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Geological Modeling on the Reservoir of Oil Sand in Estuary
Author(s) -
WU Yihao,
LU Shuangfang,
CHEN Fangwen,
XIAO Hong,
YUAN Dandan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/1755-6724.12302_45
Subject(s) - estuary , geology , petroleum engineering , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geotechnical engineering , oceanography
Athabasca oil sands are large deposits of heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta Basin, Canada. Those oil sands, hosted primarily in upper and middle of McMurray Formation, is in 18m in thickness and 160m180m in buried depth. The average liquid saturation is 75%. Average effective porosity is 32% and permeability between 4d to 5d. The Ratio of vertical and horizontal permeability lies between 0.6 to 1.0. Recoverable of resources is predicted to be 1.7 billion barrels. In this paper, we describe property modeling mainly focus on research contents and technical method, which gives prominence to importance of geological modeling. It is used to geological study and predict resource extent.