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Simulation Model Building
Understand & Predict
CMG incorporates
reservoir heterogeneity, well complexity and
the physics of fluid flow, heat flow, geomechanics
and geochemistry required to understand & predict production
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Intuitive Model Building: Simplified Data Input
Interactive, intuitive and easy-to-use interface enables users to quickly and efficiently incorporate all required data to build a simulation model.
- Geomodelling and Geostatistics
- Build reservoir structure and 3D geomodels using contour maps, zone thickness maps etc.
- Upscale the geomodel for flow simulation
- Use well logs and core data with the geostatistical module for property distribution calculation
- Productivity Improvement Tools
- Easily import or create geological models, reservoir property distribution, PVT models, injection/production history, well trajectories and completions, and hydraulic fracture data
- Utilize grid-editing tool to perform: refinements, sub-model extraction, upscaling, grid splitting etc.
- Use correlations to generate data for relative permeability and PVT
- Convert dataset from IMEX to STARS or GEM to model more complex recovery processes
- Define and edit properties for any sector or region of reservoir
- Easily select properties and data for output to Results
- Intuitive well planning and field development tools for pattern based drilling, horizontal well drilling, defining group and cyclic well controls etc.
Training
- Build a basic black oil model and use some advanced reservoir simulation technology after attending Introduction to CMG’s Modelling Workflows
- Learn geostatistics and other geological modelling techniques
Hydraulic Fracture Wizard: Improve NPV
Accurately represent realistic hydraulic fractures in your reservoir model with Builder's easy-to-use Hydraulic Fracture wizard
- Create different fracture complexities, from simple bi-wings to complex networks
- Import third-party fracture design and parameter data for better fracture characterization, history matching and forecasting
- Quickly add or modify fracture properties for multiple stages or wells
- Easily adjust values of fracture permeability and non-Darcy flow co-efficients to accurately capture effects occurring in the field
- Vary propped/unpropped hydaulic fractures and natural fractures half-lengths, conductivity etc.
- Save fracture templates to easily apply identical fracture properties to multiple wells
Training
Attend a training course to learn how to:
Chemical EOR: Multiple Reaction Model Building
The chemical EOR advanced process wizards helps you build complex simulation models, enabling fast and efficient comparisons of different chemical additives.
- Process wizards include: reduction in residual oil with surfactants and alkali, adsorption of injected chemicals, complex non-Newtonian polymers etc.
- Implement relative permeability interpolation based on composition of certain components
- Reactions for In Situ foam generation or degradation help capture the true physics of the foam process
- Match lab data more efficiently with the updated foam wizards
- Confidently forecast production/recovery factor by configuring full-field or hybrid low salinity waterflood (LSW) models
- Easy step-by-step data input for LSW by using the process wizard
- Utilize process wizard to set up geochemistry reactions related to LSW
Process Wizards: Intuitive Workflows
The guided task-based advanced process wizards helps you build complex simulation models, enabling fast and efficient comparisons of different recovery
processes.
- Unconventional Reservoirs: shale gas, hydraulic fractures and coal bed methane
- Chemical EOR: foamy oil, ASP injection, low salinity waterflooding
- Geomodelling and Geostatistics
- In Situ Combustion
- Asphaltene Precipitation
- Fines Migration
Training
- Build a basic black oil model and use some advanced reservoir simulation technology after attending Introduction to CMG’s Modelling Workflows
- Learn geostatistics and other geological modelling techniques
Geomechanics: Efficiently Model Geomechanical Properties
Test the impact of a recovery process on the reservoir rock by including geomechanical effects in the simulation model.
- Accurate modelling of subsidence, compaction, and dilation
- Several different geomechanical models available to simulate stress-strain relationship
- Easy data input to set-up geomechanical module
- Full control over type of coupling and other geomechanical numerical parameters
- Select important geomechanical properties to output to Results
Training
Attend a training session to learn how to:
- Employ the latest technology and geomechanical features to projects
Advanced Wellbore Modelling
Combine Builder with FlexWell to accurately model the flow and other wellbore configurations for multiple thermal and non-thermal processes.
- Trajectory smoothing for removal of unrealistic 'kinks' in trajectories
- Wizards to import and edit: well trajectories, production and injection history
- Convert source-sink wells into FlexWell
- Well control options include: pressures, rates, layer-specific dynamic layer and monitoring fluid
- Convert trajectory and perforation information for one or more wells into iSegWell keywords
- Import third-party fracture simulation data for better fracture characterization, history matching and forecasting
Training
Attend a training course to learn:
- Use iSegWell after attending the Introduction to CMG’s Modelling Workflows course
- Learn how to effectively simulate complex wellbore designs
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