Static Conceptual Fracture Modeling : Preparing for Simulation and Development.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Symbols and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Purpose and Scope -- Chapter 2 What Is a Static Conceptual Fracture Model and Why Do We Build It? -- Chapter 3 Fracture Model Creation Workflow -- Chapter 4 Gathering Natural Fracture Orientation and Intensity Data Directly -- 4.1 Outcrop Based Data -- 4.1.1 Requirements for Outcrop Selection -- 4.1.2 Data to Be Collected -- 4.1.3 What's Real and Not -- 4.2 Core Based Data -- 4.2.1 Types of Core -- 4.2.2 Data to Be Collected -- 4.2.3 What's Real and Not -- 4.2.4 Quantification -- Chapter 5 Gathering Natural Fracture Orientation and Intensity Data Indirectly -- 5.1 Bore Hole Image Log Based Data -- 5.1.1 Tool Types and Resolution -- 5.1.2 Data to Be Collected -- 5.1.3 Quantification -- 5.2 Remote Sensing‐based Data -- 5.2.1 Surface Based -- 5.2.2 Basement-Based Geophysical Methods (Potential Fields or Gravity and Magnetic Data) -- 5.3 3D Seismic Fracture Data Collection -- 5.3.1 Detailed Structural Geometry -- 5.3.2 Seismic Attributes -- 5.3.3 Passive Seismic and Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring -- Chapter 6 Analyzing the Natural Fracture Data Once Gathered -- 6.1 Correcting for the Difference Between Measurement Orientation and Fracture Set Intensity -- 6.2 Calibration -- 6.3 Determining Natural Fracture Origin from Fracture Distributions and Morphology -- 6.4 Mapping Natural-fracture Orientation and Intensity -- Chapter 7 Gathering and Analyzing Structural Data -- 7.1 Structural Surface Maps and Sections -- 7.2 Analysis of Structural Surfaces -- 7.2.1 Discontinuity Analysis -- 7.2.2 Lineation Analysis -- Chapter 8 Gathering Constraints on Fracture Aperture -- 8.1 Unstressed -- 8.2 Partially Stressed -- 8.3 Fully Stressed -- 8.4 How the Various Aperture Measures Go Together -- Chapter 9 Creation of Natural Fracture Scaling Laws.

Chapter 10 Gathering and Analyzing Mechanical Property Distribution Data -- 10.1 Rock Modulus and How It Effects Deformation and Fracturing -- 10.2 Rigidity Modulus Distributions -- 10.2.1 Vertical Distribution in Wells -- 10.2.2 Horizontal Distribution in Wells -- 10.2.3 Map Distributions by Unit and Sub‐units -- Chapter 11 Locating Fracture Corridors -- Chapter 12 Rock Anisotropy and its Importance in Determining Dominant-Fracture Orientation and Relative Intensity -- Chapter 13 Determine the In‐situ Stress Directions and Magnitudes and their Variation -- 13.1 SHmax Directions and Mapping -- 13.2 SHmax Directions with Depth -- Chapter 14 Production Calibration -- Chapter 15 Determining the Fractured Reservoir Classification and, Therefore, Which Simulation Style Is Most Appropriate -- Chapter 16 Use of Reservoir Analogs -- Chapter 17 The Importance of 3D Visualization in Data Integration and Static Fracture Model Creation -- Chapter 18 Thoughts on History Matching of Simulation Results -- Chapter 19 Preparing the Fracture Data for Input to the Gridded Model -- Chapter 20 Discussion of Error and Uncertainty in the Modeling Process -- Chapter 21 Published Examples of the Process -- Chapter 22 Final Comments -- Appendix A Detailed Static Fracture Modeling Workflow -- Appendix B How we Use Various Seismic Attributes to Predict Natural Fracture Intensity in the Subsurface, After Nelson (2006) -- Appendix C How I Learned to Interpret Natural Fractures in Core -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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