When building a model of a naturally fractured reservoir, it is not sufficient to produce a highly detailed static model, it is also necessary that such a model can be flow simulated so that the production response given by the flow simulator can be compared to production history of the field. The technique that we present here takes a highly detailed static model of fractures, and identifies t...

In mathematics, a metric space is a set where a distance (called a metric) is defined between elements of the set. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a metric space in the framework of reservoir modelling and reservoir uncertainty. The distance between two models is a single measure that can be easily understood by the reservoir team, and can be tailored to the application of interest. ...

In fractured reservoir development, azimuthal AVO (AVOaz) properties of reflected PP waves from reservoir tops are often used to infer fracture properties. The fracture parameter inversion is based on either an effective media model (EMM) or a discrete fracture model (DFM). We address the differences in fracture properties that may be inferred by AVOaz based on the two models. For the DFM we fo...

a r t i c l e i n f o The existence of vugs or cavities in naturally fractured reservoirs has long been observed. Even though these vugs are known for their large attribution to reserves of oil, natural gas, or groundwater, few quantitative investigations of fractured vuggy reservoirs have been conducted. In this paper, a multiple-continuum conceptual model is presented, based on geological dat...

Analyses of fracturing and thermal performance of fractured reservoirs in engineered geothermal system (EGS) are extended from a depth of 5 km to 10 km, and models for flow and heat transfer in EGS are improved. Effects of the geofluid flow direction choice, distance between fractures, fracture width, permeability, radius, and number of fractures, on reservoir heat drawdown time are computed. T...

Fractured reservoirs account for a majority of the oil production worldwide and often have low recovery rate. Fracture characterization is important in building reservoir flow models for enhanced oil recovery. Information about fracture orientation, fracture spacing, and fracture compliances is essential. When a fracture network consisting of multiple sets of fractures with variable fracture sp...

Abstract Natural fractures play an essential role in the characterization and modeling of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Modeling fractured reservoirs requires understanding fracture characteristics. Fractured zones can be detected by using seismic data, petrophysical logs, well tests, drilling mud loss history core description. In this study, feed-forward neural networks (FFNN), cascade feed forward ...

Generation of naturally fractured reservoir subsurface fracture maps and prediction its production potential are considered complex process due to insufficient data available such as bore hole images, core data and proper reservoir simulator model. To overcome such shortcomings, the industry has relied on geo-statistical analyses of hard and soft data, which are often referred to as static data...

Successful exploitation of tight sandstone gas is one the important means to ensure “increasing reserves and production” oil initiative also ways national energy security. To further improve accuracy historical matching field data such as production bottom-hole pressure during process this type reservoir, in study, a new expression wellbore for uniform flow vertical fractured wells Laplace spac...