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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL OIL

FROM WELL LOGS FOR TERTIARY RECOVERY

by

Claude Boyeldieu
Schlumberger Inland Services, London

and

Szabolcs B. Horvath
OMV, Vienna

ABSTRACT

Before planning a tertiary recovery project, it is necessary to accurately evaluate the quantity of oil
remaining in the reservoir. As such projects concern fields which may have been drilled decades ago,
when logging programs were very limited, drilling new in-field wells provides an opportunity to make a
complete evaluation of the reservoir in its present state.
A case history is presented of the evaluation of residual oil after water flooding in a well of the
Maustrenk Field in Austria. The well was continuously cored with a well-conditioned mud to ensure
the best conditions for open hole logging. The mud had been prepared in such a way that a “smooth”
invasion of mud filtrate would take place. The mud cake was thin and the depth of invasion some 10 to
12 inches. The mud salinity and composition were such that the mud filtrate had a resistivity equal to
the original formation water before flooding. As the formation water was rather fresh and as the
computation technique used on this method requires the use of the Thermal Decay Time Log response
in open hole, it was necessary to add boric acid to the mud. This increased the nuclear capture cross
section of the mud filtrate, thereby making the Thermal Decay Time Log measurement more sensitive
to water saturation in the invaded zone.
Open hole logging consisted of the Dual Laterolog, Micro-Spherically Focused Log, the
Compensated Neutron Log, the Formation Density Log, the Gamma Ray Log and the Thermal Decay
Time Log. The computer-processed evaluation was made by comparing the results obtained from the
microdevices in the invaded zone with those derived from the Thermal Decay Time Log. Parameters
were adjusted until agreement was obtained, and final results were compared with the porosity and
saturation measurements performed on cores.

HISTORY OF THE MAUSTRENK FIELD

Geology

The Maustrenk Field was discovered in 1941, during the Second World War, when oil was
desperately needed for battlefield vehicles. The field is 40 km north of Vienna.
The reservoir, of Tertiary age (Miocene, Eggenburg-Ottnang series), consists of three more or less
separate porous units of sandstone, sand, shale and sparse conglomerates. These sediments, eroded
from an area to the south (Paleogon), fill a trough on the northern slope of the Flysch (Figure 1).
Grain size decreases while shaliness increases with distance from the Flysch--vertically as well as
horizontally (out of the bay). The sand bodies pinch out into the shale.
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The three porous units are almost completely separated by shale breaks; only in the eastern part is
there a direct connection between the second and third units.
The uppermost unit, Schlierbasis 1, is smallest in area and thickness (Figure 2). There are no thick
sand or sandstone streaks therein. The sand-shale ratio is about 50:50. Also, the effective porosity of
the sand streaks is low, about 15%, and the shale content high. The maximum overall thickness is less
than 22 meters.
The Schlierbasis 11 unit is similar in area to unit 1 but is much thicker and has a much higher sand-
shale ratio. The sand streaks are also thicker and the producing zone tends to resemble a homogeneous
sand body. The effective porosity is higher, about 21°/0, and the shale content is lower than in unit 1.
The maximum overall thickness is some 25 meters.
The Schlierbasis 111unit is the thickest and largest in area. lt rests on the underlying Flysch without
an intervening shale. The general appearance is that of a continuous sand body. Its effective porosity is
about 22%, and its permeability is the highest of all, Also, it is the least shaly of the three units. The
maximum overall thickness is about 40 meters.
Sporadic conglomerate layers are present in the second as well as the third unit, especially at the
contact with the underlying Flysch.

Hydrocarbon Saturation

Oil saturation was found in all three units. The Schlierbasis 111may have had a small gas-cap, but
owing to the circumstances under which the field was developed, no evidence remains of it. An oil-
water contact has been found only in the third unit.

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Early Production

Some 36 wells traverse one or more of the units. Slotted liners were run in most of the wells, and
production began almost immediately. This is the reason why equilibrium may have been reached
between pressure and the recovery process,
The production process totally depleted the reservoir energy, and in the 1950’s the latest production
was probably gravity driven. Cumulative production had reached 243,867.8 metric tons or 1,704,171
bbl by then.

Water Flooding

An increasing demand for oil and the availability of better techniques made it feasible to begin water
flooding in 1961. Fresh water from a nearby stream was injected into nine downhill wells and
production immediately increased, The production history curve shows the effect of flooding (Figure
3),
Cumulative production since the beginning of water injection has amounted to 132,592,1 metric tons
(926,570 bbl).

Injection of fresh water changed the salinity of the produced water. The variation in salinity from
well to well was a good indicator of the flood history of the field.

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Tertiary Recovery Project

In order to further enhance recovery, a study was made of the feasibility of steam injection with
three injectors and 300 metric tons of steam injected per day. As the latest reservoir estimates
promised economic success, the three injectors were located. The final decision to go ahead with the
project depended upon the estimate of residual oil saturation in the first injection well.

DRILLING, CORING AND LOGGING

Secondary recovery had left the pores of the sandstone filled with residual oil, flood and reservoir
formation waters. We could assume that a large percentage of the original formation water remained
around the grains of sand and in the very tiny pores that were never touched by the injected waters.
Such conditions might not prevail around the production wells or the injectors due to much higher fluid
velocities in the pores close to the well bores. For this reason, it is best to estimate residual oil
saturation in new wells. The oil left behind should be considered nearly non-moveable, at least by
normal mud filtrate action during the invasion process. The flood water, on the other hand, is highly
moveable. If the drilling fluid is conditioned so that the mud filtrate has the same resistivity as the
original connate water, the pores in the invaded zone should contain residual oil plus original formation
water and mud filtrate. Since the two waters will have the same resistivity, logging in the invaded zone
will be optimum. The computation technique which follows will concentrate on this well-defined zone?

The Drilling Fluid

All precautions were taken to optimize not only the coring procedure but also the logging and log-
interpretation technique. The drilling fluid used, an organic polymeric mud with low solids
concentration, contained neither surfactants nor inhibitors, either of which could change the wetting
conditions of the invaded zone. This last condition was requested by the OMV core laboratory, as well
as being dictated by the logging technique. Such mud guaranteed a “smooth” invasion, with a depth of
some 10 to 12 inches and a very thin mud cake no more than 1/8 inch. The resistivity of the filtrate
was adjusted to equal that of the original connate water, i.e. 0.275 ohm-m at 25° C.
After setting the 9 5/8-inch casing about 17 m above the top of Schlierbasis 1, the mud was
conditioned and the values of Cl concentration, boric acid concentration, R~, R~f, Ph and waterloss
were controlled almost every hour during further drilling and coring of the well. Figure 4 shows how
some of the measured values changed with time.
This procedure made it possible to detect slight variations soon after they appeared, so corrections
could be made promptly, without overreacting. The electrical properties of the mud were also
measured at various temperatures in order to verify the resistivity vs. temperature relationship (Table
1).
TABLE 1

Resistivity (ohm-m)
Temperature
R. R. R.
20° c
24° C 0.410 0.697 0,257
t~,, +24
= 31OC 0.360 0.601 0.230
2
t~,x 37° c 0.322 0.540 0.206
85° C

* Mark of Schlumberger
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Additives

In the course of the paper it will be explained that the present technique requires the use of a
Thermal Decay Time Log run in the open hole. The salinity of the original formation and therefore of
the mud used being only of the order of 25,000 ppm NaCl, it was decided to increase the nuclear cross
seclion of the mud in order to make the TDT* more sensitive to water saturation. For this purpose,
and at the same time to keep the resistivity of the mud filtrate constant and equal to the original
formation water resistivity, boric acid B(OH)3 was added. Under this form the increase of nuclear cross
section in capture units per gram/liter of mud is approximately 5.2 CU when the NaCl salt provides
only .40 CU for every gram/liter. The quantity of boric acid required to obtain a given nuclear cross
section of X capture units is approximately as follows:

(X–22CU) – .40C
gmlliter boric acid =
5.2

where 22 CU is the nuclear cross section of pure water, and C is the NaCl concentration in gin/liter,
We can expect with limited boric acid concentrations to raise the water cross section much >bove
100 CU; however, measurements made on mud samples, prepared in the OMV laboratory before
drilling, showed unexpected precipitation of boric acid at concentrations of the order of 12 gin/liter, a
value that could be even lower when drilling in winter.
Such capture cross section measurements were made with a recently designed device called the
SFT. 156. Such field equipment will allow, in the near future, measuring Mluid in the shop or even at
the well site, This new device requires just one gallon of the fluid to be measured. In our case history,
various mud samples were sent to Houston for measurement, and it was finally decided to use a boric
acid concentration of 11 gin/liter, which provided a nuclear cross section of 83 capture units.
Precautions were taken for the appearance of loss of circulation. This was necessary, since the
minimum possible difference between pressure gradient of mud column and of actual reservoir pressure
gradient could not be lower than:

0.109-0.045 = 0.064 bar/meter (0,2634 psi/ft).

In order to obtain good conditions for logging, it was also decided to drill using injection water with
a borax concentration of 11 gin/liter.

The Coring

Diamond core bit was used with 8 1/2 inch outer and 3 1/2 inch core diameter precautions were
taken to ensure against core breakage caused by buckling of the tool. The overall length of the three
units from 854 to 925 m was cored in 21 different runs. To avoid core loss and/or damage, core was
pulled every time the driller noticed slight slow down in penetration. The core liner was hermetically
closed after removing from the core barrel and transported to the OMV core laboratory. Liners were
cut and the plugs drilled out with CO* gas at –72°C systematically at every foot or half-foot whenever
necessary.
Extraction by the Sax method enabled complete recovery of pore fluids. Porosity was measured by
the inert fluid saturation method, The combination of porosity and fluid measurements gave the
saturation of oil and water for each sample. The matrix density was obtained by crushing and weighing
the material, Several material balances on the boric acid content were made in order to check the effect
of mud filtrate invasion in the core. Fourteen samples were studied for clay mineral content and
content of grain size less than 3 ~.

* Mark olSchlumberger.

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The Logging

The logging program was established as follows:

— Dual Laterolog - Micro-Spherically Focussed Log (DLL* .MSFL)

– Gamma Ray Log (GR)
– Proximity - Microlog (PL-MLC)
– Formation Density Log (FDC*)
– Compensated Neutron Porosity Log (CNL*)
— Borehole Compensated Sonic Log (BHC*)
— Thermal Decay Time Log (TDT*)

Two micro-devices were run in this well as a double check during computation and also to make sure
that environmental corrections were properly applied and that the depth of the flushed zone was
sufficient for the somewhat deeper Proximity log. The pad tools should be run at a logging speed of not
more than 15 m/min (3000 ft/hr). The FDC-CNL combination was run at 6 m/min (1 100 ft/hr). lt
was run twice over the entire interval to check repeatability and to allow a possible averaging of the
formation density curve. The Thermal Decay Time Log was run five times at a logging speed not
exceeding 4.5 m/min (900 ft/hr) and a time constant of 2. The five TDT measurements were later
correlated by computer and then averaged to minimize statistical variations. The full suite of logs over
the interesting part of the Maustrenk reservoir is presented on Figure 5. All logs were taped at the well
site.

THE COMPUTATION TECHNIQUE

The digitized surveys were entered in the computer, and the environmental corrections were
applied. Logs were then played back to’ check the merging of the various curves, and for the Thermal
Decay Time Log to judge the appearance of the averaged Sigma. A complete series of crossplots were
run in order to make the parameter selection that precedes computation (Figure 6).
A first set of parameters was selected:

Rmf = .214 at BHT (measured value)

RC1= 3.2

On.1= 43 PU

p~,] = 2.29

GRnlin = 25 API GR~,X = 80 API

In a first step the CORIBAND* interpretation program was applied to the following suite of logs:

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Suite 1 Suite 2

RXO(MSFL) RXO(PL)
FDC-CNL-GR FDC-CNL-GR
BHC BHC

In both cases the resistivity RXO,already corrected for environmental effects, was used as a unique
resistivity value.
Two Computer Processed lnterpretations (CP1) were produced: MSFL-CP1 corresponding to Suite 1,
and PL-CPI corresponding to Suite 2. The following values were computed in both cases:

Porosity @

Average matrix density pm,

Water saturation SXO

Shale percentage VCI

and results were compared by either overlaying or by cross-plotting. Figure 7 presents the frequency
PIOI of the ratio SXO(PL) over S,O (MSFL). The two CP1’S give basically the same results, proving that
the environmental corrections were correctly made and that the depth of invasion was adequate for the
two microdevices. The spread around 1 is mainly attributed to the difference in vertical resolution of
the two tools and also to the fact that the two pads have not necessarily followed the same path up hole.
The second step is to run a Thermal Decay Time interpretation (TDT-CPI) using the porosity and V,l
values obtained from either the MSFL-CP1 or the PL-CPI. The Sigma value is first corrected for
diffusion using the DIFCOR program which incorporates the TDT diffusion corrections for open hole.
Such diffusion corrections are made considering the salinity of the mud. in the present case, an
“apparent mud salinity” will be introduced in line with the actual Sigma of the mud, i.e. 83 CU; in
other words, some 168,000 ppm of NaC1. Crossplots are run; Figure 8 shows the Sigma-RHOB
crossp]ot,
The TDT-CP1 was then run using a first set of TDT parameters:

Sigma Water = 83 CU
Sigma Water = 21 CU
Sigma Matrix = 10 CU
Sigma Clay = 40 Cu

The TDT equation in the present case is as follows:

Slog = Zw . @ SXO+ Zhy @ . (l–SXO) + Zcl . VCI + Zma . (l–+–V,, )

The porosity and the VC1values are those of the CPI run before. The final product of this TDT-CPI
is therefore another SXOvalue which will be compared with MSFL-CP1 (or PL-CP1) derived SXO. The
TDT is well known to be very sensitive to the presence of clay materials, and the clay correction term is
very important. Wrong clay percentage values will lead to too high or too low correction and will reflect
on the S,. computed values, too large clay corrections resulting in too low SXO(TDT) values. The SXO
(TDT) was compared with the SXO(MSFL) using crossplot or overlaying the S,O and @ . S.O curves,
Figure 9 compares MSFL-CPI and TDT-CPI. lt shows that in front of the shaly intervals the S,O
(TDT) is always less than the S,O (MSFL) and that there is some “parallelism” between the V,l and the

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@ . S,O (TDT) curves. This is typical of a too high V,, first computed by the MSFL and the PL-CPIS.
It is therefore necessary to re-study the set of parameters and how the various clay indicators were used
before processing with a new series of computations starting with the MSFL-CPI to obtain new @ - Vcl
ma and SXO(MSFL)results from which the porosity and clay percentage will be used in a second
TDT-CP1 (also with a new parameter selection). The new S,0 (TDT) 2 is then compared with the S..
(MSFL)2.
Further discrepancies will oblige the log analyst to make another readjustment and to perform a new
series of computations. Three iterations were necessary in this first well to achieve interpreted results
where an interdependence with VC1between SXO(TDT) and S.O (PL) no longer existed. Results, when
compared with the core measurements, were considered as well representative of the porosity and
saturations of the formations. Figure 10 shows the final set of CPI’S.
Note that the last series of parameters used were:

TABLE 2

Parameters Last CP1 1st CPI Parameters Last CP1 1st CPI
RWBHT .214 .214 Sigma water CU 70 83
Rcl 3.2 3.2 Sigma clay 38 40
@Ncl 43 p.u. 43 Sigma hydrocarbon 21 21
pbcl 2.29 2.29 Sigma matrix 8.9 10
GRmin 20 25 GRmax 120 80

It is necessary to point out that the Sigma water had to also be changed during the course of the
iterations. It was observed that if in front of the shaly intervals SXO(TDT) values were too low, they
were too high in front of the cleaner zones when a Sigma water of 83 CU was used. As said before, we
had assumed that most of the original irreducible water saturation was still in place but this water has a
capture cross section of only around 32 CU. We have in this well adopted a Sigma water of 70 CU for
the mix formation water-mud filtrate,

Comparison With Core Results

Finally, the CP1-derived porosity and saturations were compared with the OMV core laboratory
measurements. For this purpose the porosity, the water and the residual oil saturations and the matrix
density measured on cores were introduced in the computer. Continuous curves were obtained,
allowing optical playback of those values using a presentation similar to that of the CP1. Figure 11
shows the core measurements, i.e. porosity, water saturation, oil saturation and matrix density over the
entire cored interval. To permit a better optical comparison, the core porosity curve was merged with
the CP1 core porosity on Figure 12. The statistical comparison of the two values gives a correlation
coefficient r = .81.

Beyond the Invaded Zone

The computation technique was essentially concentrated on the analysis of the invaded zone,
assuming that the only moveable fluid in the formation (moveable during the invasion process) was the
flood water. The deep resistivity readings of the Dual Laterolog were not taken into account during the
computations. However, in the zone reached by the deep devices, the pores contained the following
mixture of fluids: residual oil saturation, original formation water and flood water. lf we assume that

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deeper into the formation the values of porosity, shale percentage and oil saturation remain about the
same as those prevailing in a zone close to the well bore, the deep resistivity measurement should
provide an indication of the actual salinity of the water phase. Porosity, clay percentage and water
saturation were taken from the last MSFL-CPI, and an apparent water conductivity was computed.
Such conductivity is represented on Figure 13. The original formation water had a conductivity of
approximately 4500 mmhos, while the flood water used from the stream had a conductivity as low as
320 mmhos. Figure 13 shows that the lowest conductivities are obtained between 889 and 877 meters,
a zone of good porosity, relatively clean and also considered as highly permeable, hence an appropriate
path for the flood water. Nevertheless, it is possible that the low conductivity value is the result of a
combination of flood water and somewhat higher oil saturations.

FURTHER USE OF THE METHOD AND CONCLUSIONS

The main advantage of the method presented is a reliable solution to the residual oil saturation
problem in reservoirs where the salinity of the injected water is very low and very different from the
salinity of the connate water. Furthermore, use of the TDT together with the open hole logs and in
relation with a high Sigma of the mud filtrate gives a better estimate of the clay percentage, hence of
the porosity as well as of the water saturation in the invaded zone.
In oil fields where connate waters have salinities higher than 80,000 ppm NaCl, it will not be
necessary to add boric acid, and the only preoccupation will be to keep R~f = RW; the mud salinity will
be maintained constant during the drilling and eventually the coring of the formation. The mud filtrate
resist ivity should be measured at various temperatures as explained before, and the nuclear cross
section of the drilling fluid will be measured with the SFT. 156 device. However, in such a case, we can
expect that the measured Sigma of the mud filtrate will be close enough to the original connate water
Sigma and that a readjustment of the water Sigma value will not be necessary between the iterations of
the computation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We would like to extend our appreciation to the management of OMV, who permitted the
publication of this paper and to all our colleagues at OMV and Schlumberger for their kind cooperation.
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400

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720 M

Fig. 1. Geologic section through the Maustrenk field.

200 m
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Fig. 2. Geologic map of the three Schlierbasis units.

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Cl and boric acid concentrations.

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Proximity Log / Micro-Spherically Focused Log.

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g
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Fig. 12. Comparison, @ CORE vs @ Cpl, merged results.

m ~ OEEP RESISTIVITY “INVADED” ZONE

Fig, 13. Water conductivity, Cw, from deep resistivity

and invaded zone results.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

HORVATH BOYELDIEU

Sz. B. HORVATH is Head of the Logging Dept. of OMV (Austrian Government Oil Co.), Vienna,
Austria. He studied in Hungary and graduated with a Dipl. Ing. degree in Petroleum Engineering from
the Montanistische Hochschule at Leoben in 1958. He joined OMV in 1958 and worked in the
Reservoir Engineerng Department until 1964. He was transferred to the Logging Dept. as Chief Log
Analyst in 1964 and was nominated as Head of the Logging Activities of OMV in 1967. Since 1974, he
has headed the log and pressure build-up evaluation and petrophysical field studies. In 1978 he obtained
the Dr. mont. degree from the University of Mining in Leoben.

Claude BOYELDIEU took his engineering degree from lnstitut lndustriel du Nord in Lille in
1951, from lnstitut Superieur des Materiaux in Paris in 1953 and from Ecole Nationale Superieure du
Petrole in 1955. He then joined Schlumberger and served until 1962 as field engineer, center and
district manager in Germany, Algeria, Austria and Libya. After two years spent with the lnterpretation
group in Paris, he became Sales Engineer in Hannover and Tripoli, Libya. He then became Marketing
Manager in Caracas and since 1977 has been Marketing Manager of Schlumberger Europe in London.

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