FracNav™ - Integrated Studies - Technology
Natural Fracture Network Characterization and Hydraulic Fracturing Parameter Estimation for Unconventional Plays from Core, Log and Seismic Data.
Challenges:
Unconventional reservoirs provide significant challenges on many levels to both engineers and geoscientists. These include: identification of brittle versus ductile formations, identification of “sweet spots”, characterization of fractures, the need to estimate reservoir properties in between wells and the selection of appropriate “hydrofrac” parameters.
FracNav - Natural Fracture Network Characterization and Hydraulic Fracturing Parameter Estimation for Unconventional Plays from Core, Log and Seismic Data.
Solutions:
We offer a range of technology designed to address these challenges including:
- FracNav is a set of workflows that was developed with the goal of addressing these challenges
- iMOSS provides the foundation for developing a fundamental rock physics model for shales that is employed to explain the relationships between cracks, TOC, mineralogy, fluid properties and seismic expression in an anisotropic medium. Rock physics relationships are used to transform dynamic properties to static properties.
- AVATAR pre-stack seismic conditioning to maximize data-quality of gathers.
- ELLVEL is an elliptical velocity inversion scheme that is employed to derive Vmin, Vmax vectors and the azimuth of fracture strike, φ and P-wave anisotropy, ε;
- AVO & Seismic Inversion used to derive reflectivities and/or impedances on azimuthally sectored bins.