ECLIPSE Blackoil Simulation

For general-purpose 3D blackoil reservoir modeling

With fully implicit, three-phase, 3D simulations, ECLIPSE Blackoil reservoir simulation software models extensive well controls and supports efficient field operations planning, including water and miscible-solvent gas injection. The blackoil model assumes that the reservoir fluids consist of three phases—oil, water, and gas, with gas dissolving in oil and oil vaporizing in gas.

Capabilities

• Directional relative permeability
• Vertical or nonvertical equilibrium
• Dual porosity and permeability
• Non-neighbor connections
• Three-component miscible flood modeling 
• Multiple aquifers (analytical and numerical)
• Crossflow and commingling in wells
• Chemical reactions
• Well, group, and field economic controls
• Highly deviated and horizontal wells 
• Different geometry grid options, including corner point, conventional block-center, radial, Cartesian, perpendicular bisection, local grid refining, and hybrid gridding
• Multiple rock types, pressure volume-temperature (PVT) regions, and rock compaction
• Hysteresis, tracers, and brine tracking

Features and add-on options

By choosing from various add-on options, such as coalbed methane, gas field operations, reservoir coupling, EOR, multisegmented wells, and surface networks, ECLIPSE simulators can be tailored to your needs and greatly enhance the scope of your simulation studies.

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