Pore Typing
Pore typing, the first half of the Petrographic Image Analysis
(PIA) software system, represents a quantitative way of classifying
the overall geometry of a pore system as sampled in a thin section
and determining how that system changes either vertically,
horizontally or both in a reservoir and among connected reservoirs. The goal is to sample a great number of pores/porels in a thin
section and among a collection of thin sections to determine the
major pore types, what the geometry of those pore types express and,
finally, how these pore types vary across the study area. Not only
is pore typing important to understand the geology and
post-depositional history of a reservoir, it is important to the
petroleum engineers and petrophysicists.
The underlying assumption to pore typing (which has held up in our
experience) is that the shape of the pores/porels is at least a
partial record of the original depositional environment facies,
diagenesis and burial history of that sample of rock. The fact that
it is a partial record reflects the fact that the shape of the
pores/porels generally reflects the last of a sequence of
post-burial events affecting the rock. Being able to produce three
dimensional mappable variables are valuable to produce the insights
needed to properly engineer a reservoir over time.
For more detailed information on GXStat's Pore Typing services,
contact us.