Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials

Multifractal Description of Fractures in Tight Reservoir Based on Fracture Image

Authors
Weiwei Zhu, Yuedong Yao, Fengzhu Zhang
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Weiwei Zhu
Available Online September 2015.
DOI
10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.49How to use a DOI?
Keywords
tight reservoir, fracture description, multifractal, area density
Abstract

Tight oil and gas reservoir have a huge reserve all over the world. The shape and distribution of fractures in tight formation are the key contributors to high-efficient exploitation. An effective description of fractures is significant and fundamental for the study of fractures in tight reservoirs. A new effective description method is proposed after contrast and analysis of existing approaches. After conducting a binarization process to the fracture images, with the application of Matlab, multifractal theory is adopted to get the multifractal spectrum of different fractures. The research proposes a new method to describe fractures, which is to synthesize the multifractal parameters , and area density to describe the complex distributions and quantity features of fractures. The former parameters reflect distribution characteristics and later one shows quantity features. With this approach, a more accurate classfication of tight reservoirs and a more specific development program can be conducted sequentially.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
September 2015
ISBN
10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.49
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.49How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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