Experience of Applying Digital Core Technologies to Study Reservoir Rocks of the Pripyat Trough
https://doi.org/10.18599/grs.2026.2.12
Abstract
This paper systematizes the results achieved by BelNIPIneft specialists in the application of digital core technologies to the study of reservoir rocks in the Pripyat Trough. It presents information on the equipment used, research methods, and verification of the obtained results, as well as practical experience in the application of tomographic research results and digital core models to reservoir formations at oil fields in the Republic of Belarus. The paper presents the developed method for digital core analysis, a data sheet, and the results of scaling the number of digital core models to expand the representative range of reservoir properties. The paper briefly describes the results of using digital rock models in hydrodynamic modeling of reservoir development represented by terrigenous sediments and studies to determine the distribution of residual oil saturation after waterflooding in carbonate reservoirs at oil fields in the Republic of Belarus.
About the Authors
A. A. Eroshenko
Belarusian Scientific Research and Design Institute of Oil BelNIPIneft Republican Unitary Enterprise Production Association “Belorusneft”
Belarus
Belarus
Anna A. Eroshenko – Head of the Centre of core treatment, analyses and holding
Gomel
I. V. Lymar
Belarusian Scientific Research and Design Institute of Oil BelNIPIneft Republican Unitary Enterprise Production Association “Belorusneft”
Belarus
Belarus
Igor V. Lymar – Cand. Sci. (Technical Sciences), Head of the Laboratory Research of Core
Gomel
E. N. Khodkov
Belarusian Scientific Research and Design Institute of Oil BelNIPIneft Republican Unitary Enterprise Production Association “Belorusneft”
Belarus
Belarus
Eugeny N. Khodkov – Lead Engineer of the Laboratory Research of Core
Gomel
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Eroshenko A.A., Lymar I.V., Khodkov E.N. Experience of Applying Digital Core Technologies to Study Reservoir Rocks of the Pripyat Trough. Georesursy = Georesources. 2026;28(2):119-132. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18599/grs.2026.2.12
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