A New Analog for Numerical Flow Simulations Application to Direct Assessment of Reservoir Flow Performance Uncertainties

The ultimate objective of this thesis is to develop a technique for directassessment of reservoir flow performance uncertainties, as compared to manytraditional, computationally expensive techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations. This is achieved via a single stochastic flow simulation that combineslocal geologic uncertainty with a new simple flow transfer model to estimate a joint uncertainty distribution that characterizes flow uncertainty. Our methodprovides the framework to go directly from local uncertainty, derived using simple spatial interpolation techniques, to flow uncertainty, skipping the intermediate step of stochastic sequential simulations and not requiring any detailed fine-scale flow simulations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Masters of Science in Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Petroleum Engineering

Grantor

University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Leung, Juliana Yuk Wing

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Srinivasan, Sanjay

• Reservoir flow
• Monte Carlo

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Identifier URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8151

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/81138