...: a repeatable process driven by an integrated workflow An ensemble is a collection of plausible geological realizations and its associated simulation cases for the reservoir being modelled. Working with ensembles in reservoir modelling allows to obtain a probabilistic picture of the reservoir considering its...

...The 29th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan, September 12-13, 2024 Development of Numerical Simulator Predicting Microbial Methane Generation Behavior Risako Kawamura 1 Hisanao Ouchi 1 and Masanori Kurihara 1 1. Waseda University Copyright 2024, held jointly by the Japan Formation Evaluation...

...The 29th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan, September 12-13, 2024 Development of Numerical simulator for predicting Behavior of Closed-loop Geothermal System Rion Nakamoto1, Hisanao Ouchi1 and Masanori Kurihara1 1Waseda University. Copyright 2024, held jointly by the Japan Formation...

.../gas reservoirs looks promising and has received a lot of attention in research. This research aims to develop a numerical simulator predicting Nano-EOR performances in shale oil/gas reservoirs. At a first stage in this research, the simulator predicting Nano-EOR performances in conventional oil...

... Abstract In this research, we developed a numerical simulator predicting methane hydrate (MH) dissociation and production behavior in using grout material. This simulator solves the governing equations of the mass conservation for methane, water, MH, grout material and grout material hydrate...

... is injected from an upper horizontal well to reduce the viscosity of heavy oil, and this less viscous oil flows downward and is produced from a lower horizontal well. In this research, we have developed a three-dimensional, equation of state (EOS) based multi-component, thermal flow simulator, expecting...

... to predict the methane hydrate reservoir performances rigorously. In the past study (Iwata et al., 2019), the program that couples the methane hydrate flow simulator (MH21-HYDRES) and geomechanics simulator (COTHMAs) was developed incorporating several coupling methods such as “iterative coupling method...

... Abstract In this study, we developed a three-dimensional numerical simulator that can simultaneously calculate the compositional fluid flow behavior and the geomechanical behavior around the CO2 injection reservoir to accurately predict CCS performances including induced seismicity effects...

... report the preliminary results of numerical simulation on the hydraulic stimulation response at this candidate site. We first design the discrete fracture network for the region of 1200×800×800 m volume, which includes approximately 2000 fractures. Then we explore the responses during hydraulic...

... ABSTRACT The present study was aimed to develop a numerical simulator for predicting oil recovery process during low-salinity water flooding (LSWF). While various mechanisms have been proposed in the past decades, this study focused primarily on the cation exchange. The authors' previous core...

... ABSTRACT Although the reservoir simulation is widely utilized to predict geothermal reservoir performances, the results of the simulation are sometimes different from those actually observed in field operations due to non-equilibrium conditions and poor modeling of fracture system. Therefore...

... ABSTRACT In this research, we developed a double-permeability type compositional simulator (ECBM simulator) which deals with two phases of gas and water composed of four components of H2O, CH4, CO2 and N2. The phase behavior/equilibrium is calculated by solving the Equation of State (EOS...

... simulator and an invasion profile simulator. In this paper, we shared our insight on accuracy and limitation of the existing gas correction method. log analysis log response excavation effect invasion depth dielectric tool well logging 24th formation evaluation symposium simulator Symposium...

... such as the changes in porosity/permeability associated with the deformation of a reservoir for accurately predicting production performances for these unconventional reservoirs. Recently, the reservoir fluid flow behavior has been simulated in conjunction with geomechanics simulation, using various coupling methods...

...) technique that combines the characteristics of Hamiltonian dynamics and Metropolis algorithm to sample complex distributions. The workflow basically consisted of the development of a program using HMC as a sampling algorithm and of the combination of this program with a commercial simulation software...

...The 23rd Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan, October 11-12, 2017 -1- Development of a Three-Dimensional, Three-Phase, Quadruple-Porosity/Quadruple-Permeability White Oil Type Simulator with Embedded Discrete Fracture Model for Predicting Shale Gas/Oil Flow Behavior Takuto Sakai1 and Masanori...

...The 22nd Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan, September 29 - 30, 2016 -1- INVESTIGATION ON LOW SALINITY WATERFLOODING THROUGH CORE FLOODING EXPERIMENTS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION Tomoaki Ishiwata1, Masanori Kurihara1, Hiroki Taniguchi2, Yoshihiro Tsuchiya2, Jun Watanabe2, Kentaro Matsumoto3 1...

... Abstract It is essential to estimate the three-phase (oil-gas-water) relative permeability accurately for the numerical simulation of reservoir performances. The most common approach currently used in modeling a three-phase flow is to estimate the three-phase relative permeability using...

... Abstract A hydraulic fracturing simulator for modeling a primary tensile fracture propagation interacting with a natural fracture system has been developed. In the simulator, the primary fracture is modeled by small segments aligned along the direction of maximum horizontal stress...