Development of a three phase, fully implicit, parallel chemical flooding simulator

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 700-719

  Najafabadi, N Fathi ^a   Han, C ^b   Delshad, M ^a   Sepehrnoori, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Chevron ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; CHEMICAL FLOODING; CHEMICAL FLOODS; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATORS; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; EQUATION OF STATE; FIELD SCALE; FINE GRIDS; FULL-FIELD; FULLY IMPLICIT SCHEME; HIGH RESOLUTION; OIL PRICES; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLEL SCALABILITY; REMAINING OIL; RESERVOIR UNCERTAINTY; ROBUST DESIGNS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SURFACTANT PHASE BEHAVIOR; THREE PHASE; THREE-PHASE FLOW; WATER SALINITY;

DESIGN; EQUATIONS OF STATE; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PROFITABILITY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70449578993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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