Field measurements of conductivity, porosity, etc. have shown their are high heterogeneity, the bounds of such heterogeneity increasing as the scale of observations changes. This has led to the development of fractal models, renormgroup methods, and methods of subgrid modeling. The subgrid modeling approach, associated with problems of the subsurface hydrodynamics, is presented. We consider a s...

Permeability and capillary pressures are important petrophysical properties. Permeability is one of the most important parameters for reservoir management and development. Capillary pressure data have been widely used in evaluating reservoir rock, sealing capacity, transition zone thickness, pay versus non pay, and absolute and relative permeability. We are working in this study modification tw...

more often clay matrix is the major factor to reduce the porosity and permeability in sandstone facies. consequently determination of clay minerals is of prime importance in reservoir quality assessment. the present study aims to identify four different types of clay mineral namely kaolinite, illite/cholorite, halloysite, and montmorilonite from petrophysical logs (pls) using cation exchange ca...

Paradigm shift in hydrocarbon exploration and development strategies has increased utilization of seismic data many fold for reservoir characterization. Complicated and nonlinear relationship between seismic attributes and reservoir properties has been addressed recently using artificial neural network techniques for lithofaices classification and prediction of reservoir properties through unsu...

Introduction And Geologic Overview The Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Smackover Formation is a stratigraphically complex carbonate formation, and a major producer of hydrocarbons in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (Baria et al., 1982; Salvador, 1991). The main reservoir facies in the Smackover Formation are the microbial reefs, which were formed in a gently sloping to distally steepened carbonate r...