oa Modeling Natural Fractures Using Borehole and Outcrop Data

The modeling of natural fractures is important in the context of CO2 storage for two primary reasons. Firstly, fracturing of the cap rock possibly due to increased injection pressure may lead to the unwanted leakage of CO2. Secondly, and particularly for tight reservoir formations, fractures represent critical fluid flow pathways and constitute a large fraction of the total storage volume. We here present a model of natural fractures in a reservoir constructed using both borehole and outcrop data as input. This work is part of ongoing work aimed at studying the feasibility of CO2 sequestration on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.