| Title: |
Modelling of Conductive Faults with a Multiscale Approach |
| Authors: |
Henn, N.; Quintard, Michel; Bourbiaux, B.; Sakthikumar, S. |
| Contributors: |
Gaz De France; Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT); Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse); IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN); Total Exploration Production; TotalFinaElf ( Total Fina ELF ) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 1294-4475. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) |
| Publication Year: |
2004 |
| Collection: |
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier: HAL-UPS |
| Subject Terms: |
[PHYS]Physics [physics] |
| Description: |
International audience ; Some of the most productive oil and gas reservoirs are found in formations crossed by multiscale fractures/faults. Among them, conductive faults may closely control reservoir performance. However, their modelling encounters numerical and physical difficulties linked with: - the necessity to keep an explicit representation of faults through small-size gridblocks; - the modelling of multiphase flow exchanges between the fault and the neighbouring medium. In the present work, a physically representative and numerically efficient modelling approach is proposed to incorporate subvertical conductive faults in single- and dual-porosity simulators. To validate our approach and demonstrate its efficiency, simulation results of multiphase displacements in representative field sector models are presented. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.2516/ogst:2004015 |
| Availability: |
https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02017296; https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02017296v1/document; https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02017296v1/file/Henn_vol59n2.pdf; https://doi.org/10.2516/ogst:2004015 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.64C039C7 |
| Database: |
BASE |