US 11,782,741 B2
Modeling of fluid introduction and/or fluid extraction elements in simulation of coreflood experiment
Shi Su, Maisons-Alfort (FR); Marie Ann Giddins, Oxon (GB); Paul Naccache, Oxon (GB); Andrew Clarke, Haslingfield (GB); and Edmund J. Fordham, Fordham (GB)
Assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US)
Filed by Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar land, TX (US)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/803,899.
Application 16/803,899 is a division of application No. 15/548,764, abandoned, previously published as PCT/US2016/016274, filed on Feb. 3, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/111,158, filed on Feb. 3, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/111,162, filed on Feb. 3, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/111,166, filed on Feb. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0201658 A1, Jun. 25, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 9/455 (2018.01); E21B 43/16 (2006.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); E21B 43/20 (2006.01); C09K 8/584 (2006.01); C09K 8/588 (2006.01); E21B 47/12 (2012.01); E21B 49/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/455 (2013.01) [E21B 41/0092 (2013.01); E21B 43/16 (2013.01); E21B 43/20 (2013.01); E21B 49/005 (2013.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); C09K 8/584 (2013.01); C09K 8/588 (2013.01); E21B 47/12 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); E21B 49/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of modeling fluid flow through a core plug in a coreflood experiment, the method comprising:
loading a three dimensional computer simulation model of a core plug that additionally models one or both of a fluid introduction element or a fluid extraction element of a core holder, wherein the three dimensional computer simulation model models the one or both of the fluid introduction element or the fluid extraction element of the core holder using a plurality of grid cells, and wherein the plurality of grid cells model at least one channel or port through which fluid flows in the one or both of the fluid introduction element or the fluid extraction element; and
running a simulation using the three dimensional computer simulation model in a computer-implemented reservoir simulator to model heterogeneous distribution of fluid flow proximate one or more faces of the core plug,
wherein the one or both of the fluid introduction element or the fluid extraction element are symmetrical about one or more planes along an axis of symmetry of the core plug and the three dimensional computer simulation model and the three dimensional computer simulation model and the one or both of the fluid introduction element or the fluid extraction element includes only a segment of the one or both of the fluid introduction element or the fluid extraction element.