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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 206, Issue 1, Pages 260-274Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw130
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Downhole methods; Magnetic and electrical properties; Hydrogeophysics; Permeability and porosity
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- BG Group plc.
- CNPq
- Petrobras
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The effect of the selection of different nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation times for permeability estimation is investigated for a set of fully brine-saturated rocks acquired from Cretaceous carbonate reservoirs in the North Sea and Middle East. Estimators that are obtained from the relaxation times based on the Pythagorean means are compared with estimators that are obtained from the relaxation times based on the concept of a cumulative saturation cutoff. Select portions of the longitudinal (T-1) and transverse (T-2) relaxation-time distributions are systematically evaluated by applying various cut-offs, analogous to the Winland-Pittman approach for mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) curves. Finally, different approaches to matching the NMR and MICP distributions using different mean-based scaling factors are validated based on the performance of the related size-scaled estimators. The good results that were obtained demonstrate possible alternatives to the commonly adopted logarithmic mean estimator and reinforce the importance of NMR-MICP integration to improving carbonate permeability estimates.
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