Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir Simulation
All courses
Hydrodynamic modeling
What is reservoir simulation?
- Why reservoir simulation?
- Main objectives
- Basic concepts and equations
Basic RE concepts and calculations
- Hydrocarbon reservoirs and drive mechanisms
- Reservoir rock properties
- Reservoir fluids properties
- Fractured reservoirs
Data analysis
- Production and well data
- Pressure data analysis
- Rock data
- Fluid data
Model building
- Geological model review
- Grid, faults and regions
- Grid coarsening and Local grid refinement
- PROPS section – rock and fluid properties
- SOLUTION section - initialization
- SCHEDULE section – history data
- Well Model – lift tables
- Dual porosity/dual permeability models
Model initialization
- Equilibrium and enumeration
- Initial saturation distribution – geological reserves match
- Model stability
History match
- Macro parameters – reservoir level
- Local parameters – well level
- Examples, problems and solutions
Production forecast
- Depletion
- Water injection modelling and efficiency analysis
- Gas lift and Gas injection (immiscible)
Conclusions
- Course closure and discussion