Advances in the Study of Fractured Reservoirs
Print publication date: 25/08/2014
Earth Resources and Economic Geology, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393554
Weight: 1.15kg
Number of pages: 425
£125.00
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Product Code: SP374
Edited by G.H. Spence, J. Redfern, R. Aguilera, T.G. Bevan, J.W. Cosgrove, G.D. Couples and J.M. Daniel
Special Publication 374
Naturally fractured reservoirs constitute a substantial percentage of remaining hydrocarbon resources; they create exploration targets in otherwise impermeable rocks, including under-explored crystalline basement; and they can be used as geological stores for anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Their complex behaviour during production has traditionally proved difficult to predict, causing a large degree of uncertainty in reservoir development. The applied study of naturally fractured reservoirs seeks to constrain this uncertainty by developing new understanding, and is necessarily a broad, integrated, interdisciplinary topic. This book addresses some of the challenges and advances in knowledge, approaches, concepts, and methods used to characterize the interplay of rock matrix and fracture networks, relevant to fluid flow and hydrocarbon recovery. Topics include: describing, characterizing and identifying controls on fracture networks from outcrops, cores, geophysical data, digital and numerical models; geomechanical influences on reservoir behaviour; numerical modelling and simulation of fluid flow; and case studies of the exploration and development of carbonate, siliciclastic and metamorphic naturally fractured reservoirs.
Published online 23/07/2014. Print copy available from 26/08/2014. http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/374/1
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Spence, G. H., Couples, G. D., Bevan, T. G., Aguilera, R., Cosgrove, J. W., Daniel, J.-M. & Redfern, J. Advances in the study of naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs: a broad integrated interdisciplinary applied topic
Investigating fracture networks using outcrop, core and geophysical data
Sonntag, R., Evans, J. P., La Pointe, P., Deraps, M., Sisley, H. & Richey, D. Sedimentological controls on the fracture distribution and network development in Mesaverde Group sandstone lithofacies, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA
Seers, T. D. & Hodgetts, D. Comparison of digital outcrop and conventional data collection approaches for the characterization of naturally fractured reservoir analogues
Rotevatn, A. & Bastesen, E. Fault linkage and damage zone architecture in tight carbonate rocks in the Suez Rift (Egypt): implications for permeability structure along segmented normal faults
Sagi, D. A., Arnhild, M. & Karlo, J. F. Quantifying fracture density and connectivity of fractured chalk reservoirs from core samples: implications for fluid flow
Hencher, S. R. Characterizing discontinuities in naturally fractured outcrop analogues and rock core: the need to consider fracture development over geological time
Numerical and statistical simulations and models
Geiger, S. & Matthäi, S. What can we learn from high-resolution numerical simulations of single- and multi-phase fluid flow in fractured outcrop analogues?
Couples, G. D. Geomechanical impacts on flow in fractured reservoirs
Heffer, K. J. Geomechanical mechanisms involving faults and fractures for observed correlations between fluctuations in flowrates at wells in North Sea oilfields
Zhou, X., Karimi-Fard, M., Durlofsky, L. J. & Aydin, A. Fluid flow through porous sandstone with overprinting and intersecting geological structures of various types
Spence, G. H. & Finch, E. Influences of nodular chert rhythmites on natural fracture networks in carbonates: an outcrop and two-dimensional discrete element modelling study
Gudmundsson, A. & Løtveit, I. F. Sills as fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs: examples and models
Delorme, M., Oliveira Mota, R., Khvoenkova, N., Fourno, A. & Noetinger, B. A methodology to characterize fractured reservoirs constrained by statistical geological analysis and production: a real field case study
Case studies
Murray, A. & Montgomery, D. W. Characterization of highly fractured basement, Say’un Masila Basin, Yemen
Slightam, C. Characterizing seismic-scale faults pre- and post-drilling; Lewisian Basement, West of Shetlands, UK
Bosworth, W., Khalil, S., Clare, A., Comisky, J., Abdelal, H., Reed, T. & Kokkoros, G. Integration of outcrop and subsurface data during the development of a naturally fractured Eocene carbonate reservoir at the East Ras Budran concession, Gulf of Suez, Egypt
Ward, M. V., Pearse, C., Jehanno, Y., O’Hanlon, M., Zett, A. & Houliston, D. The Machar Oil Field, UK Central North Sea: impact of seismic reprocessing on the development of a complex fractured chalk field
Saoudi, A., Moustafa, A. R., Farag, R. I., Omara, M. M., Wally, H., Fouad, A., Tag, A. & Ragab, R. Z. Dual-porosity fractured Miocene syn-rift dolomite reservoir in the Issaran Field (Gulf of Suez, Egypt): a case history of the zonal isolation of highly fractured water carrier bed
Ogata, K., Senger, K., Braathen, A., Tveranger, J. & Olaussen, S. The importance of natural fractures in a tight reservoir for potential CO2 storage: a case study of the upper Triassic–middle Jurassic Kapp Toscana Group (Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway)
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