Advances in Earth Science ›› 2022, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (8): 851-862. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2022.047

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A New Method for Identification of Gas-Oil Ratio of Oil Layer Based on Mutual Information Matrix: A Case Study of the Weizhou Oilfield in the Beibu Gulf Basin of the South China Sea

Renyi WANG 1( ), Denghui ZHANG 1, Shusheng GUO 2, Daowu HUANG 3, Biao XU 1   

  1. 1.School of Petrochemical Engineering and Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan Zhejiang 316022, China
    2.Zhanjiang Branch of CNOOC Ltd. , Zhanjiang Zhejiang 524057, China
    3.Shanghai Branch of CNOOC Ltd. , Shanghai 200030, China
  • Received:2022-05-12 Revised:2022-07-14 Online:2022-08-10 Published:2022-09-13
  • About author:WANG Renyi (1968-), male, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, Associate professor. Research areas include marine oil and gas resources development teaching and research work. E-mail: wangry0123@163.com
  • Supported by:
    the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province “Quantitative research on the sedimentation response mechanism of base level cycle”(LY20D020002);The National Science and Technology Major Project of China “Research on the nonlinear percolation model based on boundary-layer theory”(2017ZX05072005)

Renyi WANG, Denghui ZHANG, Shusheng GUO, Daowu HUANG, Biao XU. A New Method for Identification of Gas-Oil Ratio of Oil Layer Based on Mutual Information Matrix: A Case Study of the Weizhou Oilfield in the Beibu Gulf Basin of the South China Sea[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2022, 37(8): 851-862.

Identifying oil layers with high gas-oil ratios in the Weizhou Oilfield is difficult because of the similar neutron excavation effect characteristics in oil layers with different gas-oil ratios. To address this problem, the logging response characteristics, formation mechanism, and influencing factors of the resistivity response in the invasion zone of oil layers with different gas-oil ratios were studied by synthetically using log interpretation, oil layer test analysis, rock electricity experiments, and numerical simulations. The results indicate the following: high gas-oil ratio oil layers have neutron excavation logging response characteristics that are close to those of medium gas-oil ratio layers. The neutron excavation effect method, which is a “narrow-spectrum” identification method, can only effectively distinguish gas-oil ratios when they are low and have close formation pressure. The oil-gas fluid compressibility is sensitive to the change in the gas-oil ratio; the higher the gas-oil ratio, the greater is the oil-gas fluid compressibility. A nearly linear relationship exists between the gas-oil ratio and the oil-gas fluid compressibility, which could serve as a new “broad-spectrum” identification method to identify the gas-oil ratio by compressibility of the oil-gas fluid. By calculating the mutual information matrix between the reconstructed array induction resistivity logging curves, information about the gas-oil ratio implicitly contained in the logging data of array induction resistivity can be highlighted. The value of mutual information in the matrix approximately reflects the information regarding the gas-oil ratio. The gas-oil ratio identification method based on a mutual information matrix can overcome the limitations of the neutron excavation effect method, and the “broad-spectrum” identification of different oil-gas ratios of the oil layer can be realized by using oil-gas fluid compressibility. This method has achieved good results in the application in the Weizhou Oilfield in the Beibu Gulf Basin of the South China Sea and provides a new idea for the quantitative identification of the gas-oil ratio of oil reservoirs in similar oilfields.

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