In this paper, we introduce our work on accelerating a black oil simulator using GPU-based parallel iterative linear solvers. We develop iterative linear solvers and several commonly used preconditioners on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. These solvers and preconditioners are coupled with our in-house reservoir simulator. Numerical experiments show that our GPU-based black oil simulator is sped up around si...

The paper describes the theoretical framework and results of using an rapid three-dimensional super element model of oil field development. The model makes it possible to speed up calculation of two-phase filtration in an oil reservoir by hundreds of times owing to the use of large computational cells – super elements, the number of which corresponds to the number of wells in the field. Accurac...

Constructing phase diagram and its subsequent quality lines for lean gas condensate reservoirs is always crucial and challenging topic in reservoir fluid studies. Due to small amounts of liquid drop-outs in lean gas condensates at reservoir conditions, full experimental tracking of phase diagram and its relevant quality lines is almost impossible for lean gas condensates.On the other hand, ...

During history match reservoir models are calibrated against production data to improve forecasts reliability. Often, the calibration ends up with a handful of matched models, sometime achieved without preserving the prior geological interpretation. This makes the outcome of many history matching projects unsuitable for a probabilistic approach to production forecast, then motivating the quest ...

The computation time for reservoir simulation is dominated by the linear solver. The sets of linear equations which arise in reservoir simulation have two distinctive features: the problems are usually highly anisotropic, with a dominant vertical flow direction, and the commonly used fully implicit method requires a simultaneous solution for pressure and saturation or molar concentration variab...

In this paper we develop a pseudo function approach to obtain relative permeabilities for the numerical simulation of three-dimensional petroleum reservoirs. This approach follows the idea of an experimental approach and combines an analytical solution technique for two-phase flow with a numerical simulation technique for cross-sectional models of these three-dimensional reservoirs. The advanta...

Well test analysis of multi-layer reservoir comprises several parts. The first part concerns the estimation of parameters values and next considers finding an appropriate method to determine the unknown reservoir parameters. If the initial estimations are less accurate and weak, the final assessment may lead to incorrect results, which are totally different from the reality. Utilizing Automated...