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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 industry’s 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 Ltd’s 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
CMG’s Suite of
Mass transfer between phases at a rate Integrated
providing significant decreases in model run times. CMG’s 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 CPU’s 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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