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Digital rock physics and resistivity well logging interpretation in unconventional reservoirs: Advances and prospects
Advances in Geo-Energy Research 2025, 18(3): 287-290
Published: 19 November 2025
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Unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs, characterized by multiscale and complex pore architectures, diverse mineralogical compositions, and pronounced heterogeneity, present significant limitations to conventional saturation estimation and reservoir evaluation methods, with resistivity well logging data based on classic models such as Archie's equations. Digital rock physics technology, integrating multi-scale imaging, three-dimensional reconstruction, and numerical simulation, enables the precise characterization of pore structures and conductive mechanisms, markedly enhancing the accuracy of electrical response simulations and well logging evaluations in complex reservoirs. Through this perspective, this study systematically compares the application limitations and associated impacts of conventional resistivity logging in unconventional reservoirs of various lithologies and evaluates the applicability and merits of distinct rock physics numerical simulation approaches, highlighting existing constraints and challenges. Furthermore, this work outlines future directions for integrating digital rock physics with well logging evaluation.

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