USING THE KUSTER-TOKSOZ ACOUSTIC SCATTERING MODEL TO ESTIMATE POROSITY IN BASEMENT RESERVOIRS

Abstract

Low porosity fractured reservoirs have been successfully described using a combination of high resolution geometrical information from borehole images together with deeper penetrating log evaluation methods. Borehole images from acoustic or electrical scanning tools provide statistics of fracture distribution, first order estimates of fracture opening and porosity, and a basic for geological inference. By making some assumptions about the nature of the porosity in basement reservoirs we develop a new method to estimate the porosity and the fraction of this porosity due to fractures. This method makes use of the Kuster-Toksoz acoustic scattering model and requires low frequency measurements of compressional and shear velocities.