REVISING THE INTERPRETATION OF COMPLEX CARBONATE RESERVOIRS WITH THE USE OF NOVEL ADVANCED LOGS INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES

The Alta field in the Barents Sea was discovered in 2014. The reservoir formation is primarily carbonate rocks with high formation water salinity. Extensive waterflooding processes have led to an approximately 200-m rise of water level. The complexities anduncertainties regarding imbibition, current free waterlevel, and pseudo fluid contacts within the field translateinto uncertainty in the hydrocarbon volume estimation. Initial, triple-combo-based petrophysical evaluations have already been updated using advanced log measurements, as reported in an earlier publication. The evaluation is now consolidated by using two new techniques relying on advanced spectroscopy logging and combination with dielectric dispersion logging. Their objective is to further reduce the uncertainty in water saturation associated with variable apparent water salinity. The present contribution proposes a workflow that relies on two novel techniques. The first technique is a direct quantitative measurement of formation chlorine concentration from nuclear spectroscopy, which helps resolve the formation's apparent water salinity and provides a way to calibrate formation matrix sigma. The second technique relies on the existing combined inversion of dielectric dispersion and formation sigma, including explicitly invasion effects. This second technique benefits from the first technique's insight to adjust sigma interpretation and provide bounds for possible salinity variations. The workflow provides robust flushed and unflushed zone salinities, here the most uncertain and variable parameter, combined with accurate estimations of virgin and residual hydrocarbon saturations. The quantification of dielectric textural parameters describing how the water is shaped inside the formation is also improved, contributing to the improvement of virgin zone hydrocarbon saturation estimation.