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Create a working directory somewhere on your disk and put the map files that accompany this tutorial in this directory.
Opening BUILDER
1. Open Builder by double clicking on the appropriate icon in the Launcher.
2. Choose:
STARS Simulator, SI Units, Single Porosity
Starting date 1991-01-01
3. Click OK twice.
13. Align the grid with the fault so that a grid block boundary lies along it, and the grid covers the whole map area.
14. Change display control to Probe mode by clicking on this toolbar button on top tool bar.
15. Click on the Specify Property button (top middle of screen) to open the General Property Specification
spreadsheet as shown below.
23. Click on the Rotate (3D View) button (from the toolbar) to rotate the display by holding down the left mouse
button and using the cursor to move the model. Hold down the Ctrl key with the left mouse button and move the
mouse toward the bottom of the screen to zoom in or move the mouse to the top of the screen to zoom out.
If a mouse has a scroll wheel, this can also be used to zoom in and out by scrolling the wheel forward (zoom
out) or backward (zoom in)
24. To remove the contour map from the display, click the right mouse button while the cursor is anywhere in
the display area. Select Properties from the displayed menu (bottom of list), Maps from the tree view; and
(finally) uncheck the Show Map Contours Lines and Fault boxes. Press OK.
FIGURE 7: Property Specification Spreadsheet with Grid Top, Thickness & Porosity Specified
26. Select Permeability I from the list on the panel and enter the following:
Layer 1 50
Layer 2 250
Layer 3 500
Layer 4 100
27. Select Permeability J and right click in the Whole Grid box. Select EQUALSI then OK.
28. Do the same with Permeability K and select EQUALSI. In the first box select * and then enter a value of
0.1 in the second field (this applies a Kv/Kh ratio of 0.1). Press the OK button.
29. Press the OK button on the Block/Corner Value Calculation window. This window can also be accessed
by clicking on the Calculate Property button at the top.
30. Double click on Thermal Rocktypes in the tree view menu, create a new thermal rock type, select the Rock
Compressibility tab and input 2E-5 in the Formation compressibility box, 20000 kPa in the Porosity
Reference Pressure box and click OK. Units will be applied automatically; you should now have the Green
check mark for Reservoir section.
31. This would be a good point to save the data set you are working on. Click File then Save As. Save file as
Tutorial.dat.
2. Select SI units, and enter the reservoir temperature of 70°C, then click the button “Launch the Black Oil
PVT Graphical User Interface (GUI)”.
3. Click the Tools button and select the menu item “Generate PVT Table Using Correlations”.
4. Enter 70 (deg °C implied) in the Reservoir Temperature box. Generate Pressure data up to 35000 kPa. For
Bubble Point Pressure, select the “Value Provided” option and enter a value of 6500 kPa. For the Oil Density
option, select “Stock tank oil gravity (API)” as the type of gravity value you want to use and enter a value of 35
in data entry window. Change the Gas Density box to display Gas Gravity(Air=1) and type .65 in the data entry
window.
5. Check the box at the bottom “Set/Update Values of Reservoir Temperarture, Fluid Densities in Dataset”, and click
OK. Click Yes to the question about oil compressibility.
6. Select the General tab and click the Tools button and select the menu item “Generate Water Properties Using
Correlations…”. In the Reference Pressure box, enter a value of 20000 kPa and leave the Water bubble
point pressure value blank. Check the box at the bottom “Set/update values of TRES and REFPW in PVT
Region dialog, then click OK. Click OK again to exit the black oil PVT form. Click OK to the message about
bubble point.
1. In the Bubble Point Pressure section of the panel, click on Select From Table and click on the grey box next
to the 6500 kPa value in the pressure column. Click on Next> which take you to Step 2. Note the various
elements that have been selected by default. We will accept these selections/values, but in reality, they may
be changed by the user.
2. Assuming we have a measurement of dead oil viscosity as follows:
Temperature, C Dead Oil Viscosity, cp
37.0 420
50.0 340
70.0 250
Enter these values in the table. Note that under the Component System part of the panel, we are creating a
live oil system. Also in the Gas K Value Temperature Dependence part of the panel, we are accepting the
default value. Click Next>. A message will appear regarding the thermal expansion coefficient with a default
value that we will accept. Click OK.
3. Another message will appear about the oil viscosities. The oil viscosity at atmospheric pressure in the PVT
table is actually the same as the input dead oil viscosity at the temperature of the PVT table. The wizard
assumes that the viscosity value in the PVT table is the most correct, since usually this table comes from
measured laboratory data such as differential liberation. The wizard will still use the input dead oil viscosity
2. Double click on Rock Fluid Types in the tree view. A window will open. Click on the button and
select New Rock Type.
3. Press the Tools button (on the “Relative Permeability Tables” tab) and select Generate Tables using
Correlations.
Enter the following parameters for the analytical relative permeability curves generation.
1. Go to the main Builder menu and select Well / Well Trajectories / Well Trajectories…. The “Import well
trajectory wizard. Step 1 of 3” window will pop up.
2. You need to choose Trajectory File Type and appropriate Units for it (3 Steps Wizard).
3. Choose Table Format and m for X, Y and Z,MD then browse for the file “TRAJ_Meter.wdb”, Open, and
press Next >(Step 1 of 3)
4. The following window will open. Make sure all wells are selected, and check the box Clear all existing
trajectories then press Next> (Step 2 of 3).
1. Go to the main Builder menu and select Well / Import Production/Injection Data (this is the wizard to import
production/injection data into the well & recurrent data for the simulator and it also defines the status of each
well!!).
2. STEP 1: First step of this wizard is to provide the type and name of the production file. In our case, we will use
General and choose a file in the tutorial directory named Production-history.prd. Press the Next button.
[Use the Next/Back buttons on the panels to move forward/backward between each Step].
3. STEP 2: Follow the instructions and highlight the first line containing the production data (top window) and
well name (lower window) (as shown in the following figure). Press Next.
4. STEP 3: If the delimiters look good and separate the columns correctly, click Next to go to STEP 4.
5. STEP 4: Go to Columns 3 to 5 and in the identifier row, choose Oil Produced, Water Produced and Gas
Produced for each column. Leave others as they pop up then click Next to go to the next step.
6. STEP 5: This is the place showing you which well‟s production data has been picked up and which well is not.
For example, the program could not find any production data from well 5, 7 and 9. Since wells 5, 7 and 9 have
no production history, the easiest action is to delete them from the model. We will do this later. Other than that,
click Finish. Also, close the Simulation Dates window that may pop up.
1. Go back to the main Builder menu and select Well / Average Production/Injection Data...
2. Now, move your mouse and right click on the x-axis. A menu will show up to allow you to change the
average interval from this point on to monthly, bi-annually, yearly, etc.
3. Select “Reset all intervals to every month” and press the OK button. Once again, click Close on the
Simulations Dates window that pops up.
1. For those wells that have no production history, we can either delete them or define them as a producer or
injector and shut-in the wells so that they will not affect the history match.
2. In this tutorial, we will delete Well 5 and change Wells 7 & 9 so that they are injectors. To do that, open the
tree view and press the Wells & Recurrent tab. Expand the Wells list by clicking on the +. Right mouse click
on Well 5, select Delete and press Yes to the message that pops up.
3. Go to Well 7, right mouse click and select Properties. A new window will show up as follows:
4. Click on ID & Type, check the Edit box for Type, and select INJECTOR MOBWEIGHT EXPLICIT. Check
the “Auto-apply” check box.
5. Go to Constraints tab (say YES to apply changes if asked!!), and check the Constraint definition box.
6. Under select new (in the Constraint column of the table), select OPERATE. Then select BHP bottom
hole pressure, MAX, 25000 KPa, CONT REPEAT. Press Apply.
7. Go to the Injected Fluid tab and choose Water as injection fluid, enter a mole fraction of 1.0 for the
component Water, then enter a Temperature of 70 C and a Steam Quality of 0.0. Press Apply.
8. Go to the Options tab. Check the Status box and choose to SHUTIN the well at this time. Press Apply.
9. Now, we can copy all the above specifications to Well 9. To do that, make sure you are looking at “Well 7” in
the Name/Date list. Then highlight the following Events (for Well 7) by clicking on them with your mouse and
pressing down the Ctrl key to select multiple items: INJECTOR, constraints, injected fluid, stream quality,
stream temperature and SHUTIN (all of them!!!).
a. To delete the existing perforation date Press the button and select Completion – Delete
Current. Answer “Yes” to delete the model well. All related information for this completion is also
deleted and must be re-entered by reference to one of the other wells. Press the button and
select Completion – Add New. Press the OK button in the window that pops up regarding the “New
Well Completion Date”.
b. Select the Perforations tab and press the button. This will allow you to use your
mouse to select the grid blocks where you want the well completions to be. Since the well will be
trajectory in the main Builder window. Press when you are done. Your screen
should look similar to figure 20 below. Press Apply and then OK to close the window.
c. Alternatively, we can simply add to the existing completion, or change it, by going to the Perforations
tab and Delete the existing completion with the [X] button and Add new completions with the mouse.
15. If everything is OK, all of the tabs in the tree view should have a green checkmark. The Dates under Wells
& Recurrent tab may still have a yellow exclamation mark. This will not affect the simulation of the model,
however it can be removed by adding a stop date a day after the last date on the list.
16. Double click on Dates. The Simulation Dates window will pop up. Click on the Add new date button on the
right handside and enter 1991-09-02 and click OK. Make sure this date is checked under the set STOP
column. Click Close to close the window.
17. Please save the file one more time!!!
6. Repeat the same procedure as above except this time, plot the Water Rate SC & Water Cut curves either
in the same plot or separately. To add new plot, right click on the Plot 1, then click on Add Plot.
7. In order to view this plot for all the production wells you can use the Repeat origins button .
8. In the Repeat Plots window, select the All Producers option and OK to generate the plots.
9. You should now have a series of plots showing the historical data and simulator calculation for each of your
production wells.
The simulated field water cuts are not matching fairly with historical data. In such cases, altering water relative permeability
could have an impact on increasing the water rates. Changing the water relative at irreducible oil (KRWIRO) from 0.3 to 0.5
(figure 25) increased the simulated water cuts as shown in figure 26. Save the file as Tutorial_hm_Krw.
Adding an Aquifer
The next thing we want to do is add an aquifer, and compare the simulation runs with and without an aquifer to see
the difference it makes.
1. Drag and drop Tutorial_hm_Krw.dat onto the Builder icon.
2. Once in Builder go to the Reservoir and select Create/Edit Aquifers….
(Alternatively, you can just click on the Create/Edit Aquifers button from the top tool bar).
3. Select the first listed type – Bottom aquifer, and OK the panel.
4. Select Modelling Method – Carter-Tracey (infinite). Leave all other items blank.
You can now drag and drop Tutorial_hm_aq.dat onto the STARS icon. (To run simulation).
8. You can also enter the 3D display area from here and both types of display are linked together. When you
exit Results 3D or Graph, the .ses (line plot) or .3tp (3D image) file referred to is a template that you can use
to re-create the images that you have generated using the same or other input files.
9. Results are very intuitive and most things can be accessed by the menus or by right mouse clicking on the
display areas.
FIGURE 32: Plot of Water Cut Obtained from Simulation Results and Historical Data.