Practical Application of Hybrid Modelling to Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

This article presents application of a hybrid method for modelling discrete fracture network in an actual naturally fractured reservoir (NFRs) (Palm Valley, Australia). The hybrid method integrates features of geological, statistical, artificial intelligence, and conditional hierarchical stochastic simulation techniques. Both discrete and continuum fracture information could be utilized, such as statistical distributions of fracture orientations, spatial distributions of fracture density, and discrete multi-fractal dimensions. The final output is a 3D network model of discrete fractures, with their corresponding details of location, size, and orientation. The results show an improvement of the hybrid method over previous fracture models.