Advantage of Stochastic Facies Distribution Modeling for History Matching of Multi-stacked Highly-heterogeneous Field of Dnieper-Donetsk Basin

Abstract

Summary Most of the fields in the Basin of the current study are represented by multi-stacked thin reservoirs with total thickness up to 2 thousand meters containing oil, gas-condensate and dry gas with high lateral and vertical heterogeneity. The asset in this study is a mature gas field with more than 50 years of production history, that consists from 15 gas-bearing sands of variable gas composition, that are in commingled production through the slotted liner completions while some of the sands are not yet under development and therefore, shouldn't be considered in history matching and excluded from material balance P10 reserves calculation but rather in P50 and P90 resources. This paper shows how the application of stochastic approach for facies modeling followed by petrophysical porosity, in the presence of non-resolutive 3D seismic could help to guide the property distribution and evaluate geological uncertainties. The next very important step in the applied workflow was flow-based ranking and selection of representative case based on connected (drained) volumes that helps to achieve history match for selected base case in the presence of additional high uncertainty in contact levels and quality of production data.