PTRL3002a & 5021a

Reservoir Characterisation & Modelling

Assignment 1
The assignment should be handed in before 6pm on Friday, 30th July electronically as
PDF document by email or through blackboard. Late assignments will incur a
progressing penalty.

1. (30 points) Most of the time in the process of building a reservoir model is
spent during data acquisition and quality control.

a. (15/30) Consider the following geological features for a reservoir

characterisation study: a braided stream, a thinly layered shale-sand
sequence, vugs in a carbonate reservoir rock, the granular structure
of a clastic (e.g. sorting, shape), and faults. Make a reasonable guess
at their spatial extend both horizontally and vertically.
b. (15/30) For each of the above geological features of choose three
measurements to capture essential properties. Pay attention to both
horizontal/vertical resolution and field of view. What influence on flow
characteristics do these geological features have?

2. (30 points) Grid design.

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a. (10/30) You are analysing a reservoir which is layered with a 15 dip
angle to the horizontal plane. A vertical well is drilled and a sidewall
core has been taken perpendicular to the vertical direction. You
expect the horizontal permeability with respect to layering to be 1
Darcy, and the vertical permeability in the layered coordinate system
to be (studentID-3155153)/1000 mD. Assuming 2D symmetry, what
permeability tensor would you measure from core analysis?
b. (10/30) Write a routine in Matlab, which populates a 2D porosity map
on a 10x10 regular grid using a random number generator intrinsic to
Matlab. Seed the random number generator with your student
number. Report the average porosity, and visualise the porosity map.
c. (10/30) Consider a layered sequence discovered in a fluvial delta. The
bottom layer is horizontally continuous with varying height, and has
been eroded at places by a river system. Accordingly, the middle layer
is heterogeneous and only partially continuous as the river changed
direction over time. The top layer has a continuous top and bottom
surface, where the bottom surface fills in layer 2 at various locations.
It varies in thickness. The fluvial system is sloped towards north-west.
Choose an appropriate grid to discretise this layered system and give
a reason for your approach. Make a drawing to illustrate your
argumentation.