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With all these antecedents mentioned, the main objective of Crossplot in Oficina Formation (Figure 1.a) shows an
this work is to generate a lithofacies volume through elastic overlap in the acoustic impedance values of sand and shaly
Lithofacies discrimination using support vector machines, rock physics and simultaneous seismic inversion
facies, in effect is the density the best lithological differentiable sands (black polygon) with low impedance
discriminator. Meanwhile, RPT in this case (Figure 1.b) and density values (Figure 2.a), being this last attribute that
point out a preferential direction in sands (black arrows), offers a better discrimination. Figures 2.b, and 2.d show
these directions was defined by Dvorkin and Gutierrezs separation between brine sands and oil sands. In RPT
model (2002) as a shale lamination direction. This is (Figure 2.d), oil sands respect FSM with high porosity,
validated with core information, which provides that sands while brine sands are fitted at CoCM with 1% or 2% of
usually have alternating shale lamination and dispersed cement and lower porosity. This difference is due to
shale. sorting, oil sand are cleaner and with higher porosity and
permeability than more shaly brine sands.
Figure 2: Merecure Formation: a) AI RHOB crossplot; b) AI RHOB crossplot (only sands); c) RPT ; d) RPT (only sands).
Black polygons encloses clean differentiable sands and adjusted to friable sand model.
Lithofacies discrimination using support vector machines, rock physics and simultaneous seismic inversion
Litofacies volumes sands above are not identified by SVM possible due to lost
of predictability towards the south of the field, where is
After getting SVM classification solutions, decision blind well. Nevertheless, correlations of lithofacies were
function are propagated in elastic properties volumes acceptable, getting values in order of 70% for different two
generated through simultaneous inversion. Figure 4 blind wells.
illustrate sand spatial distributions in Oficina Formation.
The sand greatest accumulation is in the west of the field.
Acknowledgments
Figure 5: 3D sands visualization in Merecure Formation.
The authors would like to thank PDVSA Intevep for their
Finally, Figure 6 deploys in a blind well the initial facies in cooperation in providing the data, support and permission
comparison to SVM facies in order to verify litofacies to publish this work.
volume predictability. Despite seismic resolution (70 ft), it
is possible to identify some thin sand intervals in Oficina
Formation. For Merecure Formation its possible to
correlate the big sand package around 3800 ft. The two
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