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RESISTIVITY ANISOTROPY

By : Ihsan Taufik Pasaribu


(Senior Petrophysics Schlumberger Indonesia)
IPasaribu@slb.com

Outline
Anistropy Effect to Resistivity
The Standard EM Resistivity Tool Response in
Anisotropy
Tool geometry Design and Model
Fit of Resisitivity Anistropy to Petrophysical Analysis

Impact Anistropy to Resistvity?

Anistropy Challenges
MD, GR

10m: Shale or Sand??

Interlaminated shale
and sand

Highly anisotropic setting: Identification of real thin beds,


Accurate net pay, saturation associated with thin beds

Image, Res, HiRes Res

What Standard EM Resistivity Tool Read ?


Rv

Rh

Electromagnetic based response to the vector of conductivity


media

Horizontal and Vertical Well


Propagation Tool Response

Anisotropy Caused and Response


Anisotropy characteristics
Variation of property with the direction in which it is measured

Ability to detect anisotropy with the standard EM tools


limited to high-angle and horizontal wellbores

Tool Geometry for Anisotropy Detection


Required Geometric design of the Receiver and Transmitter to
sense the anisotropy in all dip angle
LWD
Wireline

y
x
z

1D + dip inversion to invert Rv, Rh and Dip

Rv, Rh and Dip in Vertical Wells


North Sea
8.5 Hole
Salty WBM

Rv, Rh

SPWLA 56th Symposium, Keli Sun, et.all, 2015

Rv, Rh and Dip in High Angle Well


2D model inversion workflow for boundary and proximity effect

Case : Middle East


(SPE 103684)

High Angle Well Workflow Process


Initial RvDensity
(red) Rhimage
(blue)
Initial boundary
positions

Inverted Rv (red) Rh (blue)


Inverted boundary positions

Inputs
A28H, A40H,
P28H, P40H

Initial dip = 0 deg

Inverted dip = 9.0 deg

How Fit in Petrophysics Workflow ?


Low Resistivity and Low Contrast Pay Resistivity Based Solution
Knowing Rv, Rh,Rshale Shale and Sand fraction from NMR, Spectroscopy or
density neutron

Define Rsand

n
Sw

Rw

m Rsand

How shale anisotropy Effect??

Shale Anistropy Effect

Pay

Non
pay

Rv ( f sand Rsand ) ( f shale Rshale_ v )


Isotropic shale assumption tends to
boost the pay zone

f
f
1
sand shale
Rh
Rsand Rshale _ h

Rshale_ v
Rshale_ h

Case Study Laminated Sand Shale Analysis

Chanh, et all., SPWLA, 2007

THANK YOU

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