Research on physical properties of shale gas reservoirs in Hunan Province based on the analysis model of logging data

Abstract

Most areas in Hunan Province are rich in shale gas blocks, and their shale gas reservoir physical properties, geological characteristics, and enrichment rules need to be further studied. The article chooses the five # logging data of the Xiaoyanxi Formation in Anhua, Hunan Province, as the research object, preprocesses the logging data by curve environmental influence correction, curve reconstruction, and normalization, calculates the total organic carbon content and mineral composition change of shale gas by multiple linear regression, and uses the multi-mineral content calculated by optimization algorithm combined with the volumetric model to realize the matrix porosity of the variable skeleton. Then, the differential equivalent medium, self-compatible approximation, and K-T models were used to calculate the shale rock skeleton modulus. Then the shale gas reservoir petrophysical model was constructed. The adsorbed gas and free gas of the shale gas reservoir were solved separately to obtain the total gas content of the shale gas reservoir. The average TOC content solved by the model is 1.79%, which is only 2.23% higher than the absolute error of the actual data. When the volume fraction of the organic matter mixture increased from 0 to 0.25, the relative change of the longitudinal and transverse wave velocity ratio was only 0.87%. The shale gas content in Anhua Xiaoyanxi Formation 5# in Hunan Province ranges from 0.87 to 8.41 cm³/g, significantly higher than the lower limit value for shale gas industrial development. Recorded well data can clarify the reservoir’s physical characteristics of shale gas in Hunan Province and provide data support for exploring shale gas.

Keywords: curve reconstruction; total organic carbon content; K-T model; gas content; shale gas; logging data