Laboratory assessment on factors controlling the acoustic properties of carbonates: A case study from Bombay offshore

Garia, Siddharth; Pal, Arnab Kumar; Ravi, K.; Nair, Archana M.

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2021.108607

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“…In addition, pore AR has a remarkable effect on elastic wave propagation [36][37][38], affecting the energy exchange between the formation and pore fluids. However, recent researches only focus on building quantitative trends between the velocity and pore type at the core scale [8].…”

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Using a Synthetic Borehole Model to Determine the Pore Aspect Ratio Dependence of Velocities from Acoustic Well-Logging Data

Xiao

et al. 2023

Geofluids

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Revealing the elastic wave properties of carbonate rocks with complex pore structures and improving the reliability of carbonate reservoir descriptions have always been a global challenge in the field of carbonate geophysical exploration. In this study, we established a synthetic borehole model by selecting different particle sizes of cement, carbonate cuttings, and micro-silicon as the matrix, and silicon disks as the pores in carbonate rocks. We conducted four sets of low-porosity (0-3%) borehole models with different pore aspect ratios (ARs) and measured the P- and S-wave velocities ( V P and V S ) at the well-logging scale obtained from an acoustic logging system with one source and two receivers. The results indicate that the relationship between velocities and porosities in these borehole models follows a linear relation, with the pore AR significantly influencing the velocities at any given porosity. The velocity variation caused by pore AR reaches 560 m/s and 410 m/s at 3% porosity for the P-wave and S-wave within the AR range of 0.017-0.13. The theoretical DEM models provide a high and broad estimation of V P and V S at the well-logging scale in our measurement. They could perform better in fractured formation than in dissolved porous formation in carbonate reservoirs. The linear relation of V P and V S is independent of the pore AR and is effective for both fractured and dissolved porous formations. The change of V P / V S in different pore AR is more responsive to porosity and nonlinear dependent on the pore AR. The relationship between the defined normalized V P and V S indicates the pore AR has a more significant effect on V S than V P in our model. The constructed borehole models provide a unique opportunity for evaluating the availability of rock physics models at an acoustic logging scale. The study’s findings have significant implications for improving the reliability of carbonate reservoir descriptions and enhancing the accuracy of geophysical exploration in carbonate rocks with complex pore structures.

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