Session Chairpersons:
Jan Dirk Jansen, Delft University of Technology; Kristian Jessen, University of Southern California
Increasing energy demand has led to consideration of increasing complex recovery processes. Reservoir simulation compliments laboratory and field testing by enabling detailed investigation of proposed mechanisms and predictions at a variety of scales. Topics in this session include thermal recovery, geochemical reactions, remediation, and a variety of displacements for enhanced oil recovery.
Session Chairpersons:
Hector Klie, ConocoPhillips; Hui Cao, Total E&P USA, Inc.
The robustness and efficiency of linear and nonlinear solvers continues to play a major role in overall simulator performance. This session features multi-level techniques for flow in highly heterogeneous formations and multi-stage strategies for tightly coupled and highly nonlinear multiphase systems.
Session Chairpersons:
Yu-Shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines; Albert Reynolds, University of Tulsa
The boom in unconventional oil and gas has created new opportunities and challenges for reservoir simulation. Talks in this session address solutions to a variety of modeling and simulation issues associated with tight rocks, fracturing, and oil shale.
Session Chairpersons:
Peter H. Sammon, Computer Modelling Group; Knut-Andreas Lie, SINTEF
New simulation applications and the desire for integrated workflows have led to renewed interest in gridding and discretization. This session covers grid generation techniques designed to honor complex well trajectories, faults, and fracture networks. In addition, finite difference, finite element, and finite volume methods for complex grids will be presented and compared for flow in heterogeneous and fractured reservoirs.