The world continues to rely heavily on petroleum as a primary energy source. However, a
great fraction of the oil-in-place remains inaccessible to traditional recovery means. This …

As a result of research in the 1950s and 1960s, carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding has been
implemented at the pilot and project stage in the petroleum industry since the early 1970s. A …

This book provides a self-contained introduction to the simulation of flow and transport in
porous media, written by a developer of numerical methods. The reader will learn how to …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

▪ Abstract Efficiently and accurately solving the equations governing fluid flow in oil
reservoirs is very challenging because of the complex geological environment and the …

Practical production optimization problems typically involve large, highly complex reservoir
models, thousands of unknowns and many nonlinear constraints, which makes the …

An asymptotic formulation of the inverse problem for flow reveals that the inversion may be
partitioned into two complementary subproblems. In the first problem the arrival time …

One of the outstanding challenges in reservoir characterization is to build high-resolution
reservoir models that satisfy static as well as dynamic data. However, integration of dynamic …

Field-scale rate optimization problems often involve highly complex reservoir models,
production-and-facilities related constraints, and a large number of unknowns. These factors …

We generalize the streamline approach to transient pressure applications by introducing a"
diffusive" time of flight along streamlines. This allows us to define drainage areas or volumes …