Rapid Flow Diagnostics for Prototyping of Reservoir Concepts and Models for Subsurface Co2 Storage

A screening assessment of the impact of sedimentological heterogeneity on CO 2 migration and stratigraphic-baffling potential: Sherwood and Bunter sandstones, UK

“…These three elements and other aspects of the modelling methods are described below. Integrated sketch-based reservoir modelling and flow diagnostics are implemented in open-source research code (RRM; Zhang et al 2017Zhang et al , 2020Costa Sousa et al 2020;Jacquemyn et al 2021a, b;Petrovskyy et al 2022). Our approach is scenario-based and deterministic (Bentley and Smith 2008), and it is appropriate for screening the most influential sedimentological heterogeneities prior to more detailed follow-up studies, including stochastic modelling of selected scenarios.…”

“…mineralization) are not included in flow diagnostics. We use flow diagnostics to make a rapid, preliminary assessment of the impact of different geological concepts and scenarios on flow properties and behaviours, as a precursor to more detailed but time-consuming full-physics, multiphase simulations (Zhang et al 2017(Zhang et al , 2020Jacquemyn et al 2021b;Petrovskyy et al 2022). A full treatment of our implementation of flow diagnostics is given in Petrovskyy et al (2022).…”

“…We address this aim using a screening method that combines experimental design, sketch-based construction of threedimensional (3D) reservoir models and flow diagnostics. Sketch-based modelling is implemented in open-source research code (Rapid Reservoir Modelling, RRM) that is designed to be geologically intuitive and does not require specialist reservoir modelling experience (Costa Sousa et al 2020;Jacquemyn et al 2021a), and that is integrated with computationally cheap flow diagnostics (Zhang et al 2017(Zhang et al , 2020Jacquemyn et al 2021b;Petrovskyy et al 2022). The method allows a large number of geological scenarios to be explored in a fast, efficient manner prior to more detailed flow simulation.…”