Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow: Contemporary Understanding and Applications. VGeST » Virtual Geoscience Simulation Tools. Institute of Petroleum Engineering - Heriot-Watt University: Research: Improved Simulation of Faulted and Fractured Reservoirs Consortium (itf-ISF) Improved Simulation of Faulted and Fractured Reservoirs Consortium (itf-ISF) Phase 3 launched on 29 April in Leoben This joint research project between Montan University of Leoben, Imperial College London, and Heriot-Watt University is designed to capitalise on the vast knowledge available at Europe’s premier petroleum engineering departments and has the overarching goal to improve the simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFR) in three fundamental ways: (1) Continuous improvement of the physical realism of the Discrete Fracture and Matrix (DFM) simulators developed in Phase 1 and 2 by modelling saturation discontinuities and transfer processes across material interfaces explicitly.
Areas of Expertise. The Application of Discrete Fracture Network Models to Fractured Reservoir Engineering: Analytical Approach, Data Sets and Early Results in Yates Field, West Texas. The Application of Discrete Fracture Network Models to Fractured Reservoir Engineering: Analytical Approach, Data Sets and Early Results in Yates Field, West Texas Project Web Page: Abstract Overview of Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Approaches The movement of hydrocarbons and other fluids in fractured reservoirs or in conventional reservoirs with significant fracture permeability often is not as expected or predicted.
This behavior is seen in early water breakthroughs; reduced tertiary recovery efficiency due to channeling of injected gas or fluids; dynamic calculations of recoverable hydrocarbons that are much less than static mass balance ones due to reservoir compartmentalization; and dramatic production changes due to changes in reservoir pressure as fractures close down as conduits.