BUILDER PRODUCT OVERVIEW

SIMULATION
MODEL-BUILDING APPLICATION

Let Builder™ save time, money and frustration throughout the reservoir simulation process.
Through the use of 2D and 3D visualization or keyword input, users are able to easily prepare
BENEFITS reservoir simulation models. Reservoir Engineers will realize immediate time savings from
effectively navigating the often complex process of preparing reservoir simulation models.
• Save time by
interactively modifying As a result, Builder – in conjunction with CMG reservoir simulators – makes simulation technolo-
simulation data
gies more accessible to all organizations, even those with little previous experience in modelling.
• Faster and more
efficient design and
preparation of reservoir
simulation models
DESCRIPTION & APPLICATIONS
• Stay focused on Builder, a Windows† based application, is a menu
recovery process -driven reservoir simulation model creation, editing
rather than keyword and visualization program for generating input data
syntax for all CMG software products – STARS™, GEM™,
• Enhance user IMEX™, CMOST™ and WinProp™. The Builder
productivity through an interface is designed to enhance user
interactive and easy- productivity. New users will benefit from the ease
to-use interface of use for model creation and editing, while
• Increase data advanced users will appreciate the “simulator
integration and KEYWORD format”.
workflow management
using Builder and To enhance compatibility between simulators,
Results DataImporter will convert IMEX black-oil models to
• Automatically quality
GEM or STARS for advanced process projects, and
checks data as it’s will convert ECLIPSE† black oil models into IMEX Builder’s Hydraulic Fracture wizard can be used to easily create different
entered and converts format. Builder can also import production/injection complexities, from simple bi-wings (as shown) to complex networks.

data in different units history files to automatically generate recurrent data

for history-matching purposes.

Builder, combined with Results™, provides Builder also allows the user to quickly generate PVT
a framework for data integration and workflow tables, from various correlations, for input to the
WHY CMG? management between CMG’s reservoir simulators CMG simulators using a series of simple template
and the “outside world”. Optimize the reservoir panels. The menu system provides the user
CMG is devoted to
simulation model through accurate data importa- with many choices, while providing appropriate
providing the ultimate
tion from third-party geological modelling programs, defaults for convenience. Standard correlations
customer experience
such as Petrel†, GOCAD†, RMS† & EarthVision†. for oil properties and viscosity are also available.
with our commitments
Geological data accepted by Builder includes
to:
simulation grids, reservoir properties, fault surfaces
• R&D investment and well trajectories, including support for the
• Superior software industry standard RESCUE static model data
technology exchange format.
• Unparalleled user
support

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ADVANCED PROCESSES
Builder includes workflow wizards to assist users
in creating advanced processes simulations. The
wizards are designed for creating well locations for
single-pattern or multiple repeated pattern flooding
models, locally refined grids (LGR) surrounding wells
to model transient, non-Darcy flow through propped
fractures, and reactions for modelling in situ com-
bustion, Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) flooding,
2012 NEW foamy heavy oil production, and fines migration.
FEATURES Builder can import well trajectories from a variety of
Microseismic data from a hydraulic fracturing treatment is imported into
• Trajectory smoothing sources, and almost any kind of tabular data can be Builder and used to create a stimulated reservoir volume.
technique allows users imported in ASCII or MS Excel† format (e.g. for PVT,
to intersect the relative permeability, capillary pressure, vertical lift
reservoir more
realistically
performance, and production/injection histories). HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
• For STARS
simulations, FlexWells
MICROSEISMIC Builder provides more accurate modelling
of hydraulically fractured wells in tight single porosity
supports the REPLACE Users are able to import microseismic data into and naturally fractured (e.g. shale gas) reservoirs
keyword. Users now Builder and to use as a guide, directly and indirectly, using the ‘fractured well LGR wizard’. This wizard
only need to create will automatically and correctly adjust values
to the size and extent of the stimulated reservoir
one FlexWell rather
volume (SRV). The SRV can be modeled in IMEX of fracture permeability and the non-Darcy flow
than two.
or GEM with locally refined, logarithmically spaced, coefficient to match transient, non-Darcy flow, as if
• Import multiple PVT dual permeability grids that accurately match both the model had actual propped fractured
regions with averages early time and late time production data. dimensions.
into IMEX
• Improved performance
on model initialization
• Geomechanics WHY CMG?
visualization now
Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG) is the leading supplier of advanced reservoir simulation software for
available in 2D and
conventional and unconventional reservoirs. CMG offers black oil, compositional, thermal and chemical
3D for GEM and
STARS models
reservoir simulators, assisted history matching and optimization, sensitivity and uncertainty tools, all
augmented with visualization to interpret and understand simulation results. Experienced engineering teams
• Save time for sensitivity in offices around the world provide the best software user support, training and technical assistance.
analysis in CMOST
using the Formula CMG is devoted to providing the ultimate customer experience through our commitments to R&D invest-
Manager ment, superior software technology, and unparalleled user support.
COMMITTED TO R&D INVESTMENT: CMG reinvests approximately 20% of its annual revenue into product
research and development (R&D). With more than half of our employees devoted to these tasks, CMG
routinely exceeds our customers’ expectations. CMG is proud of our academic strength with 50% of our
employees holding a Master’s degree or higher qualification.
COMMITTED TO DELIVERING SUPERIOR SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY: CMG, the leader in enhanced oil
recovery simulation, delivers software that is easier to use and provides the most accurate results for
compositional, conventional, unconventional and advanced IOR/EOR processes. CMG software is the
industry standard for usability, physics, robustness and performance.
COMMITTED TO UNPARALLELED USER SUPPORT: CMG provides experienced technical sales and support
personnel around the world, priding itself on a standard “one-day response rate” for technical support
questions. In addition, CMG offers industry leading software training courses in our Calgary,
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