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TECHNICAL SPECS
ADVANCED PROCESSES & THERMAL RESERVOIR SIMULATORAPPLICATIONSTHERMAL � Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) � Expanding-Solvent SAGD (ES-SAGD) � Steam, hot water & hot solvent injection) � Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) � Thermal VAPEX � In-situ combustion (air injection)
� High & Low Temperature Oxidation (HTO & LTO) � Electrical & Radio Frequency (RF) heating
CHEMICAL EOR � Alkaline Surfactant Polymer (ASP), SP, ASG � VAPEX � Low salinity water flooding � Microbial EOR � Emulsions, gels & foams � Reservoir souring � Middle phase (emulsion) viscosity modelling
COMPLEX WELLBORE MODELLING � Flow Control Devices (FCD’s) � Transient flow � Multiple tubing strings � Liquid accumulation � Electrical & steam pre-heating
GEOMECHANICS � Compaction & subsidence � Dilation & creep � Rock failure (cap rock)
SOLIDS TRANSPORT & DEPOSITION � Fines transport � Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sands (CHOPS) � Asphaltene precipitation, flocculation, deposition & plugging
� Wax precipitation � Coke deposition
FEATURESUSER-DEFINED COMPONENTS & KINETIC REACTIONS � K-value compositional PVT formulation � Simulate formation/breaking of emulsions & foams � Liquid density, viscosity & adsorption defined with standard correlations and tables
� Reaction kinetics for rate-temperature-concentration dependent processes for combustion or ASP floods
� Heat capacity data & temperature dependence of all properties
� Multiple solids reactions
DISPERSED COMPONENTS MODEL � Multi-stage, multi-component gelation and syneresis � Suspended fines � Shear table with multiple components � Salinity effects for multiple salt components
WELLS & RECURRENT DATA � Multi-lateral well support
� Frictional pressure drop & heat loss (SAM) � Accurate well index in 3D
� Thermal hydraulic tables � Discretized wellbore � Surface network coupling � Gas recycle and make-up gas injection
� Additional option for injected/recycled gas composition definition (version 2015)
� Specify Geometrical characteristics & steam injection quality for multiple wells (version 2015)
� Report heat transfer to & from well streams (version 2015)
� Well head pressure stability constraint (version 2015) � Specify range of acceptable well indices values (version 2015)
BENEFITS � Accurately model the
physics of all in-situ recovery processes
� Multi-scale modelling from core floods to field-scale
� Increase confidence in field development plans and support capital expenditures
� Capable of modelling dispersed components and simulate formation of emulsions and foams, and predict asphaltene precipitation & deposition
� Design accurate SAGD well pairs
� Seamless integration with CMOST™ for rapid, accurate history matches and uncertainty analysis, while leveraging limited engineering time
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TECHNICAL SPECS
2015 NEW FEATURES
� Advanced numerical tuning controls for highly complex fractured reservoirs for improved numerical performance and run time
� Design re-injection of produced gas projects with new gas injection keywords
� Optimize SAGD wellbore design through improved reporting on conductive heat transfer between different flow streams, pressure at various points across a FCD
FEATURES (CONTINUED)
COMPLEX FLEXIBLE WELLBORE MODEL (FLEXWELL) � Accurately handles
� Multiple tubing streams & flow strings � Cross flow � Phase segregation � Transient behaviour
� Implicitly solved wellbore models on separate grid � Ability to model different FCDs through built-in
correlations or generalized table input � Vendor FCD � Designs
� Models undulating well through multiple layers and accurately follows trajectories
� Electrical & steam heating option in wellbore � Added mass rate, mole rate & water cut
dependencies in table input for FCDs (version 2015)
COMPREHENSIVE ROCK-FLUID INTERACTION � Temperature and/or composition dependent relative
permeability � Advanced relative permeability & capillary pressure
hysteresis options for wetting & non-wetting phases � Modelling of counter-current flow � Enhanced foam interpolation parameters � Temperature & viscosity dependence for
molecular diffusion � Oil, water & mixed wettability options � Fluid-reservoir rock geochemical processes
& reactions (version 2015) � Aqueous electrolyte chemistry � Precipitation & dissolution of minerals � Ion exchange reactions with reservoir clays
NATURALLY & HYDRAULICALLY FRACTURED MODELS � Multiple naturally fractured models
� Dual Porosity, Dual Permeability, Sub-domain, Multiple Interacting Continua (MINC)
� Vertical refinement � Fracture permeability model � Shale breakage when in contact with steam � Permeability vs. pressure relationship � Model rock in natural fracture void space
GEOMECHANICS � Iteratively coupled, finite-element based module � Porosity dependent & solid component dependent
geomechanical properties � Mechanistic 3D compaction/dilation modelling � Matrix permeability as function of stress or strain � User porosity – rigorous implantation of 3rd party
geomechanics � Control method used to compute stress return
to the yield surface � Specify cutting plane algorithm approach for
Mohr-Coulomb and Drucker-Prager models � Failure safety factor output � Geomechanical input on per-grid-block basis � Permeability decoupling option (version 2015) � Parallelized Jacobian matrix building & residual
computation (version 2015)
CMG simulators have a base set of common modules to ensure compatibility, speed and quality of output consistent
GRID PROCESSING � Local grid refinement (LGR) � Cartesian � Cylindrical � Fully non-orthogonal corner point grids � Transmissibility multipliers � Corner-point to node-based grid conversion
ADAPTIVE IMPLICIT FORMULATION
� Run-Time Dimensioning � Intelligent stability switching criterion � Numerical stability
WELL MANAGEMENT � Control well production and injection at the field, group, platform, and well levels
� Voidage replacement � Gas lift optimization � Gas recycling � Calculation of well index for directional wells
� History-matching mode for treatment of observed surface phase rates
PARALLEL PROCESSING � Intelligent well and grid domain partitioning for optimum parallel performance scalability
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH CMOST � History matching � Sensitivity analysis � Optimization � Uncertainty analysis
64-BIT WINDOWS AND LINUX � Operating environments and performance standardized for 64-bit compatibility for Windows†, Linux†, Intel† and IBM†i
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