Reservoir simulation is ubiquitous in the petroleum industry, and conditioning models to production data (history matching) has become an essential job of reservoir engineers. Traditional history matching methods directly perturb reservoir properties without regard to the existing geological continuity. When the geological heterogeneity is destroyed, the result is often a history-matched model ...

1 Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA 2 Chevron ETC, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA 3 ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX 77252, USA 4 Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA 5 Department of Petroleum a...

The performance of petroleum recovery methods is dependent on the characteristics of the reservoir rock, oil quality, and formation water. One fundamental feature for considering petroleum recovery methods is the wettability of the rock reservoir. Also, this feature impacts the displacement of fluids in the rock reservior. In the case of the limestone, which normally features oil wettability, e...

The compressibility factor (Z-factor) of natural gases is necessary in many gas reservoir engineering calculations. Accurate determination of this parameter is of crucial need and challenges a large number of used simulators in petroleum engineering. Although numerous studies for prediction of gas compressibility factor have been reported in the literature, the accurate prediction of this param...

A stabilized finite volume method for solving the transient Navier– Stokes equations is developed and studied in this paper. This method maintains conservation property associated with the Navier–Stokes equations. An error analysis based on the variational formulation of the corresponding finite volume method is first introduced to obtain optimal error estimates for velocity and pressure. This ...

Accurate computation of time-dependent well bore pressure is important in well test analysis – a branch of petroleum engineering where reservoir properties are estimated by comparing measured pressure responses at an oil well to results from a mathematical model. Similar methods are also used in groundwater engineering. In this paper we present the new approach of decoupled overlapping grids fo...