WEST SPARKLE ROCK PROPERTIES PROBLEM

BUILDING A RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION

Your team is evaluating development of the West Sparkle field. A new well WS-2 penetrated 30 meters of the
target X sand. A summary of the log calculations on 3 meter intervals are attached. Several rotary sidewall
core plugs were cut. Routine porosity and permeability measurements were made as well as air-brine
capillary pressures.

1. What are the appropriate average values for thickness, porosity, water saturation and permeability for
the X sand in the WS-2 well?

2. Determine, if you can, how many rock types are present and their location

3. What layering scheme might you suggest for reservoir simulation?

Note: Production tests from the WS-2 have yielded only dry gas. Therefore all calculated water saturations can be
assumed to be at irreducible values
d 30 meters of the
al rotary sidewall
as air-brine

ermeability for

water saturations can be

 Log Calculations Core Data
Water Ambient Liquid
Depth Interval, Meters of Porosity, Saturation, Depth, m Porosity, Permeability, Capillary
m ss Net Sand fraction fraction subsea frac md Pressure Comments
2950-53 2.7 0.200 0.39 2952 0.213 55
2953-56 3 0.240 0.32 2955 0.253 110 x
2956-59 3 0.265 0.29 2958 0.279 160
2959-62 0 All shale
2962-65 3 0.261 0.17 2964 0.275 420 x
2965-68 3 0.229 0.20
2968-71 3 0.196 0.22 2969 0.208 157 x
2971-74 3 0.165 0.26 2972 0.174 70 x
2974-77 2.5 0.137 0.30 2977 0.147 38 x
2977-80 2 0.110 0.39
CAPILLARY PRESSURE DATA

Water Saturation (%)

Sample Depth, m ss: 2955 2964 2969 2972 2977

Pc (psia)

10 32.00 17.00 22.00 25.50 29.20

8 35.00 17.86 22.50 26.00 31.10
6 38.00 19.20 23.20 28.40 35.00
4 49.00 20.50 27.80 36.20 45.80
3 60.00 24.10 31.50 42.30 57.50
2 85.00 31.40 38.60 62.90 100.00
1.5 100.00 37.70 46.00 100.00 100.00
1 100.00 47.30 77.90 100.00 100.00
0.5 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

Threshold Pc, psia 1.55 0.55 0.91 1.61 2.09

Liquid Permeability, md 130 420 157 70 38

Ambient porosity, fraction 0.255 0.275 0.208 0.174 0.147

Laboratory Conditions: Tests used air-water.

Interfacial tension = 72 dynes/cm
Contact angle = 0