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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Applicant:
Bernard Bourbiaux, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;
Inventor:
Bernard Bourbiaux, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;
Assignee:
IFP, Cedex, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/60 (2006.01); G06G 7/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for optimizing the development of a fluid reservoir by accounting for a transient exchange term between porous blocks and fractures. The reservoir is discretized into a set of grid cells and an image representative of the fracture network delimiting porous blocks and fractures is associated with each cell. A transient exchange flow occurring between the porous blocks and the fractures is then determined at each cell by processing the image representative of the fracture network. Fluid flows in the reservoir are simulated by a flow simulator and an exchange flow and development of the reservoir is optimized by the simulation.