Abstract
Tight oil and gas reservoirs have attracted an increasing amount of
attentions and have become one of the focus of research field in recent
years. Tight sandstones have complex pore structures and narrow pores
and throats with pore sizes varying from nanometers to micrometers, and
studying flow mechanisms in tight sandstones is of great importance to
tight oil/gas reservoir development. Reconstructing digital rock, which
can comprehensively represent the petrophysical properties of tight
sandstone, is key to simulating the fluid flow in micro/nanopores. This
paper proposes a new method of reconstructing 3D digital rock from CT
images of tight sandstones based on a deep convolutional generative
adversative network (DCGAN), and 3D convolution in the generator and
discriminator are adopted to realize reconstruction from 1D data to a 3D
digital rock model. The model adopts pore area, volume, spatial
distribution and connectivity, Fréchet inception distance score to
evaluate the proposed model. Studies show that when the training effect
is slightly poor, the generated digital rock model will exhibit noise,
which can be reduced by postprocessing; when the training effect is
good, DCGAN can accurately reconstruct the 3D digital rock model of
tight sandstones, and the reconstructed digital rock is very consistent
with the pore size, geometric structure, and connectivity of natural
tight sandstones. When multiple 3D tight sandstone CT images are used
for training, the DCGAN can learn the pore structure characteristics of
entire tight sandstone bodies, which have strong heterogeneous, and the
porosity distribution obtained from the generated digital rock is
similar to that of the original tight sandstone.