Abstract:
Disclosed herein are example configurations of centrifuges used for analyzing properties of core samples extracted from sub-surface environments, in which the configuration of the centrifuges and rotations thereof improve fluid distribution within core samples held in the apparatus. In one aspect, a centrifuge includes a rotating arm and a holder coupled to a distal end of the rotating arm, the holder being configured to rotate independently of the rotating arm for analyzing fluid-rock interaction within the holder.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for determining non-linear petrofacies using cross-plot partitioning to define petrofacies boundaries that distinguish the petrofacies by appearance and/or composition using systematic and automated data analysis techniques.
Abstract:
Systems, methods and computer readable storage media for optimizing a determination of a number of grid cell counts to be used in creating the geocellular grid of an earth, geomechanical or petro-elastic model for reservoir simulation. These may involve determining at least one processing time for a simulation; determining a grid cell count to be used in creating a geocellular grid for the simulation based on the at least one processing time and a number of processors to be used for creating the model; creating the geocellular grid using the grid cell count, and generating a model for the simulation using the geocellular grid.
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for performing a simulation to seismic process. In one embodiment, the system is configured to perform operations comprising constructing a petrophysical realization and selecting a candidate model for fluid flow simulation using the petrophysical realization. Empirical petrofacies definitions is applied on the selected candidate model and assigning relative permeability at each node of the petrofacies definitions of the selected candidate model. The operations performs flow simulation on selected candidate model and performs analysis on the results of the simulation on selected candidate model to verify rock type flow units. The dynamic and static simulation results are synthesized such that the combined data yield a measurable rock property that may be compared to seismic properties and used to calibrate subsequent iterations of the static earth model. The continued iteration of the workflow may then be undertaken with the updated/refined earth model.
Abstract:
A visualization module of an imaging system having a 3D geocellular model generated for illustrating rock types within a subterranean formation. The visualization module can determine that cells of the 3D geocellular model are visible to a field of view for a viewing user. For each cell determined to be visible, the visualization module can determine a rock type for the cell and that one or more faces of the cell are visible. For each face determined to be visible, the visualization module can determine an orientation of the face; determine that an image corresponds to the determined orientation and determined rock type; and apply the image to the face of the cell in the 3D geocellular model.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for automated upscaling of relative permeability using fractional flow in systems comprising disparate rock types after actual convergence of a production rate and an injection rate using a three-dimensional (3D) reservoir simulator.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is related to improvements in methods for evaluating and predicting responses of virtual sensors to determine formation and fluid properties as well as classifying the predicted as plausible or outlier responses that can indicate the need for maintenance of downhole physical sensors. In one aspect, a method includes detecting a change to a system of operating a wellbore to yield a determination, the system including a virtual sensor, the virtual sensor including a physical sensor placed in the wellbore for collecting one or more physical properties inside the wellbore; and based on the determination, performing one of retraining a machine learning model for predicting an output of the virtual sensor or predicting an output of the virtual sensor using the machine learning mode, the predicted output being indicative of at least one of sub-surface formation or fluid properties inside the wellbore.
Abstract:
The present disclosure is related to improvements in methods for evaluating formation fluid properties of interest in an in-production wellbore as well as evaluating health and functionalities of physical sensors present in and collecting data within the well. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data from one or more physical sensors within a wellbore; determining at least one formation property of the wellbore using one or more machine learning models receiving the data as input and generating reservoir simulation models using the at least one formation property.
Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods for allocating resources for executing a simulation. These include receiving a simulation for execution, calculating an initial runtime of an initial time step of the simulation, determining a total runtime of the simulation based on the initial runtime, selecting a runtime model based on the initial time step, total runtime, or a parameter of the simulation, identifying, based on the selected runtime model, an allocation of a resource providing an increase in runtime speed, allocating the identified resource, and executing the simulation using the allocated resource.