Oil & Gas Research
Open Access

Research Article

Calculation improvement of the clay content in the hydrocarbon formation rocks

Sudad H Al-Obaidi^*

University of Gujrat, Iraq

*Corresponding Author:

Sudad H. Al-Obaidi
Professor
University of Gujrat
Iraq
Tel: +0533 3643331
E-mail: drsudad@gmail.com

Received Date: December 22, 2016; Accepted Date: January 04, 2017; Published Date: January 26, 2017

Citation: Al-Obaidi SH (2017) Calculation Improvement of the Clay Content in the Hydrocarbon Formation Rocks. Oil Gas Res 3:130. doi: 10.4172/2472-0518.1000130

Copyright: © 2017 Al-Obaidi SH. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Natural radioactivity of reservoir rocks of oil and gas East Baghdad is due not only to their content of clay material, but also the existence of uranium that located in the skeleton of rocks. In connection with this, for the shale content determination of reservoir rocks, it is necessary to exclude the uranium contribution from the overall intensity of the gamma radiation. The paper presents the results of a research, using the data of spectral (standard) gamma ray logs –SGR , in which more accurate determination of the shaliness in the productive zones of the Zubair section of East Baghdad fields (In Iraq) is proposed. With the help of a computer program, a formula that allows us to remove the effect of uranium, which affects the readings of gamma ray logging, is obtained.

Keywords