oa Integrating Structural Modeling and Borehole Imaging to Improve Risk Control During Drilling Operations in Southern Mexico

Borehole images are logged in many South Mexico wells, but these data are not used in further analyses. Recently, special projects have been developed for integrated drilling contracts, where it was shown how borehole images can create a detailed model that includes structural analysis, a fracture corridor, and morphofacies analysis that can be integrated with petrophysics to generate a geocellular model. A recently developed software has helped in analyzing and constructing 3D structural models with borehole imaging data. The software tool used for developing the two recent projects aimed to control risk and minimize uncertainty in southern Mexico. Both case studies showed considerably good results and provided valuable information, such as subseismic faults, that drastically changed the previous structures interpreted for development purposes.