Comparison of deterministic with stochastic fracture models in water-flooding numerical simulations

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1633-1648

  Belayneh, Mandefro W ^a   Matthai, Stephan K ^b   Blunt, Martin J ^a   Rogers, Stephen F ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c Colder Associates Ltd ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOODS; FRACTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NETWORK CODING; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROPHYSICS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT - FINITE VOLUME METHODS; CONSTANT PRESSURE GRADIENT; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STOCHASTIC FRACTURE MODELS; STOCHASTIC REALIZATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BOREHOLE; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FRACTURE ORIENTATION; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL PRODUCTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR FLOODING; ROCK MECHANICS; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

EID: 73449124790     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/07220909031     Document Type: Article

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