Permeability Estimation for Carbonate Reservoir (Case Study/ South Iraqi Field)
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https://doi.org/10.31699/IJCPE.2018.3.5Keywords:
Permeability, Carbonate reservoir,Mishrif Formation, GHE.Abstract
The heterogeneity nature of carbonate reservoirs shows sever scattering of the data, therefore, one has to be cautious in using the permeability- porosity correlation for calculating permeability unless a good correlation coefficient is available. In addition, a permeability- porosity correlation technique is not enough by itself since simulation studies also require more accurate tools for reservoir description and diagnosis of flow and non-flow units.
Evaluation of reservoir characterization was conducted by this paper for Mishrif Formation in south Iraqi oil field (heterogeneous carbonate reservoir), namely the permeability-porosity correlation, the hydraulic units (HU’s) and global hydraulic elements (GHE) methods depending on Reservoir Quality Index(RQI) concepts.
Received on 30/05/2013
Accepted on 22/05/2018
Published on 30l09l2018
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