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The saturation in water or hydrocarbon is an important petrophysical parameter used for the evaluation of oil and gas reservoirs. It represents the amount of hydrocarbons in a reservoir. There are many relations to determine the water saturation from well logs by using the physical properties of rocks. The accurate determination of the hydrocarbon formation or the water saturation is given by the accuracy of the parameters used for calculating and by the relations used.
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Malureanu, I., Boaca, T. & Neagu, DD. New Relations of Water Saturation’s Calculus from Well Logs. Acta Geophys. 64, 1542–1562 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1515/acgeo-2016-0063
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