The design of an open-source carbonate reservoir model

被引:4
作者
Gomes, Jorge Costa [1 ]
Geiger, Sebastian [1 ]
Arnold, Daniel [1 ]
机构
[1] Heriot Watt Univ, Inst GeoEnergy Engn, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
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UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION;
D O I
10.1144/petgeo2021-067
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
This work presents a new open-source carbonate reservoir case study, the COSTA model, that uniquely considers significant uncertainties inherent to carbonate reservoirs, providing a far more challenging and realistic benchmarking test for a range of geo-energy applications. The COSTA field is large, with many wells and large associated volumes. The dataset embeds many interacting geological and petrophysical uncertainties in an ensemble of model concepts with realistic geological and model complexity levels and varying production profiles. The resulting number of different models and long run times creates a more demanding computational challenge than current benchmarking models.The COSTA model takes inspiration from the shelf-to-basin geological setting of the Upper Kharaib Member (Early Cretaceous), one of the most prolific aggradational parasequence carbonate formations sets in the world. The dataset is based on 43 wells and the corresponding fully anonymised data from the northeastern part of the Rub Al Khali basin, a sub-basin of the wider Arabian Basin. Our model encapsulates the large-scale geological setting and reservoir heterogeneities found across the shelf-to-basin profile, into one single model, for geological modelling and reservoir simulation studies.The result of this research is a semi-synthetic but geologically realistic suite of carbonate reservoir models that capture a wide range of geological, petrophysical, and geomodelling uncertainties and that can be history-matched against an undisclosed, synthetic 'truth case'. The models and dataset are made available as open-source to analyse several issues related to testing new numerical algorithms for geological modelling, uncertainty quantification, reservoir simulation, history matching, optimization and machine learning.Supplementary material: supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the data repository for the COSTA model available at and supplementary material is available at
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