A Quantitative analysis of reservoir heterogeneities of the Sarvak Formation in an oilfield from the Abadan Plain, SW Iran

This study focuses on reservoir heterogeneities of the Sarvak Formation in the Abadan Plain. Coefficient of variation (CV) and Dykstra-Parsons (VDP) approaches are used for quantification of reservoir heterogeneities. To define the hydraulic flow units, rock types, and reservoir zonation, flow zone indicator (FZI), Winland R35, and Lorenz (SMLP) methods are adopted. Heterogeneities of porosity and permeability data are quantified in each rock type, HFU and reservoir zone. Then, results of sedimentological studies are integrated with petrophysical data to analyze their scale, origins, and predictability in sequence stratigraphic framework. Depositional and diagenetic heterogeneities are differentiated. Facies variations and changes in textural characteristics and sedimentary structures provided small scale heterogeneities. Meteoric dissolution beneath the Cenomanian–Turonian palaeoexposure surface formed the best reservoir zone of the formation. Cementation and compaction, mostly related to burial diagenesis, reduced the reservoir quality. Results of this study indicate that large scale heterogeneities of the Sarvak Formation are predictable in the framework of third-order sequences. Meteorically dissolved rudist dominated facies provided the best productive zones in the regressive systems tract (RST) of the Cenomanian and Turonian sequences. However, small scale heterogeneities are not easily predictable in third-order depositional sequences and systems tracts.