Using surface drilling data for a geologically and geomechanically constrained 3D planar frac simulator and fast reservoir simulation — application to engineered completions and well interference prevention

A. Ouenes; D. Elmadhun; S. Soza; X. Li; R. Smaoui

doi:10.3997/1365-2397.n0105

ISSN: 0263-5046
E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Using surface drilling data for a geologically and geomechanically constrained 3D planar frac simulator and fast reservoir simulation — application to engineered completions and well interference prevention
Authors A. Ouenes^1,2, D. Elmadhun¹, S. Soza¹, X. Li¹, R. Smaoui¹
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Affiliations: ¹ FracGeo ² GO GeoEngineering
Source: First Break, Volume 36, Issue 7, Jul 2018, p. 51 - 56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.n0105
- Published online: 01 Jul 2018

Abstract

Modelling unconventional reservoirs requires increasingly complex physics to describe the phenomena that affect the performance and efficiency of horizontal wells. For example, poroelastic geomechanical simulation (Ouenes et al., 2017b) is needed to model frac hits and well interferences resulting from the presence of stress and pressure dependent natural fractures and other geologic factors that see their permeability increase during stimulation. Recent field observations related to stress relaxation required the introduction of viscoelasticity (Peterson et al., 2018) to better understand the effect of timing during fracing. Lastly, the importance of interfaces and their impact on fracture height growth required the introduction of 3D damage mechanics (Aimene et al., 2018) to model the propagation of hydraulic fractures in a more realistic rock volume that considers the layering of the various lithologies and the resulting weak interfaces that will in turn interact with hydraulic fractures. This increasing complexity in physics is also combined with the need to provide solutions very quickly, if not in real time

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