overview
The ECLIPSE industry-reference Blackoil simulator offers the most complete and robust set of numerical solutions for fast and accurate prediction of dynamic behavior—for all types of reservoirs and degrees of complexity, structure, geology, fluids, and development schemes. ECLIPSE is a fully implicit, three-phase, 3D, general purpose black-oil simulator that includes several advanced and unique features. In this course, you will discover the various solutions ECLIPSE offers over the entire spectrum of reservoir simulation.
During this course, you become acquainted with the basic features and keywords of the ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator. An overview of the input data and file handling characteristics is followed by a presentation of each section of the input data and a practical exercise. The exercises allow you to construct a simulation model from scratch.
After you construct the model, you match the simulated past production to the measured production and future recovery optimization by simulating several production scenarios.
The course incorporates instruction in the use of the Petrel* Reservoir Engineering (RE) pre- and post-processor (part of the Petrel E&P software platform) as an integral part and the relationship between ECLIPSE and Petrel RE is explained
COURSE CONTENT
- Module 1- Reservoir simulation overview
- o What is reservoir simulation
- o An introduction to ECLIPSE
- o Interaction with ECLIPSE
- Module 2 – Petrel RE as a postprocessor
- Module 3 – RUNSPEC section
- o RUNSPEC section setup
- o RUNSPEC keywords
- o SPECIAL topics including parallel processing
- Module 4- GRID/EDIT sections
- o Grid types
- o Grid cell property definition
- o Local grid refinement
- o Transmissibility calculations
Module 5 – PROPS section
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- o Introduction to PVT and the applications
- Black oil vs. compositional simulation
- o Fluid properties in ECLIPSE BlackOil
- Single-phase simulations
- Two-phase simulations
- Three-phase simulations
- Oil/Gas/Water Equations of State
- PVT data entry using the relevant keywords
- o Additional topics
- EXTRAPMS keyword
- Multiple PVT types using PVT regions
- API tracking implementation: Multiple PVT types using API tracking
- o Rock properties: Saturation functions
- Rock compaction
- Saturation function definition
- Saturation endpoint terminology
- Saturation families and their keywords
- Implementation of endpoint scaling
- o Introduction to PVT and the applications
- Module 6- REGIONS section
- REGIONS section setup
- Reservoir division based on variations in reservoir characteristics
- Reservoir division for report purposes
- REGIONS section setup
- Module 7 – SOLUTION section
- o Initialization by equilibration
- o Restarts and enumeration
- o Aquifer modeling facilities
- Numerical aquifers
- Fetkovich aquifers
- Carter-Tracy aquifers
- Flux aquifers
- Grid cell aquifers
- Module 8 – SUMMARY section
- o SUMMARY section setup
- Types of output mnemonics that can be requested
- o SUMMARY section setup
- Module 9 – SCHEDULE section
- o SCHEDULE section modes and content
- History matching versus prediction
- o Well definition and connections to the grid
- o VFP curve specification
- o Historical well control specification
- o SCHEDULE section modes and content
- Module 9 – SCHEDULE section
- o Prediction well control specification
- Transition from history matching to prediction
- Economic limit definition
- Automatic workovers
- Restarts
- o Recovery optimization strategies such
- o Prediction well control specification
