Improved Reservoir Models and Production Forecasting Techniques for Multi-Stage Fractured Hydrocarbon Wells

Dear Colleagues,

The massive increase in energy demand and related rapid development of unconventional reservoirs has opened up exciting new energy supply opportunities along with new, seemingly intractable, engineering and research challenges. The energy industry has primarily depended on a heuristic approach, rather than a systematic approach, to optimize and tackle the various challenges when developing new and improving the performance of existing unconventional reservoirs. This special issue solicits original and high-quality research articles related to the modeling of unconventional reservoirs. We seek to showcase advanced methods for fractured reservoir simulation, and improved production forecasting techniques. Industry needs accurate estimations of well production performance and of the cumulative, estimated ultimate reserves, accounting for uncertainty.

Of particular interest are original papers on:

• Advanced reservoir models for multistage fractured wells
• Reservoir flow models linked to fracture treatment models
• Models for matrix permeability enhancement
• Reservoir models accounting for non-planar hydraulic fractures
• Interaction with natural fracture systems
• Pore-scale phenomena affecting well productivity in unconventional reservoirs
• Models of multi-phase flow to optimize production from unconventional reservoirs 
• Novel production forecasting techniques for better reserves estimation
• Uncertainty quantification and history matching using real field data
• Field studies of well performance and probabilistic reserves estimation
• Field development strategies based on reservoir response models

Prof. Dr. Ruud Weijermars
Dr. Wei Yu
Dr. Aadi Khanal
Guest Editors

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