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Data Processing: Structural Design, Modeling, Simulation, And Emulation > Simulating Nonelectrical Device Or System > Fluid > Well Or Reservoir Well Or ReservoirWell Or Reservoir patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/07/06 - 20060277013 - Method for simulating fluid flows within a reservoir by means of a chimera type discretization Method for simulating flows in reservoirs by means of chimera type grids. The method first consists in generating a chimera grid made up of a set of elementary grids capable of taking account of the various characteristics of the flows and of the geometry (radial grid in the well zone ... 12/07/06 - 20060277012 - Method of upscaling absolute permeabilities to construct a flow simulation model The invention is a method for calculating the inter-cell absolute permeability values associated with a reservoir model at the scale of the flow simulations representative of the porous medium from the absolute permeability values associated with a geologic model representative of the same porous medium. ... 12/07/06 - 20060277011 - Method and system for predicting the apparent flow conductivity of a heterogeneous medium The invention concerns a method and a system for predicting the apparent flow conductivity of a heterogeneous medium. According to the invention, the following steps are implemented:—choosing a flow conductivity element type with a given set of characteristic parameters;—determining equations for said flow in said element type;—determining a network statistics ... 11/23/06 - 20060265204 - Apparatus, method and system for improved reservoir simulation using a multiplicative overlapping schwarz preconditioning for adaptive implicit linear systems A method, system and apparatus are disclosed for conducting a reservoir simulation, using a reservoir model of a gridded region of interest. The grid of the region of interest includes one or more types of cells, the type of cell being distinguished by the number of unknown variables representing properties ... 11/02/06 - 20060247903 - Automated system for identifying optimal re-drilling trajectories An automated system for identifying an optimal re-drilling trajectory to reach a target using a previously drilled well is described. It creates substantial advantages in the time and cost saving that result from increasing drilling efficiency. In one embodiment, the invention is a system for identifying an optimal well path ... 10/26/06 - 20060241925 - Method for quickly forming a stochastic method representating the distribution of a physical variable in a heterogeneous environment by appropriate selection of a geostatistic realizations A method having an application to production problems in reservoir engineering for quickly forming a stochastic model representative of the distribution of a physical quantity in a porous heterogeneous medium, which is calibrated in relation to dynamic data, by suitable selection of geostatistical realizations to be combined linearly. An iterative ... 10/19/06 - 20060235668 - Modeling clastic reservoirs Methods, computer programs, and information handling systems for modeling one or more reservoirs are disclosed. The method uses one or more well logs, each for a well at a location and each including one or more Relative amount of Small Size Range of the Size Spectrum of Clastic Particles (RSSRSS) ... 10/19/06 - 20060235667 - Solution method and apparatus for large-scale simulation of layered formations A targeted heterogeneous medium in the form of an underground layered formation is gridded into a layered structured grid or a layered semi-unstructured grid. The structured grid can be of the irregular corner-point-geometry grid type or the simple Cartesian grid type. The semi-unstructured grid is areally unstructured, formed by arbitrarily ... 10/19/06 - 20060235666 - System and method for representing and processing and modeling subterranean surfaces Methods and systems are disclosed for processing data used for hydrocarbon extraction from the earth. Symmetry transformation groups are identified from sampled earth structure data. A set of critical points is identified from the sampled data. Using the symmetry groups and the critical points, a plurality of subdivisions of shapes ... 10/05/06 - 20060224370 - Method system and program storage device for simulating interfacial slip in a hydraulic fracturing simulator software A method, practiced by a Hydraulic Fracturing Simulator software, is adapted for simulating a hydraulic fracture in an Earth formation, the formation including a plurality of layers, a slip zone, which represents a debonding between adjacent layers of the Earth formation, possibly existing between the adjacent layers, the method comprising ... 10/05/06 - 20060224369 - Performance prediction method for hydrocarbon recovery processes The invention relates to a method for predicting the performance of large-scale hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir floods. One embodiment of the invention includes a method for predicting performance of a patterned flooding process in a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation, said formation being penetrated by a plurality of injector wells and producer wells, comprising ... 09/28/06 - 20060217947 - Method for determining the physicochemical properties of a three-dimensional body h) Generating three-dimensional graphical representations from the database BDT2. ... 09/07/06 - 20060200329 - Method for slurry and operation design in cuttings re-injection A method for simulating cuttings re-injection in a wellbore, that includes defining a mass balance equation for a solids bed, defining a mass balance equation for a suspension solids, segmenting the wellbore into a plurality of elements, wherein each element includes a plurality of nodes, segmenting a simulation into a ... 09/07/06 - 20060200328 - Apparatus for slurry and operation design in cuttings re-injection A system for simulating a wellbore used for cuttings re-injection, that includes functionality to obtain as input to the system at least one wellbore design parameter for the wellbore, at least one operating parameter for the cuttings re-injection, and a slurry design for a slurry to be injected into the ... 08/17/06 - 20060184347 - Method for recording zones on a stratified medium or the interface of a fluied situated within the medium and a flushing fluid which runs in a fixed manner The invention relates to a method for determining the zones of a stratified porous medium whose physical properties are known, wherein the front or interface between fluids in place and injected flushing fluids moves in a stationary manner, without using a complete flow simulation. Starting from an a priori defined ... 07/20/06 - 20060161406 - Method and system for predictive stratigraphy images Methods and systems are provided for displaying and forecasting the lithology and wellbore conditions to be encountered while conducting drill string operations are conducted in a wellbore. A method and system is described for predicting and modeling lithology while operating a drill string in a wellbore, comprising: developing a 3-D ... 07/06/06 - 20060149520 - Method for more rapidly producing the representative stochastic model of a heterogeneous underground reservoir defined by uncertain static and dynamic data Method for more rapidly forming a stochastic model of Gaussian or Gaussian-related type, representative of a porous heterogeneous medium such as an underground reservoir, constrained by data characteristic of the displacement of fluids and punctual observations, these observations being uncertain and characterized by a probability law. It is based on ... 06/29/06 - 20060142982 - Computer system and method for modeling fluid depletion A method for modeling fluid depletion in a reservoir is disclosed. A map is divided into cells. For each of the cells a value is stored that is based at least in part on a physical characteristic of the cell. At least one cell that contains a depletion location is ... 06/15/06 - 20060129366 - Finite volume method system and program storage device for linear elasticity involving coupled stress and flow in a reservoir simulator A method for conducting a stress calculation is disclosed adapted for modeling a set of stresses and displacements in a reservoir, the method comprising: (a) building a reservoir model over a region of interest by gridding the region of interest, the grid being comprised of one or more cells and ... 06/15/06 - 20060129365 - Method and system for estimating the amount of supercharging in a formation A method is provided for estimating the amount of supercharging in a formation penetrated by a wellbore. According to the method, pressure fluctuation measurements are obtained at a position in the formation accessible from the well bore and at an adjacent position in the wellbore, and a model is provided ... 06/01/06 - 20060116856 - Application of phase behavior models in production allocation systems The present invention is directed to a method for allocating revenue or taxes to individual fluid streams commingled during an oil and gas production process, the method includes commingling fluid streams to produce a commingled fluid stream; (2) utilizing a process simulation model to predict a phase change of each ... 05/18/06 - 20060106588 - Methods and computer-readable media for determining design parameters to prevent tubing buckling in deviated wellbores Methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining design parameters for oil well casing and tubing to prevent buckling in deviated wellbores. Well parameter data including tubing size, tubing weight, well depth, and well geometry is obtained and may be utilized to calculate parameters for predicting the movement of tubing ... 05/18/06 - 20060106587 - Method and apparatus for surveying a borehole with a rotating sensor package A method and apparatus for surveying a borehole using a rotating sensor package. A sensor tool preferably including a magnetometer sensor array is disposed in the bottom hole assembly of a drillstring. Conditioning circuitry in the sensor tool processes the sensor readings from the sensor array taken while the drillstring ... 05/11/06 - 20060100837 - Method for calibrating a model of in-situ formation stress distribution A method for producing a substantially calibrated numerical model, which can be used for calculating a stress on any point in a formation, accounts for a formation's geologic history using at least one virtual formation condition to effectively “create” the present-day, virgin stress distribution that correlates, within acceptable deviation limits, ... 05/11/06 - 20060100836 - Performance forecasting and bit selection tool for drill bits A method for forecasting performance of a drill bit, that includes obtaining a performance model for the drill bit, using a plurality of bit run records of the drill bit, wherein the obtaining is performed with a multivariate regression, and inputting a set of drilling parameters to the performance model ... 05/04/06 - 20060095240 - System and method for placement of a packer in an open hole wellbore A system and method enables optimization of placement of a packer in a wellbore, such as an open hole wellbore. The optimization of packer placement comprises an evaluation of the Earth formation failure modes. ... 04/20/06 - 20060085174 - Generalized well management in parallel reservoir simulation A computer-implemented process simulates production of oil and gas from hydrocarbon reservoirs. The process is used to help forecast the optimal future oil and gas recovery from large hydrocarbon reservoirs. At the same, this process is flexible to allow for further addition of new options; robust and reliable; and easy ... 04/06/06 - 20060074616 - Roller cone drill bits with optimized cutting zones, load zones, stress zones and wear zones for increased drilling life and methods Roller cone drill bits may be formed with cutting elements and cutting structures optimized to increase downhole drilling life of an associated drill bit. The cutting zone, load zone and wear zone of each cutting element may be analyzed by finely meshing each cutting element into many small segments. The ... 03/02/06 - 20060047489 - Method of modelling the production of an oil reservoir The invention stimulates the production of an oil reservoir by carrying out a sequence of steps of constructing a flow simulator from physical data measured in the oil reservoir; determining a first analytical model relating the production of the reservoir as a function of time by taking account of parameters ... 02/23/06 - 20060041411 - Method of designing and drilling systems made using rock mechanics models A method for designing a drilling tool or drilling assembly and a drilling tool or drilling assembly made according to the method is provided by simulating, in an earth formation, a rock mechanics effect of the drilling tool or the drilling assembly drilling in the earth formation, graphically displaying to ... 02/23/06 - 20060041410 - Multiple-point statistics (mps) simulation with enhanced computational efficiency An enhanced multi-point statistical (MPS) simulation is disclosed. A multiple-grid simulation approach is used which has been modified from a conventional MPS approach to decrease the size of a data search template, saving a significant amount of memory and cpu-time during the simulation. Features used to decrease the size of ... 02/23/06 - 20060041409 - Method for making a reservoir facies model utilizing a training image and a geologically interpreted facies probability cube A method for creating a reservoir facies model is disclosed. A S-grid is created which is representative of a subterranean region to be modeled. A training image is constructed which includes a number of facies. The training image captures facies geometry, associations and heterogeneity among the facies. A facies probability ... 02/16/06 - 20060036418 - Highly-parallel, implicit compositional reservoir simulator for multi-million-cell models A fully-parallelized, highly-efficient compositional implicit hydrocarbon reservoir simulator is provided. The simulator is capable of solving giant reservoir models, of the type frequently encountered in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, with fast turnaround time. The simulator may be implemented in a variety of computer platforms ranging from ... 02/02/06 - 20060025976 - Method and system for representing reservoir systems The disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of representing fluid flow in a physical fluid reservoir. The method includes generating a mesh representation of the physical fluid reservoir having a plurality of mesh elements. Each of the plurality of mesh elements is representative of a regional portion of the ... 01/26/06 - 20060020438 - Method and system for simulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation The invention is a method for simulating one or more characteristics of a multi-component, hydrocarbon-bearing formation into which a displacement fluid having at least one component is injected to displace formation hydrocarbons. The first step of the method is to equate at least part of the formation to a multiplicity ... 01/19/06 - 20060015310 - Method for simulation modeling of well fracturing A model system for simulating the performance of a subterranean well, starts with a base model wherein input logging data, pressure transient data and PVT data is introduced into the base model. A numerical interpreter then calculates the predicted performance of the well. A match system compares actual performance data ... 12/08/05 - 20050273304 - Methods for evaluating and improving drilling operations Methods and computer systems for performing and using drilling simulations. The drilling simulations can be used to improve drilling performance or demonstrate drilling performance of a drilling profile. One method for creating a drilling profile includes obtaining drilling profile data and performing a drilling simulation using at least a portion ... 12/08/05 - 20050273303 - Method of generating a conforming hybrid grid in three dimensions of a heterogeneous formation crossed by one or more geometric discontinuities in order to carry out simulations Method of generating a hybrid grid, in order to carry out simulations in accordance with a defined numerical scheme, in three dimensions and admissible in the numerical scheme sense, of a heterogeneous formation crossed by one or more geometric discontinuities such as, for example, an underground formation where one or ... 12/08/05 - 20050273302 - Dynamically balanced cutting tool system A method of dynamically balancing a hole enlargement system is disclosed. The method includes modeling the hole enlargement system based on input parameters, simulating the hole enlargement system, adjusting one or more of the input parameters, and repeating the modeling, simulating, and adjusting until a balanced condition is met. ... 12/08/05 - 20050273301 - Techniques for modeling/simulating, designing optimizing, and displaying hybrid drill bits A hybrid drill bit is modeled, simulated, designed, optimized, and displayed. The hybrid drill is modeled based on input bit design parameters. The modeled hybrid drill bit is then simulated as drilling an earth formation, where at least a portion of the simulation may be graphically displayed so as to ... 12/01/05 - 20050267719 - Field synthesis system and method for optimizing drilling operations A system and method for optimizing the performance of a drilling device utilizes well logs and drilling parameters from multiple offset wells located in proximity to the location of a desired wellbore. The well logs and drilling parameters data from the offset wells is synthesized to determine major drilling contexts ... 12/01/05 - 20050267718 - Method for field scale production optimization by enhancing the allocation of well flow rates A method for enhancing the allocation of fluid flow rates among a plurality of well bores in fluid communication with at least one subterranean reservoir is disclosed. An objective function and system equations are generated which utilize constraint violation penalties associated with soft constraints. The soft constraints are constraints which ... 11/03/05 - 20050246151 - System and method for determining formation fluid parameters A method for determining a parameter of interest of a formation fluid, comprises moving a tool attached to a tubular member along a borehole in a subterranean formation. The tool is used to determine a formation fluid pressure and a formation fluid temperature at predetermined locations along the borehole and ... 10/20/05 - 20050234690 - Method of constructing a geomechanical model of an underground zone intended to be coupled with a reservoir model Method of constructing a geomechanical model of an underground zone intended to be coupled with a reservoir model allowing simulation of fluid flows in the zone, from a geological model of the zone discretized by a fine grid. Basically, geomechanical properties are associated with the various cells of the geological ... 09/22/05 - 20050209836 - Method and apparatus and program storage device including an integrated well planning workflow control system with process dependencies A method of well planning in an automatic well planning system comprises the steps of: selecting one or more tasks in a task manager; verifying by a task dependency a proper order of the one or more tasks; retrieving by the task manager from a task base one or more ... 09/15/05 - 20050203725 - Multi-scale finite-volume method for use in subsurface flow simulation A multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method to solve elliptic problems with a plurality of spatial scales arising from single or multi-phase flows in porous media is provided. The method efficiently captures the effects of small scales on a coarse grid, is conservative, and treats tensor permeabilities correctly. The underlying idea is ... 09/08/05 - 20050197813 - Method and system for updating reliability prediction models for downhole devices Methods and systems for updating and/or predicting statistical reliability for downhole devices. In some embodiments, the statistical reliability for a device may be predicted prior to using the device to ensure the statistical reliability stays above a preset threshold. In other embodiments, the statistical reliability for a device is tracked ... 08/11/05 - 20050177354 - Multi-scale finite-volume method for use in subsurface flow simulation A multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method to solve elliptic problems with a plurality of spatial scales arising from single or multi-phase flows in porous media is provided. Two sets of locally computed basis functions are employed. A first set of basis functions captures the small-scale heterogeneity of the underlying permeability field, ... 08/04/05 - 20050171751 - Method system and program storage device for simulating a multilayer reservoir and partially active elements in a hydraulic fracturing simulator A method, practiced by a Hydraulic Fracturing Simulator software, is adapted for simulating a hydraulic fracture in an Earth formation, the formation including a multilayered reservoir, a mesh adapted to overlay the fracture in the formation thereby defining a plurality of elements, the mesh and the fracture defining one or ... 08/04/05 - 20050171750 - Bessel analytic element system and method for collector well placement The present invention involves a method of developing a model of groundwater flow with a well configuration. First, a geographic area is specified with one or more related wells. A mathematical model is created of the groundwater flow in relation to the wells with a plurality of layers, each layer ... 07/28/05 - 20050165593 - Method for modelling the production of hydrocarbons by a subsurface deposit which are subject to depletion A method for forming a model simulating production, by an underground reservoir subject to depletion, of hydrocarbons comprising notably relatively high-viscosity oils. From laboratory measurements of the respective volumes of oil and gas produced by rock samples from the reservoir subject to depletion, and the relative permeabilities (Kr) of rock ... 07/07/05 - 20050149307 - Integrated reservoir optimization A method of managing a fluid or gas reservoir is disclosed which assimilates diverse data having different acquisition time scales and spatial scales of coverage for iteratively producing a reservoir development plan that is used for optimizing an overall performance of a reservoir. The method includes: (a) generating an initial ... 07/07/05 - 20050149306 - Iterative drilling simulation process for enhanced economic decision making An iterative drilling simulation method and system for enhanced economic decision making includes obtaining characteristics of a rock column in a formation to be drilled, specifying characteristics of at least one drilling rig system; and iteratively simulating the drilling of a well bore in the formation. The method and system ... 06/09/05 - 20050125209 - Methods for geomechanical fracture modeling The present invention relates generally to methods for designing and optimizing the number, placement, and size of fractures in a subterranean formation and more particularly to methods that account for stress interference from other fractures when designing and optimizing the number, placement, and size of fractures in the subterranean formation. ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |