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First Announcement and call for papers
EAGE Workshop on Naturally & Hydraulically Induced
Fractured Reservoirs
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Technical Committee
Constantine Tsingas, Chairman (Saudi Aramco)
Iain Bush, Co-Chairman (Schlumberger)
Erika Angerer (OMV)
Mark Chapman (University of Edinburgh)
John Cole (Saudi Aramco)
Thomas Finkbeiner (GeoMechanics Inc)
Jim Gaiser (Geokinetics Inc)
Sebastian Geiger (Heriot Watt University)
Olivier Gosselin (Total)
Enru Liu (ExxonMobil)
Glyn Williams (BP)
www.eage.org
About the Workshop
A substantial amount of oil and gas reserves are
trapped in fractured reservoirs. It is estimated
that production from fractured “unconventional”
hydrocarbon reservoirs will grow to 20 MMBO per
day by 2030 and contribute 17% of the world's
daily oil production, with equal or even larger
contribution foreseen for gas. These unconventional
systems, such as tight gas reservoirs and shale-gas
plays, are becoming increasingly economical due
to the advent of new technological breakthroughs
in both Geosciences and Engineering. Estimation
of reserves and production performance in these
systems present difficult technical challenges but are
fundamental to assessing their viability.
Increased hydrocarbon recovery from fractured
conventional reservoirs calls for innovative and costeffective technologies and work flows. In particular,
fractured carbonate reservoirs, which contain as
much as half the world’s hydrocarbons, are highly
heterogeneous and extremely challenging to predict
reservoir performance.
Even in conventional reservoirs, characterization
is performed using mostly qualitative analyses
whereas production and reserves predictions
require quantitative modeling and simulation.
Current reservoir simulation practices mostly ignore
the geomechanical effects caused by variation in
pore pressure during production: these introduce
a 4D component to reservoir performance that is
poorly addressed at present. Bridging these gaps is
challenging and there are many areas that are poorly
understood or can only be represented with high
uncertainty. Ultimately, all the necessary information
is integrated in a geocellular reservoir model, scaled
up, and then simulated to quantify the impact of
fractures and predict reservoir performance.
Aims of the workshop
This workshop will focus on the key issues and
challenges in two main technical domains: static
and dynamic, i.e.
1) the detection, characterization, and modeling of
fractures and fractured reservoirs, and
2) t he understanding of the relationship between
reservoir matrix and fractures in terms of fluid flow
and hydrocarbon recovery, and the simulation of
these systems for performance prediction.
Who Should Attend?
EAGE invites experts from oil companies, service
companies and academia to interact and debate
on the technical issues addressing challenges on
production performance of both conventional and
unconventional fractured reservoirs. We encourage
participation from:
• Reservoir Engineers
• Geologists
• Geoscientists
Submission Guidelines & Topics
The technical committee invites papers of minimum
1 page and maximum 4 pages in length to be
submitted via the EAGE website under the following
topics, which are related to both current and
emerging technologies addressing fracture
characterization, detection, modelling, simulation
and integrated studies.
• Structural Geology
• Multi-Scale Fractured Reservoir Characterization
•Geomechanics and Geomechanical Modeling/
Simulation
• Seismic (incl. multicomponent, microseismic, etc)
• Geocellular Modeling
• Upscaling and Reservoir Simulation
• Well testing and Stimulation
• Monitoring of Fractured Reservoirs
• Integrated Case Studies
• Reserves Assessment
Call for Papers Deadline
The Call for Papers deadline is Friday 12 November
2010. Late submissions will not be considered.
Contact
For more details contact [email protected].
EAGE Workshop on Naturally & Hydraulically Induced Fractured Reservoirs
Background image courtesy of Philippe Montaggioni, depicting fracture outcrops in Tassili N'Ajjer N'Ajjer, Algeria