Dept. of Petroleum Eng. and Appl. Geophysics TPG5120 Petrophysics Basic Course.

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Exercise 3: Well 33/9-1 Statfjord TPG5120 Petrophysics Basic Course

1. Estimating the temperature in the formation e.g. at 8400 ft.
By reading the temperature information in the front pages of the logs and the times since circulation for each temperature measurement, you may be able to estimate the bottom hole temperature, BHT, and the formation temperature, TF, at about 8400 ft. Refer to your lecture notes. Draw a figure of the rig, sea and borehole with corresponding depths and heights. Assume the temperature to increase from the sea bottom and downwards linearly.

2. Finding the resistivity, Rmf, of the mud filtrate at formation temperature.

From the front pages of the logs, find Rmf, Rm and Rmc at given temperatures. Find the corresponding resistivities corrected to formation temperature, TF. Your will find a correction chart at the end of this exercise.

3.

Compare Rw and Rmf.

a. Look at the micro laterolog and the induction log. Which of these are measuring the smaller value in the water zone? What can the observations made on the micro and induction logs tell you about the resistivities of Rw and Rmf ? b. The ratio Rmf/Rw is an important parameter for the SP log and decides if you get at large or small value on the SP log and if you get a positive or negative SP relative to the shale base line. Explain this!

4. Finding fluid resistivities: Water resitivity Rw.

The pore water resistivity, Rw , is an important quantity for log interpretation. In the lectures we have talked about that we must know Rw to calculate saturation by Archies equation. There are several ways of estimation Rw. Here we shall use two of the methods: The Sp log and the Rwa method. a. Use the Rwa-method based on Arcies equation to calculate estimates of Rw at different positions in the well. Where in the well would you go to find out about the water properties? Pick at least 5 smaller sub-zones in the water part of the well. As a resistivity log to read good low resistivities, use the ILD Induction Log Deep, and for porosity log you may use the neutron log. The neutron log is measured in Limestone Porosity Units (LPU). In this exercise add 2 LPU to correct to our sand lithology (For quarts matix we would added about 4 LPU) Plot 5 6 sub-zones in the water zone. Make a separate table in your Excel spreadsheet and calculate estimates of Rw.

5. Fluid resistivity and the self potential, SP.

The formula used to find Rw from the SP log is given below. Rmf at formation temperature you have found previously in this exercise. Find Rw. The static SP (the SP of clean, thick formations), SSP is given by: SSP = Kc log(Rmf /Rw ) where Hand in by Sept.26. Kc = 61 + 0.133*TF TF in oF

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