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dc.contributor.advisorWu, Yu-Shu
dc.contributor.authorCai, Long
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:06:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-09T08:59:19Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:06:31Z
dc.date.available2022-02-09T08:59:19Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.identifierT 7426
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/346
dc.description2014 Spring.
dc.descriptionIncludes illustrations (some color).
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 72-77).
dc.description.abstractHandling flow through fractured media is critical in shale gas reservoir simulation, as gas production from such low-permeability formations relies on fractures, from hydraulic fractures/network to various scaled natural fractures, to provide flow channels for gas flow to production wells. Current technologies and modeling approaches used for unconventional fractured reservoir simulation are borrowed directly from those used in conventional reservoir simulation, which were developed in the past half century. Since the 1960s, significant progress has been made in mathematical modeling of flow and transport processes in fractured rock, such as explicit discrete-fracture and matrix model, the dual-continuum method, including double-porosity and multi-porosity and the multiple interacting continua method (MINC). The explicit discrete-fracture and matrix model is limited for application, due to the computational intensity involved. The double porosity model is widely used in conventional reservoir simulation, but it may be not applicable for unconventional shale gas reservoir simulation, as a result of the undesired reservoir condition. The MINC method treats interporosity flow in a fully transient way by further subdividing individual matrix blocks with a number of 1-D nested meshes. The MINC concept, however, assumes that fracture-matrix flow is controlled only by the distance to the nearest fracture surrounding the matrix block, which is shown to be no longer applicable after the early rapid transient period of flow. This research analyzes the limitations of the double porosity model, with several shape factors, and the MINC model. A new method called the Schwarz-Christoffel conformal mapping is introduced. This method improves the matrix-fracture interaction modeling for the square, or cubic, system. A concept combines the MINC and the Schwarz-Christoffel mapping concept by the analytical solution can accurately simulate the matrix-fracture interaction.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.relation.ispartof2014 - Mines Theses & Dissertations
dc.rightsCopyright of the original work is retained by the author.
dc.subject.lcshShale gas reservoirs
dc.subject.lcshGases -- Migration -- Mathematical models
dc.subject.lcshRocks -- Fracture
dc.subject.lcshHydraulic fracturing
dc.subject.lcshPermeability
dc.subject.lcshPorosity
dc.titleMatrix-fracture interaction analysis in fractured unconventional gas reservoir
dc.typeText
dc.contributor.committeememberKazemi, Hossein
dc.contributor.committeememberYin, Xiaolong
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (M.S.)
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.disciplinePetroleum Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorColorado School of Mines


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