Correlation of Vertical Permeability and Volume of Shale in a SAGD Oil Sands Reservoir

SBED Software Assisted with Vertical Permeability in SAGD Project Geomodeling’s SBED product services were used for a steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) permeability project by an oil sands operator. Highlights of this permeability study follow, as well as a link to the published SPE Paper. From a producing McMurray Formation...

Estimation of Reservoir Heterogeneity from the Depositional Environment in Reservoir Characterization of a CHOPS Field

The major challenge in reservoir characterization is to estimate the effective porosity and the permeability of the reservoir due to reservoir heterogeneity. Often the vertical and the horizontal permeability are not considered separately in 3D geo-cellular models and in the reservoir simulations. Conventional reservoir modeling extrapolates all of the small-scale data to full-field scale...