Locally lumped equation of state fluid characterization in reservoir simulation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10830041-B2
Application number	US-201415501139-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2014
Priority date	Sep 3, 2014
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

In some embodiments, a method for locally lumped equation of state fluid characterization can include determining a set of components for the material balance calculations for a plurality of grid blocks of a reservoir. The plurality of grid blocks can experience different recovery methods between them. Lumping schemes can be determined for the plurality of grid blocks. Phase behavior calculations can be performed on the plurality of grid blocks, wherein different lumping schemes can be used across the plurality of grid blocks.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for locally lumped equation of state fluid characterization, the method comprising:
determining material balance components for each of a plurality of grid blocks of a model of a reservoir, the plurality of grid blocks corresponding to a plurality of geographic locations of the reservoir, wherein a different one of a plurality of recovery mechanisms is used for each geographic location;
assigning an equation of state (EOS) characterization to each of the plurality of grid blocks in the model of the reservoir, based on the recovery mechanism used for the geographic location corresponding to that grid block;
generating a pseudo-component group for each of the plurality of grid blocks, using a lumping scheme corresponding to the EOS characterization assigned to that grid block, wherein different lumping schemes are used across the plurality of grid blocks, each pseudo-component in the pseudo-component group represents one or more delumped components, and each pseudo-component group comprises fewer components than a represented grid block; and
performing a reservoir simulation based on the pseudo-component group generated for each of the plurality of grid blocks across the model of the reservoir.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing a wireline sampling operation in the reservoir in obtaining fluid samples from which fluid characterizations may be derived.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising using results of the reservoir simulation during recovery operations.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the reservoir simulation based on the plurality of pseudo-component groups comprises choosing a pseudo-component group for a particular grid block or group of grid blocks based on a reduced quantity of components that are configured to represent a phase behavior calculation.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the reduced quantity of components are less than a quantity of delumped components for the particular grid block of group of grid blocks.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
performing phase behavior calculations for a group of grid blocks of the model of the reservoir;
dynamically changing the EOS characterization and the pseudo-component group for a grid block in the group of grid blocks, based on the phase behavior calculations when a recovery mechanism for a geographic location corresponding to the grid block changes.

Assignees

• Landmark Graphics Corp

Inventors

• Fleming Graham Christopher
• Wong Terry Wayne

Classifications

• E21B49/081

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• E21B47/003

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• E21B47/07

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• E21B43/00

  Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells (applicable only to water E03B) · CPC title

• E21B43/168

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