Theoretical and methodological features of creating reservoir models of hydrocarbon fields

To increase the efficiency of appraisal and development of hydrocarbon fields, the most effective technology is the integration of geological and field information into modern software systems for reservoir simulation, starting from the input of seismic data to field development planning based on a reservoir models. Building a three-dimensional geocellular models is an integral part of hydrocarbon reservoir management. After all, the reservoir model built to solve the main tasks of reservoir management such as: achieve the highest recovery and maximum economic effect. The modern level of software and the advances in computer processing power and graphics allows you to operate with big data, provides an opportunity for its systematization, statistical processing and detecting the basic laws between them. The availability of reliable data plays important role in the creation of a database for reservoir models. The input data for reservoir modelling of the fields, which were discovered in the 1960s, are the results of complex studies, characterized by insufficient accuracy and low quality. Lack of reliable and high-quality data brings significant uncertainty in all stages of modelling from volumetric estimation to the history match and forecasting. The necessity of using available geological and field information has led to the development of new methodological principles and approaches to reservoir modelling in conditions of limited initial information. According to the results of numerous studies, a significant number of methods have been developed, which are successfully used in the design of simulation models of hydrocarbon reservoirs of JSC “Ukrgazvydobuvannya”. Thanks to the use of new approaches to the building of 3D-models, high accuracy and reliability of the simulation results under such conditions is achieved.