FRACTURE NETWORK CHARACTERIZATION METHOD

Patent №

US 8,301,427

Granted

2012-10-30

Filed 2009

Owner

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12479086

A method of representing and using fractures in a model of a subterranean reservoir is described including the partitioning the fracture network into a discretely modeled part and a remaining statistically described part from a statistical description of all fractures, the determination of the correlation effects caused by fractures with dimensions exceeding dimension of the local grid cells and the determination of petrophysical properties while allowing for arbitrary distribution of fracture orientations, with all three aspects being combinable to improve the modeling of fractures and the simulation of fractured reservoirs.

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Ownership

SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

assignment · 229520040

Assignors

SOUCHE, LAURENT ARNAUD, KHERROUBI, JOSSELIN, ROTSCHI, MATTHIEU JEAN

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