💎Advanced Fracture Modeling Workshop
🌟 Course Description This hands-on course provides geoscientists and reservoir engineers with the skills needed to build, analyze, and integrate discrete and stochastic fracture networks within Petrel. It covers workflows for fracture characterization, modeling, upscaling, and integration into static and …
Overview
🌟 Course Description
This hands-on course provides geoscientists and reservoir engineers with the skills needed to build, analyze, and integrate discrete and stochastic fracture networks within Petrel. It covers workflows for fracture characterization, modeling, upscaling, and integration into static and dynamic models. Participants will learn to improve reservoir understanding and predict the impact of fractures on fluid flow.
🎯 Learning Objectives
✅ Characterize natural and induced fractures using core, FMI, seismic, and outcrop data
✅ Build discrete fracture network (DFN) models in Petrel
✅ Integrate fractures with structural and reservoir property models
✅ Perform fracture permeability upscaling and dual-porosity modeling
✅ Assess uncertainties associated with fracture modeling
✅ Apply best practices for fractured reservoir evaluation
👥 Who Should Attend
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Geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers using Petrel
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Asset team members working on fractured carbonates or tight reservoirs
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Technical staff involved in static reservoir modeling
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Petrel users seeking advanced fracture modeling capabilities
🗂️ Training Format
✅ Short lectures introducing key concepts
✅ Step-by-step Petrel workflows demonstrated live
✅ Hands-on exercises on real datasets
✅ Group discussions and troubleshooting sessions
✅ Review quizzes for knowledge reinforcement
📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks
📅 Day 1: Fracture Fundamentals & Data Integration
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Welcome & Course Objectives |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Basics of Natural Fractures & Classification |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Fracture Data Sources: Core, FMI, Seismic |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Petrel Project Setup for Fracture Modeling |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Digitizing Fractures from Wellbore Images in Petrel |
📅 Day 2: Fracture Characterization & DFN Building
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Statistical Analysis of Fracture Attributes |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Fundamentals |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Building DFNs in Petrel |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Scaling Fracture Attributes for Modeling |
📅 Day 3: Fracture Modeling Workflows in Petrel
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Setting up Fracture Modeling Parameters |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Fracture Network Simulation & Distribution |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Creating Fracture Property Models |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Visualizing Fracture Models in 3D |
📅 Day 4: Upscaling & Dual-Porosity Modeling
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Principles of Upscaling Fracture Permeability |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Generating Effective Permeability Grids |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Dual-Porosity and Dual-Permeability Models in Petrel |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Integrating Fracture Models with Static Reservoirs |
📅 Day 5: Uncertainty, Applications & Case Studies
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Analyzing Uncertainties in Fracture Modeling |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Fracture Modeling Case Study 1 |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Fracture Modeling Case Study 2 |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Review, Discussion & Certificates |
📦 Materials Provided
✅ Printed and digital course manual with workflows
✅ Sample Petrel project files for hands-on exercises
✅ Fracture modeling guidelines checklist
✅ Certificate of Completion
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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