Advanced
Acquisition and Management of Petrographic
Information from Reservoir Rocks Using the Petroledge®
System
De Ros, Luiz F.1, Mara Abel1, Karin Goldberg1
(1)
The precise and comprehensive description
of the textural and compositional features of reservoir rocks is crucial in
petroleum exploration. However, in order to substantially contribute to
decrease exploration risks and increase hydrocarbon production efficiency , petrographic reservoir characterization must include not
only information on the volumes of detrital and diagenetic constituents and pore types, but also a detailed
record of their habits, locations, modifications and paragenetic
inter-relations, which strongly control porosity and permeability, as well as
log and seismic signatures. The Petroledge® system is
an intelligent database application created to support the detailed petrographic analysis and interpretation of reservoirs,
combining resources from relational databases and knowledge-based expert
systems. Systematic description is facilitated by the use of flexible menus
with standardized nomenclature and parameters, what radically reduces
description time and errors. An integrated electromechanical microscope stage
allows an optimized modal quantification through point-counting, as well as the
referencing of every point quantified and/or photographed in the thin sections.
The system provides compositional classifications, interpretations of tectonic
provenance modes, diagenetic environments and
sequences using Artificial Intelligence methods. The intelligent database
system allows the management, storage, recovery through multiple query, and the statistical and graphic processing of petrographic data, which are essential for the design of
reservoir optimized recovery and quality prediction models.
AAPG Search and Discover Article #90063©2007 AAPG Annual Convention, Long Beach, California