RESEARCH

Current research

January 2000-present: Working title:

The project aims at the extraction of a three-dimensional pore network from binary representations of reservoir rock. Initially, a model will be developed to analyze high resolution (1 mm) CT-scans of rock samples, then any binary file can be used as input.

The backbone of the pore network is identified, which is the non-volumetric representation of the network comparable to a spider web. Then geometric properties are added (pore space volume and geometry). The resulting description of the pore network can then be used as input for a flow simulator.

The project is the link between the micro-scale depositional model that Jin Guodong is developing and the research of Ahmed Al-Futaisi, who is developing a three-phase flow simulator. Ultimately, we will be able to construct a depositional model of a hydrocarbon reservoir, then extract the pore network and use this network in reservoir flow simulations.

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Masters thesis

January-October 2000: Title: ‘Development of a 2-D process response model of multiple grain size sedimentation in a fluvio-deltaic environment.’ The project was part of a PhD study of the late-Cenozoic infill of the Southern North Sea basin. A two-week field campaign was carried out to collect gamma ray data from outcrops of the ‘Productive Series’ near Baku, Azerbaijan. Abstract

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Additional projects

April-June 1997: Evaluation of the effects of acidizing and fracturing treatments on gas fields owned by Occidental Netherlands in the Dutch North Sea sector. A three-month study of data from Oxy’s well file in cooperation with Halliburton resulted in an internal report.

June 1998: Fieldwork research aiming at the reconstruction of a fluvial reservoir’s architecture. Three weeks of study on the outcropping Miocene Huesca fluvial fan, south of Huesca, Spain. This resulted in an internal Delft University of Technology publication.

October-December 1999: Study to distinguish sequence stratigraphic units from gamma ray well logs using CycloLog software. This work was incorporated in a paper in Petroleum Geoscience (in prep.).