Near wellbore modeling method and apparatus
First Claim
1. A method of modeling a reservoir field including a plurality of wellbores, comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving a data set which represents said reservoir field comprised of said plurality of wellbores, one of the plurality of wellbores being a specific wellbore, (b) in response to the receiving step (a), modeling and simulating a region of said reservoir field located in an immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore without also simulating a remaining portion of said reservoir field thereby focusing substantially the entire said modeling and simulating step on said region of the reservoir field which is located in the immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore;
(c) in response to the modeling and simulating step (b), determining a first plurality of simulation results that are representative of said region of the reservoir field located in said immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore; and
(d) displaying said first plurality of simulation results representative of a set of earth formation characteristics in said vicinity of said specific wellbore.
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Abstract
A “near wellbore modeling” software will, when executed by a processor of a computer, model a localized area of a reservoir field which surrounds and is located near a specific wellbore in the reservoir field by performing the following functions: (1) receive input data representative of a reservoir field containing a plurality of wellbores, (2) establish a boundary around one specific wellbore in the reservoir field which will be individually modeled and simulated, (3) impose an “fine scale” unstructured grid inside the boundary consisting of a plurality of tetrahedrally shaped grid cells and further impose a fine scale structured grid about the perforated sections of the specific wellbore, (4) determine a plurality of fluxes/pressure values at the boundary, the fluxes/pressure values representing characteristics of the reservoir field located outside the boundary, (5) establish one or more properties for each tetrahedral cell of the unstructured grid and each cylindrical grid cell of the structured grid, (6) run a simulation, using the fluxes/pressure values at the boundary to mimic the reservoir field outside the boundary and using the fine scale grid inside the boundary, to thereby determine a plurality of simulation results corresponding, respectively, to the plurality of grid cells located inside the boundary, the plurality of simulation results being representative of a set of characteristics of the reservoir field located inside the boundary, (7) display the plurality of simulation results which characterize the reservoir field located inside the boundary, and (8) reintegrate by coarsening the grid inside the boundary, imposing a structured grid outside the boundary, and re-running a simulation of the entire reservoir field.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of modeling a reservoir field including a plurality of wellbores, comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving a data set which represents said reservoir field comprised of said plurality of wellbores, one of the plurality of wellbores being a specific wellbore, (b) in response to the receiving step (a), modeling and simulating a region of said reservoir field located in an immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore without also simulating a remaining portion of said reservoir field thereby focusing substantially the entire said modeling and simulating step on said region of the reservoir field which is located in the immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore;
(c) in response to the modeling and simulating step (b), determining a first plurality of simulation results that are representative of said region of the reservoir field located in said immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore; and
(d) displaying said first plurality of simulation results representative of a set of earth formation characteristics in said vicinity of said specific wellbore. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. Apparatus responsive to a set of input data which includes a data set that further includes a reservoir field comprised of a plurality of wellbores adapted for modeling said reservoir field, said plurality of wellbores including a specific wellbore, comprising:
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near wellbore modeling means for modeling a region of said reservoir field located in the immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore without simultaneously modeling a remaining portion of said reservoir field thereby focusing substantially the entire said modeling on said region of said reservoir field located in said immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore, said near wellbore modeling means including, means for establishing a boundary around said specific wellbore of said reservoir field, means for imposing a fine scale grid inside said boundary, said fine scale grid including a plurality of grid cells, means for determining a plurality of fluxes or pressure values at said boundary, said fluxes or pressure values mimicing that part of said reservoir field located outside said boundary, simulation means responsive to said plurality of fluxes or pressure values at said boundary for simulating that part of said reservoir field located inside said boundary without simultaneously simulating that part of said reservoir field located outside said boundary thereby generating a plurality of simulation results corresponding, respectively, to said plurality of grid cells of said fine scale grid inside said boundary, said plurality of simulation results being representative of characteristics of an earth formation located inside said boundary, and display means for displaying said plurality of simulation results. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A program storage device for storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computer, conducts a process comprising the steps of:
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modeling a reservoir field including a plurality of wellbores, the modeling step comprising the steps of;
(a) receiving a data set which represents said reservoir field comprised of said plurality of wellbores, one of the plurality of wellbores being a specific wellbore, (b) in response to the receiving step (a), modeling and simulating a region of said reservoir field located in an immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore without also simulating a remaining portion of said reservoir field thereby focusing substantially the entire said modeling and simulating step on said region of the reservoir field which is located in the immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore;
(c) in response to the modeling and simulating step (b), determining a first plurality of simulation results that are representative of said region of the reservoir field located in said immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore; and
(d) displaying said first plurality of simulation results representative of a set of earth formation characteristics in said vicinity of said specific wellbore. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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