Over the past couple decades, the understanding of petrophysical parameters in bioturbated hydrocarbon reservoirs and aquifers has expanded greatly. Specifically, insights into how bioturbation impacts the distributions of porosity and permeability has occurred through both direct measurements (spot-permeameter, high-resolution imaging) and computer modelling of features such as bioturbation intensity and burrow architecture. Within this review paper, a detailed overview of the concepts associated with the application of ichnology to reservoir fluid flow from both a historical and modern perspective are completed. Following this, the nature of biogenic permeability and porosity is discussed and we inspect the ways in which burrows might influence those parameters. Focus is ultimately then applied to summarizing the most common methods used to quantify bioturbation within rock samples. The overview is then underpinned by a number of different case studies which highlight the variations of biogenic permeability encountered within a wide-ranging classification system, and we summarize those at the end.

在过去的几十年里，对生物扰动油气藏和含水层的岩石物理参数的认识有了很大的扩展。具体来说，通过直接测量（点渗透仪、高分辨率成像）和生物扰动强度和洞穴结构等特征的计算机建模，对生物扰动如何影响孔隙度和渗透率分布的深入了解。在这篇评论文章中，详细概述了与应用程序相关的概念完成了从历史和现代角度对储层流体流动的技术研究。在此之后，讨论了生物成因渗透率和孔隙度的性质，并检查了洞穴可能影响这些参数的方式。重点最终应用于总结用于量化岩石样本中生物扰动的最常用方法。然后，该概述以许多不同的案例研究为基础，这些案例研究强调了在广泛的分类系统中遇到的生物成因渗透性的变化，我们在最后总结了这些。