Concurrent 1. Oral Presentation for: Petrophysical interpretation and reservoir characterisation on Proterozoic shales in National Drilling Initiative Carrara 1, Northern Territory
Adam H. E. Bailey A *A Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
The APPEA Journal 63 - https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ22301
Published: 2 June 2023
Abstract
Presented on Tuesday 16 May: Session 1
The Proterozoic succession in the National Drilling Initiative Carrara 1 drill hole, Northern Territory, is dominated by tight shales, siltstones and calcareous clastic rocks. As part of Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future program, this study aimed to improve the Proterozoic shale gas reservoir characterisation by derivation of porosity, permeability and gas content from laboratory testing and machine learning approaches to wireline log interpretation. The Proterozoic Lawn Hill Formation is divided into four chemostratigraphic packages. The middle two packages are further divided into seven internal units according to principal component analysis and self-organising map clustering on well logs and inorganic geochemical properties. Artificial neural networks were then applied to interpret the mineral compositions, porosity and permeability from well logs, density and neutron-density crossplot interpretations. Gas content was estimated from the interpreted porosity, gas saturation, total organic carbon and clay contents. Petrophysical interpretation results are summarised for all chemostratigraphic packages and units. P2 (1126.3–1430.1 m) has the highest potential among the four chemostratigraphic packages. P2U1 (1126.3–1271 m) and P2U3 (1335.5–1430.1 m) units have the most favourable petrophysical properties for organic-rich shales, with average total gas contents of 1.213 and 1.315 cm3/g, geometric mean permeability of 6.6 and 25.31 µD and net shale thickness of 53.5 and 83.3 m, respectively. P3U4 (687.9–697.9 m) has high gas content and permeability, with a net shale thickness of 35.9 m. The tight non-organic-rich siltstone and shale reservoirs in package P1 (below 1430.1 m) have an average gas saturation of 17.4% and a geometric mean permeability of 0.48 µD.
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Keywords: artificial neural networks, chemostratigraphy, gas content, log interpretation, machine learning, mineral composition, NDI Carrara 1, permeability, porosity, Proterozoic shale, reservoir characterisation.
Adam H. E. Bailey is a Petroleum Geoscientist at GA, with expertise in petroleum geomechanics, structural geology and basin analysis. He graduated with PhD in 2016 from the Australian School of Petroleum at the University of Adelaide. Adam is currently part of the Onshore Energy Systems team at GA, where he currently works on the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program. |
