Rock typing is one of the most important steps in reservoir modeling, and it’s the main task in reservoir characterization. In carbonate, the rock typing work that’s been performed during the last two decades had a little progress in term of providing reliable estimation of reservoir behavior. However, the development of Conjunction Rock Properties Convergence, CROPC, a carbonate rock typing concept that provided an important and easy solution to the carbonate rock typing gaps, has a major breakthrough, even though, CROPC methodology was developed to capture the single pore network through the conjunction of Lithology, permeability, capillary pressure and water saturation. Therefore, the need to identify more complex carbonate pore network had led to the initiation of developing the Carbonate Rock Type Matrix RocMat, which will be detailed in this paper, as part of a Master of Science research project. In this novel concept the carbonate rocks were classified into homogeneous, single pore network, and heterogeneous rocks, dual and triple pore network with the utilization of the effective petrophysical properties of permeability, capillary pressure, saturation, porosity and height above free water level, all were classified in a conjunction matrix that honors these properties and at the same time enables generating sub groups as down scaling and estimation for unseen groups with infinite rock complexity capturing, at the same time it enables the ease to lump the groups and generates upscale-groups that make it easier for utilization by the geologist and reservoir engineers to achieve the objective of better reservoir performance prediction, the work was performed and then tested in two carbonate offshore fields data. This RocMat was structured to be the ultimate catalog for carbonate rock types.
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ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
June 9–14, 2013
Nantes, France
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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
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Carbonate Rock Type Matrix RocMat, The Ultimate Rock Properties Catalogue
Omar Al-Farisi,
Omar Al-Farisi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Hadi Belhaj,
Hadi Belhaj
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Fatmah Yammahi,
Fatmah Yammahi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Abdulla Al-Shemsi,
Abdulla Al-Shemsi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Hocine Khemissa
Hocine Khemissa
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Omar Al-Farisi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hadi Belhaj
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Fatmah Yammahi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abdulla Al-Shemsi
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hocine Khemissa
The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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OMAE2013-10589, V006T11A007; 11 pages
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November 26, 2013
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Al-Farisi, O, Belhaj, H, Yammahi, F, Al-Shemsi, A, & Khemissa, H. "Carbonate Rock Type Matrix RocMat, The Ultimate Rock Properties Catalogue." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 6: Polar and Arctic Sciences and Technology; Offshore Geotechnics; Petroleum Technology Symposium. Nantes, France. June 9–14, 2013. V006T11A007. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2013-10589
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