Fully compositional and thermal reservoir simulation capabilities are important in oil exploration and production. There are significant resources in existing wells and in heavy oil, oil sands, and deep-water reservoirs. This article has two main goals: (1) to clearly identify chemical engineering sub-problems within reservoir simulation that the PSE community can potentially make contributions...

Name Department Sumanta Acharya Mechanical Engineering Gerald Baumgartner Computer Science Bin Chen Chemistry Jim Chen Civil Engineering Rudy Hirschheim Information Systems and Decision Sciences Bijaya Karki Computer Science David Koppelman Electrical & Computer Engineering Tevfik Kosar Computer Science Robert Lipton Mathematics Marcia Newcomer Biological Sciences Seung-Jong Park Computer Scien...

The purpose of this paper is to report the first preliminary study of the recently introduced Combinatorial Multilevel (CML) method for solver preconditioning in large-scale reservoir simulation with coupled geomechanics. The CML method is a variant of the popular Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) method yet with essential differences. The basic idea of this new approach is to construct a hierarchy of ...

There is more diversity among microorganisms such as bacteria than there is in the range of life from artichokes to zebras. Bacteria have successfully colonized virtually e very environment on earth because they can rapidly adapt to changing conditions, and use a large and varied number of nutrients to generate energy. How e ve r, until relat ively recently, the environments of many petroleum r...

Tazhong Oil Field located in the center of Tarim Basin is one of the greatest discoveries during the petroleum exploration in Tarim Basin. The course of many years for hydrocarbon exploration and development has proved that there existed a much larger ancient reservoir than present-day reservoir and residual oil section below present WOC is of obvious characteristics of water displacement. Stud...