Developing a Saturation Height Function (SHF) for the classified Hydraulic Flow Unit, a case study from the Middle Miocene Carbonate reservoir in the Song Hong Basin, Vietnam

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    1 Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation, Hanoi, Vietnam
    2 Schlumberger Vietnam, Hochiminh, Vietnam
    3 Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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  • Received: 20th-July-2023
  • Revised: 26th-Oct-2023
  • Accepted: 21st-Nov-2023
  • Online: 1st-Dec-2023
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Abstract:

The Middle Miocene carbonate is the main gas bearing reservoir in the southern part of the Song Hong basin. Carbonate reservoirs present challenges for engineers and geologists to characterize because of their complexity due to depositional and diagenetic processes. The log based calculated water saturation Sw for this complex carbonate reservoir bears a lot of uncertainties due to its heterogeneity that strongly affects to m and n values in the water saturation equation. As the calculated Sw strongly affects the Hydrocarbon Initially In Place (HIIP) estimation, the production performance prediction, etc., the alternative method using the Saturation Height Function (SHF) based on the capillary pressure was introduced. The SHF building process uses the combination of the result of HFU classification and permeability prediction given by machine learning methods, which have become a very useful tool for complex reservoir characterization such as carbonate reservoir for decades. Our obtained results allowed us to subdivide the carbonate reservoir into 5 Hydraulic Flow Unit (HFU) by using unsupervised machine learning methods, and then the capillary pressure (Pc) curves were classified and a proper saturation-height function using Skelt Harrison equation was assigned to individual HFU after testing with common SHF equations. The HFU number for each individual point was predicted based on the log data measured along the borehole using the supervised machine learning techniques while the Sw was calculated using the chosen SHF model and the FWL defined on log curves and pressure data from RCI measurement. The Sw computed from the SHF model is reliable and can be used for water saturation estimation for the whole field for known FWL and predicted HFU numbers.

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Nguyen, D.Trung, Ha, M.Quang, Nguyen, V.Hong, Phan, H.Thien, Hoang, C.Minh and Truong, H.Khac 2023. Developing a Saturation Height Function (SHF) for the classified Hydraulic Flow Unit, a case study from the Middle Miocene Carbonate reservoir in the Song Hong Basin, Vietnam. Journal of Mining and Earth Sciences. 64, 6 (Dec, 2023), 1-10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46326/JMES.2023.64(6).01.
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