Formation Pressure Inversion Method Based on Multisource Information

SPE Journal ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Zhi Zhang ◽  
Baojiang Sun ◽  
Zhiyuan Wang ◽  
Shaowei Pan ◽  
Wenqiang Lou ◽  
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Summary The exploration and development of offshore oil and gas have greatly alleviated the tension of global oil and gas resources. However, the abnormal pressure of offshore reservoirs is more common compared with terrestrial oil and gas reservoirs, and the marine geological structure is complex, with the development of faults, fractures, and high and steep structures, which leads to the strong anisotropy of formation pore pressure distribution and uncertainty of pressure system change. In this paper, considering the corresponding characteristics of the randomness of the formation pressure prediction results in the Eaton equation for their respective variables, a formation pressure inversion method based on multisource information, such as predrilling data, bottomhole while drilling data, seabed measured data, and surface measured data, is established. On this basis, combined with the data of a well in the South China Sea, the variation law of the uncertainty of formation pressure prediction results under the conditions of predrilling data, measurement while drilling (MWD) data, and their mutual coupling is analyzed. The simulation results show that the uncertainty distribution of formation pressure prediction based solely on predrilling data shows linear accumulation trend with well depth, and the formation pressure inversion method based on multisource information can significantly curb the increasing trend of uncertainty when MWD data are introduced. Therefore, through the analysis of typical change patterns of monitoring parameters under normal/abnormal conditions during drilling, combined with the method of multisource information, the abnormal pressure information can be accurately predicted and inversed, which provides important support for wellbore pressure regulation under complex formation conditions.

Purpose. To substantiate the prospects for oil and gas presence in the Lower Cretaceous sediments of the Karkinit-Northern Crimean deep based on hydrogeological (hydrogeochemical, gas-hydrogeochemical and geobaric) features. Methodology. Investigations of formation waters and water-dissolved gases were based on the methods of chemical, elementary spectral and gas chromatographic analyses executed at the laboratories of subsidiary joint-stock company "Chornomornaftogaz", subsidiary "Crimean Geology" and the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals of NASU. For the comparison of formation pressure we applied the hydrostatic coefficient (Ch). Ch is the ratio of measured formation pressure to conditionally hydrostatic at the depth of the measuring with γ=1.000 (Рf/Рch), which eliminates the influence of uneven depths of measurement and different water densities, that is, to get the reduced value. For processing materials Excell, Corell Draw and Surfer are used. Results. Regional features of formation waters in the Lower Cretaceous complex as well as their chemical composition formation conditions are established. According to retrospective data analysis on the Crimean Plains, using the information received on the Black Sea shelf, we come to a conclusion that formation waters of the Lower Cretaceous complex are mainly sedimentogenic. The sulfate-natrium (S.Na) waters of the basal horizon and the Lower Cretaceous aquiferous complex most likely are infiltrative. This is evidenced by the decrease in the indicators of metamorphism of rCa/rMg, r(Cl-Na)/rMg and the increase in Cl/Br to over 1000, the lowered content of iodine (J) and bromine (Br). Infiltrative (paleoinfiltrative) waters mixed with primary sedimentogenic waters. This was accompanied by the decrease in their mineralization and thalassogenic trace elements contents in them. Modern infiltration from the land of meteoric waters at depths of more than 2000–3000 meters through the hydrodynamic barriers of the elision water drive system is impossible, but it could be realized at the continental infiltration stages of the foreground development and before the late Cretaceous time. This is evidenced by the continuous continental conditions marked by denudation of rocks. The main processes in the chemical composition formation of formation waters of Cretaceous and Lower Cretaceous complexes could have been: leaching rocks, mixing of infiltrative fresh or saline waters with thalassogenic waters; mixing of these waters with waters of the high temperature (>2000C) dehydration of clay rocks with formation of non-infiltrative (S.Na) and (Hyd.Car.Na) waters. Based on the analysis of the hydrostatic coeficient distribution (Ch) in the basal and Lower Cretaceous aquiferous complexes the existence of the elision water pressure system within the Karkinit-Northern Crimean deep is confirmed. The cause of overhydrostatic pressures is most likely to be the dehydration of clay rocks and the intrusion of deep gases. Geobaric conditions and filtration parameters suggest that the water flows of the elision water pressure system can move from the deepest parts of the Karkinit-Northern Crimean deep towards its sides. Originality and practical significance. The nature and forming conditions of formation waters have been substantiated. According to gas-hydrogeochemical and geobaric features it was possible to distinguish localities promising for hydrocarbon prospecting in the Lower Cretaceous deposits.


2020 ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
V. A. Beshentsev ◽  
Yu. I. Salnikova ◽  
S. V. Vorobjeva

The article is devoted to the hydrogeochemical conditions of the Mesozoic hydrogeological basin within the Russkoye oil and gas field. The text gives valuable information on the natural conditions, geological structure, geotemperature regime of the bowels of the Earth and the composition of groundwater of the Aptian-Albian-Cenomanian, Neocomian, and Jurassic hydrogeological complexes. The change in the composition of groundwater in the section of the AptianAlbian-Cenomanian complex has been revealed. Vertical inversion zoning that traces the underlying the Neocomian complex is established. We describe the main features of the regional distribution of reservoir pressures. Hydrodynamic schemes of the Aptian-Albian-Cenomanian, Neocomian, and Jurassic hydrogeological complexes are given in the article. These schemes show that the Russkoye gas and oil field is located in the zone of low reservoir pressures. The above vertical inversion zoning and low reservoir pressures are associated with the location of the field within the elisional hydrodynamic water pressure system of the Yamal-Gydan lineaments. The data of the block-fault model of the considered field were used in the course of the study. The block-fault structure predetermined the migration of hydrocarbons and the formation of tectonically screened deposits.


Author(s):  
Mevlud Sharikadze ◽  
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Irakli Tavdumadze ◽  
Zurab Suramelashvili ◽  
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...  

Abnormal high formation pressure (AHFP) zones are widely spread in sedimentary cover of numerous oil and gas regions of the world and our fields are among them. A lot of money and time are spent on elimination of some drilling complications of relevant intervals and that makes well costs more expensive. Therefore, study of forecast abnormal pressure generation and distribution zones is one of the current problems of deep well drilling activities. According to the drilling, geological and geophysical data analyzes and references, the generation of abnormal pressure in the sedimentary cover of the studied territory is mainly caused by: the existence of long submerged sedimentary basin, wide distribution of thick plastic clayey formations enriched with bentonite, primate of submersion velocity against persistence of hardening of faeces, intense folding of formations and frequent network of fault dislocations. Stratigraphically AHFP zone corresponds mainly with Middle Sarmatian-Maikopian-Upper Eocene clayey-sandstone suit distribution intervals. Formation pressure maximum gradient within the region varies from 1.75-1.85 to 2.00-2.20, intervals of distribution AHFP zones - from 600-2200m to 3700-4500m, thicknesses - from 700-2100m to 2500-3000m. Indicators of the given parameters generally increase roughly from South-West to North-East towards the thicknesses of plastic clayey formations, their submersion depth and tectonic tense growth factor. Besides, geological characteristics of some particular areas cause some adjustments: AHFP zone is hypsometrically aroused in the hinge lines of fault anticlines and is sunk in syncline depressions, thickness and formation pressure gradients are less in anticlines than in synclines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zhongshuai Chen ◽  
Hongjian Ni ◽  
Zhiqi Sun ◽  
Shiping Zhang ◽  
Qisong Wang

Well test analysis is required during the extraction of oil and gas wells. The information on formation parameters can be inverted by measuring the change in wellbore pressure at production start-up or after well shutdown. In order to calculate the characteristic parameters of the well, this paper creates a well test interpretation model for homogeneous reservoirs based on the theory of seepage mechanics, uses the Stehfest–Laplace inversion numerical inversion algorithm, and builds the Gringarten–Bourdet logarithmic curves model. The model can be used to evaluate the homogeneous reservoir. We use this model to design the pressure inversion interpretation software to implement a pressure inversion method based on permeability mechanics theory by using computer. The software can obtain the reservoir characteristic parameters such as permeability ( K ), skin coefficient ( S ), and wellbore storage coefficient ( C ). The homogeneous formation Gringarten–Bourdet curves data are available at https://github.com/JXLiaoHIT/Study-of-homogeneous-reservoir-pressure-inversion-model.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Khalid ◽  
Qasim Ashraf ◽  
Khurram Luqman ◽  
Ayoub Hadj Moussa ◽  
Agha Ghulam Nabi ◽  
...  

Abstract With the energy sector in crisis the worldover, oil and gas operators continue to seek more effective and efficient methods to reach potential prospects. With sharply declining oil prices, it is imperative that operators minimize the non-productive time in the drilling of all wells. Many operators are actively seeking riskier exploration to establish a strong foothold in this volatile market. One such area of interest to operators is HPHT and beyond wells. An HPHT prospect carries a high-risk high-reward potential, therefore newer and advanced methods are being deployed to successfully drill and complete HPHT wells. The Makran Coastal belt in south western Pakistan is one such area containing a potential Ultra-HPHT prospect. Many operators had attempted to drill about 9 wells in the locality but never managed to reach target depth due to drilling operations being plagued with a large number of problems. The drilling problems included high pressure influxes, stuck pipe while controlling influxes, circulation losses with high mud weights and ECD’s, differential sticking against permeable formations, inefficient bottom hole pressure control due to mud weight reduction with high temperatures and swabbing from the formation due to having an insufficient trip margin. The operator was facing an extremely narrow drilling window in the target section. The maximum formation pressure was estimated to be around 2.29 SG while the maximum fracture pressure of the formation was estimated to be around 2.35 SG in EMW. It was abundantly clear that drilling with a conventional mud system would be impossible and impractical on all forthcoming wells. As it was of paramount importance to precisely manage the wellbore pressure profile, the operator decided to apply managed pressure drilling on a candidate well. By applying managed pressure drilling techniques the operator expected to drill the section with an underbalanced mud weight and maneuver the bottom hole pressure just above the pore pressure line and thereby avoid circulation losses, detect influxes early on and control influxes without the need of ever shutting in the well, account for mud density variations with temperatures by executing an advanced thermal hydraulics model in real time, mitigate swabbing from the formation again by maintaining a constant bottom hole pressure while tripping, and finally ascertain the downhole pressure environment by conducting dynamic formation pressure tests. The successful application of MPD enabled the operator to reach target depth for the first time in the history of the area. The paper studies the planning, design, and execution of MPD on the subject well.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyubo Noh ◽  
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Carlos Torres-Verdín ◽  
David Pardo ◽  
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...  

We develop a Deep Learning (DL) inversion method for the interpretation of 2.5-dimensional (2.5D) borehole resistivity measurements that requires negligible online computational costs. The method is successfully verified with the inversion of triaxial LWD resistivity measurements acquired across faulted and anisotropic formations. Our DL inversion workflow employs four independent DL architectures. The first one identifies the type of geological structure among several predefined types. Subsequently, the second, third, and fourth architectures estimate the corresponding spatial resistivity distributions that are parameterized (1) without the crossings of bed boundaries or fault plane, (2) with the crossing of a bed boundary but without the crossing of a fault plane, and (3) with the crossing of the fault plane, respectively. Each DL architecture employs convolutional layers and is trained with synthetic data obtained from an accurate high-order, mesh-adaptive finite-element forward numerical simulator. Numerical results confirm the importance of using multi-component resistivity measurements -specifically cross-coupling resistivity components- for the successful reconstruction of 2.5D resistivity distributions adjacent to the well trajectory. The feasibility and effectiveness of the developed inversion workflow is assessed with two synthetic examples inspired by actual field measurements. Results confirm that the proposed DL method successfully reconstructs 2.5D resistivity distributions, location and dip angles of bed boundaries, and the location of the fault plane, and is therefore reliable for real-time well geosteering applications.


Author(s):  
Anatoly M. NIKASHKIN ◽  
Alexey A. KLIMOV

One of the primary and significant tasks in the construction of geological models of oil and gas reservoirs and development facilities is the problem of correlation of productive layers. This task, as a rule, is reduced to the identification and areal tracing of presumably even-aged oil and gas strata, horizons, and layers characterized by clear boundaries between sand strata and clay layers overlapping them. The practice of work related to modeling the structure of oil and gas horizons, layers and strata indicates that the correlation is not always unambiguous. The ambiguity is especially noticeable when correlating strata characterized by a clinoform structure, one of the examples is the Achimov strata. The most reliable basis for well correlation is GIS materials and lithological features of the interlayers forming individual layers. Clay interlayers and clay strata separating productive deposits provide valuable information when choosing a correlation model in sedimentary sections. These interlayers are characterized by the greatest consistency in area and are most clearly displayed on geophysical diagrams by the nature of the drawings of GIS curves. However, even in this case, i. e. when using the entire accumulated volume of the most diverse lithological and field-geophysical information, the correlation models of the sections turn out to be different and often even opposite. In this paper, the authors had to face a similar situation when correlating the horizon AS11 of the Zapadno-Kamynskoye field. The paper describes a method for clarifying the position of the chops of the productive horizon of oil and gas deposits using a multidimensional deterministic-statistical numerical model of the correlation of sedimentary strata. The proposed approach allows us to uniquely determine the positions of the chops in the conditions of a complex geological structure of the object, high thin-layered heterogeneity. A concrete example shows the advantages of the proposed approach in comparison with the traditional one.


Author(s):  
С.А. Мамаев ◽  
А.Р. Юсупов ◽  
А.С. Мамаев ◽  
З.А. Юсупов

В данной статье даны особенности геологического строения района газопроявления «Цущар» в Кулинском районе на отложениях среднеюрского возраста, предлагается геолого-структурная схема возможного формирования залежи нефти и газа. Незначительные проявления газоносности, связанные обычно с минеральными источниками и подчиненные мощной толще юрских сланцев, развитых на значительных площадях нагорного Дагестана, начали обращать на себя внимание с 1931 г., в связи с поисками месторождений легких редких газов. Анализы газов показывают повышенное содержание легких редких газов в целом ряде месторождений нагорного Дагестана. Кроме группы месторождений Южного Дагестана известен пока только один выход горючего газа в Центральном Дагестане – Кулинском районе. На него указывает в своем рукописном отчете Дагестанскому Совнархозу геолог Н. М. Леднев. Этот выход подчинен юрским сланцам, связан с нарушениями неотектонического характера, образованными в результате сейсмической активизации региона. Цель исследования. Целью наших исследований является обоснование перспектив газоносности Горного Дагестана. На изучаемой территории отмечается наличие неправильных куполовидных складок с неожиданными направлениями их осей, пересекающими основное направление складчатости, частичными местными уклонениями в залегании пластов. Методы исследования. Основными методами исследования при изучении перспектив газоносности Горного Дагестана являлись геолого-структурный, стратиграфический, морфологический, тектонический и дешифрирование аэрофотоснимков. Результаты исследования. По сравнению с Предгорным Дагестаном и Прикумским районом, Горный Дагестан был подвержен более интенсивным геотектоническим движениям, неоднократно подвергался складчатости, испытал инверсию, со значительно большей амплитудой, что привело к усиленной денудации, развитию трещиноватости и разрывов, метаморфизму пород и органических образований. Все это отрицательно влияло на сохранение нефти и газа. Можно предполагать, что многие залежи, сформировавшиеся при прохождении продуцирующими толщами главной фазы нефтеобразования, были разрушены в периоды активизации тектонической деятельности на рубеже юры и мела, мела и палеогена. В дальнейшем шла генерация, преимущественно, газообразных углеводородов, которые при особенно благоприятных условиях могли сохраниться до настоящего времени. По результатам исследований можно утверждать, что газовое проявление Цущар могло проявиться в 1622, 1652 гг. в результате сильных землетрясений, эпицентр которых располагался в пределахисследуемого района This article describes the features of the geological structure of the Tsushar gas show area in the Kulinsky region on the Middle Jurassic deposits, and proposes a geological-structural diagram of the possible formation of oil and gas deposits. Minor manifestations of gas content, usually associated with mineral springs and subordinate to a thick stratum of Jurassic shales, developed over large areas of highland Dagestan, began to attract attention from 1931, in connection with the search for deposits of light rare gases. Gas analyzes show an increased content of light rare gases in a number of fields in highland Dagestan. In addition to the group of fields in Southern Dagestan, only one outlet of combustible gas in Central Dagestan is known – the Kulinsky region. It is pointed out in his handwritten report to the Dagestan Economic Council by the geologist N. M. Lednev. This outlet is subordinate to the Jurassic shale and is associated with neotectonic disturbances formed as a result of seismic activation of the region. Aim. The purpose of our research is to substantiate the prospects for gas content in Gorny Dagestan. In the study area, there are irregular dome-shaped folds with unexpected directions of their axes crossing the main direction of folding, partial local deviations in bedding. Methods. The main research methods in the study of the prospects for the gas content of Mountainous Dagestan were geological-structural, stratigraphic, morphological, tectonic and additional aerial photographs. Research results. Compared to Piedmont Dagestan and Prikumskiy region, Gorny Dagestan was subject to more intense geotectonic movements, repeatedly underwent folding, experienced inversion, with a much higher amplitude, which led to increased denudation, the development of fracturing and fractures, metamorphism of rocks and organic formations. All of this negatively affected the conservation of oil and gas. It can be assumed that many deposits, formed during the passage of the producing strata of the main phase of oil formation, were destroyed during periods of intensified tectonic activity at the boundary between the Jurassic and Cretaceous, Cretaceous and Paleogene. In the future, there was the generation of mainly gaseous hydrocarbons, which, under especially favorable conditions, could persist to the present day. According to the research results, it can be argued that the gas manifestation of Tsushar could have manifested itself in 1622, 1652. as a result of strong earthquakes, the epicenter, which was located within the study area


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
N.P. Yusubov ◽  
I.S. Guliyev

The high degree of knowledge of the upper horizons of the sedimentary cover of the Middle and South Caspian depressions, given an insufficient increase in hydrocarbon reserves, leads to the need for a detailed approach to the search for oil and gas deposits in deep-seated sediments (over 6 km). During the geological interpretation of new highly informative seismic data, as well as data of deep drilling and petrological core studies, there were revealed obvious shortcomings in the concepts of the origin and evolution of the Middle and South Caspian depressions. These ideas misinterpret evolution, especially the South Caspian Basin, which is characterized by a number of unique features: very thick sedimentary cover (up to 22 km), extremely high sedimentation rate, low heat flow and reservoir temperatures, abnormally high pore and reservoir pressures, high clay content of the section, etc. The main purpose of the study was to elucidate the regional structure and features of the dissection of the sedimentary cover of the Middle and South Caspian depressions, the conditions of occurrence and distribution of facies and thicknesses of individual complexes of deposits. The paper analyzes the results of some previous studies of the geological structure of the Middle and South Caspian depressions based on the data of deep seismic sounding, seismological and gravimetric observations. We consider the main conclusions of these studies, about the geological structure of the sedimentary complex of the region’s, very outdated and subject to revision. The results of seismic stratigraphic analysis of seismic data allowed the authors to identify new data about the tectonic structure and express a completely different point of view regarding the structure of the sedimentary cover in the region. The work also touches on the issue associated with the tectonics of the region and the alleged subduction zone here.


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