Integrated Numerical Simulation for Shale Gas Reservoirs

在过去两年中，加拿大能源行业有能力资助和执行非常规石油和天然气（致密和页岩石油和天然气、重油和沥青）项目的加拿大公司数量有所减少。总部位于加拿大的公司，如Brion能源公司、加拿大自然资源公司、Cenovus公司、德文郡能源公司、帝国石油公司、MEG能源公司、尼克森公司和森科尔能源公司，都在巩固核心的非常规业务。为了成功地做到这一点，他们需要基础知识，以更好地了解瞬态气流，应力敏感性，地质力学效应和非常规石油和天然气生产的运输机制。全球常规油气资源日益减少，非常规油气资源已被公认为可替代能源。这些非常规资源的开发可能会对环境产生巨大的负面影响。社会和政府需要更清洁的资源开发技术，以满足社会能源需求，同时减少温室气体排放和其他环境足迹。水力压裂和定向井钻井技术是用于开采非常规油气资源的商业上可行的方法。但是，尽管它们在经济上取得了成功，但关于它们的整个水库生命周期以及如何继续减少它们对环境的影响，还有许多未知数。 拟议研究计划的目标将是开发一个综合模型耦合矩阵，天然和水力裂缝，地质力学，以准确模拟多尺度页岩气藏中的流体流动，并进行相应的油藏模拟，以准确预测这些油藏的生产性能。PI正在进行的研究计划使用新的油藏模拟模型进行了系统的研究，以了解和评估石油和天然气行业已确定为潜在开采过程的开采过程。这项研究计划的长期工作是在这些恢复过程中开发创新的概念和方法。这一办法是双管齐下的：识别和验证有助于油藏模拟模型的创新，以支持经济和环境上可行的新开采项目。加拿大人将在全球向低碳能源转型中发挥重要作用，同时实现最大限度地回收丰富化石燃料的愿望。这项研究计划对于非常规油气藏的长期可行和成功生产至关重要。

The Canadian energy industry has seen a reduction in the past two years in the number of Canadian companies that have the capacity to finance and execute unconventional oil and gas (tight and shale oil and gas, heavy oil and bitumen) projects. Canadian headquartered companies like Brion Energy, Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Devon Energy, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy, Nexen and Suncor Energy are entrenching into core unconventional operations. To do this successfully, they need fundamental knowledge to better understand transient gas flow, stress sensitivity, geomechanical effects and transport mechanisms on unconventional oil and gas production. Conventional oil and gas resources are dwindling globally and unconventional oil and gas resources have been recognized as the alternative energy resources. The development of these unconventional resources can have a huge negative environmental impact. Society and governments are demanding cleaner resources development technologies that meet societal energy needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental footprints. Hydraulic fracturing and directional well drilling techniques are commercially viable methods used to extract unconventional oil and gas resources. But despite their economic success, there are many unknowns about their full reservoir lifecycle and how to continue to reduce their environmental impacts. The objectives of the proposed research program will be to develop a comprehensive model coupling matrix, natural and hydraulic fractures, and geomechanics to accurately simulate fluid flow in shale gas reservoirs with multiple scales and perform the corresponding reservoir simulations to accurately predict the production performance of these reservoirs. The PI's ongoing research program has carried out systematic studies using novel reservoir simulation models to understand and evaluate the recovery processes that the oil and gas industry has identified as potential recovery processes. The long-term work of this research program is to develop innovative concepts and approaches in these recovery processes. The approach is two-pronged: to identify and validate innovation that contributes to reservoir simulation models that support new recovery projects that are economically and environmentally palatable. Canadians will play a big role in the global transition to lower carbon energy resources while fulfilling a desire to maximize the recovery of our abundant fossil fuels. This research program is critical to the long-term viable and successful production from unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.