FAULTSEAL
- Fault Sealing
The amount of clay that has flown into a
fault plane is a measure for the sealing
potential of that fault plane, this is called
the Clay Smear Potential (CSP).
By approximating the flow of viscous flow
between parallel plates the amount of clay
in the fault plane can be estimated.
The formula that is used and developed by
Prof. Dr. Dirk Nieuwland from NTS has been
tried and tested over 30 years on a wide
variety of hydrocarbon accumulations world
wide and has proven its value for E&P. The
clay smear process is appropriate for
sand/shale sequences containing soft clay.
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dirk Nieuwland
from NewTec, New Frontier Solutions Pte. Ltd.
developed FAULTSEAL.
FAULTSEAL features:
- Prediction of sealing and non-sealing
faults
- Calibration of the sealing/non-sealing
cut-offs per HC accumulation (e.g. from
pressure data and/or production data)
- Reading of GR and Sonic logs to
- automatically create a lithological
column, sand/shale based on the
GR and a user-defined cut-off;
- automatically recognize hard -
and soft clays, based on well logs
and a pre-set of user-defined cut-
offs
