Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by John R. Fanchi PhD

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation and its accompanying CD offer users a fully functioning reservoir simulator. Together, the book and CD provide a hands-on introduction to the process of reservoir modeling and show how to apply reservoir simulation technology and principles. The book begins with a reservoir engineering primer that makes information accessible to geologists, geophysicists, and hydrologists, and serves as a review for petroleum engineers. The second part of the volume, covering modeling principles, has been substantially revised and updated since the first edition. The simulator, WINBD4, is a version of the first edition's BOAST4D flow simulator, modified for use in a Windows operating environment with a dynamic memory management system that expands the applicability of the program. It also includes a visualization feature that provides a 3D perspective of the reservoir. Accompanied by a CD that offers a fully functioning reservoir simulator

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 17
Introduction to Reservoir Management......Page 20
Basic ReservoirAnalysis......Page 30
Multiphase Flow Concepts......Page 38
Derivation of the Flow Equations......Page 50
Fluid Displacement......Page 58
Frontal Stability......Page 67
Pattern Floods......Page 75
Economics and the Environment......Page 94
Overview of the Modeling Process......Page 108
Conceptual Reservoir Scales......Page 114
Reservoir Structure......Page 125
Fluid Properties......Page 139
Rock-Fluid Interaction......Page 150
Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation......Page 161
Modeling Reservoir Architecture......Page 175
Data Preparation for a Typical Study......Page 187
HistoryMatching......Page 195
Predictions......Page 205
Study Objectives and Data Gathering......Page 216
ModelInitialization......Page 227
History Matchingand Predictions......Page 237
Introduction to WINB4D......Page 248
Initialization Data......Page 258
Recurrent Data......Page 289
Program Output Evaluation......Page 297
SimulatorFormulation......Page 304
References......Page 352
INDEX......Page 366