This course is designed for experienced reservoir engineers who have been involved in constructing reservoir models and performing simulation studies for field recovery optimization. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of reservoir simulation.

This is a comprehensive course that offers the practicing reservoir engineer advance topics on history matching process and field optimization through simulation studies. Participates are introduced to key issues that are faced during the development and implementation of reservoir models of complex reservoirs systems.

• Introduction to Compositional Simulation
  • Compositional Balance
  • Black Oil Simulation
• Rock and Fluid Properties for Black Oil Simulation
  • Data Required for Model Construction
  • Sensitivity of Results to Data Accuracy
  • Assignment of Property Distributions to the Simulator
  • Establishing Initial Pressure and Saturation Distributions
• Treatment of Wells and Well Management
  • Treatment of Wells and Well Management
  • Multi-layer Well Models
  • Mobility Weighting
  • Material Balance Checks
  • Fully-implicit Formulation
  • Semi-implicit Formulation
• Solution Techniques at the Partial Differential Equation Level
  • Simultaneous Solution Approach
  • Implicit Pressure Explicit Saturation Approach
• Solution Algorithms for System of Algebraic Equations
  • Conjugate Gradient Method
  • Generalized Newton-Raphson Method
• Interpolation Techniques
  • Least Squares Method
  • Lagrangian Interpolation
  • Splines
  • Table Look-up Approach
• History Matching and Forecasting Future Performance
  • Objectives of Modeling Historical Reservoir Performance
  • Strategy and Plans for History Matching
  • Manual and Automatic History Matching
  • Planning the Prediction Cases to be Run
  • Evaluating and Monitoring the Predicted Performance
• Special Topics
  • Variable Bubble Point Formulation
  • Automatic Time Step Size Selector
  • Limiting Numerical Dispersion
  • Grid Orientation Effects
  • Grid Reordering
  • Relationships Between Classical Reservoir Analysis Tools and Reservoir Simulation
• Overview of Neuro-Simulation Methodology
• Summary of Reservoir Simulation
• Appendices
  • Appendix A—Wellbore Hydraulics Formulation
  • Appendix B—Coupling of Wellbore Hydraulics with Reservoir Flow Dynamics
  • Appendix C—A Comprehensive Model Describing the Temperature Behavior in Horizontal Wells