Fractured Reservoir Modeling with application to Fractured Basement
This course provides a unique opportunity to learn all the aspects related to the understanding and modeling of fractured reservoirs.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Type
- Classroom
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About Training
This course provides a unique opportunity to learn all the aspects related to the understanding and modeling of fractured reservoirs. Participants will gain knowledge of how fractured reservoirs differ from conventional reservoirs, and how to approach their fractured reservoir projects in a systematic manner. The workshop covers all the aspects of modeling fractured reservoirs. Emphasis will be given to basement reservoirs and their characteristic.
Using actual data from Teapot Dome, (WY, USA), the geoscientist will be able to construct fracture models that integrate geology, geophysics and reservoir engineering. Emphasis will be given to the critical use of seismic attributes derived from inversion, volumetric curvature and spectral imaging. Using actual Teapot Dome field data from the Tensleep and Niobrara Shale formations, which features complex fractured formations, the workshop allows the geoscientist to identify fractures and to construct predictive 3D fracture models that can be used to identify productive zones, plan wells and to create fracture porosity and permeability models for reservoir simulation.
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of these reservoirs will be stressed. Participants will learn what controls the performance of fractured reservoirs and the type of data which are required to manage them.
This is the only course in the world where attendees use a real software to build fracture models that are validated with blind wells. No other fracturing modeling technology can do that and no other course offer this hands-on approach with these data sets, where students will leave the class with confidence that they can do it because they have already done it in this course on actual data.
Training Objectives
- UNDERSTAND all geological and seismic aspects related to modeling fractured reservoirs
- ANALYZE the characteristics of basement fractured reservoirs
- GENERATE actual reservoir models from a real case study data set
- INTEGRATE geology, geophysics, and reservoir engineering concepts in application to a sound reservoir model for complex fractured reservoirs and basement
- OVERCOME the challenges in modeling fractured reservoirs through the use of post-stack narrow azimuth seismic
- IDENTIFY fractures and model their density and orientation
- RECOGNIZE productive zones , plan wells, and create fracture porosity and permeability models for reservoir simulation
Audiences
The course is designed for those who deal with fractured reservoirs and those who need to develop them using all types of available data. The course will be very useful to all geoscientists involved in clastics, carbonates, and shale plays where fractures play a major role, such as :
- Geophysicists
- Geologists & Geoscientists
- Reservoir Engineers
- Geomodellers
Instructor
Ahmed Ouenes
Ahmed is the founder and CEO of FracGeo, a technology company that specializes in improving the development of unconventional reservoirs. He has occupied different positions in consulting, academia, R&D, software development, and operating oil and gas fields. Ahmed’s main interest is the development of improved reservoir characterization technologies. He has been focusing lately on new ways to integrate geomechanics with geology and geophysics to predict microseismic events as well as permeability and proppant distribution in the SRV regions for unconventional reservoirs. In the past, Ahmed was a Global Director at SIGMA CUBED and also the founder and president of Prism Seismic, a software and consulting company sold in 2011 to the Symphony Technology Group that formed the SIGMA CUBED group. Previously he was Chief Reservoir Engineer at (RC)2 where he developed the first commercial software for the Continuous Fracture Modeling (CFM) technology. Ahmed was also Executive Vice President of an independent oil and gas producer. Ahmed has successfully characterized and simulated more than 100 fractured reservoirs around the world.
Ahmed graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris and holds a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech. He is the author of more than 70 papers on various complex reservoir studies and new reservoir modeling techniques that covers a wide range of specialties including wettability, geostatistics, upscaling, reservoir simulation and history matching, artificial intelligence, advanced geophysics, fracture modeling, geomechanics and software development. He teaches fracture modeling courses for AAPG, CSEG and other professional organizations.
Daily Aims
I. Fractures and Their Effects
- Introduction: Fracture Types
- Fractures in Cores
- Fractures in Outcrops
- Geomechanics and Fractures
- Production from Fractured Reservoirs
II. Modeling Fractured Reservoirs
- Introduction: Fracture Types
- Fractures in Cores
- Fractures in Outcrops
- Geomechanics and Fractures
- Production from Fractured Reservoirs
- Fractures in Basement Reservoirs
III. Seismic Attributes for Fracture Modeling
- Post-stack Attributes
- Pre-stack Seismic Attributes
- Azimuthal Anisotropy
- Seismic Attributes in Fractured Basement
IV. Integrated Workflow for Modeling Fractured Reservoirs
- Integrated Workflow Applied to Fractured Reservoirs
- Hands-on Application : 2 Different Dataset from the Teapot Dome (WY)
- Fractured Basement Case Studies
V. Development and Production Preparation
- Predicting and Imaging Production Spots
- Determining Optimum Well Paths
- Preparation for Simulation
- Predicting Production and Development Problems by Reservoir Types
- Critical Consideration in Designing Depletion Scenarios in Fractured Reservoirs
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