A next-generation reservoir simulator as an enabling technology for a complex discrete fracture modeling workflow

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 4081-4088

  Lim, Kok Thye ^a   Hui, Mun Hong ^a   Mallison, Bradley ^b  

^a Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DECISIONS; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DISCRETIZATIONS; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FULL-FIELD; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; GRAVITY SEGREGATION; GRIDDING; HIGH CONTRAST; MATRIX; MATRIX CELLS; MULTI-CONTACT; OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLEL LINEAR SOLVERS; POLYHEDRAL CELLS; RECOVERY MECHANISMS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR MODELING; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SHARED MEMORY MACHINES; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES; STRUCTURED GRID; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; USER INTERVENTION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; MANAGEMENT; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MESH GENERATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SIMULATORS; TECHNOLOGY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 78349254218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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