Evaluation of the impact of strain-dependent permeability on reservoir productivity using iterative coupled reservoir geomechanical modeling

Abstract

Permeability as an important property plays a key role in reservoir performance, numerical reservoir simulation, drilling and production planning. In such reservoirs, stress and strain alters induced by extraction and injection of fluid may substantially change permeability in an irreversible manner.With regard to this phenomenon, several reservoirs may require to consider strain-dependent permeability, in order to have an accurate performance.In this paper, the strain-dependent permeability is analyzed using coupled reservoir geomechanical modeling. This coupling is implemented using a fixed stress iterative coupled scheme. In this coupling, the fluid flow is presented by Darcy's law with considering nonlinear permeability models. The

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