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4. Upscaling Flow Properties

verfasst von : Philip Ringrose, Mark Bentley

Erschienen in: Reservoir Model Design

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To ‘upscale flow properties’ means to estimate large-scale flow behaviour from smaller-scale measurements. Typically, we start with a few measurements of rock samples (length scale ~3 cm) and some records of flow rates and pressures in well tests (~100’s m). Our challenge is to estimate how the whole reservoir will flow (~1 km).

Flow properties of rocks vary enormously over a wide range of length scales, and estimating upscaled flow properties can be quite a challenge. Unfortunately, many reservoir modellers choose to overlook this problem and blindly hope that a few measurements will correctly represent the whole reservoir.

The aim of this chapter is to help make intelligent estimates of large-scale flow properties and to avoid stupid pitfalls. In the words of Albert Einstein:

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

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Titel: Upscaling Flow Properties
verfasst von: Philip Ringrose
Mark Bentley
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Reservoir Model Design
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70162-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70163-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70163-5_4

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