Upscaling fracture networks for simulation of horizontal wells using a dual-porosity reservoir simulator

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 513-520

  Ding, Yu ^a   Basquet, Rémy ^a,b   Bourbiaux, Bernard ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY;

DISCRETE-FRACTURE-NETWORK (DFN) SIMULATION; DUAL-POROSITY RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FRACTURE NETWORK; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SIMULATION; UPSCALING;

EID: 33751088522     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/92774-pa     Document Type: Article

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