Reservoir sedimentation and its effect on the environment are the most serious world-wide problems in water resources development and utilization today. As one of the largest water conservancy projects, the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) has been controversial since its demonstration period, and sedimentation is the major concern. Due to the complex physical mechanisms of water and sediment trans...

Dav910pment of compositional reservoir simulators ia presently hampered due to the complexity of the ●xisting computational algorithm of reservoir fluid phaae behavior calculation. ?hrou~h the application of the theory of polydiaperae fluid mixtures we have been ●ble to develop ● number of algorithms for phase behsvior calculation. In the present report we introduce one of such ●lgorithms. In t...

This paper describes one solution to the problem of constraining geostatistical models by well-test results which has been obtained within the frame of the HELIOS research project conduced by Elf and IFP in the field of reservoir engineering. To do so, a numerical simulation program devoted to the simulation of well-tests has been coupled with a nonlinear constrained optimization program to mak...

Hydraulic fracture in shale reservoir presents complex network propagation, which has essential difference with traditional plane biwing fracture at forming mechanism. Based on the research results of experiments, field fracturing practice, theory analysis, and numerical simulation, the influence factors and their mechanism of hydraulic fracture extending into network in shale have been systema...

Synopsis Water quantity and quality are considered to be the main driving forces the reservoir operation. Barra Bonita reservoir, located in the southeast region of Brazil, is chosen as the case study for the application of the proposed methodology. Herein, optimization and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are applied in the simulation and operation of the reservoir. A fuzzy stochastic d...