Rock Typing Methods

Present by:
Amir Sepehri
Ph.D. Candidate Petroleum Engineering
Islamic Azad university Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Iran.
Date:
Autumn (2019-2020)
What is the Rock typing?
Why we Doing That?
How can we do that?
Result?
What is Rock Typing and Why we doing That?
 How?
many researchers have applied different methods to reservoir rock typing.
They can be identified based on the microscopic study of thin sections, well logs
classification (electrofacies analysis), or reservoir data such as porosity,
permeability, and capillary pressure.
 Methods Category
 Depositional rock types

I. Facies (microfacies and petrofacies)

II. Facies association
III. Diagenetic rock types

 Petrophysical rock types

a. Hydraulic flow units

b. Electrical rock type
c. Winland’s and Pittman’s method
d. Lucia method
e. Buckles method
f. Reservoir rock types
Depositional rock types

a. Facies (microfacies and petrofacies)

b. Facies association
c. Diagenetic rock types
Diagenetic rock types
 Petrophysical rock types

a. Hydraulic flow units

b. Electrical rock type
c. Winland’s and Pittman’s method
d. Lucia method
e. Buckles method
f. Reservoir rock types
Hydraulic flow units
Electrical rock type
Winland’s and Pittman’s method
Lucia method
Buckles method
FZI(Flow zone Indicator)
Reservoir rock types
• Which one is better?
Review of Flow Chart
 Result?

Linking between reservoir rock types and sedimentary facies

Permeability estimation and RRT propagation for uncored wells

Remarks and directions for future research

Software useful

• Excel

• Interactive Petrophysics

• Clustering K-Means
 Fire Danger

• The Important Key is Using the correct Units

• (Percent or Fraction?)
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