Abstract: Reservoir Sequence Analysis: A New Technology for the 90's and Its Application to Oil and Gas Fields

Walter W. Wornardt

Reservoir Sequence Analysis when applied to existing fields can increase the production, life of the field and extend the field with a minimum of cost. In this technology we identify reservoir sands in a standard-of-reference well, to establish a seismic sequence stratigraphic well-tie for the entire field. Age date the Maximum Flooding Surfaces and Sequence Boundaries above and below reservoir sands on a well-log and seismic profile and/or workstation using High Resolution Biostratigraphic Analysis, species abundance and diversity histograms and their patterns, and paleoenvironmentsl paleobathymetric changes. Identify the systems tracts and their corresponding reservoir sands in between age dated Maximum Flooding Surfaces. Interpret the reservoir sands as to type, i.e. I F, point bar, coastal belt, forced regression, falling stage, bottom-set (shingled) turbidites, slope fan channel, channel overbank, and basin floor fans. Identify and correlate the same individual sands in different wells, and note new sands in a well and sands that shale-out in a well. Correlate the Maximum Flooding Surfaces above and below the reservoir section in additional wells to see which part of the reservoir section and sands have been penetrated. Identify systems tracts in additional wells and construct isopach, sand percent maps of individual systems tract interval in each well. Correlate sand packages, with a high degree of confidence, from upthrown to downthrown fault blocks, around salt domes, and updip with downdip.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90951©1996 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Caracas, Venezuela