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Parallel Interactive Reservoir Simulator
The industry first integrated modeling and data analysis framework centered
on dynamic reservoir simulations combining interactive 3D graphics and
supercomputer parallel performance with no extra per core charge.
Interactive Reservoir
Simulation Tools
tNavigator offers reservoir engineers and geologists unique runtime monitoring of the simulation
runs, advanced field development planning and waterflood optimization functionality interactively with a
3D graphical user interface:
Run dynamic reservoir simulations 1020 times
faster with modern multicore computers.
No painful data migration, since tNavigator directly
loads and exports industry standard ASCII and
binary formats.
Monitor every dynamic grid property and well data
live at runtime, while running simulations on workstations or clusters.
Easily handles small sector and large full-field models with minimum or no upscaling.
Run full finite difference simulations, perform 3D
streamline-based waterflood analysis in the same
interface with no additional software to buy.
Create and run forecast models instantly from any
time step, right after the history matching is completed.
Load your well log data directly from LAS files and
plot it against the well production profiles
Update your grid parameters based on 3D interpolation or kriging directly in the simulator without
going back to the geological package
Novel hydraulic fracture simulations for full-field
models applied for generic, shale gas, and oil reservoirs.
Efficient sidetrack optimization modeling.
Split and merge dynamic reservoir model grids with
no additional geological packages needed.
Visualize dynamic well production and injection
profiles perforation by perforation, at runtime.
Switch wells from production to injection, add new
wells and well patterns, plan new horizontal well
trajectories, inject tracers with a few mouse clicks.
Include simulations of near well bore treatments
into full-field modeling.
CPU computational efficiency grows rapidly today due to an increase in the number of cores. At the same time,
the cost of high-performance computational systems is constantly decreasing. Taking into account the availability
of computational power, there is a growing demand for efficient software, which would be able to utilize all the
computational resources in hand with a wise approach to parallel reservoir simulations. We know how to make it
efficient.
tNavigator Hybrid uses a conceptually new approach to parallel computations on clusters (SPE
162090, 163090). The main idea of the hybrid algorithm is to adopt different parallel algorithms for every
stage.
Hybrid Technologies
for Multicore CPU Clusters
Over the last few years, the cluster system architecture has changed dramatically. These changes represent the most significant advance over the last 20
years. Every computational node of a cluster is now a
multicore computer with non-uniform access to RAM.
Losing sight of these changes during software development leads to a dramatic loss of efficiency and poor
CPU utilization.
The approach in tNavigator Hybrid
removes the bottlenecks in parallel
scalability!
The package allows interactive adjusting of the dynamic model in the GUI with immediate visualization
on maps and plots. All visualization features are available during the run for results monitoring. tNavigator
offers various options for results interpretation, e. g.
tables, graphs, bubble maps, contours, 1D and 2D histograms, well profiles, and various reports. The GUI provides an unlimited number of windows with different
types of data synchronized for detailed results monitoring.
Available for cluster as client-server application. All
simulation results for individual models or simulation
queues can be monitored in real time from a remote
terminal.
Hydraulic
Fracture Modeling
tNavigator introduces a new approach to hydraulic
fracture simulation. The fracture is considered as part
of the well. To simulate fractures, a network of new virtual perforations is generated in the grid blocks intersected by the assumed fracture surfaces. The fracture
efficiency is modeled through the individual virtual
perforation efficiencies and proppant properties (SPE
138071).
This approach provides the most realistic calculation of fluid inflow to the well. This new technology
was successfully tested on large full-field models of giant Western Siberia reservoirs with a large number of
hydraulic fractures.
degree of flexibility in the definition and re-configuration of fracture networks. The orientation and shape of
fractures can be easily changed by modification of the
few keywords in the model stack file.
The new technology of fracture modeling can be
easily extended from single to multiple fractures per
well. The approach is found to be very efficient for simulation of shale reservoirs with multistage fractured
wells (SPE147021).
Multiple realizations of fractures and reservoir properties can be applied for uncertainty quantification of
the reservoir performance.
The model can be split using any trajectory: a specific region of the model, or via an arbitrary user map.
After running the large model one time before splitting, the flux boundary conditions are applied to all
fragments and used in the calculations. Model updates
recorded in the fragments are then merged back into
the large model.
The technology was applied to a number of giant
models in West Siberia (SPE 162090).
Advanced waterflood
optimization
Add 2D, 3D streamline visualization and analytics,
while running full finite difference dynamic reservoir simulations.
Modeling thermal processes has posed many challenges as it requires very fine grid systems to capture
the heat transfer phenomena, the heterogeneity of porous media, and the complexity of fluid and heat flow
in multi-segmented wellbores.
The challenges in the simulation of thermal models
have been addressed in tNavigator. The advancement
in software and hardware technologies delivers the scalability of several orders of magnitude as compared to
single core simulation and the results are benchmarked
against industry simulators. The capability of handling
finer scaled models within a practical time frame allows
runningthe simulation with more precise prediction of
thermal processes and oil production. This opens the
door to tackling much larger and more detailed reservoir model resolution up to geological scale.
Thermal models such as steam-assisted gravity
drainage (SAGD), steam flooding and cyclic steam injection can be simulated with tNavigator.
EOR modeling
tools
tNavigator proposes an elegant method for chemical injection simulations based on active tracers. The
particles of chemicals in the water phase can be fully
traced in the reservoir from the injection date, and can
induce changes in reservoir properties when the activation conditions are fulfilled. Based on user defined
tables the tracers can change reservoir properties, such
as permeability, porosity, relative permeability etc. The
model can be applied directly to the data available from
the laboratory core measurements.
tNavigator has been successfully applied to projects
with various EOR methods:
Alkalines
Surfactants
Polymers
BrightWater nano-polymers
A similar mathematical approach is applied to waterflood problems, where the injected water salinity is
different from formation water salinity. A new mathematical model is proposed, taking into account basic
physical parameters of the undergoing process, such as
maximal salt concentration (saturated solution concentration), viscosity and water density dependence on
salt concentration, porosity, and permeability changes
with fresh water flooding (SPE 162091).
Uncertainty quantification
and assisted history matching
Internal queuing system for distributing multiple
simulation runs locally or on remote clusters
Various experimental design methods for sensitivity analysis
Iterative algorithms for automatic history matching and production optimization
Analysis toolbox: plots, histograms, tornado charts,
correlation analysis
Geological
modeling
Software for building static models from scratch
Using tNavigator platform for parallel computations and visualizations of large volume of data
Very fast even on large models
User friendly intuitive workflow manager
Loading well trajectories, markers, horizons and
well log data in conventional formats
Having been a user of reservoir simulation for over 30 years, I was looking for the
next step change in technology that allowed us to do the things we wanted to do, at
the resolution we wanted, in an acceptable timeframe and at reasonable cost. RFD
achieved this, and Im sure will achieve a significant part of the reservoir simulation
marketplace as others realise that this is a step change in the performance/price
value driver.
- Steve Flew. Technical Director, Petrofac Malaysia
I would like to express my appreciation for RFDs outstanding support and thank
your development team for adding surfactant modeling capabilities to tNavigator.
Use of this feature in our simulation work has advanced our understanding of surfactant flooding potential in the Spraberry oil field in West Texas.
- oil and gas exploration and production company
With tNavigator we managed to reduce the simulation time of the Samotlor field
model from one day to 39 minutes. It completely changes the approach to development planning and waterflood optimization of this huge brown field.
RFD reduced the complexity of routine operations with the models to the general
PC user level
- Vladislav Dzyuba. Director of Reservoir Modeling, TNK-BP
Website: www.rfdyn.com
Email: info-rfd@rfdyn.com
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