Products

IMEX = 3-phase, 4-components Black Oil Simulator

GEM = 3-phase, n-component EOS Compositional Simulator

STARS = 4-phase, n-component Thermal/CEOR Simulator

WINPROP = PVT Phase Behavior Characterization

BUILDER = Simulation Model Creation/Editing

RESULTS = X-Y Plots, Grid Visualization & Data Extraction

LAUNCHER = File Management & Job Scheduling

CMOST = History Matching, Optimization, Sensitivity & Uncertainty Analysis

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 IMEX Applications

 Primary recovery
Black Oil & Volatile Oil
Dry & Wet Gas
Gas Condensate
 Secondary recovery
Waterflooding
Polymer Flooding
Dry Gas Injection
Pseudo-miscible Displacement
 Gas Storage
Abandoned Gas Fields
Aquifer Storage

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 IMEX Applications

 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

 Gas Oil Gravity Drainage (GOGD)
 Explicit Modelling of Hydraulically fractured wells with non-Darcy flow &
Compaction
 Frac Packs (short, highly conductive fractures in Unconsolidated reservoirs)
 Single Plane Fractures (in “tight” reservoirs)
 Complex Fracture Networks (in “shale” reservoirs)
 Coupled Surface Facilities
 Branched surface networks using hydraulics tables or FORGAS
 Looped surface networks coupled to GAP, METTE or Avocet IAM

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 GEM Applications
 Secondary Recovery
 Miscible & Immiscible gas injection (CO2, N2, Sour Gas, Flue Gas) in
Continuous, WAG and SWAG modes
 Gas condensate production with dry/lean gas cycling to recover liquids
 VAPEX heavy oil recovery (isothermal and thermal)
 CBM & Shale Gas Production
 Multi-component desorption/adsorption, diffusion & coal
swelling/shrinkage
 Gas Storage
 Abandoned Oil Reservoirs (to model light oil/condensate recovery)
 Tracking gas composition
 CO2 & Acid Gas Sequestration
 Oil reservoirs, Saline aquifers & Coal beds (ECBM)
 Geochemical reactions

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 GEM Applications
 Asphaltene modelling during primary and secondary recovery
 Precipitation, Flocculation, Deposition & Plugging
 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
 Gas Oil Gravity Drainage (GOGD) in naturally fractured reservoirs
 CBM & Shale Reservoirs
 Explicit Modelling of Hydraulically fractured wells with non-Darcy flow &
Compaction
 Single Plane Fractures (Vertical & Horizontal Wells in Tight reservoirs)
 Complex Fracture Networks ( Vertical & Horizontal Wells in Shale reservoirs)
 Coupled Surface Facilities
 Branched surface networks using hydraulics tables and FORGAS
 Looped surface networks coupled to GAP and PIPEPHASE
 Coupled Geomechanics
 GEOMECH

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 STARS Applications
 Thermal EOR
 Hot water flooding
 Steam flooding & Cyclic Steam Stimulation
 SAGD & ES-SAGD
 In-Situ Combustion (LTO & HTO)
 In-Situ Conversion of Oil Shale (Shell ISC process)
 Chemical EOR
 Emulsions, Gels, Foams
 ASP, SP, ASG (foam surfactant)
 MEOR
 LoSAL waterflooding
 Brightwater polymer flooding
 Gas Storage
 Salt Cavern Storage

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 STARS Applications
 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
 Steam Oil Gravity Drainage (SOGD) in naturally fractured reservoirs
 Cold Heavy Oil Recovery (CHOPS model built with AITF)
 Natural Gas Hydrates
 Geothermal
 Complex Thermal Wellbore Completions
 Discretized Wells (transient, segregated flow of steam, oil, gas & water in
single tubing horizontal wells)
 FlexWells (transient, segregated flow of steam, oil, gas & water in multiple
tubing, undulating wells)
 Coupled Surface Facilities
 PIPEPHASE
 Coupled Geomechanics
 GEOMECH

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