Petrel Fracture Modeling

Visualize and analyze fractured reservoirs

Modeling flow in fractured reservoirs is a challenging task that requires a solution that unifies the static and dynamic reservoir modeling disciplines. Petrel software provides the optimal environment to visualize, analyze, and integrate the various data types that may be direct or indirect indicators of the presence of fractures, which will then be carried on as input parameters for their stochastic distribution.

Advanced technology for better workflows

In Petrel 2010, the fracture networks can be modeled by a smart combination of discrete and implicit fractures, a revolutionary method that eliminates the usual problems related to memory handling because of the high number of fracture planes generated by a typical discrete representation. Expanded from the original technology from Golder Associates—a leader in fracture modeling—the fracture property upscaling workflow generates the final fracture parameters necessary for the reservoir fluid-flow characterization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and easy-to-use tool to model fracture networks.
• Works directly in Petrel software and uses all available tools (i.e., train estimation and model, process manager, property calculators, modeling processes, etc.).
• Integrated support with ECLIPSE triple-porosity models makes it even simpler to simulate naturally fractured reservoirs.