Capacitance resistance models (CRMs) comprise a family of material balance reservoir
models that have been applied to primary, secondary and tertiary recovery processes …

Ongoing increase in worldwide oil demand and emission of greenhouse gases persuades
engineers to utilize new approaches to optimize enhanced hydrocarbon recovery operations …

In petroleum domain, optimizing hydrocarbon production is essential because it does not
only ensure the economic prospects of the petroleum companies, but also fulfills the …

Thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods are commonly used to extract heavy oil from
oilfields. Hot water injection into reservoirs reduces oil viscosity and increases its mobility to …

The reservoir characterization aims to provide the analysis and quantification of the injection-
production relationship, which is the fundamental work for production management. The …

A group of optimisers, widely used for well placement problems, are population-based
algorithms. These algorithms have a major downside; they are computationally demanding …

One of the main reservoir development plans is to find optimal locations for drilling new
wells in order to optimize cumulative oil recovery. Reservoir simulation is a necessary tool to …

Abstract The Capacitance Resistance Model (CRM) is a fast way for modeling and
simulating gas and waterflood recovery processes, making it a useful tool for improving real …

Traditional strategies have attempted to combine complicated petrophysics, geophysics and
thermodynamics with economic factors in order to determine the best method of recovery …

In this study, a system of multi-layer capacitance resistive models (MLCRMs) is established
for water flooding performance prediction in a layered reservoir. Three different types of …