DecisionSpace® Natural Fracture Network

Landmark’s DecisionSpace Natural Fracture Network provides easier, faster, and more accurate modeling of natural fracture networks to help optimize well planning and stimulation strategies.

E&P companies require technology-based solutions to enhance production from low permeability and naturally fractured reservoirs. Success is often dependent on the relationship between the pre-existing natural fracture network and the target formation.

The following challenges relate to natural fracture network modeling:

• Honoring of natural fracture hard data such as bore-hole image interpretations
• Obtaining information about subsurface natural fractures
• Creating realistic fracture surfaces, not planar simplifications
• Enabling properties to vary within a fracture, and between different fractures and fracture-sets
• Incorporating secondary knowledge (e.g., seismic attributes) with the natural fracture network model
• Understanding the relationship between induced fractures and the natural fracture network

Landmark’s DecisionSpace Natural Fracture Network application gives companies the ability to fully characterize the multiple fracture systems in conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Insight into the density and orientation of the natural fractures helps you in determining the best strategies to induce hydraulic fractures and effectively stimulate the natural fractures to improve production.