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VIP Reservoir Simulation

Suite VIP Reservoir Simulation Suite

Description | Features | System Requirements

Reservoir simulation technology suite VIP, Landmark's reservoir simulation technology suite, provides complete pre-processing, simulation and post-processing workflows to engineers and asset teams. The VIP Windows-based interface, database design and integrated workflows dramatically improve the efficiency of all simulation tasks, from initial data assembly, job design and submittal, through simulation and production prediction. Building on its strength as a full-physics simulator, Windows-based tools make it much easier to perform simulation and analysis in the VIP suite. VIP tools allows the entire asset team to quickly leverage reservoir simulation results to improve well planning and reservoir management decisions. Benefits Simulation for the entire asset team The easy-to-use native Windows workflows leverage the OpenWorks database. As a result, the entire asset team can access valuable information from fluid flow simulation, not just the specialists. Efficient simulation workflow VIP software provides workflow integration across pre-processing, simulation and analysis modules. This allows asset teams to quickly model and analyze the results of numerous reservoir types and production mechanisms. Integration with the OpenWorks database permits unprecedented access to a wide range of geological, well trace, well perforation and well timing data needed to support simulation workflows. Customizable simulation technology The VIP simulation suite is flexible and adaptable to your reservoir management workflow. Features Simplified Windows-based user interface VIP Data Studio provides an easy-to-use Windows interface that enables rapid preparation of all reservoir, well, and fluid/pressure data for flow simulation. This easy-to-use module still allows the use of keywords if the user prefers. Parallel and serial job management VIP takes full advantage of todays computer processing power with its new and improved Job Submittal module. VIPs Job Submittal module supports both serial and parallel job management across multiple CPUs and platforms. Users also have options to submit jobs in batch. Rapid data analysis VIP introduces SimResults, a new module providing post-processing capabilities in a Windows format. Based upon vector analysis (line plotting), users can quickly analyze the results of

simulation runs and understand how reservoirs will perform. In addition, a common and easy to use scripting language is provides maximum efficiency when analyzing large datasets. Advanced simulation analysis SimResults+ offers additional potential for simulation analysis with breakthrough capabilities around solution plots in 2-D (pressures, saturations, etc.), layer sum calculations, derived quantities, and more. Full physics modeling VIP offers full physics modeling within a single simulator, executable for the full range of recovery processes including: primary depletion, conventional waterfloods and immiscible gas injection for black oils, condensate modeling, volatile oils and miscible gas cycling. Hot water and steam floods for dead oils can be accommodated as well as polymer floods, naturally fractured reservoirs and tracer tests. Interactive pre/post processors VIP Data Studio: Easy-to-use workflow for building simulation jobs, intuitive interfaces to import, visualize, create and manipulate historical fluid injection/production data, well perforation data and other disparate data sources associated with simulation (i.e. relative permeability data, PVT data, well hierarchy data) SimResults/SimResults+: Offers additional simulation analysis with breakthrough capabilities around vector and solution plots (presures, saturations, etc), layer sum calculations, an easy-to-use scripting language, derived quantities and more. SimResults+ is licensed separately to extend SimResults funtionality. Gridcalc: Allows users to manipulate both static and dynamic grid block attributes to create new display attributes in a single simulation or varied between simulation runs. Users can sum variables through depth or time and perform Boolean operations using standard IF/THEN/ELSE syntax. VIP Convert: A series of utilities to import data from RESCUE, flat ASCII files, and third party simulators. E2V: A utility to aid in the translation of ECLIPSE reservoir simulation data files into the VIP data file format. Simulation modules Parallel-VIP: The most scalable parallel simulator on the market today. The black oil and compositional simulator takes advantage of parallel architecture computors to accomodate larger models or to run existing models faster by subdividing the simulation model into smaller pieces and distributing the workload. VIP-COMP: N-component, equation-of-state reservoir simulator. VIP-CORE: Processes the reservoir description, fluid and rock properties, and computes the initial state of the reservoir model. The simulation modules then advance the reservoir model through successive time steps. VIP-ENCORE: Black oil simulator for conventional reservoir modeling . Includes options for "near" compositional simulation (extended black oil option allows for the modeling of condensate reservoirs with a black oil formulation) VIP-THERM: Thermal simulator for hot water or steam-flooded reservoirs with either an ncomponent or dead oil formulation.

VIP-POLYMER: Capable of modeling polymer flooding in black oil, compositional and dual porosity models. VIP-SURFACE: An add-on module for modeling flow into tubing strings and the entire surface network. Treatments are compatible with either black oils or equations of state. VIP-Local Grid Refinement: Allows users to model local grid refinements with Cartesian or radial coodinates. VIP-DUAL: Models naturally fractured, highly heterogeneous or stratified reservoirs. Add-on appications Standard DESKTOP-VIP components can be augmented withpre/post processor add-on applications. GRIDGENR: Generates reservoir simulation grids and offers direct manipulation of contour data. Provides import capabilities, including direct connections to geologic grids, contours, faults, well paths and well perforations from OpenWorks. Includes the ARRAY application for grid block property interpolation. 3DView: Provides 3-D interactive visualization and animation of simulation results using zoom, pan, and slice techniques. The evolution of reservoir attributes can be studied; data and grid clipping can be applied; and saturations can be displayed using a ternary display. DESKTOP-PVT: Equation-of-state reservoir characterization system. Provides capabilities for heavy-ends characterization, component pseudoization, regression of parameters to match experimental laboratory tests, simulation of new lab tests and creation of data for VIP-COMP. back to top System Requirements Software Requirements Landmark Graphics OpenWorks R2003 is required Hardware Requirements Simulator modules: Certified R2003 UNIX platforms: SGI & Sun; Linux Pre/post processing and simulation modules: Windows 2000 Operating System(s) Graphical applications: Certified Windows 2000, SP 1 and 2, Tested on WindowsXP. Simulators: Windows 2000, SP1 and 2; AIX 4.3.3; SGI 6.5.11m; Solaris 2.8; Linux Red Hat 7.2 3DVIEW: Windows 2000, SP1; SGI 6.5.11m; Solaris 2.8; Linux Red Hat 7.2 GeoLink: Windows 2000, SP1; SGI 6.5.11m; Solaris 2.8 Related Products: Asset Planner OpenWorks PowerModel PrecisionTarget TracPlanner Z-MAP Plus