Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent
9: Outcrop-Based Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of an Upper Mississippian Mixed Carbonate–Siliciclastic Ramp, Northeastern Oklahoma
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Published:January 01, 2019
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Scott Shelley, G. Michael Grammer, Matthew J. Pranter, 2019. "Outcrop-Based Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of an Upper Mississippian Mixed Carbonate–Siliciclastic Ramp, Northeastern Oklahoma", Mississippian Reservoirs of the Midcontinent, G. Michael Grammer, Jay M. Gregg, James Puckette, Priyank Jaiswal, S. J. Mazzullo, Matthew J. Pranter, Robert H. Goldstein
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ABSTRACT
Production-scale variability in Mississippian reservoirs of the U.S. midcontinent is poorly understood, largely due to distant spacing of subsurface wells and the lack of outcrops that provide a 3-D distribution of potential reservoir facies. This study utilizes exposures of Upper Mississippian (Meramecian to Chesterian in age) lithofacies in a quarry to develop a 1st-order 3-D facies model at a production or enhanced-production scale (<40 ac [<16.2 ha]).
By utilizing photogrammetry to stitch and georeference high-resolution aerial photos, 3-D representations of outcropping walls and pavement were created at a submeter resolution and serve as valuable tools for the visualization of bed and facies relationships in 3-D space. Drone-based aerial and orthogonal photography was used to capture images and create 3-D models of inaccessible outcrop areas. These models were then imported as base surfaces to geostatistical reservoir modeling software (Petrel), in which they were integrated with petrographic and sequence-stratigraphic data to model facies and porosity relationships. Various algorithms and variogram lengths were tested and compared to high-resolution outcrop data to determine the most appropriate workflow for future subsurface modeling. The Petrel-based facies and porosity models illustrate the lateral and vertical variability that exists in outcrop while providing detailed approximations of subsurface reservoir heterogeneity.
- aerial photography
- airborne methods
- Blaine County Oklahoma
- carbonate rocks
- Carboniferous
- characterization
- directional drilling
- drilling
- enhanced recovery
- geostatistics
- horizontal drilling
- lithofacies
- Mayes County Oklahoma
- Mississippian
- Oklahoma
- Paleozoic
- permeability
- petroleum engineering
- photogrammetry
- porosity
- remote sensing
- reservoir rocks
- sedimentary rocks
- sequence stratigraphy
- siliciclastics
- statistical analysis
- United States
- Upper Mississippian
- variance analysis
- variograms
- visualization
- Hindsville Formation
- Moorefield Formation
- unmanned aerial vehicles