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05-05b Rock Physics and Petrophysics for Seismic interpretation

Objectives

Introduction to rock physics, and petrophysics, diagenesis, Biot Theory, fracture gradients, 3D stress modeling and fractured reservoirs.

Who should attend

Profesionnals with a Scientific background.

Prerequisites

Background in Geosciences, petroleum geology or basic Petroleum Engineer knowledge

Duration

5 Session

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1
Session

What is Rock Physics?

Rock Physics and Petrophysics. What’s the difference?

Hooke’s law, anisotropy and elastic wave velocities

Sedimentary rocks as heterogeneous media

Representative Elementary Volume (REV)

Effective elastic properties

Voigt/Reuss and Hashin-Shtrikman bounds

Modulus-porosity relations for clean sands

Critical porosity and mechanical percolation

Gassmann’s equations and fluid substitution

Fluid properties and mixtures

2
Session

Diagenetic and sorting trends in velocity-porosity data

Velocity-porosity models for shaly sands

Empirical relations between velocity and porosity, clay content, etc.

Properties of sand-clay mixtures

Velocity-porosity relations for shales

Relations between VP and VS

Rock compressibilities and relation of 4D seismic to well testing

Reflection coefficients and AVO

Elastic impedance

Rock physics templates

Effective medium and effective field theories

Velocity-porosity relations for carbonates

3
Session

Biot theory

Patchy saturation

Squirt flow

Sediment compaction and the state of stress in the Earth

Pore pressure and the concept of effective stress

Poroelasticity

Application to pore pressure prediction

4
Session

Fracture gradient and 3D stress modeling

Effect of stress on seismic body waves

Third-order elasticity

Granular media and discrete element methods

Displacement discontinuity methods

Stress sensitivity of sandstones

Stress sensitivity of shales

Stress perturbations around a borehole

Determination of velocity variations around a borehole from advanced sonic logging

Application to wellbore stability

Reservoir geomechanics and stress effects in 4D seismic monitoring

5
Session

Fractured reservoirs

Hydraulic fracture propagation in presence of natural fractures

Seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs

Modeling the response of a fractured reservoir

Rock physics models for fractures

Shales and unconventional reservoirs

Anisotropy of shales

Rock physics modeling of kerogen in organic-rich shales

Effect of anisotropy on AVO

Microseismic and effect of azimuthal anisotropy on propagation of hydraulic fractures

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