A New Generation Chemical Flooding Simulator

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

University of Texas at Austin

关键词: Oil Wells;    02 Petroleum;    Waterflooding;    Enhanced Recovery;    Simulators;   

DOI  :  10.2172/839363
RP-ID  :  NONE
RP-ID  :  FC26-01BC15314
RP-ID  :  839363

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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 algorithms 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. In this final report, we will detail our progress on Tasks 1 through 3 of the project.