CASE STUDY

Net sand fraction in thinly laminated formation

from CMR in the absence of borehole image
Case Study: CMR thin bed fraction in Nile Delta, Petrobel
Challenge
Obtaining a thin bed
fraction in the absence
of borehole imager.

Solution
Use CMRs volumetric
sensitivity to small
amounts of free fluid to
compute a thin bed
fraction.

Results
CMR provided a
detailed thin bed
fraction.

Background
A thin bed fraction was computed based on the CMR free fluid fraction compared to the free
fluid porosity in a thick sand (see SPE paper 110223, Applications of NMR Logs and Borehole
Images to the Evaluation of Laminated Deepwater Reservoirs, Claverie et al., 2007).
The thin bed fraction curve represents the fraction of sand laminations seen by the CMR in a
unit interval, as the above mentioned paper demonstrates that there is a direct relationship
between CMR free fluid volume and the thickness of the sand layers surveyed by the CMR.
The results are displayed on the plots (see last track from right) and a cumulative count is also
displayed in the same track. In this well, no borehole imager was logged. The thin bed
fraction usually compares well with the borehole imager sand count and show that both CMR
and image see equally well the thin beds but at different resolutions (the CMR provides bulk
sensitivity while the borehole imager identifies each layer).

Net thin bed

thickness
3.8 m

CMR provides
fundamental information
to characterize thinly
bedded formations.

Thin bed fraction and cumulative thickness

count from CMR