INTEGRATED HYDRAULIC FLOW UNITS ANALYSIS CLASTIC SOUTHTURGAY BASIN’S RESERVOIR

In following paper different hydraulic flow units approaches has been researched applied to the Kazakhstan reservoir. Hydraulic Flow Units method is the petrophyiscal method to understand the reservoir by dividing it to units with the same flow characteristics. This methodology uses core data to develop an understanding of the complex variations in pore geometry within different lithofacies. Similar flow characteristics is controlled by the pore geometry of the rock. In other words Hydraulic flow unit can be described as: total reservoir rock within which geological and petrophysical properties that affect fluid flow are internallyconsistent and predictably different from properties of other rock volumes. Winland R 35 method have been applied to classify core data from different reservoirs. Turgay Basin's sandstone has evaluated comparing to limestone and shale reservoirs through RQIs and R 35 Windland plot. We can say that this reservoir very heterogeneous and is mainly in conventional and fast delivery reservoirs area. Reservoir quality index has been applied to distinguish the type of reservoir using plot of South Turgay's basin reservoir comparing to Tengiz oilfield petrophysical data and Bakken shale oil reservoir permeability and porosity data.

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