Title
Fast Assessment of the Impact of Multi-Scale Geological Heterogeneities on Flow Behaviour in Complex Carbonate Reservoirs
Author
Li, Jiahong (Heriot-Watt University)
Geiger, S. (TU Delft Applied Geology) 
Gomes, Jorge Costa (Heriot-Watt University)
Petrovskyy, Dmytro (Heriot-Watt University)
Jacquemyn, Carl (Imperial College London)
Hampson, Gary (Imperial College London)
Jackson, Matthew (Imperial College London)
Silva, Julio Daniel Machado (University of Calgary)
Judice, Sicilia (University of Calgary)
Date
2022
Abstract
We discuss the application of the new open-source Rapid Reservoir Modelling software (RRM) to create a suite of 3D reservoir models of a complex carbonate formation where each model is increasingly more refined such that progressively more small-scale geological structures are preserved.
Using flow diagnostics we then calculate key metrics for the dynamic reservoir behaviour to quantify the similarities and dissimilarities of the flow behaviour across the different models. This analysis allows us to identify at which scale geological heterogeneities need to be resolved in the reservoir model to capture the essential flow behaviours.
The workflow presented in this study hence allows us to efficiently and effectively test different geological concepts and analyse how multi-scale geological heterogeneities that may need to be represented in a reservoir model impact the predicted dynamic response, so as to design more reliable and robust reservoir models for a broad range of geoenergy applications.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202210149
Publisher
European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Embargo date
2023-07-01
Source
Conference Proceedings, 83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition,, 2022
Event
83rd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, 2022-06-06 → 2022-06-09, Madrid, Spain
Series
Conference Proceedings, 2214-4609
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2022 Jiahong Li, S. Geiger, Jorge Costa Gomes, Dmytro Petrovskyy, Carl Jacquemyn, Gary Hampson, Matthew Jackson, Julio Daniel Machado Silva, Sicilia Judice, More Authors