In reservoir simulators the objective is much the same to simulate the exploitation of a real reservoir without the costs of real life trial and error, e. Principles of applied reservoir simulation 3rd edition. Estimation of fluid transmissibility and oil production. Once the study objec tives have been defined, reservoir and production data are. Discretization and gridding in reservoir simulation.
Basics of reservoir simulation with the eclipse reservoir. The main objective in building a reservoir simulation grid is to construct a reservoir simulation model that resolves changes in reservoir flow properties, pressure, and fluid saturation with enough precision to provide accurate performance predictions. Transmissibility scaleup the purpose of permeability scaleup is to preserve the key features of flow on a coarse grid and to match them to a fine gird in reservoir simulation. The major aim of this work would be to try quantifying the inter reservoir fluid transmissibility i. Interblock transmissibility calculation analysis for. All of the examples in the book are based on the matlab reservoir simulation toolbox mrst, an opensource toolbox popular popularity in both academic. Reservoir simulation, like material balance calculation, is a form of numerical modelling which is used to quantify and interpret physical phenomena with the ability to extend these to project future performance. Basic applied reservoir simulation by fmursa issuu.
Transmissibility scaleup in reservoir simulation onepetro. The numerical models, which are mainly used in simulation techniques will be discussed in this volume. Cheng encyclopedia of life support systems eolss biographical sketch dr. Matlab reservoir simulation toolbox mrst, which has been developed. What makes this book so different and valuable to the engineer is the accompanying software, used by reservoir engineers all over the world every day. He is a distinguished member of the society of petroleum engineers and authored numerous books, including integrated reservoir asset management, energy. The next thing we need to define is the fluid properties. Commonly these models and computer programs will be called simulation models, eve if they are used for analytical purposes too. Introduction to reservoir simulation montanuniversitat leoben. Cordazzo et al interblock transmissibility calculation analysis for petroleum reservoir simulation 3 it is easily demonstrated that the term in brackets in eq. The nature of numerical simulation is demonstrated in figure 1. An introduction to reservoir simulation using matlab sintef.
The textbooks are submect to continuous update and improvement. An introduction to reservoir simulation using matlabgnu octave. The reservoir characterization required to define porosity and permeability for each grid block in a reservoir simulation model is more stringent. Without simulations, the reservoir engineer would not be able to do his or her job at all, and the technology available in this product is far superior to most companies internal simulation software. There are many books that describe mathematical models for flow in porous media and. Yueming cheng is an assistant professor in the department of petroleum and natural gas engineering at west virginia university. Basic applied reservoir simulation turgay ertekin george e.