AAPG International Conference & Exhibition
October 24-27, 2004 • Cancun Convention Center • Cancun, Mexico

All courses will be held at the Camino Real Cancun Hotel
and include course notes and refreshments.

PRE-CONFERENCE
Course #4 (AAPG)
Integrated Exploration and Evaluation of Fractured Reservoirs

Who Should Attend

Geoscientists and reservoir engineers who need to know how fractured reservoirs differ from conventional reservoirs and how to approach their study in a systematic manner will benefit from this course. Successful participants should be able to determine Áhe major data requirements and exploration and production issues associated with various types of fractured reservoirs and to predict optimum drill locations in various structural situations.

Course Content

This course will cover the basic elements needed in the evaluation of fractured petroleum reservoirs from both an exploration and development point of view.

A general sequence of study will be presented, as well as the data types needed to complete the study. Techniques presented will emphasize outcrop and subsurface rock data, petrophysical data, rock mechanic principles, reservoir performance data, and geophysical attributes. A multidisciplinary approach to the study of these reservoirs will be stressed. World-wide examples will be used from the instructor's personal experience. Participants should leave the course with knowledge of what controls short-term and long-term performance in fractured reservoirs and the types of data necessary to evaluate and explore for them.

Major topics of the course include:

• A workflow for fractured reservoir studies
• Reservoir screening techniques
• Fracture system origin
• Determining reservoir properties of the fracture system
• Fracture and matrix porosity interaction
• Classification of fractured reservoirs
• Predicting production and development problems by reservoir type
• Predicting and imaging "sweet spots" in fault-related fracture systems
• Seismic attributes for defining subsurface fracture properties
• Determining optimum well paths in fault-related fracture systems
• Evaluating reservoir volume in fault-related fracture systems
• Preparing for reservoir simulation in fractured reservoirs