Vve examine seismic waves scattered from anisotropic heterogeneity with laboratory data and numerical modeling in order to develop modeling techniques for the characterization of fracture p'roperties in tight gas sands from surface seismic reflection data. Laboratory models representing features of a fractured reservoir were constructed using Phenolite (the "reservoir") embedded in a Lucite bac...

Numerical Simulation of Three-Phase Flow in Deforming Fractured Reservoirs — The mathematical formulation of a three-phase, three-dimensional fluid flow and rock deformation in fractured reservoirs is presented in this paper. The present formulation accounts for the significant influence of coupling between the fluid flow and solid deformation, an aspect usually ignored in the reservoir simulat...

The spatial distribution of fractures in a reservoir affects the displacement of fluids and the prediction of future performance. Realistic characterization of fractured reservoirs requires quantification and classification of fracture patterns on the basis of the underlying geological characteristics and developing reservoir modeling algorithms that can integrate connectivity based (multiple p...

Numerically inverting simultaneous pressureinterference measurements from multiple observation wells can help to establish the large-scale spatial distributions of permeability and storage within a geothermal reservoir. For realistic results, it is important to incorporate double-porosity (MINC) descriptions into the modeling process to properly reproduce the short-term pressure-transient respo...

This study presents a general solution for the radial flow of tracers in naturally fractured reservoirs. Continuous and finite step injection of chemical and radioactive tracers are considered. The reservoir is treated as being composed of two regions: a mobile region where longitudinal dispersion and convection take place and a stagnant region where only diffusion and adsorption are a1 1 owed....