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Volume 71, Issue 2
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Rock physics modelling in deeply buried tight carbonate reservoirs is more challenging than the clastic reservoir because of its complex pore systems. Therefore, modelling complex pore geometries in carbonates reservoir plays an important role in the geophysical measurements to infer pore‐type distribution and their volume fraction, which control the fluid flow properties governed by their complex geological history. This paper presents the use of a robust and practical integrated and iterative seismic petrophysics, and rock physics modelling workflow for the characterization of a deep tight mixed (carbonate and clastic) sedimentary reservoir of a recently discovered oil field located in the Potwar Basin onshore Pakistan. The case study incorporates a careful assessment of well‐log data quality, workflow used for well data conditioning and consequent improvement in data quality, seismic petrophysics and rock physics modelling results. Rock physics diagnostics identified data quality issues and rectified them using appropriate measures to ensure that the rock physics modelling scheme reliably predicts elastic logs honouring different pore types (reference, soft, stiff and cracks) distribution validating from the well observations. Two inclusion‐based rock physics models (Xu and Payne for carbonate and Keys and Xu for clastic) are used to predict rock elastic (P‐sonic, S‐sonic and density) properties responses. Utmost care is exercised to integrate all available data/information, such as Formation Micro‐Imager, mud‐log, testing data and calibrated pore‐type inversion results from well‐log data with the pore geometry revealed by Formation Micro‐Imager and core information. The rock physics modelling provided consistency between elastic and petrophysical properties by calibrating the estimated properties with the measure logs and improved understanding in terms of lithology and fluid separation in the tight carbonate interval. Finally, rock physics‐modelled elastic logs (P‐sonic, S‐sonic and density) are used along with seismic data (partial stacks) and horizons interpretation model to compute pre‐stack synthetic seismograms to calibrate with the preconditioned seismic data. A significant improvement in the well‐to‐seismic calibration is achieved from rock physics modelled logs compared with the original (measured) elastic logs at well location using pre‐stack seismic data, which, further, can help produce reliable reservoir rock properties of interest from the inversion of seismic data.

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Rock physics modelling‐based characterization of deep and tight mixed sedimentary (clastic and carbonate) reservoirs: A case study from North Potwar Basin of Pakistan
Geophysical Prospecting 71, 263 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.13288
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Keyword(s): Lithofacies; pore‐type inversion; rock physics modelling; seismic calibration; tight carbonates

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