Reservoir evaluation and fracture chracterization of the metamorphic buried hill reservoir in Bohai Bay Basin

Abstract

Abstract With core observation, thin slice identification and imaging logging data, reservoir evaluation and fracture characterization are studied in the Archaean metamorphic buried hill reservoir in the JZ25-1S field in the Bohai Bay Basin. The reservoir is divided into three zones vertically: weathered crust, semi-weathered crust and base rock, belonging to three reservoir types of fracture-pore pattern, pore-fracture pattern and micro fracture-compact pattern. The fracture effectiveness is estimated using crude oil inclusions testing technology, the direction of regional geostress, and full wave train acoustic logging data. It is concluded that the reservoir in the semi-weathered crust is most developed and the reservoir of pore-fracture pattern is the main oil producing layer. The main trend of fractures is nearly parallel to the main fault trend in the buried hill. The inclined fractures of late opening-mode parallel to the current direction of maximum geostress are the most effective fractures. At last, in combination of imaging logging interpretation with actual production, the qualitative and semiquantitative reservoir classification criteria are proposed and the buried hill reservoir is divided into three levels of I, II and III.