Lithology prediction of Wara and Burgan Formations using prestack geostatistical inversion: a case study in Kuwait

The Middle cretaceous Wara sandstone reservoir in Minagish Field is considered as highly heterogenetic sandstone which implying lateral facies extensive variations, stacked sand bodies with varying petrophysical properties. Several horizontal wells has been successfully drilled in lower part of Wara 6 sand channel, best thicker clean sand channel with very good oil production rate. Recently some wells have shown depleting of oil and increase water production. To develop such a challenging reservoir to maximize the oil production, a new plan has been developed to explore for new opportunities in Wara reservoir. The objective is to target different good stacked sand bodies in different Wara layers by drilling deviated wells. Some of old depleted Minagsih Oolite reservoir wells have shown good opportunities to sidetrack the wells into good Wara sand layers. This paper presents the integration between geostatistical models, well logs, well test results and different seismic elastic properties maps to identify best subsurface locations for drilling new deviated wells which combine the best quality sand bodies in different Wara layers. A few years ago geostatistical reservoir model along with core data and well log data were utilized to drill successful horizontal wells in W6 sand channels. However due to low resolution seismic data, Wara highly heterogonous lithology and uncertainty in geo-statistical model, it was challenging to continue identify good quality stacked sand bodies in different Wara layers without drilling unwanted silty sand or shale layers. Seismic inversion related elastic impedance data could discriminate between the good quality oil-bearing sand, shaly, and silty sandstones. Several old vertical wells that include good stacked sand bodies in different Wara layers; have been selected to validate the accuracy of elastic impedance maps along Wara layers.

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Lithology prediction of Wara and Burgan Formations using prestack geostatistical inversion: a case study in Kuwait

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Quantitative reservoir characterization of Wara Reservoir in Magwa and Ahmadi Field using prestack-geostatistical inversion: A case study in Kuwait

Quantitative reservoir characterization of Wara Reservoir in Magwa and Ahmadi Field using prestack-geostatistical inversion: A case study in Kuwait

Integrating Seismic Elastic Properties with Geological Data to Explore New Opportunities to Maximize Production of Wara Sand Reservoir in Minagish Field, WK

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