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  • 13 - Flow Diagnostics

  • from Part IV - Reservoir Engineering Workflows
  • Knut-Andreas Lie
  • Book:
    An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave
    Published online:
    22 July 2019
    Print publication:
    08 August 2019, pp 477-517
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  • Summary

    This chapter presents flow diagnostics methods you can use to delineate volumetric communications and improve your understanding of how flow patterns in the reservoir are affected by geological heterogeneity and respond to engineering controls. Using these methods, you can answer questions such as: to what region does a given injector provide pressure support? Which injection and production wells are in communication? Which parts of the reservoir affect this communication? How much does each injector support the recovery from a given producer? Do any of the wells have backflow? What is the sweep and displacement efficiency within a given drainage, sweep, or well-pair region? Which regions are likely to remain unswept? Flow diagnostics also provide several measures of the dynamic heterogeneity of a reservoir model, i.e., the variation in flow paths and their associated travel or residence times. We present several examples that demonstrate how you can use flow diagnostics to analyze interwell communication, improve well placement and sweep efficiency, and pre- and postprocess multiphase flow simulations.