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Evaluating upper Palaeozoic sandstone reservoir sensitivity by use of log data

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Upper Palaeozoic sandstone reservoirs in E' erduosi Basin belong in low-porosity low-permeability ones and reservoir sensitivity evaluation is an important component part of reservoir evaluation. On the basis of collecting these data on thin section, X-ray diffraction, petrophysical property and sensitivity flowing experiment, etc., a research on evaluating Upper Palaeozoic reservoir sensitivity by use of log data was carried out by the authors. First, in light of extracting various parameters closely related to the reservoir sensitivity form log messages, the type of clay minerals in the reservoirs and their content might be quantitatively determined by applying natural gamma ray spectrometry log; and second, through setting up the correlativity between the principal clay minerals and the reservoir sensitivity and treating and examining it by measured data, it was shown that this result was identical to the experimental one. Therefore, in terms of log data, a mathematical relation between the factors influencing reservoir sensitivity and the log data may be set up through calibrating the log data by core analysis data, thus realizing the reservoir sensitivity's being determined by log data.

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