Lacunarity of geophysical well logs in the Cantarell oil field, Gulf of Mexico

Rubén Darío Arizabalo; Klavdia Oleschko; Gabor Korvin; Manuel Lozada; Ricardo Castrejón; Gerardo Ronquillo

doi:10.22201/igeof.00167169p.2006.45.2.185

Lacunarity of geophysical well logs in the Cantarell oil field, Gulf of Mexico

Rubén Darío Arizabalo^*
, Klavdia Oleschko
, Gabor Korvin
, Manuel Lozada
, Ricardo Castrejón
, Gerardo Ronquillo

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Lacunarity and fractal variations in geophysical well logs are associated with stratigraphic and petrophysical properties of the naturally fractured Cantarell field in the Gulf of Mexico. Neutron porosity (NPHI), density (RHOB, DRHO, PEF), resistivity (LLD, LLS, MSFL), natural radioactivity (GR, CGR, URAN, POTA, THOR) and caliper (CALI) logs are studied. The resistivity logs yielded remarkably high lacunarity values, especially in the hydrocarbon source- and reservoir rocks. Lacunarity ∧ was found to depend on the resolution and radial depth of penetration of the logging method. It systematically increased in the following order: ∧(RHOB) < ∧(CALI) < ∧(PEF) < ∧(URAN) < ∧(GR) < ∧(NPHI) < ∧(POTA) < ∧(CGR) < ∧(THOR) < ∧(MSFL) < ∧(DRHO) < ∧(LLS) < ∧(LLD).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-113
Number of pages	15
Journal	Geofisica International
Volume	45
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.00167169p.2006.45.2.185
State	Published - 2006

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Keywords

Fractal analysis
Lacunarity
R/S method
Scaling
Self-similarity
Well logs

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Geophysics
General Energy

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