Abstract Downhole data and cores collected during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 376 at Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc, provide unprecedented, in situ views of volcanic facies fluid pathways an actively forming volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) ore deposit. volcano is a submarine caldera with extensive sea floor hydrothermal alteration. were two holes: Hole U1530A the ...

Abstract Because of their extreme heterogeneity at multiple scales, carbonate rocks present a great challenge for studying and managing oil reservoirs. Depositional processes diagenetic alterations carbonates may have produced very complex pore structures and, consequently, variable fluid storage flow properties hydrocarbon To understand the impact mineralogy on system, we analyzed four rock sa...

accurate estimation of hydrocarbon volume in a reservoir is important due to future development and investment on that reservoir. estimation of oil and gas reservoirs continues from exploration to end of reservoir time life and is usual upstream engineer’s involvements. in this study we tried to make reservoir properties models (porosity and water saturation) and estimate reservoir volume hydro...

The determination of porosity heterogeneity within hydrocarbon reservoirs is important because cost-effective, efficient production of hydrocarbons depends on accurate knowledge of reserve estimates, and hydrocarbon distribution. A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, based on the conical SPRITE (Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T1 Enhancement) MRI method is capable of revealing the ...

3D tomographic data at various scales is increasingly available through the wide adoption of CT (Micro Computed Tomography) and FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy) technologies. However, upscaling these observations is very challenging. This paper provides a template of an upscaling protocol between FIB-SEM data on a micron sized sample and CT data on the same sample regio...

A facility for digital imaging, visualizing and calculation of reservoir rock properties in three dimensions (3D) is described. The facility includes a high resolution X-ray micro-computed tomography system capable of acquiring 3D images made up of 2000 voxels on core plugs up to 5 cm diameter with resolutions down to 2 μm. Subsets of four sandstone reservoir core plugs (5 mm in diameter) from ...

The sand intervals of the Lower Goru Formation of the Cretaceous age, widely distributed in the Middle and Lower Indus Basin of Pakistan, are proven reservoirs. However, in the Sawan gas field of the Middle Indus Basin, these sandstone intervals are very deep and extremely heterogeneous in character, which makes it difficult to discriminate lithologies and fluid saturation. Based on petrophysic...

estimation of reservoir water saturation (sw) is one of the main tasks in well logging. many empirical equations are available, which are, more or less, based on archie equation. the present study is an application of radial basis function neural network (rbfnn) modeling for estimation of water saturation responses in a carbonate reservoir. four conventional petrophysical logs (pls) including d...

porosity is considered as an important petrophysical parameter in characterizing reservoirs, calculating in-situ oil reserves, and production evaluation. nowadays, using intelligent techniques has become a popular method for porosity estimation. support vector machine (svm) a new intelligent method with a great generalization potential of modeling non-linear relationships has been introduced fo...

Advanced and Integrated Petrophysical Characterization for CO2 Storage: Application to the Ketzin Site — Reservoir simulations and monitoring of CO2 storage require specific petrophysical data. We show a workflow that can be applied to saline aquifers and caprocks in order to provide the minimum data set for realistic estimations of storage potential and perform pertinent simulations of CO2 inj...