Assisted History Matching for Unconventional Reservoirs

Optimize your unconventional reservoirs and automate production forecasting through assisted history matching

Sutthaporn Tripoppoom (Author), Wei Yu (Author), Kamy Sepehrnoori (Author), Jijun Miao (Author)

9780128222423, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 12 August 2021

288 pages, 300 illustrations (200 in full color)
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

As unconventional reservoir activity grows in demand, reservoir engineers relying on history matching are challenged with this time-consuming task in order to characterize hydraulic fracture and reservoir properties, which are expensive and difficult to obtain. Assisted History Matching for Unconventional Reservoirs delivers a critical tool for today’s engineers proposing an Assisted History Matching (AHM) workflow. The AHM workflow has benefits of quantifying uncertainty without bias or being trapped in any local minima and this reference helps the engineer integrate an efficient and non-intrusive model for fractures that work with any commercial simulator. Additional benefits include various applications of field case studies such as the Marcellus shale play and visuals on the advantages and disadvantages of alternative models. Rounding out with additional references for deeper learning, Assisted History Matching for Unconventional Reservoirs gives reservoir engineers a holistic view on how to model today’s fractures and unconventional reservoirs.

1. Introduction
2. Assisted History Matching Workflow
3. Shale Gas Well in Longmaxi with Bi-wing Hydraulic Fractures
4. Shale Gas Well in Marcellus with Bi-wing Hydraulic Fractures
5. Proxy Comparison between Neural Network and K-nearest Neighbors
6. Shale Gas Well with and without Enhanced Permeability Area (EPA)
7. Shale Gas Well with and without Natural Fractures
8. Shale Oil Well with and without Natural Fractures
9. Multi Shale Gas Wells with and without Natural Fractures
10. Shale Oil Well with Slanted Hydraulic Fractures
11. Shale Oil and Shale Gas with Varying Fractures Intensity around Wellbore

Subject Areas: Petroleum technology [THFP], Gas technology [THFG], Fossil fuel technologies [THF]