Dissertation/ Thesis

Laboratory-Scale Petrophysical Evaluation of Lithofacies Effect on Reservoir & Source Quality and Core-Calibrated Well Log Analysis in Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp-Spraberry Intervals, Midland Basin, Texas, USA ; Laboratory-Scale Petrophysical Evaluation of Lithofacies Effect on Reservoir and Source Quality and Core-Calibrated Well Log Analysis in Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp-Spraberry Intervals, Midland Basin, Texas, USA

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العنوان: Laboratory-Scale Petrophysical Evaluation of Lithofacies Effect on Reservoir & Source Quality and Core-Calibrated Well Log Analysis in Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp-Spraberry Intervals, Midland Basin, Texas, USA ; Laboratory-Scale Petrophysical Evaluation of Lithofacies Effect on Reservoir and Source Quality and Core-Calibrated Well Log Analysis in Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp-Spraberry Intervals, Midland Basin, Texas, USA
المؤلفون: Becker, Samuel John
المساهمون: Hu, Qinhong
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: University of Texas Arlington: UTA ResearchCommons
مصطلحات موضوعية: Facies, Petrophysical, Reservoir, Source, Quality, Wells, Logs, Wolfcamp formation, Spraberry formation, Permian Basin, Midland Basin, Geochemistry, Basin, Wolfberry, Hydrocarbons, Shale, Mudrock
الوصف: The “Wolfberry” play, which is made up of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations, is an important resource for the exploitation of hydrocarbons with a need for additional petrophysical understanding. Although the Wolfcamp is categorized as a shale, it is a complex and heterogeneous formation composed of multiple facies. The unique lithological composition of each facies controls formation properties, which further drive reservoir/source quality. With the integrated laboratory- and field-scale analyses, this study uses mostly laboratory petrophysical evaluation to gain insight on the relationship between facies and reservoir/source quality in the Lower Spraberry and Wolfcamp intervals throughout the Midland Basin. To achieve this objective, 48 core plugs taken from three wells evenly spaced in the Basin, that represent different facies end members in several of the Lower Spraberry and Wolfcamp intervals, are evaluated. In order to evaluate the Wolfberry formations, vacuum-assisted fluid immersion porosimetry (FIP), fluid displacement, fluid imbibition, total organic carbon (TOC), pyrolysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), contact angle, and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) tests were used to investigate petrophysical properties such as porosity, geochemistry, mineral composition, wettability, permeability, and tortuosity. Facies were divided into three groups of depositional environments for comparison: lowstand channel fan complex and windblown deposited siliceous/clay rich lithotypes, highstand/lowstand reef carbonate gravity flow deposited packstones and grainstones, and highstand deep-water hemipelagic and distal turbidity current deposited carbonate mudstones. From the petrophysical and geochemical results of this study, it was determined that the Lower Spraberry and Wolfcamp intervals are primarily oil-wet to intermediate-wet, and both reservoir quality and source potential increase as the carbonate content decreases, and they are the highest in the siliceous- and clay-rich facies (porosity 2.0-10.2% and TOC ...
نوع الوثيقة: thesis
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/28823
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/28823
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.E7357C0E
قاعدة البيانات: BASE