Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geoscientist or engineer interested in a multi-disciplinary approach with basic geological and reservoir engineering experience

How we build your confidence

• Theoretical concepts illustrated during individual sessions are accompanied by working on practical problems to ensure a thorough understanding of the principles and procedures
• Hands-on experience by solving classical structural geology tasks

The benefits from attending

• Recognition, characterisation and prediction of subsurface natural fracture occurrence with their attributes from cores, well logs, seismic and drilling data
• Fractured rock properties affecting reservoir performance
• Fractures sensitivity to in-situ stresses
• Design and analysis of pressure transient tests
• Reservoir performance evaluation
• The most appropriate fluid-flow numerical simulation modelling
• Application of coupled geomechanics/fluid-flow behavior
• The impact of natural fractures on hydraulic fracture stimulation

Topics

• Introduction: fractures and NFR terminology and attributes
• Workflow for characterisation using both static and dynamic data
• Recognition and characterisation of fractures from well logs, cores to seismic and drilling data
• Fractures types, faults, seals and kinematics
• Stress and strain and fracture mechanics
• Fracture interrelationship with in-situ stresses
• NFRs and fracture flow
• Building conceptual models for NFR
• Appropriate NFR modelling; discrete, continuous and geomechanical models
• Impact of fractures on flow behavior; reservoir permeability, anisotropy, drainage area and water-flood sweep efficiency
• Geomechanical integrated approach
• 1D and 3D MEM (Mechanical Earth Model)
• Implications and case studies