Muddy interlayer forecasting and an equivalent upscaling method based on tortuous paths: A case study of Mackay River oil sand reservoirs in Canada
YIN Yanshu,CHEN Heping,HUANG Jixin,FENG Wenjie,LIU Yanxin,GAO Yufeng
Table 1 Number of ends, termination frequency and average length of muddy interlayers with different thicknesses.
Thickness of
muddy layer/mm
Number of
muddy layers
Average length from outcrop/m Occurrence probability/% Number of ends Termination
frequency/(?m-1)
Average
length/m
0 1 2
0-2 160 2.7 30 40 90 19.64 0.10
2-4 1 450 24.6 1 290 150 10 1.67 1.19
4-8 1 818 0.87 30.8 1 760 50 8 0.52 3.86
8-12 1 107 6.42 18.7 1 100 7 0 0.09 22.14
12-16 714 19.48 12.1 710 4 0 0.08 24.99
>16 656 11.1 654 2 0 0.04 45.92