This book is about the design and construction of subsurface reservoir models. In the early
days of the oil industry, oil and gas production was essentially an engineering activity …

Geological systems exhibit variability and structure at a wide range of scales. Geological
modelling of subsurface petroleum reservoirs has generally focused on the larger scales …

Fluvial sandstones are an important reservoir type for the petroleum industry. In the late
1970's and early 1980's, large hydrocarbon discoveries in the Norwegian North Sea in …

An entirely new approach to stochastic simulation is proposed through the direct simulation
of patterns. Unlike pixel-based (single grid cells) or object-based stochastic simulation …

Flow in a reservoir is mostly controlled by the connectivity of extreme permeabilities (both
high and low) which are generally associated with marked, multiple-scale geological …

Using a range of realistic 3D numerical lithofacies (dm-scale) models of ripple laminated
sandstone intercalated with mudstone we evaluate how single-phase permeability varies as …

We present new approaches to reservoir modeling and flow simulation that dispose of the
pillar-grid concept that has persisted since reservoir simulation began. This results in …

Tidal sandstone reservoirs contain significant intervals of hydrocarbon-bearing heterolithic
facies, characterized by the presence of tide-generated sedimentary structures such as …

Bitumen reservoirs dominated by inclined heterolithic stratification (IHS) formed in large
point bars of the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) McMurray Formation in the northwestern part of …

In recent years, the impact of small-scale permeability structure on hydrocarbon recovery
has been demonstrated, and upscaling procedures, such as the geopseudo method, have …