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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (04): 1131-1137.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.183

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Saturation Calculation Model With Variable Rock-Electrical Parameters for Tight Sandstone Reservoirs: A Case Study of the Shihezi Formation (8th Member) in Western Sulige Gas Field

LU Junhui1,2(), ZHANG Xiaoli1(), YANG Zhen1, LI Yajun1, WANG Xiaolin1, ZHAO Xi1   

  1. 1. National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology/Department of Geology/State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi’an,Shaanxi 710069, China
    2. Northwest Geological Exploration Institute of China General Administration of Metallurgical Geology, Xi’an,Shaanxi 710119, China
  • Received:2021-07-20 Revised:2021-08-07 Online:2022-08-10 Published:2022-09-09
  • Contact: ZHANG Xiaoli

Abstract:

Tight sandstone reservoirs are one of the major regions for oil and gas exploration. Due to the characteristics of low porosity and permeability, complex pore structure, and strong heterogeneity in rock electrical parameters, logging interpretation process for tight sandstone reservoirs is different from that of conventional reservoirs. When interpreting tight sandstone reservoirs with the Archie formula, strong heterogeneity would lead to changes in the rock electrical parameters a, b, m and n with different reservoirs. In this study, a saturation model is established by using the variable rock electrical parameters for the tight sandstone reservoir in the Shihezi Formation (8th member) in the western Sulige gas field. According to the rock-electrical experiment on 25 cores, we found that the relationship between cementation coefficient m and lgϕ is a quadratic function, the relationship between m and lithology coefficient a is a power function, and the irreducible water saturation Swb has major influence on the saturation index n. Therefore, based on the analysis of porosity, irreducible water saturation and pore structure index, the saturation model with variable rock electrical parameters is established by integrating the various influence factors. The results show that the accuracy of this method is higher than that of the traditional Archie formula, which is effective for interpreting complex pore structure sandstone reservoirs.

Key words: tight sandstone, Archie formula, variable rock-electric parameter, saturation model, Sulige gas field

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