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Dynamic Reservoir Modelling

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STARS
STARS
Steam, Thermal and Advanced processes Reservoir Simulator
STARS is a thermal, K-value compositional, chemical reaction
and geomechanics reservoir simulator ideally suited for
advanced modelling of recovery processes involving the
injection of steam, solvents, air and chemicals.

STARS is the industrys leading thermal and advanced processes reservoir

simulator. Its robust reaction kinetics and geomechanics capabilities
make it the most complete and flexible reservoir simulator available
for modelling the complex oil and gas recovery processes being studied
and implemented today.

The following is a general list of reservoir processes being modeled with STARS:

Thermal Solids Transport & Deposition

Steam flooding Fines transport
Cyclic Steam CHOP (Cold Heavy Oil Production)
SAGD - (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) - Sand transport and production (Worm-holes)
ES-SAGD - (Expanding Solvent - Asphaltene precipitation, flocculation,
Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) deposition and plugging
Thermal VAPEX Wax precipitation
Hot Water Flooding
Hot Solvent Injection
Geomechanics
Combustion (Air Injection)
Compaction and subsidence
- HTO & LTO (High & Low
Temperature Oxidation) Rock failure
- THAI (Toe-to-Heel Air Injection) Dilation
Electrical Heating Creep
Differential Temperature Water Injection

Naturally and Hydraulically Fractured

Chemical Reservoir Modelling
Gellation, simple or multi-stage, multi-component Dual porosity
Foams, Emulsions & Foamy Oil - Multiple interacting continua
ASP (Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer) flooding - Vertical refinement
Microbial EOR Dual permeability
VAPEX Integrated to Pinnacle Technologies, Inc.s
Low salinity waterflooding FracProPT fracture design software
Reservoir souring Integrated to Fracture Technologies Ltds WellWhiz
well, completion and fracture design software

Non Oil & Gas Related Applications of STARS:

Ground-water movement Solution mining operations
Pollutant clean-up and recovery Near wellbore exothermic reactions
Hazardous waste disposal and re-injection
Geothermal reservoir production
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Advanced Features of Performance Enhancing Features

STARS include: DynaGrid (Dynamic Gridding) fully dynamic grid refinement and
amalgamation. This unique feature places small grid blocks in the
User-Defined Reaction Kinetics model where and when required and large blocks throughout the
remainder of the model. Typical model run time decreases range
STARS allows the user to model reaction kinetics
from 2 to 5 times.
for rate, temperature and concentration dependent
processes such as combustion or ASP floods.
Parrallel Processing multi-CPU parrallel processing is supported
CMGs Suite of
Mass transfer between phases at a rate Integrated
providing significant decreases in model run times. CMGs unique
depending on fluid flow velocity to simulate the
parallellization method enables ANY model to be parallellized
formation and/or the breaking of emulsions and
regardless of the complexity of the grid or the location of wells.
Modelling Tools
foams is possible. Multiple solids reactions can
also be modelled.
ParaDyne this powerful combination of parallel processing and
dynamic gridding multiplies the run time reduction factors from both
User-Defined Components options, resulting in reductions of 3 to 30 times depending on model
parameters and number of CPUs utilized. TECHNOLOGY
User-defined components can appear in any or all LAUNCHER
three fluid phases (oil, gas, water) and in an
immobile phase (solid, adsorbed liquid, trapped
liquid). Each component can be a pure chemical, a Gridding Options
combination of several chemicals or a continuum Fundamental Grid options: Cartesian, Corner-Point, Cylindrical,
spanning a range of chemicals. A component can & fully unstructured BUILDER
also be a specific form of material, such as small Pre-Processing
Local Grid Refinement (LGR) in Cartesian, Corner-Point, Applications
gas bubbles entrained in the oil phase, for
Cylindrical, and mixed coordinates.
modelling special processes.
Dynamic Gridding (DynaGrid) fully dynamic and recurrent
refinement and amalgamation
Dispersed Components Model 9 point, 5 point methodologies IMEX
STARS dispersed components/stabilized IMplicit-EXplicit
dispersions model provides the underlying Black Oil Simulator
structure for modelling components suspended Comprehensive Rock-Fluid Interaction Definition
in a carrying phase. This permits the robust In addition to standard relative permeability and capillary pressure
modelling of: functions, STARS also provides multiple sets of rock-fluid data for
polymers & gels interpolating over local component composition, interfacial tension,
STARS
and/or capillary number. Steam, Thermal
emulsions & foams
and Advanced process
suspended fines ReservoirSimulator
Geomechanical Model
asphaltene flocculation, deposition
3D and 2D Geomechanics formulation
and plugging
standard elastic/plastic treatment
dilation/recompaction GEM
Well Modelling Source/Sink, Semi- compaction/rebound Compositional Simulator
Analytical & Descritized models surface subsidence/uplift
elastic/plastic deformation
Fully Coupled Wellbore modeling is provided with
creep
three implementations:
shear dilatancy
1. Standard source/sink model strain hardening
2. Semi-Analytical Wellbore for well bore wellbore loading/unloading WINPROP
effect of stress on permeability Phase Behavior Analysis
hydraulics and heat loss
geomechanics in dual permeability systems
3. Descretized wellbore model for horizontal wells
with single or dual circulating streams:
- long transient response times Multiple Platform Support, Windows, Linux, UNIX
- viscous pressure drop STARS supports the following Operating Systems RESULTS
Windows XP (32 bit and x64) Post-Processing
- multi-phase flow patterns Linux: Red Hat 7.3 (32 bit) and Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 (64 bit) Applications
- conductive heat flow IBM AIX 5L (5.1 & higher)
Multi-Phase Injectors injection of multiple fluids
Multi-Lateral Wells

For more information or to arrange a demonstration of STARS capabilities in your

office, contact any of the CMG Marketing and Sales offices worldwide:
Head Office: (Calgary, Canada) 1-403-531-1300 Fax: 1-403-289-8502 Email: cmgl@cmgl.ca

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