The Identification of Natural Fractures in Inclined Highly Fractured Formations

PRESENTER: Nabil Al-Adani
Senior Petrophysicist

DATE: Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

TIME:12:00 AM
(Cocktails at 11:30)

PLACE: FAIRMONT PALLISER HOTEL

Abstract:

Most features, like fractures and faults, can be identified on borehole images with reasonable confidence at the borehole wall. Based on the fracture appearance, the natural fract5ures might be distinguished from any other drill-induced fractures and qualified as productive features. However, this is all based on observed features on the borehole images at the borehole wall with no confirmation on the extent of these features into the formation. By combining acoustic shear dispersion, shear anisotropy and Stoneley mobility analyses with high resolution borehole images, the fractures can be investigated beyond the borehole wall. This is an integrated process to investigate the probability of observed geological features on the borehole images extending into the formation.

Biography:

Nabil Al-Adani obtained his BSc in Petroleum Engineering from KFUPM in 1995. For the past 13 years, he has worked in the Middle East and North America as a Senior Petrophysicist, with a focus on porosity, permeability, and saturation analyses. He invented a Stoneley permeability evaluation method for fractured reservoirs and developed several interpretation techniques. These techniques include: 1) detecting high streak permeability in carbonates using inelastic yields, 2) evaluating the probabilities of free water and hydrocarbon of varying wettability using NMR, and 3) one for rock sanding prediction and 3D mechanical properties modeling. He has several publications in the SPE, SPWLA, CSWL and made presentations at several conferences, including the Saudi Engineers Conference and the Egypt Oil Conference