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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS FOR RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION AND PROCESS MONITORING

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One of important geophysical parameters that can be used to help monitor and characterize a petroleum reservoir is the electrical conductivity. The electrical conductivity of rock is dominantly a function of fluid type, its saturation, the porosity, and hydraulic permeability of the rock. For these reasons, resistivity well logs have long been used by geologists and reservoir engineers in petroleum industries to map variations in pore fluid, to distinguish between rock types, and to determine completion intervals in wells. It is therefore a natural extension to use the electrical conductivity structure to provide additional information about the reservoir. Reservoir simulation and process monitoring rely .heavily on the physical characteristics of the reservoir model. At present, numerical codes use point measurements of porosity, permeability, and fluid saturation and extrapolate these data throughout a three-dimensional (3-D) grid. The knowledge of a high-resolution geophysical parameter such as electrical conductivity would aid this extrapolation and improve the reservoir simulation effort. In addition, sine conductivity is sensitive to changes in the composition and state of fluids in pores and fractures it becomes an ideal method for monitoring a reservoir process

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Last Updated September 29, 2016, 14:49 (LMT)
Created September 29, 2016, 14:49 (LMT)
Citation H. Frank Morrison, Ki Ha Lee, Alex Becker ---- Roy Long, ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS FOR RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION AND PROCESS MONITORING, 2016-09-29, https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/electrical-and-electromagnetic-methods-for-reservoir-description-and-process-monitoring0
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Poc Email Roy.long@netl.doe.gov
Point Of Contact Roy Long
Program Or Project KMD
Publication Date 1995-7-1