Monday, September 2, 2019

Diagenetic Porosity: 2016 #12

An oil reservoir has average diagenetic porosity of 10% and a CNL log measures a porosity of 15%. The oil reservoir is 200 acres, 10 ft thick, with residual oil saturation & initial water saturation of 25% each. The initial oil formation volume factor is 1.2 RB/STB. The maximum oil production from primary porosity would be closest to: (A) 320 MSTB (B) 340 MSTB (C) 620 MSTB (D) 640 MSTB

Definitions from 15 LOG 4:
Total Porosity: (measured with nuclear tools) …equals primary porosity + secondary porosity.
Primary Porosity (apparent, intergranular) used for reserves or maximum producible oil…equals total porosity – secondary porosity.
Secondary Porosity (isolated pores, vugs, and fractures) also called diagenetic porosity …may be overlooked by acoustic-logs …equals total porosity – primary porosity

Therefore, for this problem, primary porosity is: 0.15 – 0.10 = 0.05 pu. And maximum oi production from primary porosity is: 7758(200)10(1-.25-.25)0.05(1/1.2) = 323MSTB or (A).

3 comments:

  1. Can you repost 2016 #16 the link is not working.

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    1. I may have cross-threaded the numbers with another problem on #16; please just ignore it for now. Thanks.

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    2. Hey Mr. Dammeyer, has #16 from the 2016 bank been linked correctly yet?

      Thanks.

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