Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• An experienced reservoir engineer working on naturally fractured reservoirs, wishing to refine your expertise in modelling and simulating these complex reservoirs

How we build your confidence

• By using case studies, you will review the challenges encountered when producing hydrocarbons from naturally fractured reservoirs
• Modern reservoir modelling approaches for naturally fractured reservoirs will be discussed (not specific to certain software packages)
• You will learn how to quantify the fundamental processes that drive fluid flow in naturally fractured formations (incl. simple exercises)
• You will explore the concepts available in modern reservoir simulation packages and discuss their advantages and disadvantages when simulating primary, secondary and tertiary recovery processes from naturally fractured reservoirs
• You will understand why and how advanced history-matching workflows can help to provide better production forecasts for naturally fractured reservoirs

The benefits from attending

• State-of-the-art naturally fractured reservoir modelling
• Creating and upscaling fracture network models
• The physics of multiphase flow in naturally fractured formations
• Running dual-porosity and dual-permeability models
• Using assisted history matching techniques to forecast future production

Topics

• Introduction to naturally fractured reservoirs and their performance
• Fracture network modelling and upscaling
• Principles of fluid flow in fractured formations
• Reservoir simulation using dual-porosity and dual-permeability models
• EOR for naturally fractured reservoirs
• Assisted history matching for naturally fractured reservoirs