogeneous carbonate rock reservoir, comprising:
dividing a target reservoir into at least two reservoir types in accordance with a predetermined rule, which includes
selecting a plurality of core samples of the target rock reservoir; and
dividing the plurality of core samples into at least two core types to represent the at least two reservoir types in accordance with the predetermined rule;

obtaining a correspondence relationship between a saturation exponent and a bound water saturation in each of the reservoir types, which includes
obtaining the bound water saturation of each of the core samples;
obtaining the saturation exponent of each of the core samples, which includes performing a rock electrical experiment to a number of the rock core samples in each of the reservoir types to acquire the saturation exponent; and
linearly fitting the saturation exponent with the bound water saturation of the core samples that have gone through the rock electrical experiment in each of the reservoir types, so as to acquire the correspondence relationship between the saturation exponent and the bound water saturation in each of the reservoir types;
the correspondence relationship being as follows
n=aS wir +b,
in which n is the saturation exponent, and S wir is the bound water saturation;

determining the reservoir type to which a to-be-measured core belongs in accordance with the predetermined rule, wherein the to-be-measured core is the core sample that has not gone through the rock electrical experiment;
obtaining a bound water saturation of the to-be-measured core; and
calculating the saturation exponent of the to-be-measured core according to the bound water saturation of the to-be-measured core on the basis of the correspondence relationship of the reservoir type to which the to-be-measured core belongs.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, 19 pieces of core samples of the target reservoir are selected.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said selecting a plurality of core samples of the target reservoir includes:
determining a location and an net pay thickness of the target reservoir;
determining a coring position of the target reservoir according to imaging logging data; and
obtaining a plurality of core samples by drilling at the coring position.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said dividing the plurality of core samples into at least two types to represent the at least two reservoir types in accordance with the predetermined rule includes:
dividing the plurality of core samples into two types in accordance with the predetermined rule, the two core types including: one type is core samples having developed vugs but poor pore connectivity; the other type is core samples containing fractures or mainly intercrystalline pores.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein, the predetermined rule includes:
if vugs can be seen but no fracture feature is present on the imaging logging data corresponding to a core, or if vugs can be seen with naked eyes but no micro-fracture is present when observing the core, then the core can be classified as the core having developed vugs but poor pore connectivity, otherwise the core can be classified as the core containing fractures or mainly intercrystalline pores.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said obtaining a correspondence relationship between a saturation exponent and a bound water saturation in each of the reservoir types further includes:
selecting a number of the core samples in each of the reservoir types according to the bound water saturation;
correspondingly, said obtaining the saturation exponent of each of the core samples includes:
obtaining the saturation exponent of each of the core samples in a number of the core samples in each of the reservoir types.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said obtaining the bound water saturation of each of the core samples includes:
performing a measurement of porosity and permeability parameters and a centrifugation experiment for each of the core samples to determine the bound water saturation.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, said obtaining the bound water saturation of the to-be-measured core includes:
performing a measurement of porosity and permeability parameters and a centrifugation experiment for the to-be-measured core to determining the bound water saturation.

Assignees

• Petrochina Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Ning
• Wang Kewen
• Shi Yujiang
• Wu Hongliang
• Zhao Taiping
• Feng Qingfu
• Feng Zhou
• Zhang Haitao
• Zhu baoding
• Yang Xiaoming

Classifications

• G01N33/24 Primary

  Earth materials (G01N33/42 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01V3/38 Primary

  Processing data, e.g. for analysis, for interpretation, for correction · CPC title

• G01V3/18

  specially adapted for well-logging · CPC title

• E21B49/00

  Testing the nature of borehole walls; Formation testing; Methods or apparatus for obtaining samples of soil or well fluids, specially adapted to earth drilling or wells · CPC title

• G01V99/005

  Physics · mapped topic