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Exercise 4: Well Log Correlation: Geology & Geophysics Applied in Industry FWS

This document provides instructions for an exercise on correlating well logs across five wells. Students are asked to complete two correlations: 1) a lithostratigraphic correlation identifying sand layers across the wells and 2) a chronostratigraphic correlation matching resistivity patterns in identified shale zones to correlate the geological periods represented in each well. Key steps include identifying an unconformity in all five wells, determining shale baselines, highlighting sand intervals, and matching resistivity patterns lettered A-H in the first well to the other wells to correlate the chronostratigraphy over changing thicknesses between the wells.

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Exercise 4: Well Log Correlation: Geology & Geophysics Applied in Industry FWS

This document provides instructions for an exercise on correlating well logs across five wells. Students are asked to complete two correlations: 1) a lithostratigraphic correlation identifying sand layers across the wells and 2) a chronostratigraphic correlation matching resistivity patterns in identified shale zones to correlate the geological periods represented in each well. Key steps include identifying an unconformity in all five wells, determining shale baselines, highlighting sand intervals, and matching resistivity patterns lettered A-H in the first well to the other wells to correlate the chronostratigraphy over changing thicknesses between the wells.

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Geology & Geophysics Applied in Industry

FWS

Exercise 4: Well Log Correlation


Printing Instructions: one document, 2 pages, letter size, B&W one figure (logs), 1 original but make 2 copies for each student or team, 11x17 inches, B&W Introduction: Solution: Slides 22, 23 from the lecture ALSO, send for the solution Slides 19, 20, 21 from the lecture

EXERCISE 4: Well Log Correlation In the lecture, slides 19 and 20 introduce this exercise. Slide 21 is the uninterpreted log cross-section Slide 22 is the answer for the first part of the exercise - a lithostratigraphic correlation Slide 23 is the answer for the second part of the exercise - a chronostratigraphic correlation SLIDE 19 This slide shows where the wells are in a map view and the well logs for well 5 You may have to explain the logs and how to interpret them SP in the left track - it is like the gamma ray log we looked at earlier You look at high values (excursions to the right) and define a shale baseline Values significantly less = sands Intermediate values = silts Resistivity is in the right track There was only one log - it is shown using 2 gain settings In the shale zones, the resistivity curve has a lot of character somewhat unique highs, lows, and transitions from highs to lows Several unique "patterns" are marked in well 5 labeled A to H As long as the interval remains shale, we interpret that these resistivity patterns are due to slight changes in shale properties associated with different shale layers

Geology & Geophysics Applied in Industry

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Exercise 4: Well Log Correlation Based on this, when we correlate these resistivity markers, the correlations can be taken as time stratigraphic ALSO note that there is a regional unconformity marked on all 5 well logs

Correlation 1: Lithostratigraphy On the first copy of the uninterpreted log cross-section: First identify the regional unconformity on all 5 wells and correlate this unconformity (draw a line connecting the unconformity surface) Define a shale baseline for the SP log (left track) for each well Use a yellow pencil or highlighter to mark the sand intervals in each well (where the SP curve is far to the left of the baseline) Now correlate the sand layers from well to well (i.e., draw lines connecting similar sand layers)

Correlation 2: Chronostratigraphy On the second copy of the uninterpreted log cross-section Again identify the regional unconformity on all 5 wells and correlate this unconformity Now for well 5 look at the resistivity "character" or "pattern" for the A, B and C markers use these patterns to correlate A, B, and C from well 5 to well 4 Next try correlating the other markers given in well 5 to well 4 Now try to correlate A, B, and C from well 4 to well 3 to well 2 to well 1 Think about the thickness changes in the intervals , e.g., from A to B, B to C, etc. You should find that the A to B interval thickness is about the same in all 5 wells Similarly the B to C and the C to D interval thickness is relatively constant However, the sediment thickness from D to the unconformity in well 5 is about twice the thickness in well 1 It is difficult to correlate markers G and H this is because these intervals change from shale (in well 5) to sand (in well 4 or well 3) What is the most reasonable way to account for the thinning of the D to unconformity interval from well 5 to well 1?

Geology & Geophysics Applied in Industry

FWS

Exercise 4: Well Log Correlation

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