Integrated Modeling Studies
Subsurface Dynamics has developed an advanced solution to address critical challenges in unconventional reservoir development. By integrating static modelling, geomechanics, fracture modelling, and advanced reservoir engineering, we help operators solve the problems that erode value across a pad and a program.
Challenges we address
- Shut-in / reactivation damage
- Detrimental frac hits
- Underperforming child wells
- Pressure depletion impacts
- Damaged parent wells
- Overstimulated reservoirs and CAPEX overruns
Integrated and iterative
A fully integrated, iterative process incorporating static modelling, geomechanics, hydraulic fracture modelling, and reservoir simulation - so each discipline constrains the others instead of working in isolation.
Geomechanical modelling
Fully implicit geomechanical modeling of fracture propagation and fracture geometry variation due to stress changes, including the effects of parent-well depletion on the stress field.
Hydraulic fracture modelling
Hydraulic fracture treatment modelling for horizontal and multilateral wells, including fluid type, cluster spacing, pumping schedule, and proppant distribution optimization.
Reservoir simulation
Dynamic reservoir modelling: history match, production prediction, and hydraulic fracture representation of parent wells to set a defensible baseline for child-well planning.
Optimization
An iterative process to optimize child-well placement, completion design, and operating conditions against depletion, interference, and economic constraints.
Pressure depletion
Modeling of parent-well depletion and associated stress changes within the reservoir so child completions are designed for the reservoir as it is - not as it was.
