tNavigator 17.

Rock Flow Dynamics

December 2017г.
Modules of tNavigator
Analyze
Designers Simulation
results
Geology Designer Black Oil

Model Designer
Compositional Graphical User
model Interface
Network Designer

PVT Designer Thermal Assisted History

(included in Geology, Model
and Network Designer)
model Matching

VFP Designer
(included in Geology, Model
and Network Designer)
Key modifications in 17.4
 Geomechanical modeling
 The solution of the elasticity problem by finite elements method
is fully coupled with the calculation of filtration problem

 Model composer (Model Designer)

 Preparation of different realizations of dynamic model
 Selection of properties, RP, PVT for a model variant
 Building dual porosity models

 Fluid-in-place volume estimation (without

hydrodynamic model initialization) (Geology Designer)
 Report in tables form for volume in place estimation
(display of the property type, zones, regions and
corresponding volumes)
Geology Designer
 Seismic Data
 Load and visualize several seismic cubes
3D visualization

2D visualization
 Visualization along polylines
 Load of 2D lines
 Creation of cross-sections along polygons
 Visualization of created 2D cross-sections

3D cross-section
creation

Polygon creation
 Faults interpretation
 Fault interpretation by Manual picking
 Visualization on 2D and 3D at the same time

Manual picking
Log signatures – Log curves on 2D
2D

 Log curves visualization settings are

taken from the template created in the
Well Section tab

 The depth of the interval of interest

can be selected

 Setting of the background

transparency

 Setting of the windows size and

position
 Fluid-in-place volume estimation
(without hydrodynamic model initialization) Geometrical volume

Net Volume

Pore Volume

STOIIP HCPV Oil Saturation

 Report tables for volume estimation
 Report generation and export as tables for volume in place estimation
 Display of the property type, zones, regions and corresponding volumes
Grid building algorithms
 Algorithms: Create Grid by Horizons and Create Grid by Point Sets and
Faults.
 Grid building in CORNERS format.
 Structural faults definition by user’s surfaces. Non-structural faults
processing (Y-faults in particular).
 Support of different types of horizons and point sets, which allows to
manage the intersection between the surfaces. Available types:
Conformable, Discontinuous, Erosional and Basement.
Building and export of 3D grids in
CORNERS format
Grid Section
 Load of complexe fault systems
 Creation of non-pillar 3D grids
 Grid export under CORNERS keyword
 Load and computation in the Simulator

3D
Grid building algorithms
 Deposits types
 Contact type 1 2
 Fault type
 Segment index
 Control of the grid border
 Geometry autodetection
3
3D 4
5

6
 Blocked Wells
 Blocked Wells are available as grid objects in Geometry Objects
 Are used to upscale log data to the grid
 Log data type: as points or as lines
 9 upscaling methods
 Facies Analysis
 Facies legend on Well Section
 One variogram per facies available for the modeling
 Setting of the facies proportion (defined as fractions) for each facies
corresponding to the output facies. The fractions can be numerically defined
or can be taken from the trend, the well logs or the blocked data.
 New algorithms for discrete interpolation (Facies Analysis) are added: 3D
Kriging and 3D SGS.
Model Designer
 Model Composer (building a model)
 Preparation of different realizations of dynamic model
 Selection of properties, RP, PVT for a model variant
 Ease of copy and modify model variants
 Building dual porosity models
 Definition tab. Model Composer
 Grouping properties by option. Sections, keywords, descriptions
New design of Fluid Properties
 Ease of setting different properties tables to different regions
 Alkaline, Surfactant, Salt, Polymer, Thermal option are supported
 New design of Fluid Properties
 PVT Designer is integrated into Fluid Properties tab
 Ease of creating a compositional model

Call PVT Designer

 Wells Data. Rules
 Grouping rules in the dialogue
 New rules: rule-comment at each step, gas-lift optimization
 Hide steps without rules
 Verify rules button - to check correctness of created rules, or inconsistency
in input data, or lack of data

Verify rules
PVT Designer
Variants and compositions
 Tree of variants and compositions
 Variants can consist of different components
 Compositions have the same set of components, but with different
concentrations
 Definition of several compositions to tune EOS using several
samples
 Blending of compositional variants with the possibility of
matching component properties
Accounting of water salinity
 Salinity is taken into account in creating water PVT functions
 It is supported for black oil variant
 Export of keyword PVTWSALT
 Library of salts or user salt are available
 Additional functionality

 Grading test: export of keywords RSVD/RVVD specifying

solution gas ratio (or vaporized oil concentration) at this depth

 After a pseudocomponent is created, it is possible to run

Grading test to specify the contents of the initial components
before lumping (DETAILMF is exported)

 Import of keywords ZMFVD/COMPVD

Network Designer
 New functionality
 Option allowing to print of boundary conditions into a log panel before run
calculation has been added

 Second system of equation for flow calculation in a surface network is

available

 It is possible to see calculation results of surface network in GUI after

reloading model
Visualization of calculation results
along a pipe
VFP Designer
 Well Construction
 New objects: Bottomhole, Open hole, Filter
3D visualization of trajectory
3D visualization along trajectory according to:
 Correlations type
 DLS (Dog Leg Severity)
Loading of Log curves and their
visualization in 3D
 IPR Correlations
 Available correlations are: Vogel, Fetkovitch, Well-PI, Well Test data
Assisted History Matching
and uncertainty analysis
 AHM Module Overview
 Main goals:
Assisted History Matching, Uncertainty analysis, Production optimization

 Variables setting
Run typical scenarios from GUI or set keywords
Match RFT\MDT\PLT measurement, do NPV optimization

 Algorithms:
Tornado, Latin hypercube, Grid search, Plackett-Burman
Proxy models, Differential evolution, Simplex method, Particle swan optimization (PSO)

 Integration:
Integrated with Geology Designer, Model Designer, PVT Designer, VFP Designer simulation
engine
Variables in workflows, workflows are written automatically as python scripts

 Visualize results:
Graphs, tables, histograms, Tornado charts, Pearson correlation, multidimensional scaling
(MDS), clusterization
 New functionality in 17.4
 Triangular distribution of variables for Latin Hypercube

Normal
Uniform

Triangular Log-normal

 3 types of Plackett-Burman method:

 General General
 Folded
 Including line with minimal values
 Stacked Plot Modes
 2 Modes are:
 Mismatch mode shows well mismatch contributions into an objective
function
 Absolute mode allows to identify high rate wells in order to choose
correct weights for the objective function

 value(C )  value( H )  2  value(C )  2

  
ojects params 
    
g * value( H )  ojects params  g 
Graphical interface
(simulator)
 Graph Calculator
 Graph calculator is integrated into Graph Templates
 Specify a formula. Select a graph for visualization in User Graphs

Graph Calculator
 Graph Calculator Options
 Loops over models, steps, objects (groups, wells, connections)
 Action on graphs: if_then_else
 Tables linearly interpolating specified values over time
(create_table_vs_time). For example, to estimate an oil price
 Functions of converting a cumulative production into an average rate at
time step and vice versa (diff, diff_t, cum_sum, cum_sum_t).
 Cross-Section of vertical well
 Well fence is specified by a radius and a rotation angle of the cross-section
around a well

Create a cross-section
 Scale settings
 Set fixed scale to print a picture
Licenses and license server
 New options in 17.4

The combination of several sets of licenses on

one USB key (for standalone and network licenses)
is supported
tNavigator kernel
 PLNRFRAC (IMEX, STARS, GEM)
 Specification of the planar fracture templates and their
implementation using keywords PLNRFRAC_TEMPLATE,
PLNRFRAC
 LGR visualization in 2D and 3D
Geomechanical modeling (E100, E300)
 The solution of the elasticity problem by finite elements method is fully coupled
with the calculation of filtration problem
 Young modulus, Poisson coefficient, boundary conditions
 Keywords: GEOMECH, GMDISBC, GMPSTBC, YOUNGMOD, POISSONR
 Displacements, stress tensor, porosity are visualized
 New functionality
 GPU
 Calculation of phase properties and their derivatives using GPU (for isothermal
compositional models)

 Fluid and rock properties

 The hysteresis model of rock compaction is available (ROCKTABH)
 Set water viscosity as a function of concentrations of polymers and salts, and
also of temperature (PLYVSCST)
 Simulation of the lowering of phase mobility as a result of adsorption of solid
phase on the rock (SOLIDMMS, SOLIDMMC, SOLIDADS)
 And other options

 Multi segments well

 Set well segment as a pullthrough pump (WSEGPULL)
 Set well segment as a downhole separator (WSEGSEP)

 Full list of supported keywords is available in ReleaseNotes

Documentation
 New document
New!
 VFP Designer Guide
Thank you for your
attention!