... may result in fault slip and communication through the fault from the reservoir to the seabed. Therefore, the flow simulation must consider concepts of shear and effective normal stress to estimate the maximum allowed pressure that generate slip in the fault, and, consequently, leakage to the seafloor...

... situ stress deformation operation simulator bulk modulus upstream oil & gas moduli geomechanical simulation oil sand elastic property reservoir geomechanics middle well pair modeling & simulation well pair simulation equation tiltmeter alberta triaxial test correlation...

... of geotechnical engineering is employed to support the geomechanical part of a coupled simulator. Butler theory is also modified using model of slices to be a more realistic drainage model as a flow simulator. Combining these two models is able to solve fully coupled analytical analysis which has been presented...

...1 PAPER 2009-141 The Design and Development of a Drilling Simulator for Planning and Optimizing Underbalanced Drilling Operations F. SHIRKAVAND, G. HARELAND University of Calgary This paper is accepted for the Proceedings of the Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC) 2009, Calgary...

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... permeable and extremely coarse grained, preliminary reservoir simulations indicated that it is possible that effective, early time, communication between production wells at the bottom of the reservoir can be established by efficient low energy heating and intermittent water pressure pulsing. In order...

... injection rate tensile region upstream oil & gas base case fracture shale reservoir characterization flow rate reservoir geomechanics injection base value different flow rate simulator hydraulic fracturing boundary condition permeability viscosity injector pressure...

... of injecting flue gas into core at initial oil and connate water saturations to obtain liquid-gas relative permeability data. The second experiment was designed to evaluate oil re-saturation, after gas sweep, simulating an HPAI thermal front. The third experiment consisted of gas displacing both oil and water...

... to this procedure is the possibility of the fractures to intercept producing wells yielding high water production and low recovery factors. Due to complexity and number of variables involved in water injection above formation fracturing pressure, the use of simulation tools is important to allow monitoring...

... and pore pressure changes. The numerical simulation is carried out using a self-developed coupled finite element model which incorporates our proposed strain-induced permeability model. The obtained simulation results were compared with the measured data. Introduction Thermal recovery processes involve...

... Abstract In this study, we conducted numerical simulations of steam injection into a horizontal well. A sandy shale layer with thickness of 1 meter is overlain 2 meters away from the injection well. The numerical simulation aims at studying the variations of the stress state...

... Abstract During the past two years a drilling simulator has been applied in a pre-simulated and follow-up mode on dozens of well in Western Canada. Using a commercially available rate of penetration (ROP) drilling simulator, the drilling learning curve of mature fields in Western Canada...

... gas production profile hydraulic fracturing formulation geometry gas flow rate complex reservoir coal seam gas coalbed methane case 4 reservoir simulator equation input data sorption time diffusion production performance simulator shape factor production profile fracture gem...

... Abstract Solvent-based heavy oil recovery methods are of interest as environmentally friendly alternatives for thermal techniques. The phase behavior of the heavy oil/solvent system is crucial required information for feasibility studies and numerical simulation of these processes. Currently...

...PAPER 2007-060 Modelling Geomechanics Into Petroleum Reservoir Numerical Simulation: A Coupled Technique in a Water Injection Project L. G. RODRIGUES, L. B. CUNHA, R. CHALATURNYK University of Alberta This paper is to be presented at the Petroleum Society s 8th Canadian International Petroleum...

... Abstract Four major factors affecting horizontal well gravel pack were studied using a 3-D simulator developed for horizontal well gravel packing. The factors were settling effect, gravel concentration, injection rate, and carrier fluid viscosity. The gravel pack process was simulated...

... of the mechanisms by means of numerical simulations. In particular, the paper focuses on capillary effects. We describe an experiment that was carried out in a 2D rectangular cell, using a 4.3 darcy sandpack partially saturated with heavy oil, with n-butane as the VAPEX solvent. The sandpack was oriented...

... pressure in the adjacent fractures. The current work confirmed the correct formulas for shape factors by using numerical simulation for the various cases. It was found that some of the most popular formulas do not seem to be correct. A summary of the correct shape factor formulas is presented...

... Abstract Horizontal wells are nowadays more often exercised in developing oil and gas fields because of their potential benefit of increasing the drainage area. Complex reservoir structures often impose the use of numerical simulation when interpreting the transient pressure behaviour...

... Abstract A 3-D numerical simulator for horizontal well gravel packing is developed. The model was developed based on the fundamental laws of physics by solving for an overall conservation of forces during the placement of the gravel in the horizontal well bore. The equations of continuity...