An integrated environment for 3D and 4D geomechanics modeling and simulations
APPLICATIONS The Petrel E&P software platforms reservoir geomechanics module provides an unrivalled Assessing and mitigating environment for 3D preproduction geomechanics modeling and for 4D geomechanics modeling geomechanical risks of fields under operation. It enables a comprehensive set of integration, interpretation, Optimal well construction modeling, and engineering workflows within the platform, seamlessly powered and well survivability by the VISAGE finite-element geomechanics simulator. Reservoir performance and integrity Geomechanics phenomena such as rock stresses, deformations, and failure have the potential Underground gas storage, to impact a wide range of oilfield activities from exploration through to development, production, CO2 disposal, and enhanced and abandonment. Taking these into account can reduce risk and improve operational and field oil recovery management decisions for applications such as drilling and completions, well survivability, depletion and injection, and for stimulation and production. BENEFITS Improve field characterization Geomechanics simulations throughout field life and engineering designs Coupling the 3D models to reservoir simulation incorporates time into the geomechanics Understand geomechanical effects modeling, transforming them to 4D. These stresses and movements computed during production throughout the life of the field (affecting both the reservoir and the surrounding formations up to surface) are used to assess well/completion survivability, potential for solids production, inadvertent loss of reservoir Predict overburden movements containment and out-of-zone injection, changes in reservoir performance, and environmental Perform reservoir, fault, and caprock impact such as surface subsidence and induced seismicity. integrity studies Improved ECLIPSE* industry-reference reservoir simulation Better stimulation design for unconventionals
FEATURES Incorporates existing reservoir models in the Petrel* E&P software platform Modeling of complex structures including multiple faults and fractures Local grid refinement (LGRs) Exploits GPU and CPU technologies to run faster parallel simulations Populate properties from seismic, geological models, logs, cores, and test data One-way and two-way coupling with the ECLIPSE simulator Supports multimillion-cell models Advanced VISAGE* geomechanics simulations within a fully-integrated Petrel platform workflow Permeability, porosity, and property updating An existing geological model used with full-field geomechanical simulation in the Petrel platforms 3D window. Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics
Improved resolution of faults during simulation using LGRs.
Geomechanics model creation and preprocessing A choice of basic or advanced rock behavior models The robust and intuitive environment of the Petrel platform provides and failure criteria are available to satisfy different users with an end-to-end workflow for creating geomechanical applications and user requirements. These range from simulation grids within their subsurface models. This permits simple linear elasticity to more complex responses such geomechanics to be included in new models, added to existing as nonlinear, anisotropy, critical state (modified cam-clay), models, or used in coupled simulations using models migrated compaction, and unified models for shear, compaction, from existing reservoir simulations. creep, and softening in chalks and other weak rocks (including one developed by ISAMGEO Engineering GmbH). An easy-to-use workflow makes it simple to include or add additional regions of interest and features in the geomechanics analyses, such Fracture and fault data from seismic, well logs, or discrete as over- or side-burdens, horizons, and faults. If required, LGRs fracture network (DFN) modeling may also be incorporated can provide increased resolution in the regions of the model in the geomechanics model. LGR can provide increased around any faults or wells. resolution in the regions around faults and wells, and the software is able to handle multiple intersecting Host grids and any LGRs are populated with geomechanics properties faults and DFNs. from a variety of sources, such as seismic, logs, core, and well test data, or single-well geomechanics models created and validated in the Techlog* wellbore software platform. The full range of geostatistical and other techniques available in the Petrel platform allows users to populate their models with geomechanics properties across selected regions, cell by cell, or with combinations of both. Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics
Coupled geomechanics modeling showing effects on reservoir simulation.
The Petrel platforms interface for the powerful VISAGE simulator The VISAGE simulator performs the 3D static or 4D flow-, pressure-, has been developed to accommodate various user profiles and temperature-coupled calculations for rock stresses, deformations, and project complexities. The systematic workflow delivered and failure. Two-way coupling between the ECLIPSE simulator in a familiar Petrel platform layout makes it easy for specialists and the VISAGE simulator allows both permeability and porosity from other domains (including geophysics, reservoir engineering, updating of the reservoir model at any selected timesteps, drilling, completions, and stimulation) to incorporate rock stresses, and can update the mechanical properties in the geomechanics rock displacements, rock failure, and geomechanics phenomena into model due to effects such as changing temperatures, saturations, their modeling and analyses. stresses, and water softening.
At any level of modeling and analysis, the integration For large models, such as those containing tens of millions of cells, of the geomechanics workflows with those from other oilfield or those coupled to an ECLIPSE reservoir simulation, users are also disciplines in the Petrel platform ensures that the geomechanics able to perform parallel geomechanics simulation runs using local models remain consistent with other subsurface interpretations or remote CPU clusters. The entire process, for single machines and modelsfrom petroleum systems modeling at an exploration or multicore clusters running Windows or Linux, is managed phase through to history matching in reservoir management by the Petrel platform reservoir geomechanics module. and field optimization. Petrel Reservoir Geomechanics
Planning efficient, safer, and more productive wells by taking into account full-field stresses and complete geological context.
Visualization, interpretation, and post processing
The outputs from the numerical calculations may be viewed, interpreted, and checked for quality and consistency in the Petrel platform. These include rock stresses and deformations, failure information, permeability changes, and data for intact or naturally fractured/faulted formations extending to surface.
The VISAGE simulator results and geomechanics models within
the Petrel platform are then available for use in further engineering analyses and design workflows focusing on areas such as wellbore stability, optimized drilling and well construction, solids production and completions planning, well survivability, stimulation and EOR projects, field management decisions, and environmental impact assessments.
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