Integrated Carbonate Lithofacies Modeling Based on the Deep Learning and Seismic Inversion and its Application

Abstract To improve the accuracy of carbonate lithofacies modeling, mainly well data such as core, thin section and well logging data had been adopted in conventional methods. Although the reservoir types classification is very detailed, but it is usually difficult to integrate with seismic data to make 3D lithofacies model. To address the issue of carbonate lithofacies modeling, a new integrated carbonate lithofacies modeling technique was summarized based on thin section, core, well logging, 3D seismic data and production performance data. The integrated carbonate lithofacies modeling workflow mainly contains 5 steps. 1) Integrated lithofacies classification based on the core, thin section, well logging, FMI, CMR and production performance data. 2) Petrophysics lithofacies classification based on the cross-plot analysis between sensitive well log curves. 3) Petrophysics lithofacies prediction based on the sensitive well log curve by deep learning method, and verification by core lithofacies analysis. 4) Seismic inversion volume optimization by well lithofacies calibration. 5) Lithofacies modelling based seismic inversion based on the seismic inversion cut-off analysis (Fig.2). This workflow integrated seismic impedance (continuous variable) with lithofacies (discrete variable), and converts seismic inversion into lithofacies directly. According to the certification of new wells, this technique had been applied successfully in carbonate reservoir of M oil field in Middle East, it not only improves the accuracy of 1D lithofacies prediction for wells by deep learning method, but also improves the accuracy of 3D lithofacies modeling for the whole oilfield by well and seismic inversion integrated. The lithofacies modeling not only matched with lithofacies from core analysis and petrophysics lithofacies prediction from well log analysis, but also matched with seismic inversion data in no well area. The integrated carbonate lithofacies modeling workflow integrated thin section, core, well logging, 3D seismic data and production performance data, and improved the improves the accuracy of 3D lithofacies modeling for no well area. It’s useful for new wells optimization and high efficiency development with lower cost. The integrated carbonate lithofacies modeling workflow not only suit for carbonate reservoir, but also suit for clastic reservoir.