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Middle Eastern carbonate reservoirs – the critical impact of Discrete Zones of Elevated Permeability (DZEP) on reservoir performance

Cross, Nigel E. ; Burchette, Trevor P.

Carbonate Reservoirs: Applying Current Knowledge to Future Energy Needs, 2025, Vol.548

The Geological Society of London

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    Middle Eastern carbonate reservoirs – the critical impact of Discrete Zones of Elevated Permeability (DZEP) on reservoir performance
  • Autor: Cross, Nigel E. ; Burchette, Trevor P.
  • Assuntos: Petroleum geoscience and geoenergy
  • É parte de: Carbonate Reservoirs: Applying Current Knowledge to Future Energy Needs, 2025, Vol.548
  • Descrição: Middle Eastern carbonate petroleum reservoirs exhibit a range of heterogeneities which consist of variable combinations of primary stratigraphic and secondary diagenetic and structural characteristics. These produce diverse permeability architectures which can exert a profound influence on reservoir performance during secondary recovery. Of particular importance are laterally persistent discrete zones of elevated permeability (DZEP) that typically make up a volumetrically minor proportion of the reservoir yet show disproportionately high fluid inflow or outflow. The stratigraphic, diagenetic, and structural origins of elevated permeability in Middle Eastern carbonate reservoirs are considered here and the consequences of such features for reservoir performance are discussed. The term DZEP denotes geological sources of elevated permeability at least an order of magnitude greater than background reservoir properties. Stratigraphically organised DZEP comprise coarse-grained layers, event beds or parasequence tops or bases in neritic or platform interior settings. Other origins include bioturbated layers, grainy clinothems, and bed-scale, grain-size variations in shoal deposits. Diagenetic DZEP are typically dissolution horizons with mouldic and touching-vug pore networks or dolomitized intervals which often overprint stratigraphic DZEP. Structural DZEP include individual faults, fracture corridors, and fracture concentrations related to mechanical stratigraphy. During production through natural pressure depletion, DZEP may dominate well productivity. Under secondary recovery, the same intervals may dominate inter-well fluid flow, causing flood conformance issues, cross-zone fluid movement, bypassed pay, and earlier-than-expected water or gas breakthrough to production wells. Optimisation of production and ultimate recovery relies on collecting the correct kinds of data at a sufficiently early stage in the reservoir characterisation process to permit their inclusion in static and dynamic reservoir models.
  • Títulos relacionados: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
  • Editor: The Geological Society of London
  • Idioma: Inglês
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