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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);

Inventors:

Emmanuel Malvesin, Montpellier, FR;

Jean Pierre Joonnekindt, Montpellier, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/00 (2009.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/12 (2006.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 99/005 (2013.01); E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G01V 2210/642 (2013.01); G01V 2210/646 (2013.01); G06F 17/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for computing effective permeability for a discrete fracture network in a subterranean environment. The method may include: obtaining () attributes of the discrete fracture network, spatially sampling () points on the surfaces of fractures inside a computation cell; allocating () to each sampled point at least one attribute of the corresponding fracture, computing () discrete pressure values in the computation cell at the location of the sampled points by solving partial derivative equations of a flow model; computing effective permeability () values for the computation cell from the pressures values.


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