... be handicapped by lack of such resources. The Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) has a regional lead office in New Mexico dedicated to this objective. As an example of sharing resources, we have coupled an automatic history-matching algorithm to an analytical polymer/waterflood simulator that may...

... within each timestep. 19 3 1997 14 4 1997 15 4 1997 1 6 1997 1 6 1997 Copyright 1997, Society of Petroleum Engineers modeling & simulation spe computer application upstream oil & gas production control bottomhole pressure algorithm boundary condition...

... amount of capital used in this process, saving a small percent of the total investment may represent a large monetary value. The literature reports algorithms using mathematical programming techniques that were designed to solve the proposed problem in a global optimal manner. Owing to the high...

... to identify well-test interpretation models. By grouping well-test data into distinct categories, the SOF algorithm produces a general mapping function. This method can help analyze well-test data from a large variety of reservoirs (including reservoirs with faults, fractures, boundaries, etc.) more...

... & gas assessment criteria engineer selection expert system platform application fuzzy logic petroleum exploration & production algorithm ai technology development environment 31 7 1993 22 11 1995 7 12 1995 1 2 1996 1 2 1996 Copyright 1996, Society...

... connections for a 3D model by expanding Eq. 3 as follows. upstream oil & gas block-based approach algorithm fluid modeling flux term connection list jacobian new approach non-neighbor connection application computation reservoir simulator jacobian array construction equation of state...

... approach is developed to solve the large system of sparse linear equations that arises in reservoir simulation. This approach uses a combination of domain decomposition and multigrid techniques that results in efficient and robust algorithms for sequential computers with one processor and for parallel...

..., Society of Petroleum Engineers algorithm interactive 3d-mesh builder geological modeling reservoir simulator modeling & simulation mesh geologic modeling fluid dynamics vertex new orleans software reservoir characterization reservoir simulation reservoir engineer multilevel mesh...

...L. C. Young; K. Hemanth-Kumar Summary This paper presents the formulation of a black-oil reservoir simulator based on a generalized compositional solution algorithm. To achieve high performance on a wide range of computers, the formulation minimizes the number of calculations while maximizing...

... and geometrical distribution of defect signals. Detection performance is enhanced by taking full advantage of digital signal processing. Depending on inspection needs and custom requirements, various signal-processing algorithms can be substituted at will by just loading new signal-processing programs...

...R. A. Arehart Summary A neural network was constructed to determine the grade (state of wear) of a drill bit while it is drilling. With a three-layer neural network and back-propagation as the learning algorithm, the system was trained with laboratory data collected using bits of known grades...