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Microfacies and Reservoir Connectivity of Shore Sandbar, Southern Indus Basin, Pakistan

Journal

WATER
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w14101614

Keywords

shore sand bar; microfacies; reservoir connectivity; southern Indus basin

Funding

  1. Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2020CFB372]
  2. Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources, China University of Geosciences, Ministry of Education [TPR-2021-05]

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Shore sand bar reservoirs have great potential for petroleum exploration and development, but their efficient development is hindered by the rapid lateral change and heterogeneity. This study investigates the petromineral composition, microfacies, and reservoir connectivity of the shore sand bar in the southern Indus basin through integrated analysis of various data, providing insights into the petroleum geological characteristics and reservoir connectivity of shore sand bar reservoirs.
Shore sand bar reservoirs have attracted much attention as one of the target intervals with the greatest potential for petroleum exploration and development in marine sedimentary basins. Nevertheless, due to lack of effective research methods, it is difficult to analyze the rapid lateral change and heterogeneity in a sand bar reservoir, which has a major impact on the efficient petroleum development that seriously restricts the rolling evaluation and efficient development of sand-bar reservoirs. In this study, based on integrated analysis of cores, thin sections, logging, 3D seismic data, production test and dynamic data, through a combination analysis of drilling and seismic interpretation data-the petromineral composition, microfacies and reservoir connectivity of the shore sand bar in the southern Indus basin are investigated, which is used for the fine description of the sandbar reservoir. The results show that the shore sand bar is located in a relatively high-energy shore sedimentary environment, which is conducive to forming a favorable lithologic reservoir. Four sedimentary microfacies types are identified, including center bar, bar edge, inter bar and local mudstone interbeds. The sandbar microfacies are changed rapidly, and different microfacies types overlap each other, especially the inter bar and local mudstone interbeds that overlap and intersect in the center bar and bar edge, which significantly reduces the internal reservoir connectivity as well as intensifying the heterogeneity of the sandbar reservoir. The sandbar reservoir is not connected transversely, the physical properties are changing rapidly, and the sandbar reservoir is cut into several relatively independent oil reservoirs.

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