THE INFLUENCE OF ROCK LITHOGENESIS TYPES ON POROSITY AND PERMEABILITY (THE CASE OF PERMOCARBONIFEROUS DEPOSIT OF THE USINSKOYE FIELD)

• Published in: Вестник Пермского национального исследовательского политехнического университета. Геология. Нефтегазовое и горное дело Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 104 - 114
• Main Authors: Popov, Nikita A., Putilov, Ivan S., Guliaeva, Anastasiia A., Vinokurova, Ekaterina E., Fairuzova, Iuliia V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 15.06.2020
• ISSN: 2224-9923
• DOI: 10.15593/2224-9923/2020.2.1

The paper analyzes a methodology aimed at differentiation of porosity, permeability and petrographic properties depending on facies attributes. Based on the Dunham classification, we offer in-depth studies of the influence of rock fabric, including full-size core samples, on changes in porosity and permeability. The work deals with the Permo-Carboniferous deposit of the Usinskoye field. Reservoir properties of the considered strata are highly heterogeneous. Along with highly porous and cavernous rocks, there are low porous and fractured varieties in the section, which refer to rocks of various lithological compositions. The porosity and permeability properties were analysed for more than 9,000 standard core samples and approximately 1,000 full-size core samples, taking into account the scale factor and including microfractures, large caverns and rock matrix, commensurable with the sample sizes.The analysis of the maximum variation range is of particular importance for structurally complex carbonate reservoirs. Furthermore, based on the conducted lithologic, petrographic and petrophysical studies, the authors identified four types of reservoirs and eight different types of lithogenesis, as well as estimated geological and physical parameters for each of them. Based on the cumulative correlation plots, four zones of heterogeneity were identified. They are subject to the influence of properties of the core samples of different lithogenesis types. This is the first time that the influence of various petrotypes/lithotypes on changes in the reservoir porosity and permeability has been studied for the Usinskoye field based on the petrographic and petrophysical research findings. All the conducted experiments show that the rocks of the Permo-Carboniferous deposit of the Usinskoye field are extremely heterogeneous in their permeability properties that vary much. Thus, it is necessary to differentiate the core-to-core petrophysical correlations depending on a void space fabric and lithology of rocks.