| Mauddud-Burgan is a carbonate reservoir located in southeast Kuwait which is known for its structural complexity, especially in the context of horizontal drilling activities. Unsatisfactory horizontal drilling of numerous wells led Kuwait Oil Company to abandon development of this reservoir. With world's demand for oil and the price of oil increasing, Kuwait Oil Company is reevaluating the development of this reservoir.; Unsatisfactory development program of the Mauddud-Burgan resulted from a lack of understanding of this formation's complexity and limited understanding of this reservoir system. This study addresses a detailed characterization of Mauddud-Burgan formation to expedite future reservoir planning and development. The detailed analysis involved seven aspects of reservoir characterizations, including: geological study, thin-section study, XRD study, SEM study, core study, well logging study and well test analysis. Raw data and samples for these studies were supplied by KOC in co-operation with the Kuwaiti ministry of oil.; The principal objective of the study is to integrate results obtained from experimental measurements of rock samples from Well A, and, to build a model based on this integration. A new, unconventional approach of modeling based on Neural Networks is used to characterize the permeability of Mauddud-Burgan. Comprehensive data mining of the reservoir was conducted using a neural network model-interface called PERMWIZ developed in this study. This allowed prediction of the permeability, for this formation. |
