*High Resolution Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Deep Marrat Carbonate Reservoir in Minagish Field, West Kuwait

Naveen K. Verma¹, Rasha Al Moraikhi¹, Ibrahim Al-Sammak¹, Bishnu Kumar², and Jalal Khazanehdari²

Abstract

The reservoir characterization of Marrat carbonates in the Mingaish field has been challenging due to high reservoir heterogeneity, poor seismic imaging, sparse well spacing and compartmentalization. KOC implemented a multidisciplinary field development study to address these challenges.

Geostatisitical seismic inversion has been integrated in the multidisciplinary study. Compared with conventional deterministic inversion, geostatistical, or stochastic, inversion delivers multiple realizations of acoustic impedance correlated to porosity consistent with the available well and seismic data.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90188 ©GEO-2014, 11th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, 10-12 March 2014, Manama, Bahrain