WO2015084447A1 - Procédé et système permettant de montrer l'hétérogénéité d'un échantillon poreux - Google Patents

Procédé et système permettant de montrer l'hétérogénéité d'un échantillon poreux Download PDF

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WO2015084447A1
WO2015084447A1 PCT/US2014/054326 US2014054326W WO2015084447A1 WO 2015084447 A1 WO2015084447 A1 WO 2015084447A1 US 2014054326 W US2014054326 W US 2014054326W WO 2015084447 A1 WO2015084447 A1 WO 2015084447A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
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  • Operations such as geophysical surveying, drilling, logging, well completion, and production, are typically performed to locate and gather valuable downhole fluids.
  • Surveys are often performed using acquisition methodologies, such as seismic mapping, resistivity mapping, etc., to generate images of underground formations.
  • acquisition methodologies such as seismic mapping, resistivity mapping, etc.
  • subterranean assets such as valuable fluids or minerals, or to determine if the formations have characteristics suitable for storing fluids.
  • subterranean assets are not limited to hydrocarbons such as oil, throughout this document, the terms “oilfield” and “oilfield operation” may be used interchangeably with the terms “field” and “field operation” to refer to a site where any types of valuable fluids or minerals can be found and to the activities required to extract them.
  • field operation refers to a field operation associated with a field, including activities related to field planning, wellbore drilling, wellbore completion, and/or production using the wellbore.
  • Simulations are commonly used in the oil industry and other industries to model processes and predict behaviors. Each type of simulation is relevant to a certain scale of process.
  • a common example in the oil industry is the use of reservoir flow models to predict dynamic behavior at the scale of a reservoir, which can be from a few meters to hundreds of meters thick and can be thousands of meters in lateral extent.
  • the volume elements in these models are typically on the order of meters or tens of meters on a side.
  • Reservoir scale processes such as developed miscibility, can develop within the model.
  • micromodels of porous media represent small pieces of the media, typically with volume elements on the order of a few microns or less on a side and full models that are on the order of millimeters or less in extent.
  • the small size means the residence time of fluids within the model is too short for many processes to develop fully.
  • the present disclosure is within the domain of these small models.
  • Static micromodels representing pore and grain geometry can be obtained in several ways at different scales. Thin sections of rocks are formed by injecting a colored epoxy into a rock and then slicing an optically thin section and mounting it onto a glass slide. The thin section is then optically analyzed to obtain images of the pores and grains. Multiple thin sections can be used to create a micromodel, typically using statistical distributions rather than making an image directly from stacked thin sections. Alternatively, a small rock volume can be scanned using X-rays in a micro computed tomography (microCT) machine. The tomographic inversion of the X-ray scans is used to create a static model of a rock with resolution ranging from tens of microns to tens of nanometers.
  • microCT micro computed tomography
  • This CT image is processed and segmented into grains and pores.
  • a third method uses ion beam milling and scanning electron microscopy to create a series of images with nanometer-scale resolution. These images can be analyzed and used to construct a static three-dimensional (3D) model of a tiny portion of the rock.
  • Micromodels for flow-dynamic behavior in porous media are of a few types. Pore network models substitute a complex network of nodes and connectors to represent the pores and pore throats, respectively. The network is based on a static representation rock model, and flow dynamics are applied to the pore network. Lattice Boltzmann models are based on movement of particles on a 3D grid, which can be placed within a static rock model. A third method uses microhydrodynamical modeling in a static rock model to represent simple or complex fluid-fluid and fluid-rock interactions during flow or while a chemical process develops. [0007] Subsample data analysis is a known procedure in the core analysis domain. US
  • Patent 8,155,377 describes a method to determine rock physics relationships (based on statistical best fit analysis) using CT images by plotting the porosity and modeled petrophysical parameter followed by an estimation of the correlation between them. As this patent does not utilize the spatial information for the sub-sample data analysis it cannot be directly applied for the analysis of the spatial heterogeneity of the sample. Further, US Patent 8,081,802 describes a method to determine the permeability of the rock formation using the CT images and includes binarization segmentation of the CT images, selection of the sub-volumes, and determination of the permeability tensor and its principal values and directions. US Patent 8,081,802 is focused on the sample permeability estimation. It does not provide any spatial correlation for the sample properties.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view, partially in cross-section, of a field in which one or more embodiments of a method and system of showing heterogeneity of a porous sample may be implemented.
  • FIGs. 2 and 3 depict schematic diagrams in accordance with one or more embodiments of a method and system of showing heterogeneity of a porous sample.
  • FIG. 4 is a 3D representation of a sub-sample property, in this case absolute permeability in the X direction.
  • FIG. 5A is a 3D representation of the sub-sample property of FIG. 4 in the X direction wherein grid blocks with absolute permeability of less than 53.16 milliDarcy are transparent.
  • FIG. 5B is a 3D representation of the sub-sample property of FIG. 4 in the Y direction wherein grid blocks with absolute permeability of less than 53.16 milliDarcy are transparent.
  • FIG. 5C is a 3D representation of the sub-sample property of FIG. 4 in the Z direction wherein grid blocks with absolute permeability of less than 53.16 milliDarcy are transparent.
  • FIG. 6 is a 3D representation of a sub-sample property, in this case porosity, wherein grid blocks with a porosity fraction less than 0.182 are transparent.
  • FIG. 7 is a 3D representation of a sample property with at least one highlighted scalar value of the property.
  • FIG. 8 is the 3D representation of the porosity distribution of FIG. 6 with the permeability values of the cubes in the X, Y, and Z directions included graphically in the form of arrows.
  • FIG. 9A is the 2D XY section of the 3D cube identified in FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 9B is the 2D YZ section of the 3D cube identified in FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 9C is the 2D XZ section of the 3D cube identified in FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 10 is the color palette for the 2D sections of FIGs. 9A-9C.
  • FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a method of showing heterogeneity of a porous sample.
  • FIG. 12 is a computer system on which one or more embodiments of a method and system of showing heterogeneity of a porous sample may be implemented.
  • the digital rock model is generated based on a 3D porous solid image of a core sample.
  • a 3D porous solid image is a 3D digital representation of the core sample that is generated using computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, or other suitable methods of core imaging.
  • the 3D porous solid image is an image of each portion of the core sample including pores and solid surfaces.
  • the 3D porous solid image may show pores and rock boundaries of the core sample for each layer of the core sample.
  • the digital rock model can be based on binary or segmented color or greyscale images.
  • Image binarization is a segmentation into two "phases" (e.g. two colors) such that the first "phase" is a phase in question, and the second phase is a combination of all other phases.
  • a rock model may include the lithology of the core sample.
  • the lithographic properties of the core sample may include pore size distribution, rock type, or tortuosity measurements.
  • Fluid flow processes may be simulated in a digital rock model using various techniques. These flow processes represent subterranean fluids that are native to a rock formation or injected into the rock formation.
  • core sample refers to a two dimensional or three dimensional porous medium representing a geological region.
  • the geological region may correspond to a portion of an oilfield.
  • a core sample refers to a physical sample obtained from the geological region.
  • the core sample may be obtained by drilling into the portion of the oilfield with a core drill to extract the core sample from the portion.
  • the core sample may contain subterranean fluids, such as multiphase compositional fluids.
  • the subterranean fluids may include liquids, gases, injectants, or combinations thereof.
  • explicit values or analytical expressions that are dependent on local temperature and local molar densities may be used for the following quantities: bulk and surface Helmholtz energy or entropy, density, volume, and shear viscosity (or other rheological properties including effects like adsorption, elongational viscosity, viscoelastisity, size exclusion effect, etc.), thermal and diffusion transport coefficients, surface tension at the contact between fluid and rock and between different fluids.
  • mathematical modeling includes generation of a digital fluid model of the fluids based on physical properties of individual phases, physical and chemical properties of complex multiphase, multicomponent fluids (including but not limited to any combination of the following: bulk and surface thermodynamics, diffusion, kinetics, and rheology). For these quantities, experimental values or experimentally validated correlations with respect to temperature and molar densities are used in one or more embodiments.
  • laboratory fluid data describes physical properties of individual phases, including but not limited to density and viscosity, compositional properties, and multiphase phenomena.
  • compositional and multiphase phenomena includes but are not limited to any combination of the following:
  • surface thermodynamics surface equilibrium data concerning gas-liquid, liquid- liquid, or gas/liquid- so lid interactions. This includes but is not limited to interfacial tension coefficients, adsorption isotherms, wetting angles, capillary pressure, etc.
  • FIG. 1 depicts a schematic view, partially in cross section, of an oilfield 100 in which one or more embodiments of user-sourced data issue management may be implemented.
  • one or more of the modules and elements shown in FIG. 1 may be omitted, repeated, and/or substituted. Accordingly, embodiments of user-sourced data issue management should not be considered limited to the specific arrangements of modules shown in FIG. 1.
  • the subterranean formation 104 includes several geological structures (106-1 through 106-4). As shown, the formation includes a sandstone layer 106-1, a limestone layer 106-2, a shale layer 106-3, and a sand layer 106-4. A fault line 107 extends through the formation.
  • various survey tools and/or data acquisition tools are adapted to measure the formation and detect the characteristics of the geological structures of the formation. As noted above, the outputs of these various survey tools and/or data acquisition tools, as well as data derived from analyzing the outputs, are considered as part of the historic information.
  • the wellsite system 110 is associated with a rig 101, a wellbore 103, and other downhole equipment 109 and is configured to perform wellbore operations, such as logging, drilling, fracturing, production, or other applicable operations.
  • the wellbore 103 reaches the reservoir 106-5, which is where valuable fluids such as hydrocarbons, minerals, and water are typically found.
  • survey operations and wellbore operations are referred to as oilfield operations of the oilfield 100. These oilfield operations may be performed as directed by the surface unit 112.
  • the surface unit 112 is operative ly coupled to a digital core modeling system 116 and/or a wellsite system 110.
  • the surface unit 112 is configured to communicate with the digital core modeling system 116 and/or the wellsite system 110 to send commands to the digital core modeling system 116 and/or the wellsite system 110 and to receive data therefrom.
  • the wellsite system 110 may be adapted for measuring downhole properties using logging-while-drilling (LWD) tools and for obtaining core samples.
  • LWD logging-while-drilling
  • the surface unit 112 may be located at the wellsite system 110 and/or remote locations.
  • the surface unit 112 may be provided with computer facilities for receiving, storing, processing, and/or analyzing data from the digital core modeling system 116, the wellsite system 110, or other parts of the oilfield 100.
  • the surface unit 112 may also be provided with functionality for actuating mechanisms at the oilfield 100.
  • the surface unit 112 may then send command signals to the oilfield 100 in response to data received, for example to control and/or optimize various oilfield operations described above.
  • the data received by the surface unit 112 represents characteristics of the subterranean formation 104 and may include seismic data and/or information related to porosity, saturation, permeability, natural fractures, stress magnitude and orientations, elastic properties, etc. during a drilling, fracturing, logging, or production operation of the wellbore 103 at the wellsite system 110.
  • the surface unit 112 is communicatively coupled to the digital core modeling system 116.
  • the digital core modeling system 116 is configured to analyze, model, control, optimize, or perform other management tasks of the aforementioned oilfield operations based on the data provided from the surface unit 112.
  • the surface unit 112 is shown as separate from the digital core modeling system 116 in FIG. 1, in other examples, the surface unit 112 and the digital core modeling system 116 may be combined.
  • Wellbore production equipment 134 extends from a wellhead 136 of wellsite 122 and to the reservoir 132 to draw fluid to the surface.
  • the wellsite 122 is operatively connected to the surface network 124 via a transport line 138. Fluid flows from the reservoir 132, through the wellbore 126, and into the surface network 124. The fluid then flows from the surface network 124 to the process facilities 140.
  • fluid may be injected through an injection wellbore, such as the wellbore 130 to gain additional amounts of hydrocarbon. Fluid may be injected to sweep hydrocarbons to producing wells and/or to maintain reservoir pressure by balancing extracted hydrocarbons with injected fluid.
  • the wellbore 130 may be a new well drilled specifically to serve as an injection wellbore, or an already existing well that is no longer producing hydrocarbons economically.
  • wellbore injection equipment 142 extends from a wellhead 144 of injection wellsite 128 to inject fluid (e.g., shown as 146 and 148 in FIG. 2) in or around the periphery of the reservoir 132 to push hydrocarbons (e.g., shown as 150 in FIG.
  • the injection wellsite 128 is operatively connected to an injection transport line 152, which provides the injection fluid to the injection wellsite 128 through the wellhead 144 and down through the well injection equipment 142.
  • sensors S are located about the oilfield 120 to monitor various parameters during oilfield operations.
  • the sensors S may measure, for example, pressure, temperature, flow rate, composition, and other parameters of the reservoir, wellbore, surface network, process facilities and/or other portions of the oilfield operation.
  • the sensors S are operatively connected to a surface unit 154 for collecting data therefrom.
  • the surface unit may be, for example, similar to the surface unit 112 of FIG. 1.
  • One or more surface units 154 may be located at the oilfield 120, or linked remotely thereto.
  • the surface unit 154 may be a single unit, or a complex network of units used to perform the modeling, planning, and/or management functions throughout the oilfield 120.
  • the surface unit 154 may be a manual or automatic system.
  • the surface unit 154 may be operated and/or adjusted by a user.
  • the surface unit 154 is adapted to receive and store data.
  • the surface unit 154 may also be equipped to communicate with various oilfield equipment. The surface unit 154 may then send command signals to the oilfield in response to data received or modeling performed.
  • the surface unit 154 has computer facilities, such as memory
  • the data is collected in memory 156, and processed by the processor 160 for analysis.
  • Data may be collected from the oilfield sensors S and/or by other sources.
  • oilfield data may be supplemented by historical data collected from other operations, or user inputs.
  • the analyzed data (e.g., based on modeling performed) may then be used to make decisions.
  • a transceiver may be provided to allow communications between the surface unit 154 and the oilfield 120.
  • the controller 158 may be used to actuate mechanisms in the oilfield 120 via the transceiver and based on these decisions.
  • the oilfield 120 may be selectively adjusted based on the data collected. These adjustments may be made automatically based on computer protocol and/or manually by an operator. In some cases, well plans are adjusted to select optimum operating conditions or to avoid problems.
  • simulators may be used to process the data for modeling various aspects of the oilfield operation.
  • Specific simulators are often used in connection with specific oilfield operations, such as reservoir or wellbore simulation.
  • Data fed into the simulator(s) may be historical data, real time data, or combinations thereof. Simulation through one or more of the simulators may be repeated or adjusted based on the data received.
  • the wellsite simulators may include a reservoir simulator 163, a wellbore simulator 164, and a surface network simulator 166.
  • the reservoir simulator 163 solves for hydrocarbon flow through the reservoir rock and into the wellbores.
  • the wellbore simulator 164 and surface network simulator 166 solves for hydrocarbon flow through the wellbore and the surface network 124 of pipelines. As shown, some of the simulators may be separate or combined, depending on the available systems.
  • the non-wellsite simulators may include process 168 and economics 170 simulators.
  • the process simulator 168 models the processing plant (e.g., the process facilities 140) where the hydrocarbon(s) is/are separated into its constituent components (e.g., methane, ethane, propane, etc.) and prepared for sale.
  • the oilfield 120 is provided with an economics simulator 170.
  • the economics simulator 170 models the costs of part or the entire oilfield 120 throughout a portion or the entire duration of the oilfield operation. Various combinations of these and other oilfield simulators may be provided.
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of the digital core modeling system 172 that accepts as input a core sample 186 in accordance with one or more embodiments.
  • the digital core modeling system 172 may include at least a portion of the surface unit shown and described in relation to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2.
  • the digital core modeling system 172 includes a computing system 174 and measurement and testing equipment 184.
  • the computing system 174 includes a digital core modeling tool 176, a simulation tool 188, a display 180 and a data repository 190. Each of these components is described below.
  • the digital core modeling tool 176 is a tool for performing digital core modeling for the oilfield.
  • the digital core modeling tool 176 may include hardware, software, or a combination of both.
  • the hardware may include a computer processor and memory.
  • the measurement and testing equipment 184 includes such tools as a core sample scanner configured to generate a digital core image 178 from a core sample 186.
  • a digital core image 178 is a two-dimensional (2D) or 3D digital representation of the core sample 186.
  • the digital core image 178 is an image of each portion of the core sample 186 including pores and solid surfaces.
  • the digital core image 178 may show pores and rock boundaries of the core sample for each layer of the core sample 186.
  • the digital core image 178 may also include data that can be used to determine relationships (such as a relationship between the porosity and a modeled petrophysical parameter) without using statistical analysis, such as a statistical best fit.
  • the core sample scanner may scan the core sample 186 with or without destroying the core sample 186 in the process.
  • the software of the digital core modeling tool 176 may include an interface, a digital core model generator, an image generator, and a simulation tool 188.
  • the simulation tool 188 may use the Density Functional (DF) method for complex pore-scale hydrodynamics.
  • the simulation tool 188 includes functionality to perform simulations on a digital core model 182. Specifically, the simulations simulate various scenarios on the core sample 186.
  • the purpose of the simulations is to identify additional properties of the core sample 186, to validate the digital core model 182, to identify how the core sample 186 may be affected by the example scenarios, to extrapolate the simulation results to identify how the field (e.g., oilfield or other geographic region) may be affected by performing the example scenario in the field, or to perform another task or combination thereof.
  • the simulation tool 188 may include various input parameters describing an example scenario and generate a simulation result for the example scenario.
  • the software components may execute on the computer processor and use the memory.
  • the interface may include a user interface and/or an application programming interface (API).
  • the interface includes functionality to receive input and transmit output, such as to the display 180.
  • the input may be the digital core image 178 of one or more core samples and other information.
  • the output may correspond to graphical representation of simulation results or for display on the display 180, commands to send to the wellsite for controlling production, and other output.
  • the display 180 is configured to display graphical representations showing heterogeneity of a porous rock sample and models.
  • the digital core model generator corresponds to software that includes functionality to generate a digital core model 182 from the digital core image 178.
  • a digital core model 182 describes the core sample 186.
  • the data repository 190 may include functionality to store and retrieve data from the data repository 190.
  • the data repository 190 is any type of storage unit and/or device (e.g., a file system, database, collection of tables, or any other storage mechanism) for storing data.
  • the data repository 190 may include multiple different storage units and/or devices. The multiple different storage units and/or devices may or may not be of the same type or located at the same physical site.
  • the data repository 190 includes functionality to store one or more digital core images 178, one or more digital core models 182, and simulation results.
  • the digital core images 178 are 3D images of core samples
  • the digital core models 182 are models of the core sample 186.
  • each core sample may have a unique associated digital core image of the core sample and a unique associated digital core model of the core sample.
  • relationships between the porosity and modeled petrophysical parameters using estimated porosity and the modeled petrophysical parameter from sub-volumes may be stored in the data repository 190.
  • these relationships are determined using the entire digital core model 182 and not by using statistical analysis, such as statistical best fit. Accordingly, in one or more disclosed embodiments, no relationship determined by a statistical analysis (such as statistical best fit) and the modeled petrophysical parameter is stored in the data repository 190.
  • the simulation results are results of performing one or more simulations.
  • FIGs. 1-3 show a configuration of components, other configurations may be used without departing from the scope of embodiments.
  • various components may be combined to create a single component.
  • the functionality performed by a single component may be performed by two or more components.
  • a method of displaying and analyzing sample heterogeneity which includes evaluating a rock or other porous material using computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, or other techniques that result in either a 2D or a 3D digital representation of the rock sample material followed by a binarization or segmentation process to distinguish between the rock grains or material and porosity of different types (at least one).
  • the volume is then divided into the sub-volumes of different sizes. At least one petrophysical or fluid flow parameter or porosity is calculated from at least one sub-volume.
  • the data are presented in the form of a 2D or 3D structure composed of the grid blocks representing the exact sub-volume positioned according to the spatial location of the sub-volumes in the sample using the particular coloring scheme and/or different shapes (including but not limited with arrows, line segments, etc.) which depends on the selected petrophysical or fluid flow parameters and/or porosity values (at least one).
  • No statistical analysis is used to determine any relationships between the parameter(s) and/or value(s) as part of the disclosed embodiments.
  • the simulated subsample properties may include fluid flow, electrical resistivity, geomechanical properties, sample porosity, among others, or any combination thereof.
  • the transparency levels and the cutoffs can be applied to the data representation to analyze distribution of the selected petrophysical or fluid flow properties within the 2D or 3D space.
  • the data type of representation can be used for the heterogeneity analysis of the rock sample.
  • this method can be used to generate an upscaled model of the digital rock sample with the 2D or 3D relationship between physical properties of the sample and their spatial distribution.
  • Representations can also include links to any scalar data, 2D distributions, reports, etc.
  • experimental and simulation data can be linked using the representation of different properties, such as values that represent at least one of the following parameters: porosity, petrophysical property, fluid flow parameter, RCA, or SCAL experimental or simulation data. Using this ability, the data coming from different sources may be cross-correlated together with the spatial information.
  • FIG. 4 is a 3D representation of the sub-sample property with a particular coloring scheme (example shows absolute permeability value in the X direction in milliDarcy (mD)).
  • FIGs. 5A-5C are, respectively, a 3D representation of the sub-sample properties, in this particular example X, Y, Z directional absolute permeability distribution within the sample is shown and the transparency scheme is applied (grid blocks with permeability less than 53.16 mD are transparent).
  • FIG. 6 is a 3D representation of the sub-sample properties, in this particular example porosity (fraction) distribution within the sample is shown and the transparency scheme is applied (grid blocks with porosity less than 0.182 are transparent).
  • FIG. 7 is a 3D representation of a sample property with at least one highlighted scalar value of the property.
  • FIG. 8 is a 3D representation of the porosity distribution within the sample with the added information on permeability values of the cubes in X, Y, and Z directions included graphically in the form of arrows.
  • FIG. 9A is the 2D XY section of the 3D cube of FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 9B is the 2D YZ section of the 3D cube of FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 9C is the 2D XZ section of the 3D cube of FIG. 5C.
  • FIG. 10 is the color palette for the 2D sections of FIGs. 9A-9C. Different palettes for the different properties (shades of grey for the porosity, color scheme for the permeability) can also be applied. Textures or other graphical attributes can also be assigned to distinguish features or ranges of features.
  • FIG. 11 depicts an example method for showing heterogeneity of a porous sample.
  • one or more of the elements shown in FIG. 11 may be omitted, repeated, or performed in a different order. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention should not be considered limited to the specific arrangements of elements shown in FIG. 11.
  • a rock or other porous material is evaluated using computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, or other techniques that result in either a 2D or a 3D digital representation of the rock sample material.
  • an approach for binarization or segmentation is selected to distinguish between the rock grains or material and porosity of different types (at least one).
  • the binarization or segmentation is performed using exact measurements to distinguish between the rock grains or material and porosity of different types (at least one) to obtain a segmented volume.
  • a determination is made regarding whether a segmented volume is subdivided into sub- volumes of different sizes. If not, the segmented volume is divided into the sub- volumes of different sizes in block 1110. If so, there is no need to sub-divide the volume and the process proceeds to block 1112.
  • At least one petrophysical or fluid flow parameter or porosity is calculated from at least one sub-volume.
  • at least one petrophysical or fluid flow parameter or porosity is selected (block 1114).
  • data are presented in the form of a 2D or 3D structure composed of the grid blocks representing the exact sub-volume positioned according to the spatial location of the sub-volumes in the sample using the particular color scheme, texture scheme, or different shapes (including but not limited to arrows, line segments, etc.), or a combination of these elements, which depends on the selected petrophysical or fluid flow parameters or porosity values, or a combination of parameters or values.
  • Relationships between selected petrophysical or fluid flow parameters or porosity values may be stored or displayed. However, in accordance with one or more embodiments, these relationships are determined using an entire digital core model and not by using statistical analysis, such as statistical best fit. Accordingly, in one or more embodiments, no relationship determined by a statistical analysis (such as statistical best fit) and the modeled petrophysical parameter is either stored or displayed.
  • the computing system 1200 may include one or more computer processor(s) 1202, associated memory 1204 (e.g., random access memory (RAM), cache memory, flash memory, etc.), one or more storage device(s) 1206 (e.g., a hard disk, an optical drive such as a compact disk (CD) drive or digital versatile disk (DVD) drive, a flash memory stick, etc.), and numerous other elements and functionalities.
  • the computer processor(s) 1202 may be an integrated circuit for processing instructions.
  • the computer processor(s) may be one or more cores, or micro-cores of a processor.
  • the computing system 1200 may also include one or more input device(s) 1210, such as a touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, microphone, touchpad, electronic pen, or any other type of input device. Further, the computing system 1200 may include one or more output device(s) 1208, such as a screen (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display, touchscreen, cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor, projector, or other display device), a printer, external storage, or any other output device. One or more of the output device(s) may be the same or different from the input device(s).
  • input device(s) 1210 such as a touchscreen, keyboard, mouse, microphone, touchpad, electronic pen, or any other type of input device.
  • the computing system 1200 may include one or more output device(s) 1208, such as a screen (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display, touchscreen, cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor, projector, or other display device), a printer,
  • the computing system 1200 may be connected to a network 1212 (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN) such as the Internet, mobile network, or any other type of network) via a network interface connection.
  • the input and output device(s) may be locally or remotely (e.g., via the network 1212) connected to the computer processor(s) 1202, memory 1204, and storage device(s) 1206.
  • LAN local area network
  • WAN wide area network
  • the input and output device(s) may be locally or remotely (e.g., via the network 1212) connected to the computer processor(s) 1202, memory 1204, and storage device(s) 1206.
  • Software instructions in the form of computer readable program code to perform one or more embodiments may be stored, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, on a non-transitory computer readable medium such as a CD, DVD, storage device, a diskette, a tape, flash memory, physical memory, or any other computer readable storage medium.
  • the software instructions may correspond to computer readable program code that when executed by a processor(s), is configured to perform one or more embodiments of digital core model construction.
  • one or more elements of the aforementioned computing system 1200 may be located at a remote location and connected to the other elements over a network 1212. Further, embodiments may be implemented on a distributed system having multiple nodes, where each portion of an embodiment may be located on a different node within the distributed system.
  • the node corresponds to a distinct computing device.
  • the node may correspond to a computer processor with associated physical memory.
  • the node may alternatively correspond to a computer processor or micro-core of a computer processor with shared memory and/or resources.
  • the systems and methods provided relate to the acquisition of hydrocarbons from an oilfield and specifically a method showing heterogeneity of the porous sample. It will be appreciated that the same systems and methods may be used for performing subsurface operations, such as mining, water retrieval, and acquisition of other underground fluids or other geomaterials from other fields. Further, portions of the systems and methods may be implemented as software, hardware, firmware, or combinations thereof.

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L'invention concerne un système et un procédé destinés à montrer l'hétérogénéité d'un échantillon poreux en évaluant l'échantillon poreux pour générer une image mémoire numérique, réalisant des segmentations sur l'image mémoire numérique en utilisant de multiples approches pour obtenir un volume segmenté, divisant le volume segmenté en un ou plusieurs sous-volumes de taille différente, calculant un ou plusieurs paramètres pétrophysiques ou d'écoulement de fluide ou la porosité à partir desdits un ou plusieurs sous-volumes, et présentant des données comme une structure composée de blocs de grille représentant une représentation exacte desdits un ou plusieurs sous-volumes positionnés selon un emplacement spatial desdits un ou plusieurs sous-volumes basée sur des paramètres ou valeurs sélectionnés à partir desdits un ou plusieurs paramètres pétrophysiques ou d'écoulement de fluide ou de la porosité.
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