Microseismic monitoring is widely applied to detect microseisms touched off by shear
slippage on bedding planes or natural fractures in the vicinity of the hydraulic fracture stages …

Traditionally, fractured reservoir simulations use Dual-Porosity, Dual-Permeability (DPDK)
models that can idealize fractures and misrepresent connectivity. The Embedded Discrete …

Hydraulic fracturing is an important approach to improve production rate in unconventional
gas reservoirs. A proper evaluation of the effectiveness of fracturing process is essential for …

Given the dynamic production data of a reservoir, numerical optimization tools such as
history matching can minimize the global error and find an optimal reservoir model that can …

Originally proposed for conventional reservoirs, the dual-continuum idealization is being
applied directly to simulation in ultralow-permeability reservoirs. Recent gridding techniques …

In the realm of shale reservoir development and modelling, the problems of completion
evaluations and long-term well performances are particularly important but highly …

Carbonate formations are usually highly fractured. The fractures exist at all length scales
ranging from microscopic fissures to kilometer-size structures. Consequently, it is vitally …

Modelling multiscale-multiphysics geology at field scales is non-trivial due to computational
resources and data availability. At such scales it is common to use implicit modelling …

This chapter discusses a versatile method called EDFM (embedded discrete fracture model)
for simulating fluid flow in complex fracture networks in shale gas reservoirs. The impacts of …

Due to the advances of horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing technologies,
the utilization of tight oil resources has become a world focus in global petroleum industry …