... for comprehensive numerical simulators. This model is used to optimise waterflooding strategies with the aim of enhancing oil recovery. To achieve this, a reduced physical model is built on a constructed Voronoi-diagram model. Compared to the fine-grid model used by simulators, the built model significantly reduces...

... the challenges encountered in well control and highlight the outcomes of employing wellbore dynamic simulation to enhance the safety of formation tester (FT) sampling and deep transient tests (DTT) conducted in wells, with a special emphasis on pre-job simulations multi-parameter sensitivity analysis...

... A makeup of water is added to account for the water lost in the produced carbon dioxide. The simulation can track some key metrics in the carbon capture process, such as the amount of carbon produced per energy consumed and percentage of carbon dioxide removal. An optimized carbon capture process...

... a mechanistic model that captures the physicochemical aspects of polymer flow in porous media through a geochemical perspective using a coupled reservoir flow and geochemical numerical simulator (MRST-IPhreeqc simulator) for applications in carbonate rocks. The study developed a mechanistic model using MRST...

... efficiency. However, effectively modeling of LSP injection is still lacking and necessitates realistic simulation of polymer-brine-rock (PBR) interactions in a mechanistic predictive model. In this study, the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) coupled with IPhreeqc geochemical software is used...

... optimization method is validated by several synthetic cases. We first apply the proposed method to surface network simulation problems of various sizes and complexities (configurations, fluid types, pressure regimes, etc.), where the pressure for all nodes and fluxes in all links will be calculated...

... Abstract For optimizing the hydraulic fracture design in shales, it is challenging to understand the impact of several different parameters on fracture propagation and production, such as geomechanical properties and fracturing treatment parameters. Current frac simulators do not exhibit...

... for describing the mass transfer between the matrix and fracture blocks in dual-porosity (DP) reservoir simulation. However, the pseudo steady-state (PSS) assumption imbedded in the approach of Warren and Root is no longer applicable when the duration of the transient state is prominent (tight oil or shale gas...

.... GC-MS and SARA (Saturates Aromatics, Resins and Asphaltenes) analysis provided geochemical data to describe the oil and its migration history. Simulated distillation and CCE experiments on a mid-interval G3 sample recombined with a Canadian gas sample constituted the basis of the PVT model. A summary...

...-uniqueness of the possible geological and fracture realizations by allowing efficient simulation sensitivities over many possible outcomes. This study integrates EDFM's fracture-modeling capabilities into an artificial intelligence-based history matching and optimization tool, to achieve more confidence...

... Abstract This paper describes three applications of a fully integrated hydraulic fracturing, reservoir, and wellbore simulator. The simulator describes hydraulic fracturing, shut-in, and production in a single continuous simulation. It describes multiphase effects (using either the black oil...

... Abstract Thermohydromechanical effects can have significant impacts on the operations of heavy oil and geothermal fields. This motivates the use of accurate reservoir simulators in field development planning. Previously, simulation using continuous Galerkin methods was examined. However...

... to build a reservoir model which can be interrogated and updated with a geologically and geomechanically constrained grid-based 3D planar frac model and production simulation using a fast marching method. In this case, as applied to an Eagle Ford well to address concerns of completion optimization...

...-composite reservoirs. We also include capillary pressure effects in the model. The proposed semi-analytical solution was tested and compared against numerical simulation results obtained from commercial simulators. The results have been in excellent agreement, validating our semi analytical approach. Using...

... matrix. In doing so, a comprehensive compositional reservoir simulator (UTCOMP) coupled with IPhreeqc is utilized to predict carbonate and sulfate scales formation in the Marcellus shale formations. This integrated approach allows to adequately resolve the multiphase flow in the fracture network and near...

... in the traditional dual porosity dual permeability (DPDK) model makes it inadequate to simulate UCR. Discrete Fracture Model (DFM) provides better resolution of fracture geometry but it is not widely used in the industry because it is computationally expensive and history matching is difficult to perform...

... risk requires the next generation of coupled THM simulators that are easier to develop and use. We present a computational framework based on automated linearization and solution of multiphysics equations using FEniCS, an open source finite element solver. We validate the simulator on benchmark...

... of temperature variations on asphaltene behavior. In this paper, a comprehensive non-isothermal compositional EOS-based reservoir simulator is developed with the capability of modeling asphaltene phase behavior to study the effect of temperature variations on dynamics of asphaltene precipitation, flocculation...

... asphaltene problems in reservoirs during gas injection. The workflow includes data gathering, fluid characterization, and dynamic asphaltene modeling using an in-house compositional reservoir simulator. The in-house simulator is capable of modeling (1) the effects of pressure, temperature, and composition...

.... The qualification testing to the current status of Technology Readiness Level 4 (TRL4), Qualified for First Use, will be discussed along with the reservoir simulation and installation planning for downhole deployment. Directional Drilling lateral drill bit Modeling & Simulation circulation accurate...