NMR STUDIES OF AN IRONRICH SANDSTONE （含铁丰富的砂岩的核磁共振研究）.pdfVIP

NMR STUDIES OF AN IRON-RICH SANDSTONE OIL RESERVOIR Håkon Rueslåtten, Terje Eidesmo, Statoil RD Carsten Slot-Petersen, Statoil EP Jim White, Schlumberger Abstract : A special NMR study is performed on a sandstone oil reservoir in the North Sea that is characterised by high contents of glauconite and abundant chlorite. Tar zones complicate the reservoir characterisation further. Standard logs indicate porosities of 25 to 35 PU throughout the reservoir column, but core analyses (and well tests) show a very poor relation between porosity and permeability, expected to be caused mainly by the chlorite content. A high proportion of intra-particle micro-porosity confined in the glauconite grains creates an additional uncertainty with respect to fluid saturation and distribution. In order to obtain more information about the productivity of the individual reservoir zones a specially designed programme was set up including NMR logging, special core analyses and laboratory NMR measurements. Several interesting aspects regarding the NMR log responses were revealed; (i) by applying the normally used 33 ms cut-off value for BVI, substantial deviations from the measured Swirr values were found; (ii) the T1/T2 ratios range from 2 to 10 for oil saturated core plugs (at irreducible water saturation); and (iii) the difference between NMR log derived porosity and total porosity is a function of the chlorite content rather than the glauconite content. The suggested interpretation of the latter observations is that the fine-grained chlorite is inducing magnetic gradients on the pore level causing the T2 relaxation times to be shortened dramatically.