"Water Flooding" or "Water Injection" is an improved oil recovery method, where water is injected at some carefully selected located parts of the hydrocarbon reservoir to improve hydrocarbon recovery either by "pressure maintenance" or by improved "sweeping" of the reservoir.
Friday, August 1, 2014
What is Flow Simulation?
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Simulation
"Flow Simulation" is a technique used by Reservoir Engineers to understand the flow behavior of a hydrocarbon reservoir. It uses a special computer software to mathematically represent the reservoir, the wells penetrating it and then they study the change of different fluids concentrations and pressure through out the reservoir as fluid is withdrawn and introduced from/to it.
"Flow Simulation" involves several steps, namely...
- Model Construction
- Model Initialization
- History Matching
- Prediction or Forecasting
How do Reservoir Engineers work?
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General
Reservoir Engineers use a wide range of tools to do their jobs. Some of the commonly used techniques are listed below:
- Classical Reservoir Engineering
- Material Balance
- Decline Curve Analysis
- Nodal Analysis
- Pressure Transient Analysis
- Fractional Flow Curve Methods (1-D displacement by Buckley-Leverett, Deitz method)
- PVT Analysis
- SCAL Analysis
- Uncertainty Analysis
- Petroleum Economic Analysis
- Flow Simulation
- Finite Difference Flow Simulation
- Streamline Simulation
- Black Oil / Compositional Simulation
Who can become a Reservoir Engineer ?
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Career
Generally who studied "Petroleum Engineering" as his/her major discipline in undergraduate or gradate level becomes "Reservoir Engineer". Frequently, students majoring in Geoscience, Chemical Engineering are also seen engaged as "Reservoir Engineer"s. Students with other backgrounds, like mathematics, physics, mechanical or process engineering are also sometimes seen as Reservoir Engineers. However, most of the time they undergo post graduate level training in Reservoir Engineering.
What is Reservoir Engineering?
"Reservoir Engineering" refers to the engineering discipline that deals with understanding the flow of fluids like gas, oil and water through the pore spaces of underground rocks and techniques to recover them in an economically efficient manner.
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