Fractured & Unconventional Reservoir Modelling
🎯 Course Description: This Fractured Reservoir Modeling Course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to model fractured and unconventional reservoirs (tight sands, shale, and CBM) using modern techniques and workflows. This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding …
Overview
🎯 Course Description:
This Fractured Reservoir Modeling Course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to model fractured and unconventional reservoirs (tight sands, shale, and CBM) using modern techniques and workflows.
This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of how to model fractured and unconventional reservoirs (tight sands, shale, and CBM) using modern techniques and workflows. The course covers the geological and geomechanical fundamentals of natural fractures, the integration of seismic and well data, dual-porosity/dual-permeability concepts, discrete fracture networks (DFN), and their implementation in static and dynamic reservoir models.
Through lectures, hands-on exercises, and case studies, participants will learn how to build realistic models to guide reservoir performance forecasting and development planning in low-permeability and naturally fractured systems.
👥 Who Should Attend:
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Reservoir Engineers
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Geologists and Geophysicists
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Petrophysicists
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Production Engineers
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Subsurface Modelers
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E&P professionals working in unconventional or fractured reservoirs
🧾 Training Format:
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Duration: 5 Days
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Delivery: In-person or Online (Instructor-led Live)
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Methodology: Theoretical lectures, software-based exercises, team interpretation, and case studies
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Materials Provided: Digital course manual, interpretation datasets, model-building examples
🗓️ 5-Day Detailed Agenda with Time Breaks
Day 1: Introduction to Fractured and Unconventional Reservoirs
Time | Topic |
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09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome & Course Objectives |
09:30 – 10:30 | Overview of Fractured and Unconventional Reservoir Types |
10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | Geology and Genesis of Natural Fractures in Reservoirs |
12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch |
13:15 – 14:45 | Overview of Tight Gas, Shale, and CBM Reservoir Properties |
14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Reservoir Quality, TOC, Maturity, and Brittleness |
Day 2: Fracture Characterization and Data Integration
Time | Topic |
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09:00 – 10:30 | Fracture Detection: Core, FMI, Seismic Attributes |
10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | Structural Controls on Fracture Orientation & Intensity |
12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch |
13:15 – 14:45 | Stress Regimes and Geomechanical Models |
14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Seismic Interpretation in Fractured Reservoirs |
Day 3: Static Modeling of Fractured Reservoirs
Time | Topic |
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09:00 – 10:30 | Fundamentals of Dual-Porosity and Dual-Permeability Models |
10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Modeling – Concepts & Workflows |
12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch |
13:15 – 14:45 | Building Fracture Models from Structural and FMI Data |
14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Software-Based Exercise: Fracture Intensity and Orientation Modeling |
Day 4: Unconventional Reservoir Modeling Workflows
Time | Topic |
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09:00 – 10:30 | Geocellular Modeling for Shale & Tight Gas Reservoirs |
10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | TOC, Kerogen Type, Mineralogy & Mechanical Stratigraphy Modeling |
12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch |
13:15 – 14:45 | Hydraulic Fracture Modeling & Stimulated Rock Volume (SRV) |
14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Integration of Well Logs, Core, and Seismic for Shale Modeling |
Day 5: Dynamic Considerations & Case Studies
Time | Topic |
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09:00 – 10:30 | Fluid Flow in Fractured Media – DFN and EDFM Approaches |
10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | History Matching and Production Forecasting in Fractured Systems |
12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽️ Lunch |
13:15 – 14:45 | Case Study: Fractured Carbonates vs. Shale Reservoir Development |
14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Wrap-Up, Participant Presentations, Certificate Distribution |
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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