Hydrocarbon production from unconventional resources and the use of reservoir stimulation techniques, such as hydraulic fracturing, has grown explosively over the last decade. However, concerns have arisen that reservoir stimulation creates significant environmental threats through the creation of permeable pathways connecting the stimulated reservoir with shallower freshwater aquifers, thus re...

Permeability and capillary pressures are important petrophysical properties. Permeability is one of the most important parameters for reservoir management and development. Capillary pressure data have been widely used in evaluating reservoir rock, sealing capacity, transition zone thickness, pay versus non pay, and absolute and relative permeability. We are working in this study modification tw...

Determination of porosity, permeability, and pore volume compressibility of reservoir rocks and those variations with effective stress changes are of great interest in petroleum engineering. This paper has studied the influence of pore types of carbonate reservoir rocks on pore volume compressibility as well as Klinkenberg permeability and porosity at different stress values. In the current stu...

In this research attempts were made to estimate the in-situ stresses acting on a hydrocarbon reservoir based on routine activities of acid injection in oil reservoir. It was found that the relation between the re-opening pressure of fracture and principal in-situ stresses can be estimated using rock mechanics equations for the circular underground cavities. An appropriate relation between the m...

Well log data are routinely used for stratigraphic interpretation of the earth’s subsurface. This paper investigates using a co-evolutionary fuzzy system to generate a well log interpreter that can automatically process well log data and interpret reservoir permeability. The methodology consists of 3 steps: 1) transform well log data into fuzzy symbols which maintain the character of the origin...

productivity of an oil well is an important parameter in any oil field development. low production rate of the wells, impose more production wells drilling which directly jeopardizes the economical feasibility of the project. oil production rate in some of the wells is very low due to low permeability of the reservoir rock. several practice like hydraulic fracturing and acid fracturing is very ...

Tedious calculations and simulations are needed to obtain an efficient production scenario and/orproper field development strategy. Capacitance-resistance model (CRM) is proved to be a fastreservoir simulation tool using just the field-available data of production and injection rates. Thisapproach sets a time-constant and a weighting factor (or well-pair connectivity parameter...

Tracers provide an important means of interrogating the subsurface to provide critical information about hydraulic characteristics of the reservoir. In a geothermal reservoir, reactive tracers may add information about the thermal state of the reservoir. Tracer test analysis methods vary, but generally involve curve fitting to a simple model of the system or a moment analysis approach. The Idah...

Geostatistical modeling of reservoir properties is common in the assessment of expected reservoir flow. Typically, static properties such as porosity, saturation and permeability are modeled with geostatistical techniques to quantify the level of uncertainty in reservoir characterization. Lately, practitioners have become concerned that purely statistical techniques do not sufficiently integrat...

History matching is the process of updating a petroleum reservoir model using production data. It is a required step before a reservoir model is accepted for forecasting production. The process is normally carried out by flow simulation, which is very time-consuming. As a result, only a small number of simulation runs are conducted and the history matching results are normally unsatisfactory. I...