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Reservoir simulation and monitoring
Field simulation and monitoring techniques help to increase oil recovery by providing a deeper understanding of oil reservoirs. They make it possible to:
- improve the treatment of heterogeneity at different scales,
- improve modelling of the physics of the different production mechanisms at play,
- improve risk management by integrating information acquired during production.
The expansion of well monitoring techniques, notably 4D seismic, requires modelling techniques which are able to integrate data acquired during the course of production. IFP is developing a new generation of high-performance simulators.
Research areas
IFP’s teams are exploring different ways of updating field simulation and monitoring.
Improving the performance of reservoir simulators
The performance of reservoir simulators could be improved by:
- new numerical schemas and new resolution methods,
- a greater number of meshes,
- greater attention to heterogeneities with the use of adapted meshes which are more precise in some zones of the reservoir and less precise elsewhere,
- hybrid meshes to adapt the grid geometry to the radial geometry around the wells,
- dynamic modelling of fissured reservoirs and the interpretation of well testing and production data from these reservoirs.
The integration of production data and seismic data
IFP is pursuing research that aims to improve the methodologies and software packages used to analyse production data and seismic data. Its researchers are working to:
- develop a way to use measurements from well testing to characterise the permeability of rocks,
- adapt the gradual deformation methodology used in CondorFlow software,
- perfect adaptive algorithms in order to reduce calculation times.
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