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245	0	0	_aFractured reservoir simulation: a challenging and rewarding issue
260			_a _b _cmar./abr. 2010
270			_a02/07/2010 ; 02/07/2010
300			_a12 p. ; 227-238
520			_aTranscripción del resumen del autor. The recent years have seen a growing awareness of the role played by fractures in petroleum reservoirs production and recovery. Hence, much effort was devoted to the diagnosis of fracture presence and impact on production. However, turning that diagnosis into field development decisions goes through reservoir simulation. This paper addresses some of the specificities of fractured reservoirs that make that their simulation is both challenging and rewarding. Indeed, the integration of fractures into a flow simulation model is not straightforward because of the existing gap between the geological fault/fracture network and the fingerprint of that network on often-complex recovery mechanisms. Considering that fractures may impede or enhance production, fractured reservoir simulation may be seen as a technical challenge with potentially-high reward. This paper underlines that specific framework as an introduction to two technical articles dedicated to dual-porosity reservoir simulation. Although it constitutes another major aspect of any fractured reservoir study, the geological characterization of fractures is not discussed herein, but only evoked because of more and more integration of static and dynamic aspects.
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773	0		_tOil and Gas Science and Technology _g65
942			_cARTICULO
100	1		_aBourbiaux, B. _912831
999			_c171711 _d171711