Advanced Reservoir Simulation Technologies (RE06)

Course Level: Advanced

Dynamic reservoir models are important when investigating reservoir behaviour, optimising reservoir performance, designing complex wells, estimating uncertainties and providing the basis for risk management. New developments, such as unstructured gridding, combined with new simulation techniques eliminate most of the drawbacks of conventional simulation methods and make predictions more reliable. The participants will learn about various algorithms, concepts and possible uses of reservoir simulators.

OUTLINE

History and classification of reservoir simulators

Review of fluid properties for simulation - black-oil properties, equation of state modelling

Rock properties and saturation functions - porosity, permeability, compressibility, relative permeability, capillary pressure, compaction, correlations

General purpose formulation and discretization methods used for black-oil and EOS compositional simulators

Gridding - structured and unstructured gridding approaches, Cartesian grids, corner point grids, Voronoi grids

Modelling structural elements in simulation - vertical and sloping faults, channels, etc…

Representing wells in the reservoir simulation model

Compositional reservoir simulation

Simulation of fractured reservoirs - numerical model, matrix-fracture exchange, recovery processes

Upgridding and upscaling

History matching

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is designed for experienced reservoir engineers. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of reservoir simulation, stochastic modelling, upscaling and some experience in the use of commercial reservoir simulators.

COURSE VENUE

Tripoli
Radisson Blu Tripoli
Al Fatah Street - The Corniche
Tripoli
Libya

Vienna
Renaissance Vienna Hotel
Linke Wienzeile/Ullmannstr. 71
A-1150 Vienna
AUSTRIA

INSTRUCTOR

Leonhard J. Ganzer