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Record W2001979721 · doi:10.2118/2009-064

A New Model for Reservoirs with Discrete Fracture System

2009· article· en· W2001979721 on OpenAlexaff
Fanhua Zeng, Gang Zhao

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian International Petroleum Conference · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Regina
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPetroleum engineeringGeologyFracture (geology)Computer scienceGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Abstract Dual-porosity and dual-permeability naturally fractured reservoir models assume that the fractures in the reservoir are connected with each other and distributed uniformly. However, in some cases, the reservoir characteristics exhibits discrete fracture systems, which means that the fractures might be unconnected and their distribution is not uniform. In this work, a new computational model is developed to compute the transient pressure behavior for reservoirs with discrete fracture system. This computational model is based on Laplace transform. The fluid flow in the fracture system and reservoir are computed separately and flux and pressure equivalent conditions in Laplace space are applied in the fracture wall to couple the fluid flow in both systems. The results suggest that the pressure response in a reservoir with a discrete fracture system has three flow regions: fluid flow nearby the wellbore, fracture-dominated fluid flow and fluid flow beyond the fracture. The fracture orientation (i.e. the distance between the fracture and the well), fracture parameters (fracture conductivity and non-Darcy effects) and fracture distribution are the main factors affecting the pressure response. In some particular situations the fracture-dominated fluid flow region in the pressure derivative curve may present two villages, which has been met in some field cases. The model provides with a tool for identifying the fracture pattern in a specific reservoir. Also, this model can be applied for optimization design of tight gas reservoir development. Introduction Classically, the fractured reservoir is modeled with Dual porosity model(1) or dual-permeability model. Those models assume that the fractures are connected with each other and distributed uniformly. The dual-porosity model also assumes that the fluid is produced from the fractures which are intersected with the well. However, in some cases, the reservoir characteristics exhibit discrete fracture system, which means that the fractures may be unconnected and their distribution is not uniform. Such kind of reservoir system was illustrated by Gao et al.(2), as shown in Figure 1. Gao et al.(2), also pointed out that the chance for a vertical well to intersect a discrete natural fracture is extremely small, since natural fractures in a reservoir tends to be vertical. Another type of discrete fracture system is artificial fracture system in tight gas reservoirs. To obtain economical production rate, most of wells in a tight gas reservoir are hydraulically fractured. Therefore, the whole reservoir looks like an artificial discrete fracture system. In this work, it is assumed that the discrete fracture system has the following characteristics,The fractures in the reservoir are discrete and not connected with each other;Each fracture can be described with its orientation, geometry and diffusivity;The well is not intersected with any fracture; and, 4. The fluid flow in fracture system obeys Forchheimer equation and the fluid flow in matrix system is Darcy flow. Zeng and Zhao(3) presented a model for non-Darcy flow in hydraulic fractures. For a reservoir with only one fracture existed, if the fracture is close enough to the well, then the system is similar to the system with a hydraulically fracture well.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.969
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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