MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



The Fundamentals of Reservoir Simulation

Ali H. Dogru, Visiting Scientist

Jan/04 Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/06 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/08 Fri 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/11 Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/13 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/15 Fri 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/20 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/22 Fri 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/25 Mon 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159
Jan/27 Wed 10:00AM-12:00PM 4-159

Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 40 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

Reservoir simulators are essential tools in the oil and gas industry.  They are used to estimate hydrocarbon reserves, predict future production (income), and estimate the size of the separation plants (cost).  They are composed of a set of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations describing multi-phase, multi-component fluid flow in porous media and associated pipeline networks. 

This course will describe the relevant PDEs in a reservoir simulator, the thermodynamic constraints, and the rock-fluid interaction relationships.  It will also explain descretizing the equations to yield a large linear system, and the use of sparse linear solvers to solve the system.  The course will be hands-on, and students are expected to write computer programs and discuss the findings in class.  Students will learn how to write a three dimensional multi-phase, multi-component reservoir simulator with production and injection wells.

Ali H. Dogru is a Fellow and the Chief Technologist of the Computational Modeling Technology Group for Saudi Aramco.  He has 38 years of international experience in both industry and academia.  He is a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.  He has 12 US patents and has received SPE’s John Franklin Carll Award, SPE’s Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, and World Oil’s Innovative Thinker Awards.

 

Sponsor(s): Mathematics
Contact: Michael Szulczewski, michael.szulczewski@aramcoservices.com