Theoretical Approach in Vp/Vs Prediction from Rock Conductivity in Gas Saturating Shaly Sand

Most of study in Oil and Gas Industry are studying Vp/Vs behaviour against hydrocarbon presence in a porous rock. Vp/Vs number is commonly used to model Amplitude Variation against Offset response of a gas sand which allow us be able to discriminate it from the water sand. The model is built in term to match the synthesized Vp/Vs against the observed Vp/Vs which actually correspond to elastic property of porous and fluid saturating rocks. This study is aimed to find correlation between elastic property and conductivity of saturated rocks, especially reservoir in this study is found as a shaly sand unit, a turbidite sand deposit in Kutai Basin, East Kalimantan. The correlation between elastic property and conductivity properties are rarely discussed in many studies, however this study gives a new insight and evidence of how elastic and the inverse of conductivity (resistivity) properties are correlating both ways formulized theoretically with a support from Gassmann and Archie equations. In this study, more realistic condition is accomplished by taking clay mineral into account in sand unit and hence impact to Vp/Vs derivation from resistivity. Furthermore, sand-shale texture is considered important when this study giving a significant discrepancy of how clay mineral is distributed in sand unit and impacted to Vp/Vs and resistivity values. Thomas-Stieber diagram is useful when defining a disperse and/or laminate distribution of shale in the observed porous sand.