This document outlines the steps to create a discrete fracture network model from geological data and simulate fluid flow within it. The steps include: 1) modeling fracture intensity properties, 2) stochastically generating fractures based on the intensity model, 3) assigning fracture attributes, 4) upscaling the fracture network to equivalent properties on the simulation grid, 5) setting up a dual porosity simulation using the upscaled properties and matrix properties. The goal is to simulate fluid flow within the fractured reservoir to better understand and predict fluid behavior.
This document outlines the steps to create a discrete fracture network model from geological data and simulate fluid flow within it. The steps include: 1) modeling fracture intensity properties, 2) stochastically generating fractures based on the intensity model, 3) assigning fracture attributes, 4) upscaling the fracture network to equivalent properties on the simulation grid, 5) setting up a dual porosity simulation using the upscaled properties and matrix properties. The goal is to simulate fluid flow within the fractured reservoir to better understand and predict fluid behavior.
This document outlines the steps to create a discrete fracture network model from geological data and simulate fluid flow within it. The steps include: 1) modeling fracture intensity properties, 2) stochastically generating fractures based on the intensity model, 3) assigning fracture attributes, 4) upscaling the fracture network to equivalent properties on the simulation grid, 5) setting up a dual porosity simulation using the upscaled properties and matrix properties. The goal is to simulate fluid flow within the fractured reservoir to better understand and predict fluid behavior.
/ Jurnal Teknologi (Sciences & Engineering) 75: 11 (2015) 25–32
• Create fracture driver properties; can be used
as secondary properties in co-kriging of the intensity model (Figure 7)
Figure 7 An example of the modeling fracture network
properties Figure 9 An example of upscaling DFN to properties 2.4 Step 4: Create Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) 2.6 Step 6: Simulation 1. Stochastic generation by sets using intensity property as input 1. Set up a simulation run 2. Deterministic generation of fractures using 2. Use matrix properties (standard properties) fault patches from ant-tracking, fault and fracture properties (from upscaling surfaces, points or polygons process) in dual porosity simulation (Figure 10) 3. Generate fracture attributes (aperture and permeability) (Figure 8)
Figure 8 An example of the created discrete fracture network
(DFN)
2.5 Step 5: Upscale DFN to Properties Figure 10 An example of setting up the simulation run
1. Upscale fracture network properties (use
statistical or flow based method) 2. The upscaling should be done onto a 3.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSION simulation grid (with less cells than the geo grid) 3.1 Available Dataset 3. This will create property outputs that can be used in a simulation run (Figure 9) • UGC map of Asmari formation • Image logs of 12 wells (Figure 11) • Fullset logs of 9 wells (Figure 12) • Well tops of Asmari and Pabdeh formations • Zonation data of 12 wells