Determining the petrophysical rock types utilizing the Fuzzy C-means Clustering technique and the concept of hydraulic flow units

Abstract Rock types are the reservoir's most essential properties and show special facies with a defined range of porosity and permeability. This study used the fuzzy c-means clustering technique to identify rock types in 280 core samples obtained from one of the wells drilled in the Asmari reservoir located in the Mansouri field. Four hydraulic flow units were determined for studied data after classifying the flow zone index with histogram analysis, normal probability analysis, and the sum of square error methods. Then the two methods of flow zone index and fuzzy c-means clustering were used to determine the rock types in given wells according to the results obtained from the implementation of these two methods in-depth, and continuity index acts, the fuzzy c-means methods with continuity number 3.12 compared to flow zone index with continuity number 2.77 shows more continuity in depth. Amounts of porosity and permeability of the different reservoir rock samples have high dispersion; the relationship between these two parameters improves by using hydraulic flow unit techniques significantly. In this study, the relationship between porosity and permeability of correlation coefficient improves and increases in each hydraulic flow unit by using the flow zone index method so that in the general case for all samples increased from 0.55 to 0.81 in the first hydraulic flow unit, 0.94 in the second hydraulic flow unit, 0.85 in the third hydraulic flow unit and 0.94 in the fourth hydraulic flow unit that this is because the samples were characterized by similar flow properties in a hydraulic flow unit. In comparison, the correlation coefficient is obtained less than the general case in the fuzzy c-means method in all hydraulic flow units.