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Current Reservoir Simulation News
Chevron Joins SLB and TotalEnergies in Digital Subsurface Collaboration
Known as Arena, the collaboration aims to improve decision-making across increasingly complex reservoirs and growing volumes of subsurface data.
Validity Regimes of Vertical Equilibrium Modeling for Subsurface Storage Applications
A new framework combines analytical and numerical insights, extending vertical equilibrium modeling and guiding reservoir-scale implementation, providing reservoir engineers with practical guidance for assessing accuracy across flow regimes and long-term carbon-dioxide migration.
Integrated Reservoir Management: Decisions, Data, and Discipline—Episode 3
This article from the SPE Integrated Reservoir Management Technical Section (IRMTS) examines the closed-loop IRM approach, from insight to execution to learning, and the limits of technology-driven solutions.
Integrated Surveillance and Reservoir Simulation Safeguard Value of Thin-Oil-Rim Brownfield
This paper presents a case study from a mature field redevelopment project where pulsed neutron logging was integrated with advanced reservoir modeling to improve the understanding of fluid-contact dynamics and optimize new horizontal well placement.
Proactive Surveillance Enhances Reservoir Characterization in Mature ACG Field
This paper aims to showcase examples of how integrated analysis of surveillance data in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli field has improved reservoir understanding and informed reservoir-management decisions.
Fuzzy Logic Assesses Interwell Connectivity: Case Study of a Giant Presalt Reservoir
This work applies fuzzy logic, a well-established artificial-intelligence technique, to quantitatively assess connectivity between injectors and producers in a giant presalt field in the Santos Basin of Brazil.
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Data-Driven Reservoir Modeling
New technology and protocols for applying data analytics to solve real-world, reservoir engineering problems and reduce large amounts of data down to actionable quantities.
Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
The standard reference for numerical models for fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs, often referred to as "The Green Book" of reservoir simulation.
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