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reservoirs
Piyapa Dejtrakulwong*, Stanford Rock Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
Tapan Mukerji, Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting, Stanford University
Gary Mavko, Stanford Rock Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
Three different ways that shale can be distributed in sand segment AE represents lamination between clean sand and
include laminated, dispersed, and structural (Figure 1). pure shale with varying Vlam in the mixture. Line segment
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as shown in case 2. This example shows the potential values. However, we need to keep in mind that these
pitfall of misinterpreting the result as it appears to have a properties have already been up-scaled (i.e. averaged over
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larger amount of dirtier sand than it actually does. several sand layers). Therefore, in this case we can only
obtain an “average” property of the sand in the lamination.
If the shale properties within the lamination do not
correspond to the pure shale (case 4) it further complicates
the situation and the results show even larger scatter than
observed in case 2. When the shale properties also vary
between layers (as in case 5), the relation between the true
and estimated sand fraction is not simple as other cases.
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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