... is challenging but crucial for achieving cost-effective and low-carbon oil recovery. This requires an accurate and fast coupled dynamic well-reservoir model. To this end, some commercial software packages are available to be used. However, using a free open-source tool like MATLAB® Reservoir Simulation Toolbox...

... In the following we briefly describe the network architecture, choice of activation function, loss function and training/testing setup to adequately capture the correlation between injection parameters and cumulative recoveries. The resulting dense neural network then serves as a function...

... opportunities were identified whereby existing vertical well stocks were re-perforated to evacuate production from reservoir Y . Key decisions that needed to be answered for full field development concept were optimum number of wells, well type and recovery mechanism. Analogues study was done and horizontal...

...Conclusions In this study, several microscale displacement experiments were conducted to firstly establish an optimal and systematic image analysis workflow for obtaining consistent recovery estimates and to secondly investigate injection-rate effect on oil recovery. The established image...

... sorting on the plot. Geological scenarios are then classified on dynamic responses through classification tree algorithms. Finally, a representative set of models is selected from the geological scenarios. The example study application shows a final oil recovery uncertainty range of 4:1, which...

... Abstract This paper discusses about a systematic approach of probabilistic dynamic modeling which was used to assess subsurface uncertainties, and to forecast range of ultimate recovery (P90, P50, and P10) for infill and EOR opportunity (immiscible Water-Alternating-Gas, iWAG) in a mature...

... efficiency of block matrix, many studies have shown that spontaneous imbibition is a potential way. In addition, precisely predicting the behavior of the imbibition recovery under different viscosity ratios is thus critically important. The goals of this paper include theoretically and experimentally...

..., wettability, and fluid composition, on shale reservoir fluid recovery were also investigated with the new simulator. (7b) J n c = − ∑ j = 1 n c − 1 j j shale gas multi-component adsorption Upstream Oil & Gas effective diffusion coefficient complex...

... Compared to vertical drilling, directional drilling of laterals into a formation has great potential for increasing production and ultimate recovery. It has been suggested that drilling of laterals can be competitive with hydraulic fracturing in stimulating production; however, horizontal...

... reservoir simulation approach drilling numerical reservoir simulation prediction production rate society of petroleum engineers recovery drilling process In the past decades, the oilfield drilling industry has constantly implemented new technologies, such as the drilling of advanced wells, which...

... Abstract Waterflooding is the most popular secondary oil recovery method. Attempts were made to increase the sweep efficiency of waterflooding by focusing on various physical and chemical aspects of this process. Low salinity waterflooding was an important research topic in recent years...

... function which suggested that beyond the coil lengths used, there exists a length at which measured MMP will be lowest for the given reservoir fluid-injection gas system. MMP was also found to be lower for the larger of the two coil diameters tested. Although, the oil recoveries were found higher...

.... In this study we use a high resolution simulation model of a middle Jurassic carbonate ramp outcrop from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, which can be regarded as an analogue for the Arab D formation, to investigate fluid flow processes during enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The outcrop analogue model contains...

... to demonstrate that our MRDP-DFM approach yields more realistic forecasts of oil recovery due to gravity drainage and imbibition in fractured reservoirs because it allows us to represent the multi-scale heterogeneities inherent to NFRs more realistically. It hence predicts recovery processes more accurately...

... discussed which led to optimizing the well phasing, plateau rate and length of the combined developments. constraint Modeling & Simulation plateau spe reservoir simulation symposium reservoir simulation surface congestion Development Optimization Upstream Oil & Gas Abu Dhabi recovery...

... Abstract A practical Smart-Water flooding simulation model should replicate laboratory and pilot scale observations. An ideal model, however, should also capture the recovery mechanism in play. In the literature, only the conventional straight forward residual oil reduction approach has been...

... Abstract In 2005, a polymer flood was implemented at pilot scale in the six billion barrels OOIP, 800 to 80,000cp oil viscosity, Pelican Lake heavy oil field (Northern Alberta - Canada), to evaluate the potential of polymer to significantly increase the primary recovery limited to 5–7% OOIP...

... to realize the most influential parameters on pressure drop and recovery factor changes, regarding their practical levels of uncertainties during the development of fractured reservoir model. The present approach is performed to magnify the significant parameters and developing compatible and more realistic...

... Abstract With the rapidly increasing costs of field development, one of the many challenges for any green or brown field development is to optimize the number and locations of development wells that would yield maximum sweep efficiency and recovery. A full field simulation model is generally...

... component 9 modeling & simulation regression heavy fraction sulphur component recovery compositional simulation Introduction The main objective of this study is the fluid characterization, with the tuning of an equation of state with the minimum number of pseudo-components considered...