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AAPG Bulletin, V.
2009. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
DOI:10.1306/08040909050
Assisted history matching for the characterization of fractured reservoirs
Arnaud G. Lange1
1Institut Francais du Petrole, Reservoir Engineering Division, 14 Avenue de Bois Preau, Rueil-Malmaison 92852, France; [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Methodologies and numerical tools are available (1) to construct geologically realistic models of
fracture
networks and (2) to turn these models into simplified conceptual models usable for field-scale simulations of multiphase production methods. A critical step remains however, that of characterizing the flow properties of the geological
fracture
network. The multiscale nature of
fracture
networks and the associated modeling cost impose a scale-dependent characterization: (1) multiscale fractures that may be characterized in local dynamic test areas, e.g., drainage areas involved in well tests, through the calibration of geologically realistic discrete
fracture
network (DFN) models and accurate local flow-test simulations; and (2) large-scale faults that are characterized through reservoir-scale production history simulations that involve upscaled flow models with an explicit fault representation. However, field data are commonly insufficient to fully characterize the multiscale
fracture
properties. Therefore, efficient inversion methodologies are necessary to sample wide ranges of property values and to characterize a variety of solutions, i.e.,
fracture
models that are consistent with dynamic data. This article presents an inversion methodology to facilitate the characterization of
fracture
properties from well-test data. A genetic optimization algorithm has been developed and coupled with a three-dimensional DFN flow simulator to perform the simultaneous calibration of well-test data. As a first step, the calibration data result from interpreted well tests, i.e., data are equivalent transmissivities. Applications are presented on a geologically realistic fractured reservoir model having three facies, two
fracture
sets, and three wells. The characterized
fracture
properties are mean length, mean conductivity, orientation dispersion factors, and facies-dependent properties such as
fracture
density. The effectiveness of this inversion methodology to characterize physically meaningful and data-consistent
fracture
properties is discussed.
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