A GENETIC APPROACH TO THE PREDICTION OF PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES

The importance of the flow unit approach to reservoir description has been recognised recently, but its application to predict porosity, permeability and water saturation from well logs has not been attempted in previous studies. This Paper describes a genetic approach to reservoir description, which combines lithofacies analysis with discriminant analysis and probability field simulation for the identification and characterisation of flow units on the basis of core and log data.

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