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Tuesday, October 26
00:00 - 00:00
01
Formulation, Discretization, and Mesh Generation - Part I
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Mary Wheeler - The University of Texas At Austin, Leonardo Patacchini - Stone Ridge Technology
This session covers alternatives to the industry standard monolithic fully implicit formulation with two-point flux discretization. Three papers discuss improvements to the sequential fully implicit solution method, two papers present ideas for estimation of reservoir simulation accuracy on unstructured grids, and one paper presents a theoretical study of sequential coupling algorithms for flow and geomechanics for hydraulic fractured systems.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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High-Resolution Reservoir Simulation With Dynamic Coarsening And Local Timestepping | ||
203900 | Inexact Methods for Black-Oil Sequential Fully Implicit (SFI) Scheme | |
Towards Accurate Reservoir Simulations on Unstructured Grids - Design of Simple Error Estimators and Critical Benchmark of Consistent Discretization Methods for Practical Implementation | ||
203909 | Coupling-Strength Criteria for Sequential Implicit Formulations | |
Alternate | 203961 | Grid Quality Measures for PEBI Grids |
Alternate | 203938 | Theoretical Investigation on Unconditionally Stable Sequential Algorithms of Coupled Flow and Geomechanics for Hydraulically Fractured Systems |
00:00 - 00:00
02
Data Assimilation, Optimization, and Uncertainty Quantification
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Hector Klie - DeepCast, Santosh Verma - ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.
Determination of optimal field management strategies in the presence of multiple sources of uncertainties and operational constraints depends heavily on the efficient and continuous improvement of both data and models.
This session will highlight the latest technological advances oriented to streamline history matching, uncertainty quantification, and optimization workflows in increasingly complex field scenarios.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Field Development Plan Optimization | ||
203907 | Scalable Hierarchical Multilevel Sampling of Lognormal Fields Conditioned on Measured Data | |
203954 | An Optimization-Based Facility Network Solver for Well Allocation in Reservoir Simulation | |
Bi-Objective Optimization of Well Placement: Algorithm, Validation, and Field Testing | ||
Alternate | 203975 | Numerical Comparison Between ES-MDA and Gradient-Based Optimization for History Matching of Reduced Reservoir Models |
00:00 - 00:00
03
Modeling of Complex and Coupled Systems - Part I
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Hui Cao - Total E&P USA, Inc., Yu Didier Ding - IFP Energies Nouvelles
Today's oil and gas production is more complex than ever, so is the need to accurately model complex and coupled recovery process. Papers in this session provide the latest advances in near-fracture imbibition process with a similarity solution, thermal stability check in thermal compositional simulation, thermal-hydraulic-mechanical (THM) modeling, as well as unified reservoir and seismic simulation.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203959 | A Similarity Solution for Imbibition Process and its Adaptation in Finite Difference Simulation of Fractured Reservoirs | |
203912 | Development of a Thermal Stability Method for Phase Appearance and Disappearance Handling in Thermal Compositional Simulators | |
203923 | Theoretical Analysis and Semi-Analytical Formulation for Efficient Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical Reservoir Simulation | |
203979 | Unified Reservoir and Seismic Simulation with Explicit Representation of Fractures and Faults | |
Alternate | 203955 | Use of Horizontal Drift-Flux Models for Simulating Wellbore Flow in SAGD Operations |
00:00 - 00:00
04
Multiscale Methods
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Kyrre Bratvedt - Schlumberger, Knut-Andreas Lie - SINTEF
Multiscale methods aim to accelerate reservoir simulation. This session discusses new methods, computational performance, and how these methods can be applied to solve challenging problems in a commercial setting.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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Implicit Space-time Domain Decomposition Approach for Solving Multiphase Miscible Flow: Accuracy and Scalability | ||
203939 | A Massively Parallel Restriction-smoothed Basis Multiscale Solver on Multi-core and GPU Architectures | |
203996 | Aspects of Multiscale Flow Simulation with Potential to Enhance Reservoir Engineering Practice | |
203970 | Differences in the Upscaling Procedure for Compositional Reservoir Simulations of Immiscible and Miscible Gas Flooding | |
Multi-Scale PVT Simulation of Decreasing Condensate-Gas Ratio above Dew-Point Pressure in Shale Gas-Condensate Reservoirs |
00:00 - 00:00
05
Linear and Nonlinear Solution Methods
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Faruk Omer Alpak - Shell International E&P Co., Denis Voskov - Delft University of Technology
Contemporary frontiers in reservoir simulation are increasingly demanding computationally reliable, scalable and efficient solutions that can accurately capture the dynamics of complex multiscale/multiphysics phenomena. Linear and nonlinear solvers play the leading role in reservoir simulation since they are responsible for the most significant fraction of computational time. This session will feature novel algorithmic developments in domain decomposition solvers, nonlinear solution strategies, multiscale methods for heterogeneous and anisotropic porous media, and multiphysics geomechanics-flow coupling.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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Adaptive Sequential Fully Implicit Domain-Decomposition Solver | ||
203987 | Efficient Localized Nonlinear Solution Strategies For Unconventional-reservoir Simulation With Complex Fractures | |
204009 | A Multi-level Non-linear Solver for Complex Well Modelling | |
203977 | Coupling a Geomechanical Reservoir and Fracturing Simulator with a Wellbore Model for Horizontal Injection Wells |
00:00 - 00:00
06
Applications of Scientific Machine Learning and Computational Statistics to Modeling and Management - Part I
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Eduardo Gildin - Texas A&M University, Pallav Sarma - Tachyus
Machine learning is driving a paradigm shift in several reservoir simulation domains by rapidly expanding the frontiers of research by embedding physics into data driven models and/or extracting physical insights from data. These transformations aim to create fast models with long term predictive capacity, improve the simulator engine, enable models to be more interpretable and generalizable, and help in discovery of unexposed reservoir dynamics. This session explores new approaches to physics-based and data-driven models and combinations thereof that effectively embed physical constraints, conservation laws and constitutive relations with data for robust upscaling, sensible time-stepping, accurate proxy models and efficient optimization schemes.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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204002 | Intelligent Time-Stepping for Practical Numerical Simulation | |
203934 | Physics Informed Deep Learning for Flow and Transport in Porous Media | |
203950 | Bayesian Optimization for Field Scale Geological Carbon Sequestration | |
203931 | INSIM-FPT-3D: A Data-Driven Model for History Matching, Water-Breakthrough Prediction and Well-Connectivity Characterization in Three-Dimensional Reservoirs |
00:00 - 00:00
07
Modeling of Complex and Coupled Systems - Part II
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Ann Muggeridge - Imperial College London, Yu-Shu Wu - Colorado School of Mines
As the petroleum industry pays more attention to unconventional shale/tight reservoirs as well as better IOR/EOR approaches in those reservoirs and conventional reservoirs, engineers need to model many additional flow mechanisms and coupled physics processes. The presentations in this session focus particularly on advances in the modeling of fractures (natural or hydraulic, including the formation and growth of those fractures and the flow within them.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203937 | A Time-Continuation Solver for Hydraulic Fracture Propagation | |
203983 | A 3D Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical (THM) Model Using EDFM and XFEM for Hydraulic-Fracture-Dominated Geothermal Reservoirs | |
203962 | Upscaling of Realistic Discrete Fracture Simulations Using Machine Learning | |
203990 | Modelling Methane Extraction from Stimulated Coalbed Influenced by Multidomain and Thermal Effects | |
203978 | Four Phase Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure Framework for Surfactant EOR Simulation | |
203956 | Coupling of Rigorous Multiphase Flash with Advanced Linearization Schemes for Accurate Compositional Simulation |
00:00 - 00:00
08
Applications of Scientific Machine Learning and Computational Statistics to Modeling and Management - Part II
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Abdulrahman Manea - Saudi Aramco PE&D, Aquiles Agreda - ConocoPhillips Co
Physics-augmented computational statistics and machine learning techniques, specifically deep learning, have gained interest in various areas of reservoir simulation. This session covers some recent novel developments in physics-augmented machine learning techniques to handle field wells management and optimization, reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification and history matching.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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A Recurrent Neural Network-based Proxy Model for Well Control Optimization with Nonlinear Output Constraints | ||
203994 | Physics-Aware Deep-Learning-Based Proxy Reservoir Simulation Model Equipped with State and Well Output Prediction | |
203924 | History Matching Complex 3D Systems Using Deep-Learning-Based Surrogate Flow Modeling and CNN-PCA Geological Parameterization | |
203965 | Reduced-Order Modeling for Multiphase Flow Using a Physics-Based Deep Learning | |
Efficient Uncertainty Quantification and Data Assimilation via Theory-Guided Convolutional Neural Network | ||
204004 | A Physics-Based Proxy for Surface and Subsurface Coupled Simulation Models | |
Alternate | 203917 | Physics Inspired Machine Learning for Solving Fluid Flow in Porous Media: A Novel Computational Algorithm for Reservoir Simulation |
00:00 - 00:00
09
Formulation, Discretization, and Mesh Generation - Part II
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Mohammad Karimi-Fard - Stanford University, Vijay Shrivastava - Computer Modelling Group Ltd.
This session will cover several interesting aspects of reservoir simulation including unstructured mesh generation for complex geological formations and specialized discretization techniques for modeling such systems. In addition, novel solution strategies for coupled flow & mechanics, and reactive transport in heterogeneous and fractured porous media will be presented.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203949 | Comparison of Various Discretization Schemes for Simulation of Large Field Case Reservoirs Using Unstructured Grids | |
203958 | A Cut-Cell Polyhedral Finite Element Model for Coupled Fluid Flow and Mechanics in Fractured Reservoirs | |
203902 | A Fast Gridding Method for Capturing Geological Complexity and Uncertainty | |
203974 | Adaptive Time Stepping, Linearization and a Posteriori Error Control for Multiphase Flow with Wells | |
203925 | Semi-elimination Methodology For Simulating High Flow Features In A Reservoir | |
203972 | High-Order Adaptive Scheme for Reactive Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media | |
Alternate | 203998 | The Mixed Virtual Element Method for Grids with Curved Interfaces in Single-Phase Flow Problems |
Alternate | 203908 | Acute PEBI Grid Generation for Reservoir Geometries |
Alternate | An Improved Diffusion Model for Fractured Tight Reservoirs |
00:00 - 00:00
10
High-Performance Computing: Algorithms and Enterprise Software
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Kyrre Bratvedt - Schlumberger, Jianxin Lu - Halliburton
In this session we will discuss recent advances using modern parallel computing architectures such as GPUs to solve reservoir simulation algorithms. Issues regarding programming of the GPUs, and potential new algorithms needed for this hardware, will also be reviewed. This session aims to cover a variety of different GPU applications from subsurface to surface.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203936 | Adding GPU Acceleration to an Industrial CPU-Based Simulator, Development Strategy and Results | |
203918 | A Massively Parallel Reservoir Simulator on the GPU Architecture | |
203929 | A GPU-Based, Industrial-Grade Compositional Reservoir Simulator | |
204000 | A GPU-Based Integrated Simulation Framework for Modelling of Complex Subsurface Applications | |
203947 | Distributed Gpu Based Matrix Power Kernel For Geoscience Applications | |
204011 | A GPU-Accelerated Linear Solver for Massively Parallel Underground Simulations | |
Alternate | 203932 | GEOSX: A Multiphysics, Multilevel Simulator Designed for Exascale Computing |
00:00 - 00:00
11
Modeling of Complex and Coupled Systems - Part III
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Adolfo Rodriguez - OpenSim Technology, Ying Guo - NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
This session is a good representation of the complex physics required in the modeling of the current oil and gas fields being produced around the globe. Papers range from proxy models for phase behavior to the modeling of hydraulic fracturing, proppant transport and geomechanics, among other interesting and highly relevant subjects.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203927 | Numerical Simulation of Proppant Transport in Hydraulically Fractured Reservoirs | |
203914 | A Proxy Peng-Robinson EOS for Efficient Modeling of Phase Behavior | |
203903 | A Collocated Finite Volume Scheme for High-Performance Simulation of Induced Seismicity in Geo-Energy Applications | |
203985 | Modeling Acid Fracturing Treatments with Multi-Stage Alternating Injection of Pad and Acid Fluids | |
203986 | Efficient Drill Sequence Optimization Using a Heuristic Priority Function | |
203966 | Simplified Initialization of Reservoir Simulation Models with Continuously Varying Tilted Contacts and Complex Fluid Distributions | |
Alternate | 204006 | Automatic Calibration of Geomechanical Models from Sparse Data for Estimating Stress in Deep Geological Formations |
Alternate | 203910 | The Modeling for Coupled Elastoplastic Geomechanics and Two-Phase Flow with Capillary Hysteresis in Porous Media |
00:00 - 00:00
12
Data Assimilation, Optimization, Uncertainty Quantification, and Software Elements
92-day Session
Session Chairpersons
Alberto Cominelli - Eni E&P, Dongxiao Zhang - Peking University
In this session we will discuss ideas on efficient approximation of posterior probability distribution function using Gaussian mixture, streamline technology and Pareto frontier computation (using parallel derivative-free methods). We will also discuss model based optimization with application to a real field case and software components for reservoir simulation development/prototyping.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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204008 | Strategies to Enhance the Performance of Gaussian Mixture Model Fitting for Uncertainty Quantification by Conditioning to Production Data | |
203995 | Injection and Production Optimization for Tengiz Platform Sour Gas Injection by Reactive and Proactive Conformance Completions Control | |
203971 | An Efficient Bi-Objective Optimization Workflow Using the Distributed Quasi-Newton Method and its Application to Field Development Optimization | |
203933 | Cache-Aware and Roofline-Ideal Automatic Differentiation | |
203993 | Streamline Tracing and Applications in Dual Porosity Dual Permeability Models | |
203953 | Jfts+h: A Julia-based Parallel Simulator For The Description Of The Coupled Flow, Thermal And Geochemical Processes In Hydrate-bearing Geologic Media | |
Alternate | 203968 | Fast and Robust Scheme for Uncertainty Quantification in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs |
Alternate | 203919 | Caveats and Pitfalls of Production Forecast Uncertainty Analysis Using Design of Experiments |
Alternate | 203997 | Deep Learning for Latent Space Data Assimilation (LSDA) in Subsurface Flow Systems |
00:00 - 00:00
C01
Recorded Session: Celebrating the 25th Edition of the Reservoir Simulation Conference
92-day Session
Moderator(s)
Rami Younis - University of Tulsa
Speaker(s)
Mary F. Wheeler - The University of Texas at Austin, Khalid Aziz - Stanford University, Ali H. Dogru - Saudi Aramco, Larry C. Young - Tilden Technologies - Retired
Join us as we celebrate the 25th edition of this unique meeting that has taken place, biennially, since 1968. Over the years, this event has seen generations of innovators, scholars, and professionals come together to tackle some of the most pressing computational technical challenges facing the Oil and Gas industry. It has also served to inspire future innovation while cultivating a strong sense of culture, community, and stewardship. We aim to celebrate this milestone by reflecting on our past to empower future generations of industry leaders.
00:00 - 00:00
PL01
Poster Papers
92-day Session
Authors, unassigned to a specific session, will present their recorded presentations.
Time | Paper # | Presentation |
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203922 | Local Equilibrium Mechanistic Simulation of CO2-foam Flooding | |
203967 | Coupled Simulation of Flow and Geomechanics in Fractured Reservoirs Using an Integrally Embedded Discrete Fracture Model | |
203911 | Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of Supersonic Multiphase Gas Injection | |
203906 | A Phase-Field Based Approach for Modeling the Cementation and Shear Slip of Fracture Networks | |
203976 | Bayesian Long-short Term Memory for History Matching in Reservoir Simulations | |
203921 | Coupled Poroelastic Modeling to Characterize the 4.18-Magnitude Earthquake due to Hydraulic Fracturing in the East Shale Basin of Western Canada | |
203957 | Higher Resolution Hybrid-upwind Spectral Finite-volume Methods, for Flow in Porous and Fractured Media on Unstructured Grids | |
203988 | EDFM-based Multi-continuum Shale Gas Simulation with Low Velocity Non-darcy Water Flow Effect | |
203941 | Bridging the Gap between Material Balance and Reservoir Simulation for History Matching and Probabilistic Forecasting Using Machine Learning | |
203913 | Optimization of Water-alternating-CO2 Injection Field Operations Using a Machine-learning-assisted Workflow | |
204003 | Radio Frequency Heating Simulation Using a Reservoir Simulator Coupled with Electromagnetic Solver for Soil Remediation | |
203901 | Constructing Dual-porosity Models from High-resolution Discrete-fracture Models Using Deep Neural Networks | |
203981 | A Fast Screening Tool for Assessing the Impact of Poro-mechanics on Fractured Reservoirs Using Dual-porosity Flow Diagnostics | |
203935 | A Novel Method To Speedup Calibrating Horizontal Well Performance Model With Multi-stage Fracturing Treatments And Its Applications In Delaware Basin | |
Dimensionless Solutions for the Time-dependent and Rate-dependent Productivity Index of Wells in Deformable Reservoirs |