Sensitivity of fluid flow to deformation-band damage zone heterogeneities: A study using fault facies and truncated gaussian simulation

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 60-79

  Fachri, Muhammad ^a,b   Tveranger, Jan ^a   Braathen, Alvar ^a,c   Schueller, Sylvie ^a,d  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (Uni CIPR)   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^d IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Flow simulation; Flow based upscaling; Geomodeling; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FLOW SIMULATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEFORMATION BAND; FLOW RETARDATION; GAUSSIAN SIMULATIONS; GEOMODELING; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMAGE; DEFORMATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892491011     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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