Carbonate reservoir characterization and simulation: From facies to flow units

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Chip Feazel is principal carbonate stratigrapher for ConocoPhillips, with worldwide responsibility for interpreting carbonate depositional and diagenetic histories to predict reservoir properties. Following undergraduate studies at Ohio Wesleyan University, he received his M.A. degree and his Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University. In 29 years with Phillips, subsequently ConocoPhillips, he has enjoyed a variety of technical and managerial assignments in the United States and overseas in field development and technology teams.Alan Byrnes has been a research geologist at the Kansas Geological Survey since 1997, where he works on lithologic controls on rock petrophysical properties, CO2-enhanced oil recovery, reservoir characterization, and modeling. Alan received his B.S. degree in geology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his M.S. degree in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago. He has been a research geologist at the Institute of Gas Technology, Marathon Oil Company Research Center, Core Laboratories, and Tetra Tech, and for 13 years, he owned and operated GeoCore, a special core analysis laboratory in Colorado. With more 30 years in the oil and gas industry, Jim Honefenger has worked in virtually every segment, starting in 1972 with Elliott Company, a turbomachinery manufacturer. He held senior management positions for Scientific Software Intercomp, Intera, Energy Systems, GeoQuest Schlumberger, Western Atlas, Landmark Graphics, GeoNet Services, and Veritas Exploration Services, developing the market for geophysical, geological, petrophysical, reservoir engineering, and pipeline simulation products. More recently, he sold the intellectual assets of (RC)2 and founded his own company, Consulting Assets, representing oil and gas industry-consulting firms located throughout the world. Honefenger is an active Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) member and has held various positions in both the international and local groups. A cofounder of the Houston Energy Council (a professional organization comprising board members from Houston Geological Society, Geophysical Society …