Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Permeability index calculation using dipole sonic log and its calibration with the core data in Karanj oilfield, Southwest of Iran

Alireza Kordzangeneh; Bahram Habibnia; Majid Akbari

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 20 September 2023

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2023.331104.1628

Abstract
  Permeability is one of the most significant petrophysical parameters of reservoir rock and its accurate, inexpensive, and rapid estimation is important. One of the methods for the estimation of permeability is the Stoneley flow zone index method. In this study, this method was used to estimate the permeability. ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Integration of Seismic Attributes and Wellbore Data of Ghar Formation in the Hindijan and Bahregansar Oilfields

Mehrdad Safarpour; Mohammad Ali Riahi; Mehran Rahimi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , April 2023, , Pages 13-39

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2022.336225.1634

Abstract
  The main purpose of this paper is to estimate and evaluate the petrophysical properties of the Ghar Formation in the Hindijan and Bahregansar oilfields using a combination of seismic and well logs data. In this study, following a step-by-step regression approach: first; sonic, density, and, porosity ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) in Electrical Facies Classification

Hamid Reza Okhovvat; Mohammad Ali Riahi; Afshin Akbari Dehkharghani

Volume 12, Issue 1 , January 2023

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2023.360469.1653

Abstract
  In this study, in order to facies classification, the kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) feature extraction method is used to extract new features from the measured well-logs. After applying the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and KPCA feature extraction approaches, the classification was ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Hydrocarbon Generation Potential and Paleo-Depositional Environments of the Laffan Formation in the Binak Oilfield: Results from Rock-Eval Pyrolysis and Organic Petrographic Studies

Bahram Alizadeh; Zollfaghar Eivazi Nezhad; Majid Alipour

Volume 11, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 37-51

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2022.336808.1635

Abstract
  In this study, the hydrocarbon potential and depositional environments of the Coniacian Laffan formation were investigated in the Binak oilfield, SW Iran. With an average thickness of 80 m, the Laffan formation consists mainly of gray shales and thin argillaceous limestones in the study area. In order ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Prediction of Shale Volume and Water Saturation using Pre-Stack Seismic and Well-Log Data in an Oil Field

Ali Jelvegarfilband; Mohammad Ali Riahi; Majid Bagheri

Volume 11, Issue 1 , January 2022

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2022.338963.1638

Abstract
  The petrophysical parameters of the Ghar Formation are characterized in this study. A combination of pre-stack seismic data gathers and well-log data is used to estimate water saturation and shale volume in the Ghar reservoir. For such a purpose, first, the highest possible correlation between the well ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Geochemical Evaluation of Oils from the Asmari Reservoir of the Qale-Nar Oilfield: Implication for Field-Scale Reservoir Compartmentalization

Bahram Habibnia; Omid Vallipour; Majid Alipour

Volume 10, Issue 4 , October 2021, , Pages 68-84

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2022.307365.1614

Abstract
  The Qale-Nar oilfield is an asymmetric two-humped anticline located in the northernmost part of the Dezful embayment, in which the fractured Asmari carbonates are the primary reservoir rock. In this study, for the first time, the organic geochemistry of oils produced from the Asmari reservoir is used ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Facies Interpretation from Well Logs: Applied to Calub–Hilala Field Within Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia

Samuel Getnet Tsegaye

Volume 10, Issue 2 , April 2021, , Pages 28-50

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2021.284524.1592

Abstract
  The lithofacies and environments of deposition interpretations of the Calub–Hilala field toward the central trough of Ogaden Basin were analyzed, and geophysical well logs from three deep exploration wells, namely Calub-1, Bodle-1, and Hilala-2, were used. A methodology was piloted in establishing ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Shear wave velocity estimation utilizing statistical and multi-intelligent models from petrophysical data in a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic reservoir, SW Iran

Ziba Hosseini; Sajjad Gharechelou; Asadollah Mahboubi; Reza Moussavi-Harami; Ali Kadkhodaie-Ilkhchi; Mohsen Zeinali

Volume 10, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 15-39

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2020.241095.1556

Abstract
  The conjugation of two or more Artificial Intelligent (AI) models used to design a single model that has increased in popularity over the recent years for exploration of hydrocarbon reservoirs. In this research, we have successfully predicted shear wave velocity (Vs) with higher accuracy through the ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering
Identifying Gas-bearing Carbonate Reservoir Using Extended Elastic Impedance

Hessam MansouriSiahgoli; Mohammad Ali Riahi; Bahare Heidari; Reza Mohebian

Volume 9, Issue 3 , July 2020, , Pages 102-115

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2020.218837.1535

Abstract
  It is difficult to identify the carbonate reservoirs by using conventional seismic reflection data, especially in cases where the reflection coefficient of the gas-bearing zone is close to that of the carbonate background. In such cases, the extended elastic impedance (EEI) as a seismic reconnaissance ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Amplitude Variation with Offset Inversion Analysis in One of the Western Oilfields of the Persian Gulf

Benyamin Khadem; Abdolrahim Javaherian

Volume 8, Issue 2 , April 2019, , Pages 15-33

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2018.125135.1444

Abstract
  Reservoir characterization has a leading role in the reservoir geophysics and reservoir management. Since the interests of the reservoir geophysics and reservoir managements are the elastic properties and reservoir properties of the subsurface rock for their purposes, a robust method is required for ...  Read More

Petroleum Engineering – Exploration
Evaluation of Reservoir Properties Using Wireline Logs of Well Sarai-Sidhu-1, Punjab Platform, Central Indus Basin, Pakistan

Syed Waqas Haider; Mustafa Yar; Raja Ahtisham Ghafoor; Tallat Majeed Khan

Volume 7, Issue 4 , October 2018, , Pages 36-44

https://doi.org/10.22050/ijogst.2018.95773.1400

Abstract
  The well Sarai Sidhu-01 is located on Punjab Platform, Central Indus Basin, Pakistan. Punjab Platform is the eastern part of Central Indus Basin, and tectonically it is the stable portion of Indus Basin, which was least affected during Tertiary Himalayan orogeny. This study attempts to decipher reservoir ...  Read More