This color poster depicts the rock-fabric method for linking geologic descriptions with petrophysical properties.

Permeability in a vuggy carbonate sequence can be related to particle size, separate-vug porosity, and interparticle porosity.

Formation evaluation in heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs is complicated by the presence of multiple pore types. Acoustic properties, Archie cementation exponents, and permeability transforms differ according to pore type.

San Andres and Grayburg reservoirs have yielded about 42 percent (9.8 billion barrels) of the total cumulative production of oil from the Permian Basin of West Texas.

Petroleum reservoirs typically yield only a fraction of the oil initially in place because geologic heterogeneity causes incomplete drainage of oil.

Unrecovered mobile oil is oil that is movable at reservoir conditions but is prevented from migrating to existing we1 l bores because of geologic complexities or heterogeneities.

A waterflood was begun in 1985 in Taylor-Link West San Andres unit (10 million barrels cumulative production) on the south margin of the Central Basin Platform to capture a remaining mobile oil target estimated at 20 million barrels.

This Report of Investigations describes a geological, petrophysical, and reservoir engineering study of the South Cowden field, Ector County, in West Texas. This product is the downloadable version.

This report uses the rock fabric method to construct a reservoir model of a Permian Basin Grayburg dolomite reservoir. Rock fabrics are related to porosity, permeability, and capillary pressure and are distributed within a sequence stratigraphic framework.