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Simple Fractured Reservoir Screening Tool. If you answer. “Yes”. to any of these questions,. you may have a Fractured Reservoir. •. Do well test or whole core permeabilities exceed typical porosity-. permeability relationship by an order of magnitude?. •.
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Simple Fractured Reservoir Screening Tool If you answer “Yes” to any of these questions, you may have a Fractured Reservoir • Do well test or whole core permeabilities exceed typical porosity- permeability relationship by an order of magnitude? • Do some wells in the field experience water influx much earlier than others? • Are well rates extremely variable across the field? • Do injected fluids show up earlier or in different wells than expected? • Are flow rates after casing and perforating substantially lower than open hole tests? • Do your drilling wells experience unexpected high mud losses or unintended variable drilling rates? • Do your wells experience rapid decline in rates? Simple Screening Tool
Cores Borehole Image Logs 2-D Seismic Core Analysis (Plug, Whole Core/3-D Whole Core) Structural/Fracture Modeling Single & Multiple Well Tests Tracer Tests 3-D Seismic History Matching Reservoir Simulations Directional Permeability Data Water Breakthrough 4-D Seismic Drainage Area Calculations (Access, Production, Harvest) Data Types Useful in Fractured Reservoir Analyses
Procedures When “Discovered” During1) Exploration/Access • Obtain cores and/or image logs in all early wells • Predict natural fracture distributions • Select optimum well locations and well paths • Determine and map in situ stress from breakouts, etc.. • Determine fractured reservoir type • Evaluate reserves, variability, and risk
Procedures When “Discovered” During2) Primary Recovery/Production • Plan static data collection wells • Perform multiple well tests • Model fracture system and in situ stress and correlate with dynamic data • Determine directional permeability vectors • Correlate fracture directions, in situ stress, and directional permeability • Refine reservoir simulations using fractures
Procedures When “Discovered” During3) Secondary Recovery/Harvest • Re-evaluate flood patterns • Evaluate water production in terms of fractures • Model in situ stress across the field • Infer characteristics of the fracture system from dynamic data • Re-evaluate reservoir simulations to include fracture anisotropy • Revise predicted recovery factor (down)