3D Geological Model for Zubair Reservoir in Abu-Amood Oil Field

Abstract

The Zubair reservoir in the Abu-Amood field is considered a shaly sand reservoir in the south of Iraq. The geological model is created for identifying the facies, distributing the petrophysical properties and estimating the volume of hydrocarbon in place. When the data processing by Interactive Petrophysics (IP) software is completed and estimated the permeability reservoir by using the hydraulic unit method then, three main steps are applied to build the geological model, begins with creating a structural, facies and property models. five zones the reservoirs were divided (three reservoir units and two cap rocks) depending on the variation of petrophysical properties (porosity and permeability) that results from IP software interpretation. Five wells that penetrate the lower Cretaceous Formation (Zubair reservoir) are used to construct the geological model. ZUB-1 unit considered as the most important zone which have a good petrophysical parameters about 24% for porosity, 800 md permeability, 38% water saturation and 85% net to gross. The initial oil in place is estimated to be about 1.7898*109 STB. Finally, 3D geological model support in improving and estimates the hydrocarbon potentialities in oil field and enhances the production of the field.