Abstract :

Low resistivity reservoirs have long been known in the oil and gas industry as reservoirs that have significant potential and contribution to oil and gas production. This reservoir is very unique because of its relatively low resistivity readings (< 5 Ohm) and often other log responses do not show the way carbonate-containing reservoirs do, so they are often overlooked and not considered as potential carbon reservoirs. The low resistivity reading also causes the Water Saturation (Sw) value to be too high, which contributes to why the reservoir is overlooked. Theoretically, the factors that cause low resistivity readings are high clay/shale content, fine grain size, high salinity air formation, presence of microporosity and presence of conductive minerals which affect resistivity log readings in addition to other things such as low structured reservoirs. and there is a significant slope of the layers.  Based on statistic reports, generally in low resistivity reservoirs there is a combination of two or more of the causal factors mentioned.

This study aims to identify the characteristics of low resistivity reservoirs in the Upper Cibulakan Formation, West Java Basin, especially from log readings and recognition of what factors support reservoir formation both from the results of core and log analysis as well as selecting combinations for calculating water saturation. From the low resistivity reservoir characteristics, it is hoped that it can be used to find and identify the distribution of similar reservoirs so that potential reservoirs that have been overlooked so far can be identified, discovered and developed which in the end are expected to provide additional contributions both in terms of education and for the oil and gas industry in finding new reserves for oil and gas production in Indonesia.

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Keywords :

Causative Factors, Low resistivity, Petrophysical Analysis, Reservoir Characteristics.

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