This work is the result of authors' experience in complex reservoirs such as the calcitic-lithic sandstones of the Chicontepec Formation, in the Chipontepec Channel Basin. These rocks, highly reactive to acids, present problems of low permeability; they are often fractured but production decline rapidly in time. The diagenesis experienced by these reservoirs is very complicated because the large amount of carbonate lithics, igneous and metamorphic components present, which can be mixed with detrital clays and dissolution of fossils (moldic porosity). The Chicontepec Formation is a turbidite sequence deposited in shallow waters in a submarine canyon with submarine fans, benthic foraminifera, some charred plant remains, and graded and convolute cross-lamination. It is composed by alternating well cemented calcareous-clayey-sandstones, and dark gray calcareous shale. It exhibits conglomerate horizons, consisting of chert and platform limestone clasts. Petrographically it is composed by very fine grained to middle and, occasionally, course litarenite; consisting of carbonate lithic (mudstone), monocrystalline quartz, plagioclase (sericitized) and a minor lithic igneous, metamorphic, silt and shale components. The main authigenic cements are kaolinite, chlorite, calcite, ankerite and interstratified I/S. The facies described from core samples were adjusted with microfacies obtained from thin sections where permeabilities ranging 0.1 to 400 milidarcy, and porosities between 4 to 15% and occasionally 20% could be differentiated. The described type of porosity is mainly intergranular, with some intragranular and moldic porosity. The analysis of high technology logs, such as magnetic resonance and image logs, permitted us facies modeling by using a 3D multivariate analysis of Coates permeability, effective porosity, shale volume and volume of irreducible water to represent facies described in the analyzed core samples and to obtain an integrated Petrophysical-Geological model. The study of these diagenetic facies allowed us to predict which of the electro-facies were susceptible to high reactivity and select the best candidates for stimulation.
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