Modelagem de zonas de fluxo no campo de Namorado – bacia de Campos, RJ.

Abstract

In oil reservoirs management one of the challenges is to predict the behaviour of the fluid flow. Identifying the flow units is complex task, therefore it is necessary to perform the characterization of rocks. Parameters such as porosity and permeability must be known. The use of statistics is useful to perform reservoir division into zones using core data and geophysical well logs. This research aims to apply two alternative well established techniques useful for the recognition of flow units in the Namorado field and conduct a comparative analysis of the techniques by looking at the results obtained in both approaches, as well as obtain the three-dimensional model of this field, as indicated by both techniques. The techniques used in this work are statistical zoning and flow zone index (FZI). In this research was used permeability data from 15 wells provided by the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency. In the first technique were calculated the variances between zones, grouped variances within zones and finally the zoning index with which it was possible divide the field into zones. On application of FZI the greatest value of the index indicated the depth of division between zones. After zones recognition, two model were constructed, the first one based on statistical zoning, indicating the zones; and the second based in FZI, pointing out the location of the zones corresponding to the reservoir and those associated with the nonreservoir. For the construction of three-dimensional models the geostatistical software SGeMS was used. According to the obtained results was evidenced that the techniques of statistical and FZI zoning have produced equivalent results in some wells, but different in others. However, the FZI method presented, in most wells, more satisfactory results compared to the statistical zoning.