Reveal Potential in Complex Carbonate Formations with Geology-guided Rock Physics Modeling

Carbonate reservoirs account for approximately 50 percent of the proven oil and gas reservoirs worldwide. Compared to siliciclastics, these very heterogeneous carbonates are challenging to evaluate, model and optimize due to the microstructure complexity resulting from the geology in which they are formed. Normally attributed to the carbonates’ geological processes, this complexity can be addressed by combining information from sedimentary and diagenetic descriptions, geological models, seismic analysis, and petrophysical rock properties into a single rock physics model. This rock physics-based solution integrates and crosschecks all these types of data and makes them consistent with each other.