Integrated petrophysical models have been broadly applied in geological and petro-elastic modeling to forecast hydrocarbon accumulations and to estimate resource potential. Methodological basis of building those models have been well developed for conventional terrigenous and carbonate reservoirs; as regards the so-called "shale-type" hydrocarbon-bearing rocks, however, there are objective difficulties determined by a range of various factors that may include multi-component composition of rocks, core recovery problems, as well as process-related peculiarities of laboratory methods. This paper offers a program of special laboratory core analysis of the samples from the Bazhenov formation and an algorithm for the processing of the results with the view to build an integrated petrophysical model of an unconventional "shale-type" oil pay.

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