Predicting multiscale fracture patterns in buried reservoirs: The importance of outcrop data in a coherent workflow

Title

Predicting multiscale fracture patterns in buried reservoirs: The importance of outcrop data in a coherent workflow

 Author

Bertotti, G.
Hardebol, N.J.
Bisdom, K.

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

 Department

Geoscience & Engineering

 Date

2013-12-08

 Abstract

Fracture data from outcropping analogs are often acquired but rarely used to improve permeability predictions in buried reservoirs. To improve this we present a systematic workflow which includes i) the building of a geometric model of the investigated structure, ii) the execution of mechanical simulations to determine state of stress and strain field, iii) the use of outcrop data to populate the model and iv) develop a reservoir-scale permeability model. To make full use of outcrop data, we present new acquisition and processing tools allowing able to provide a full characterization of the fracture field even when fractures are not bed-confined. A few case studies are presented to discuss this workflow in sedimentologically and structurally heterogeneous settings.

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 Publisher

EAGE

 Source

2nd EAGE Workshop on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Muscat, Oman, 8-11 December 2013

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Institutional Repository

 Document type

conference paper

 Rights

(c) 2013 The Author(s)
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