USING WIRELINE FORMATION TESTER

(WFT) TO VALIDATE ROCK –TYPING

AND PERMEABILITY MODEL
Reservoir engineers are responsible for describing the reservoir based on pressure test.
Nevertheless, petrophysics can use this data to validate rock typing and permeability models in
dynamic space because cores and logs are only in static space.

The pressure and associated measurements (e.g., downhole flow) are interpreted to yield
reservoir dynamic parameters relevant to fluid flow, such as formation permeability, and any
formation damage. Wireline tests establish reservoir communication through one or more
pressure and sampling probes. In order to obtain good results the pressure pulse that is
propagated should be extended well beyond the near wellbore region, viscosity of the primary
fluid being investigated is known and Skin can be resolved for, hence the resulting mobility
thickness from the interpretation is skin independent.

With sufficient good quality and repeatable pressure data, the interpretation results in
a reliable estimate of the mobility of the flow unit being investigated.

Workflow will be as follow:

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1) To perform exhaustive data Qc: Discard dry and lost seal test, test with different
after and before hydrostatic pressures, supercharged tests, more than one drawdown period is
desirable, repeatability is an important plus, higher recovery volume higher the confidence,
longer periods are desirable.

2) To analyze flow regimes, and then convert mobility to permeability:

Converting the mobility thickness to an average permeability requires the input of viscosity of
the mobile phase of the native formation fluid and thickness of the flowing unit.

3) To compare WFT-derived-permeability and log-derived-

permeability using crossplots and templates with other wireline logs

4) To compare WFT-derived-permeability with RRT classification using

histogram for each rock type.

A perfect match between this two data source is almost impossible to find.
Permeability from cores take into account only a small volume of the reservoir.
Meanwhile, WFT measurement is an average permeability in the near wellbore area
and is affected by heterogeneity. If differences are meaningful should not be ignored.
All data must be reasonably conciliated in geological and reservoir
model

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