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 critical to reservoir performance assessment
• Fractures sensitivity and response to in-situ stresses, drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and production activities
• Design and analysis of pressure transient tests
• Reservoir performance evaluation
• The most appropriate fluid-flow numerical simulation modelling
• Application of coupled geomechanics/fluid-flow behaviour
• The impact of natural fractures on hydraulic fracture stimulation
• Leveraging machine learning and data analytics for natural fracture reservoir
• Practical insights on Digital Twin technology and Smart Microsensors implementation in NFR management
• Hydraulic fracturing and natural fracture interactions in unconventional reservoirs
• Fractured reservoirs and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
• Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) considerations in fractured reservoirs
• Best industry practices, regulatory insights, and sustainability considerations in fractured reservoir management

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
• Fracture types, faults, seals and kinematics
• Stress and strain and fracture mechanics
• Interaction of natural fractures with in-situ stresses and operational impacts
• NFRs and fracture flow
• Building conceptual models for NFR
• Conceptual and digital modelling of NFR; discrete, continuous and geomechanical approaches
• Impact of fractures on flow behaviour; reservoir permeability, anisotropy, drainage area and water-flood sweep efficiency
• Digital Twin and machine learning for fracture modelling and reservoir optimisation
• Hydraulic fracturing strategies and the interaction with natural fractures
• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in NFR
• Geomechanical integrated approach
• 1D and 3D MEM (Mechanical Earth Model)
• Implications and case studies