Abstract
A rigorous fully implicit numerical reservoir simulator has been developed to model single phase fluid flow in deformable naturally fractured or carbonate reservoirs. The present formulation represents a great improvement over existing simulators for fractured reservoirs in that many of the limiting assumptions have been removed. The interactions of rock stress, matrix pore pressure, and fracture pressure; bulk rock volumetric expansion effects; unsteady matrix-fracture flow; vug-matrix and vug-fracture flow; and the matrix and fracture anisotropic flow have been rigorously modelled. A field example is used to demonstrate how a detailed geometrical description of the fractured blocks may be obtained by matching the simulated pressure transient behavior of the well test data.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE |
| Publisher | Soc of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, USA SPE 13528 |
| Pages | 307-330 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings - Eighth SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation. - Dallas, TX, United States Duration: 1 Jan 1985 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings - Eighth SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation. |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Dallas, TX |
| Period | 1/01/85 → … |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering