Patent ID: 8521494

Claim:
A method to simulate fluid flow rates in a subsurface reservoir, the method comprising: (a) providing static and dynamic data for a well in a subsurface reservoir that intersects a fracture, the dynamic data including a measured fluid flow rate from the fracture into the well; (b) generating a well model using at least one of the static and dynamic data, the well model defining one or more properties of the fracture; (c) simulating fluid flow in the well model to obtain a simulated fluid flow rate from the fracture into the well; (d) updating the well model by adjusting the one or more properties of the fracture responsive to the simulated fluid flow rate and the measured fluid flow rate; (e) simulating the updated well model to obtain an updated simulated fluid flow rate from the fracture into the well; and (f) displaying the updated simulated fluid flow rate obtained in step (e).