Hybrid three-scale model for evolving pore-scale geometries

TB Costa, K Kennedy, M Peszynska - Computational Geosciences, 2018 - Springer
We consider flow and upscaling of flow properties from pore scale to Darcy scale, when the
pore-scale geometry is changing. The idea is to avoid having to solve for the pore evolution …

Stress management: First Openhole multistage ball drop in Khazzan

A Casero, M Rylance, A Al Shueili, O Ishteiwy… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2017 - onepetro.org
Openhole multistage (OHMS) completion systems have been available for nearly 20 years.
Their introduction was primarily linked to improved operational efficiency, achievable …

Improving chemical-enhanced-oil-recovery simulations and reducing subsurface uncertainty using downscaling conditioned to tracer data

VA Torrealba, H Hoteit, A Chawathe - SPE Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Chemical–enhanced oil–recovery (CEOR) mechanisms are strongly influenced by gridblock
size and reservoir heterogeneity compared with conventional waterflooding (WF) …

Hydrodynamics of porous formations: Simple indices for calibration and identification of spatio-temporal scales

M El-Rawy, F De Smedt, O Batelaan… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes simple indices to characterize the hydrodynamic conditions of
groundwater flow systems and parameters of a basin on different space-time scales, ie …

Simple hydraulic conductivity estimation by the Kalman filtered double constraint method

MA El‐Rawy, O Batelaan, W Zijl - Groundwater, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the Kalman Filtered Double Constraint Method (DCM‐KF) as a
technique to estimate the hydraulic conductivities in the grid blocks of a groundwater flow …

Upscaling and downscaling with an effective medium theory, applied to heterogeneous reservoir

GK Brouwer, PA Fokker - SPE Europec featured at EAGE Conference …, 2013 - onepetro.org
Upscaling of reservoir permeability will remain an issue in the oil and gas industry as long
as static and dynamic models are limited by computing power and memory constraints. At …

Improving chemical EOR simulations and reducing the subsurface uncertainty using downscaling conditioned to tracer data

VA Torrealba, H Hoteit, A Chawathe - SPE Annual Technical …, 2017 - onepetro.org
Recovery mechanisms are more likely to be influenced by grid-block size and reservoir
heterogeneity in Chemical EOR (CEOR) than in conventional Water Flood (WF) simulations …

Zone-integrated double-constraint methodology for calibration of hydraulic conductivities in grid cell clusters of groundwater flow models

M El-Rawy, F De Smedt, W Zijl - Transport in Porous Media, 2018 - Springer
This paper deals with the double-constraint methodology for calibration of steady-state
groundwater flow models. The methodology is based on updating the hydraulic conductivity …

Double constraint method for pum** test analysis

F De Smedt, W Zijl, M El-Rawy - Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
A double constraint method is proposed to analyze pum** tests in a confined aquifer. An
expression for estimation of aquifer transmissivity is derived by minimizing the sum of …

Comparison of two mathematical models for 3D groundwater flow: block-centered heads and edge-based stream functions

GA Mohammed, W Zijl, O Batelaan… - Transport in porous …, 2009 - Springer
Traditionally, groundwater flow models, as well as oil reservoir models, are based on the
block-centered finite difference method. Well-known models based on this approach are …