Imperial College London
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ProfessorMatthewJackson

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Chair in Geological Fluid Dynamics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6538m.d.jackson

 
 
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1.34Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Osman:2020:10.1007/s11004-020-09877-y,
author = {Osman, H and Graham, GH and Moncorge, A and Jacquemyn, C and Jackson, MD},
doi = {10.1007/s11004-020-09877-y},
journal = {Mathematical Geosciences},
pages = {271--296},
title = {Is cell-to-cell scale variability necessary in reservoir models?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11004-020-09877-y},
volume = {53},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Reservoir models typically contain hundreds-of-thousands to millions of grid cells in which petrophysical properties such as porosity and permeability vary on a cell-to-cell basis. However, although the petrophysical properties of rocks do vary on a point-to-point basis, this variability is not equivalent to the cell-to-cell variations in models. We investigate the impact of removing cell-to-cell variability on predictions of fluid flow in reservoir models. We remove cell-to-cell variability from models containing hundreds of thousands of unique porosity and permeability values to yield models containing just a few tens of unique porosity and permeability values grouped into a few internally homogeneous domains. The flow behavior of the original model is used as a reference. We find that the impact of cell-to-cell variability on predicted flow is small. Cell-to-cell variability is not necessary to capture flow in reservoir models; rather, it is the spatially correlated variability in petrophysical properties that is important. Reservoir modelling effort should focus on capturing correlated geologic domains in the most realistic and computationally efficient manner.
AU  - Osman,H
AU  - Graham,GH
AU  - Moncorge,A
AU  - Jacquemyn,C
AU  - Jackson,MD
DO  - 10.1007/s11004-020-09877-y
EP  - 296
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1573-8868
SP  - 271
TI  - Is cell-to-cell scale variability necessary in reservoir models?
T2  - Mathematical Geosciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11004-020-09877-y
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000558116500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11004-020-09877-y
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/86808
VL  - 53
ER  -
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