Though substantial hydrocarbon resource volumes are believed to be located within Inter Channel Thin Bed (ICTB) facies in deep-water (DW) reservoirs in the gulf of Guinea, there seems to be no dedicated effort to harness them. This is partly due to the challenges associated with how to identify, accurately characterise and ascertain producibility from ICTBs. In this paper, a workflow to identify and characterise ICTB is presented along with a review of literature that demonstrates ICTBs can be prolific producers.

Keywords:
thin bed, facies, workflow, well logging, thick bed evaluation workflow, porosity, log analysis, ICTB facies, shale, core data
Subjects:
Formation Evaluation & Management, Open hole/cased hole log analysis
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