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Geostatistical Electrofacies Calculation in Non-Stationary Cases
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2019, Jun 2019, Volume 2019, p.1 - 5
Abstract
A common issue in geological modeling is to determine facies along each well. It is easy in cored wells, but difficult in uncored wells where only electric logs are available. The issue is usually solved by defining “electrofacies,” calculated from logs and calibrated with core data to ensure their geological consistency.
The most common clustering approaches generally consider all the log measurements as equivalent, and rarely care about the spatial correlation between the data points. However, accounting for the spatial relationship between samples in clustering will improve the realism and the geological consistency of the electrofacies.
This paper presents a case study made with a clustering algorithm which accounts for the spatial relationship between samples, allowing a balance of the influence of the different sources of information: log responses, lithological description and sample locations.
Working with a search neighbourhood to define the pairs of samples to be used for the hierarchical clustering, combined with the influence of coordinates, allows one to manage a large range of non-stationary effects. By comparing the statistics calculated on the classification results to the sedimentological model or to Vertical Proportion Curves computed from cored wells, optimal input parameters for the clustering algorithm can be determined.