The upper Dalan and Kangan or Permian-Triassic carbonate formations in the central the Persian Gulf are considered as world's giant gas reservoirs. The primary purpose of this research is to model and evaluate the relationship between hydraulic flow units (HFUs), electrofacies and microfacies with systems tracts of Permian-Triassic sequences. By integrating the results of core data, petrographic studies, and petrophysical logs of the studied formations, hydraulic flow units and electrofacies were identified. Based on the results of petrographic studies, twelve microfacies were identified in terms of textural and depositional characteristics. Based on depositional setting, sedimentary facies and INPEFA values obtained from gamma ray log and gamma deviation log (GDL) in the context of sequence stratigraphy, zonation of Dalan and Kangan reservoirs is carried out. The zonation boundaries correspond to the key stratal surfaces (sequence boundary and maximum flooding surface). Seven petrographic rock types (PRT) were identified for the upper Dalan-Kangan reservoirs based on sedimentary texture, diagenetic process and dominant pores. Using porosity and permeability data from the core analysis, five hydraulic flow units were identified based on the flow zone indicator (FZI) method. Using multi-resolution graph-based clustering (MRGC) four electrofacies were detected from petrophysical data (gamma, neutron, density and acoustic logs). Subsequently, the INPEFA, GDL and electrofacies were spatially modeled using the sequential indicator simulation (SIS) and sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) geostatistical methods. Finally, a clear agreement was revealed between the reservoir zones and the stratigraphic sequence framework. It this regard, the microfacies belonging to the high-energy and grain-dominated settings (packstone, grainstone) of leeward shoal, shoal and seaward shoal belts have the best reservoir units due to the influence of dissolution and dolomitization. The best reservoir units in the Permian-Triassic deposits in the middle of the upper Dalan and lower Kangan are developed in UDS4, upper KS2 and middle KS1 units. On the other hand, mud-dominated facies (mudstone, wackestone) and anhydrite textures are mostly associated with the low-energy lagoonal environments, between tidal flat and Sabkha. Non-reservoir units have been formed in the upper Dalan/Kangan and in the transgressive systems tract of UDS3-a, KS2-a and the lower and upper part of KS1 transgressive-highstand systems tract.
Author statement
Milad Moradi: Methodology, Software, Writing-Original draft preparation. Ali Kadkhodaie: Conceptualization, Methodology, Reviewing. Hossain Rahimpour-Bonab: Conceptualization, Reviewing. Rahim Kadkhodaie: Conceptualization, Reviewing.
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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