Dynamic Oil and Gas Production Optimization via Explicit Reservoir Simulation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Dynamic oil and gas production systems simulation and optimization is a research trend with a potential to meet the challenges faced by the international oil and gas industry, as has been already demonstrated in a wide variety of publications in the open literature. The complex two-phase flow in reservoirs and production wells governs fuel transport, but is mostly handled by algebraic approximations in modern optimization applications; the true reservoir state variable profiles (initial/boundary conditions) are not known. Integrated modeling and optimization of oil and gas production systems treats oil reservoirs, wells and surface facilities as a single (yet multiscale) system, focusing on computing accurate reservoir and well state variable profiles, useful for optimization. This paper discusses a strategy for interfacing reservoir simulation (ECLIPSE) with equation-oriented process optimization (gPROMS) and presents a relevant application. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • 16TH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING AND 9TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

  • Gerogiorgis, D. I., Georgiadis, M., Bowen, G., Pantelides, C. C., & Pistikopoulos, E. N.

citation count

  • 13

publication date

  • December 2006