Shale volume and permeability of the Miocene unconsolidated turbidite sands of Bonga oil field, Niger delta, Nigeria

  • Authors

    • Inyang Namdie University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
    • Idara Akpabio University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
    • Agbasi Okechukwu .E.
    2017-05-16
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijag.v5i1.7586
  • Bonga Field, Permeability, Porosity, Shale Volume, Turbidite Sand.

  • Bonga oil field is located 120km (75mi) southeast of the Niger Delta, Nigeria. It is a subsea type development located about 3500ft water depth and has produced over 330 mmstb of hydrocarbon till date with over 16 oil producing and water injection wells. The producing formation is the Middle to Late Miocene unconsolidated turbidite sandstones with lateral and vertical homogeneities in reservoir properties. This work, analysis the petrophysical properties of the reservoir units for the purpose of modeling the effect of shale content on permeability in the reservoir. Turbidite sandstones are identified by gamma-ray log signatures as intervals with 26-50 API, while sonic, neutron, resistivity, caliper and other log data are applied to estimate volume of shale ranging between 0.972 v/v for shale intervals and 0.0549 v/v for turbidite sands, water saturation of 0.34 v/v average in most sand intervals, porosity range from 0.010 for shale intervals to 0.49 v/v for clean sands and permeability values for the send interval 11.46 to2634mD, for intervals between 7100 to 9100 ft., Data were analyzed using the Interactive Petrophysical software that splits the whole curve into sand and shale zones and estimates among other petrophysical parameters the shale contents of the prospective zones. While Seismic data revealed reservoir thickness ranging from 25ft to over 140ft well log data within the five wells have identified sands of similar thickness and estimated average permeability of700mD. Within the sand units across the five wells, cross plots of estimated porosity, volume of shale and permeability values reveal strong dependence of permeability on shale volume and a general decrease in permeability in intervals with shale volume. It is concluded that sand units with high shale contents that are from0.500 to0.900v/v will not provide good quality reservoir in the field.

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    Namdie, I., Akpabio, I., & Okechukwu .E., A. (2017). Shale volume and permeability of the Miocene unconsolidated turbidite sands of Bonga oil field, Niger delta, Nigeria. International Journal of Advanced Geosciences, 5(1), 37-45. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijag.v5i1.7586