SPE Formation Evaluation, Vol.8, No.1, 26-32, 1993
INCORPORATING RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY WITH GEOSTATISTICS TO INVESTIGATE WATERFLOOD RECOVERIES
This paper presents an investigation of infill drilling performance and reservoir continuity with geostatistics and a reservoir simulator. The geostatistical technique provides many possible realizations and realistic descriptions of reservoir heterogeneity. Correlation between recovery efficiency and thickness of individual sand subunits is shown. Additional recovery from infill drilling results from thin, discontinuous subunits. The technique may be applied to variations in continuity for other sandstone reservoirs.