Compositional flow simulation using reduced-variables and stability-analysis bypassing

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1327-1339

  Pan, Huanquan ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; FLOW SIMULATION; GAS CONDENSATES; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATORS; DISCRETE-FRACTURE MODELS; GAS-CONDENSATE SYSTEMS; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PHASE STABILITY ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; TIME-CONSUMING PARTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 79957885974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/142189-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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