A long term co-operation with industry on fracture-related
problems has revealed some key problems. The topics we are currently working
on or feel able to address include the following:
Faults
and fractures: characterisation, mechanics and geometry:
Fault zone database:
aims to determine the key mechanical factors controlling fault zone structure
and related properties
Fracture corridors and fracture
clustering: classification, mechanical origin and controlling factors
Strata dip variations around
faults: classification, mechanisms and consequences on fault permeability
prediction
Folding and Fracturing
Sub-seismic
features: characterisation, mechanics and prediction
Sub-seismic fault
characterisation, including analysis of seismic data
Sub-seismic fault modelling
Database on the relationships
between structural features and lithology
Integrated analysis
of structural heterogeneities and borehole data, and their integration
into reservoir models
