Geomechanics, Fluid Dynamics and Well Testing, Applied to Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs

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This thesis presents an important step towards a deeper understanding of naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs (NFCRs). It demonstrates the various kinds of discontinuities using geological evidence, mathematical kinematics model and computed tomography and uses this as a basis for proposing a new classification for NFCRs. Additionally, this study takes advantage of rock mechanics theory to illustrate how natural fractures can collapse due to fluid flow and pressure changes in the fractured media. The explanations and mathematical modeling developed in this dissertation can be used as diagnostic tools to predict fluid velocity, fluid flow, tectonic fracture collapse, pressure behavior during reservoir depleting, considering stress-sensitive and non-stress-sensitive, with nonlinear terms in the diffusivity equation applied to NFCRs. Furthermore, the book presents the description of real reservoirs with their field data as the principal goal in the mathematical description of the realistic phenomenology of NFCRs. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Introduction (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 1-4 Phenomenology and Contradictions in Carbonate Reservoirs (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 5-57 A Ternary, Static, and Dynamic Classification of NFCRs (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 59-76 Analytical Model for Non Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs (NFCRs) (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 77-91 Analytical Model for Stress Sensitive Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs (NFCRs) (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 93-102 Westergaard’s Solution Applied to Carbonate Reservoirs (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 103-140 Applicability and Benefits of Doctoral Thesis for Hydrocarbons Industry (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 141-143 Conclusions and Recommendations (Nelson Enrique Barros Galvis)....Pages 145-147