Professional Documents
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Allows a faithful
representation of
reservoir geology
including sloping faults
and pinch-outs.
Corner Point Geometry
Eclipse System History
– Sector Modeling
– Drainage Regions
Gas Lift Optimization 92
production targets
Use automatic compressors to Control & output SALES gas rate (i.e.,
model increasing & decreasing net of import & fuel gas)
compressions levels to suit seasonal
demands
Constantly estimate & report delivery
capacity
Local Grid Refinement 93
Enhance grid definition around areas
of interest
18
14
12
relative speedup
10
Processors Speed-up 8
16 1 6
32 1.9
4
64 1.8
2
Remaining mixture
flows to surface
Down-hole
separator
Separated water Oil & water mixture
pumped back into Pump from the formation
the formation
ECLIPSE OFFICE 98
Interactive Simulation Desktop
Study organiser,
Run controller,
Data generator,
2D/3D graphics,
Open architecture,
Uncertainty analysis.
ECLIPSE OFFICE 2000a
Frontsim and Thermal
Speed
Summary file reading: 60*
Print file reading: 5*
Restart file reading: 5-10% faster
Case import: 40-50% faster
Results Viewer
More GRF-commands
2D radial grids displayed
Report Generator
Monthly and annual averages
SIMOPT 98
History-Matching using Gradients
SIMOPT
Gradient Calculation
∂R
R( X + δ X ) = R + δX = 0
∂X
∂R ∂R ∂R ∂X
R( X + δ X , λ + δλ ) = R + δX + + δλ = 0
∂X ∂λ ∂X ∂λ
∂R ∂X ∂R
=−
∂X ∂λ ∂λ
SIMOPT
Parameters defined regionally
– Pore Volumes
– Transmissibilities
– Permeabilities
– Fault transmissibility
– Aquifers
– Sigma (DP)
SIMOPT
• Gradient calculations in E100
• Graphical front end for analysis and regression
Multipliers
Gradients
SIMOPT 2000a
Gradients
Unstructured Grids 96
Voronoi/PEBI Grids-
PErpendicular BIsection
Enhanced E100/E300
compatibility
Simplified Licensing
Parallel ECLIPSE 2000a
E100:
– Flux
– Horizontal pinch-outs
– Inplace LGRs, LGRs + tracers, Auto-refinement
E300:
– Flux
– Grid coarsening
– Multisegment wells
ECLIPSE 300 2001+
Compositional
– Black Oil
– Linear solver
– Gradients
– PEBI
– Tracers
– Endpoint Scaling
– Extended well model
– Flash - Pedersen, Li, speed
ECLIPSE Thermal
Athabasca Reservoir
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage
After 2 years After 4 years
Temperature
0 130 260ºC
Oil Saturation
0 0.5 1
Vision
• E100 networks
in E300 for 2001
• compositional networks
• Network optimization
• Injection and Production
Geomechanics
Prototype
•Stress equations solved fully coupled with
flow equations in E300
•Porosity and Permeability effects
•IMPES
•Slowdown = 3
•AIM and Implicit are untested
•Far Field boundary conditions
•Parallel
•LGR and PEBI
•Office Integration
PLANOPT
Prototype
Field Development Planning
• An Office extension
• Automatic well placement
• Vertical production wells only
• Simple heuristic algorithm
• Improved Algorithm
• Horizontal wells
• Injection wells
PRODOPT
Conceptual Product
Setting optimum well rates
•New project - not yet launched
Features:
• 3D, 2-phase (oil/water)
• Compressibility
• Gravity
• Faults, LGRs, pinch-outs
• Tracers
Applications:
• Fast simulation
• Flow (streamline) visualisation
• Geological Model simulation
Frontsim 2000a
3D 3-Phase Blackoil
3D Compositional
Geologic Uncertainty
Eclipse Development Team
50 developers in Abingdon, Houston and Oslo