A common requirement in reservoir simulation is an increased level of detail around an item of interest such as a well. Reservoir simulation learning objectives chapter 2 basic concepts in reservoir engineering petroengstudent july 27, 2015 0 be familiar with the meaning and use of all the usual terms which appear in reservoir engineering such as, s w, s o, b o. Development of finite difference explicit and implicit numerical. Discrete fracture models, which represent all fractures individually by unstructured grid systems, are thus developed and act as a more accurate way for fractured reservoir simulation. Numerical reservoir simulation can be defined as the the process of constructing and running a model that mimic the appearance and flow dynamics of an actual reservoir system, including the subsurface porous and permeable reservoir and its other physical components to produce wellbore and process the reservoir fluids surface facilities. A moderate level in applied mathematics and computer application will also be expected. Cbmsnsf regional conference series in applied mathematics. Finite volume discretization with imposed flux continuity.
Willigers 2009, on the other hand, recommends the use of discretization instead of mc in an effort to reduce the number of computations and speed the analysis of asset portfolios. Appendices discuss handcalculation methods that can be used to check simulation answers, the mathematics of simulation, and regression techniques useful in the history of. Chapter 4 deals with reservoirs discretized using a blockcentered grid and chapter 5 discusses reservoirs discretized using a pointdistributed grid. The subsurface flow in fractured reservoirs is strongly affected by the distribution of fracture networks. Paper 173317ms presented at the 2015 reservoir simulation symposium, houston, texas, usa, 2325 february 2015. The geological model is therefore regularly upscaled for building reasonably sized simulation models. Pdf mathematical models for oil reservoir simulation. Upscaling and discretization errors in reservoir simulation. Reservoir simulation has a key role in the development and management of this activity. However, this text book is written for petroleum engineers and not for scientists.
A generalized finite volume discretization method for reservoir. The accompanying lecture presumes that the reader possesses profound knowledge of reservoir engineering. The pressure is treated in a finiteelement manner, while the mobility terms are upstream weighted in the. Parallel finite volume computation on general meshes. In the efm discretization, conservation of mass is enforced as fluid is exchanged between the two domains through the application of physicsderived coupling terms that appear as source terms in the continuity equations. Module containing all the scripts used for the examples, exercises, and figures in the book an introduction to reservoir simulation using matlab by knutandreas lie. The model could be a scaled physical model examined in a laboratory, or mathematical. Advanced discretization methods for flow simulation using. Mrstad an opensource framework for rapid prototyping and evaluation of reservoir simulation problems. However, it is usually not realistic to directly apply discrete fracture models to simulate field scale. A producer well is located in the middle of the model and production is constrained by a minimum flowing bottomhole pressure of psia.
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A controlvolume, finiteelement method for local mesh. Storage discretization the number of equallysized storage states. Coupled geomechanical reservoir simulation download. Tpg4160 reservoir simulation 2018 lecture note 1 norwegian university of science and technology professor jon kleppe department of petroleum engineering and applied geophysics 8. Numerical reservoir simulation university of calgary in. Reservoir simulation archives petroleum engineering student. Major steps involved in the development of a reservoir simulator. Numerical modeling of flow and transport in subsurface geological formations, such as oil and gas reservoirs, is referred to as reservoir simulation aziz and settari. Resassure easily computes 1 million realisations within a 24 hour period, a fraction of the time it currently takes with traditional methods and software. Management of subsurface resources, including water aquifers and oilgas reservoirs relies on numerical reservoir simulation.
Reservoir discretization means that the reservoir is described by a set of gridblocks or gridpoints whose properties, dimensions, boundaries, and locations in the reservoir are well defined. Pge 323m reservoir engineering iii simulation 512 views. Reservoir simulation is the means by which one uses a numerical model of the geological and petrophysical characteristics of a hydrocarbon reservoir to analyze and predict fluid behavior in the. Reservoir simulation is a process for predicting the behavior of a real reservoir from the analysis of a model of that reservoir.
In order to discretize the differential equations modeling the flow, the. A musthave handbook for anyone involved in reservoir simulation, reservoir simulation will help the reader decide when and how to use simulation for forecasting performance. Discritization in spatial domain time discretization discretization in time domain is illustrated in figure 3. This is frequently obtained in structured grids by local grid refinement, replacing a set of cells in the original grid by a finer grid fig. The tools of reservoir simulation range from the intuition and judgment of the engineer to. Any upscaling causes a loss in detail and introduces. Pdf hybrid mixed mimetic discretization scheme for reservoir. Discretization methods of converting the equations to algebraic will be covered followed by discussions of assembly of computer programs. Fundamentals of numericl reservoir simulation book. This book helps the engineer or geologist use the right engineering equations and scientific methods to cut down on mistakes and boost the accuracy of simulations. A generalized finite volume discretization method for reservoir simulation. Reservoir simulation is a developing application technique for reservoir development and management.
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Reservoir simulation is the art of combining physics, mathematics, reservoir engineering, and computer programming to develop a tool for predicting hydrocarbon reservoir performance under various operating strategies. Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering that, combining physics, mathematics, and computer programming to a reservoir model allows the analysis and the prediction of the fluid behavior in the reservoir over time. Diffusivity equation, numerical reservoir simulation, finite difference, discretization, transmissibility coefficient, impest method, production term. Then, a numerical simulation with specifications similar to. The initial reservoir pressure is 6500 psia and reservoir temperature is set to 2 o f. Ppt introduction to reservoir simulation ekine etuge. The authors clarify the underlying mathematics and physics behind reservoir simulation and makes it easy to have a range of simulation results along with their respective probability. Practical topics in reservoir simulation reservoir. The major steps in areservoir simulation study are sketched in fig. The number of grid blocks in a simulation model is generally much smaller than the number of the grid blocks in. However, it is usually not realistic to directly apply discrete fracture models to.
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