... and development projects. Conoco drilling engineers have combined a drilling-cost spreadsheet with a forecasting and risk-analysis program to predict the range of both cost and days necessary to drill a well. The model uses risk analysis and incorporates Monte Carlo simulation along with regional cost data...

... 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...

..., and to ensure that the systems will provide the expected results, it is equally as important to be able to provide training for the personnel that are responsible for the day- to-day use and maintenance of the new systems. In this paper, we will discuss a unique simulator that can resolve the training needs...

...Kesavalu Hemanth-Kumar; L. C. Young Summary We describe the adaptation of a reservoir simulator for parallel computations. The simulator was originally designed for vector processors. It performs approximately 99% of its calculations in vector/ parallel mode, and, relative to scalar calculations...

...K. C. Hong; G. W. Cook Summary We successfully deployed thermal simulation technology to a field office to enable the staff responsible for operating steamfloods to conduct on-site studies of their projects. The success was attributed to a number of factors, including (1) placement of a simulation...

... of Petroleum Engineers It is necessary to scale the high resolution of the reservoir description model to the limited resolution of the production simulation. Techniques available include single phase, incompressible flow simulation on the fine scale, renormalization, and mean averages...

...Leslie D. Fife; Stephen R. Henry Summary Historically, simulation has been performed on large mainframe and minicomputers. These computers were limited in number, expensive, and controlled by a small group of professionals highly trained in the use of these resources. These resources were often...

...B. F. Leach; P. W. Scherer; G. P. Starley Summary An interactive, graphical software package provides the ability to view production well data generated by reservoir simulation. The program (KEYPLOT-X) includes several novel concepts, such as use of object-oriented technology for graphical software...

...James A. Murtha Summary This paper demonstrates how to incorporate historical data into Monte Carlo simulations, describes how the parameters are distributed, and quantifies dependencies among them. It also shows the effect of ignoring dependency and presents summary statistics on field data...

...L. N. Morgenthaler Summary Field experience during 1989-90 shows that application of a 3D hydraulic-fracturing simulator increases success of acid-fracturing well treatments. Fracture extension can be limited to the oil-bearing pay, maximum lateral extension can be realized within the height...

... for numerical simulation. Visualization, or visual thinking, is important to geoscientists because it is used to envision pore geometries and sequences of rock strata, to project geological structures from 2D maps into 3D mental images, and to design reservoir models for input to simulators. Visual thinking...

... evaluation and forecasting. This reservoir simulation support system is a set of tools to enhance engineering productivity for efficiently managing the exploitation of oil and gas reserves. RESS provides a dynamic environment in which multiple reservoir engineering tasks, such as data preparation, reservoir...

...U. G. Araktingi; T. A. Hewett; T. T. B. Tran Summary A menu-driven workstation application program designed to analyze reservoir data and construct reservoir simulation models with a geostatistical approach is presented. The program analyzes reservoir data in the form of well logs and interpreted...

...Sameer. A. Khan; Gary A. Pope; Kamy Sepehrnoori Summary A user-friendly prototype expert system (UTINPUT) was developed for preparing input data sets to design miscible gasfloods with the U. of Texas Compositional Simulator (UTCOMP). The expertise we acquired through literature, simulation experts...

...K. M. Bartko; J. P. Bender Summary A multifluid acid-fracturing design program, ACIDFRAC, was developed for IBM PC and Apple Macintosh computers to assist in the design of acid-fracture stimulations. The simulator compares the results of closed-fracture acidization and conventional acid-fracture...

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... Engineers ncsa layout champaign datascope node workstation screen software suite upstream oil & gas internet backbone ncsa ncsa image equation simulation ncsa telnet supercomputer information gateway National, state, and proprietary centers provide access to vast stores...

...S. O. Norris; K. S. Capps Summary This paper describes how a Macintosh II™ PC, which is usually thought of as a desk-top publishing system, can be used as an efficient tool for conducting reservoir simulation and evaluating the large amounts of data commonly generated by simulation runs. A unique...