Abstract
Abstract This study reports a new process of constructing a discrete fracture network (DFN) model, which reflects various statistical properties of fractures extracted from static data such as borehole images and dynamic data such as pressure derivative curves. A DFN model is constructed by generating a number of disc-shaped fractures based on their statistical properties. The process of constructing DFN model proposed consists of two streams. One stream is for the fractures with wide apertures, which work as main flow path of fluid. Another stream is for the fractures with narrow apertures, which work as main storage of fluid. In the each stream, a DFN model is constructed by applying fractal theory and geostatistics that define the size and spatial distribution of fractures, respectively. The overall DFN model is obtained by merging the two types of DFN models. Then, the DFN model is converted to a continuum model with equivalent permeable blocks based on cubic law and is evaluated by the fluid-flow behavior. Japex has been operating the Yufutsu fractured basement gas reservoir since 1996. A total of approximately 8,000meters of electrical borehole images from eleven wells is measured to understand the fracture system. According to the proposed process, the DFN models are constructed. To evaluate the DFN models by comparing the simulated pressure derivative curves with the observed curve, flow simulations are carried out as a simulation of a single porosity type. The observed pressure derivative curve shows a concave shaped curve like a dual porosity behavior, but the curve never reaches the second flat state. Through the parameter studies of the statistical properties, which relate to the size distribution and the spatial distribution of fractures, the observed curve was successfully reproduced and the quantitative relationship between the fractures with wide apertures and the fractures with narrow apertures was found.
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