A New Generation Chemical Flooding Simulator

Pope, Gary A. ; Sepehrnoori, Kamy ; Delshad, Mojdeh

University of Texas at Austin

关键词: Oil Wells;    Simulators;    02 Petroleum;    Fluid Injection;    Validation;   

DOI  :  10.2172/820951
RP-ID  :  NONE
RP-ID  :  FC26-01BC15314
RP-ID  :  820951

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The premise of this research is that a general-purpose reservoir simulator for several improved oil recovery processes can and should be developed so that high-resolution simulations of a variety of very large and difficult problems can be achieved using state-of-the-art computing and computers. Such a simulator is not currently available to the industry. The goal of this proposed research is to develop a new-generation chemical flooding simulator that is capable of efficiently and accurately simulating oil reservoirs with at least a million gridblocks in less than one day on massively parallel computers. Task 1 is the formulation and development of solution scheme, Task 2 is the implementation of the chemical module, and Task 3 is validation and application. We have made significant progress on all three tasks and we are on schedule on both technical and budget. In this report, we will detail our progress on Tasks 1 through 3 for the first six months of the project.