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Permeability Upscaling
Techniques for Reservoir
Simulation
José R. Villa, PDVSA Intevep
Melvin Salazar, Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Theory
– Permeability tensor
– Governing equations
• Classification of techniques
– Analytic
– Dynamic
• Methodology
– flowsim2p
– Reference fine-scale model
– Cases
• Results
• Summary
Permeability Tensor
Classification of Techniques
• Compute
Numerical Methods: 2P (Kyte-Berry)
• Corey Equations
Cases r ni/Ni
100x130x1
1 [1 1 1]
0
50x65x10 4 [2 2 1]
50x26x5 20 [2 5 2]
• Fine-Scale Simulation
• Fine vs. coarse
– Water saturation and pressure
– WBHP, WWCT
• Upscaling error
• CPU time
Reference Fine-Scale Simulation
Analytic Upscaling: Arithmetic
Analytic Upscaling: Harmonic
Analytic Upscaling: Geometric
Numerical Upscaling: 1P
Numerical Upscaling: 2P
Upscaling Error
upscaling
average
Upscaling Error
Arithmetic 2P Numerical
Upscaling Error
Numerical 2P
Numerical 1P
Geometric
Harmonic
Arithmetic
Upscaling Error
Analytical
Numerical
CPU Time
Summary
• PDVSA Intevep
• Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)
• SUPRI-B, Stanford University
Thanks!
Governing Equations
1P Flow 2P Flow
LSOR
Thomas Algorithm