Kinetix Shale

Production evaluation coupled to numerical simulators

Mangrove is integrated with state of the art reservoir simulators that enable full numerical reservoir simulations, production history match analysis and a finite element geomechanics modeling. Unstructured and structured simulation grids can be created by explicitly gridding the complex or planar fracture networks. Microseismic measurements can also be utilized in the calibration of the complex fracture networks.

Plug-in Overview

Kinetix Shale reservoir-centric stimulation-to-production software is the only hydraulic fracturing design software that employs a seamless, comprehensive seismic-to-simulation workflow for the multilevel optimization of unconventional or conventional reservoirs. This member of the Kinetix simulation software suite integrates geophysics, geology, petrophysics, completion engineering, reservoir engineering, and geomechanics in a repeatable workflow that ensures data integrity and high decision quality. With these multiple capabilities, users of this Petrel E&P platform plug-in can maximize production performance and ROI in any reservoir, from conventional to unconventional tight sands and shale.

Specifications

Multiple models with explicit reservoir gridding for hydraulic fracture simulation Kinetics Shale software accesses multiple models for the best fit between the science and the reservoir.

• Unconventional fracture model—The UFM unconventional fracture model is a fully coupled numerical modeling solution for simulating complex fracture geometries while accounting for reservoir heterogeneity, stress anisotropy, and 3D stress-shadow effects. It efficiently models hydraulic fracture interactions with multilayer natural fractures as it solves for fracture propagation mechanics and proppant transport.
• Wiremesh model—The wiremesh model mathematically represents the hydraulic fracture network to provide a quick estimate of proppant placement and fracture network dimensions.
• Full 3D design simulator model—Powered by high-performance engines, the Planar3D fracture simulation engine is a full 3D model with stress-shadow capability that creates the most accurate planar fracture simulations for formations with complex stress profiles.

High-resolution simulation grids (structured or unstructured) are automatically generated by explicitly gridding complex fracture networks while capturing the fracture dimensions and conductivities and also tracking the propped and unpropped regions in the networks. The high resolution is paired with new computational efficiency: Resources permitting, multiple simulations can be spawned for the UFM and Planar3D models in batch mode, on a local machine or in the cloud.