Xingliang Deng¹, Peng Cao^2,*, Yintao Zhang¹, Yuhui Zhou³, Xiao Luo¹, Liang Wang³

Energy Engineering, Vol.121, No.5, pp. 1195-1207, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.045870

Abstract The fractured-vuggy carbonate oil resources in the western basin of China are extremely rich. The connectivity of carbonate reservoirs is complex, and there is still a lack of clear understanding of the development and topological structure of the pore space in fractured-vuggy reservoirs. Thus, effective prediction of fractured-vuggy reservoirs is difficult. In view of this, this work employs adaptive point cloud technology to reproduce the shape and capture the characteristics of a fractured-vuggy reservoir. To identify the complex connectivity among pores, fractures, and vugs, a simplified one-dimensional connectivity model is established by using the meshless connection element method (CEM). Considering… More >

Hairong Zhang¹, Yongde Gao², Wei Li², Deng Liu^3,*, Jing Cao³, Luoyi Huang³, Xun Zhong³

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.3, pp. 609-628, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.019446

Abstract History matching is a critical step in reservoir numerical simulation algorithms. It is typically hindered by difficulties associated with the high-dimensionality of the problem and the gradient calculation approach. Here, a multi-step solving method is proposed by which, first, a Fast marching method (FMM) is used to calculate the pressure propagation time and determine the single-well sensitive area. Second, a mathematical model for history matching is implemented using a Bayesian framework. Third, an effective decomposition strategy is adopted for parameter dimensionality reduction. Finally, a localization matrix is constructed based on the single-well sensitive area data to modify the gradient of… More >