Flexible Reservoir & Well Control

The ECLIPSE family of reservoir simulation software offers the industry’s most complete and robust set of numerical solutions for fast and accurate prediction of dynamic behavior for all types of reservoirs and degrees of complexity—structure, geology, fluids, and development schemes. The ability to simulate, monitor, and control in real time all the key processes that occur within the reservoir and production system is a fundamental requirement for the industry today. ECLIPSE software includes efficient, flexible, and extensible reservoir and well control options. Flexible reservoir and well control management options support economic calculations, composite well targets, and facility constraints.

Capabilities

• Flexible well control options, including well rate targets that are linear combinations of phase rates. These options increase the range of complex reservoir and well controls, enabling you to combine phase rates on wells as targets or limits.
• ACTION keywords. These enable you to flexibly control the desired action taken under defined conditions. You can combine field, group, and well conditions. For example, you can use ACTION keywords to open a producer to meet a field production target when field GOR is above a defined level. You can perform the action once or as many times as you wish as long as the condition is met.
• User-defined tables (UDTs) for lookup and calculation of user-defined quantities (UDQs) and user-defined arguments (UDAs). UDQs and UDAs are mathematical functions of in-built quantities, giving significant extensibility in exercising conditional logic, such as using UDQs to set up economic parameters to decide whether it is more cost-effective to inject lower- or higher-quality steam.
• Combining ACTION keywords, UDQs, UDTs, and UDAs to model advanced reservoir and well control scenarios, such as chemically enhanced oil recovery strategies, or economic calculations. For example, a combination of ACTION keywords and UDAs can be used to model the injection sequence for an alkaline-surfactant-polymers (ASP) flooding scenario. Or you can model the economic parameters for shutting a well based on oil price or oil production rate considered against the water production rate and water disposal cost.