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Using Single Well Reservoir Simulation to Make Better Drilling and Completion Decisions in Tight Gas and Waterflood Fields

 

Reservoir simulation has for many years been recognized as the best technology for optimizing well drilling and completion practices, and overall reservoir management. But it is not widely understood that most of this value can be gained through quick look single well modeling.

 

This presentation will give an overview of the work flow required for single well modeling studies that can be completed in an hour or less. Following the overview a single well model will be built for a reservoir described by a volunteer from the audience. The model will then be modified to understand the influence of well spacing, vertical versus horizontal well drilling, and fracture completions on the well production profile and reserves.

Dr. Jim Buchwalter is president of Gemini Solutions Inc. (GSI). He and Dr. Ray Calvert started GSI in 1996 after a 15 year career as a reservoir engineer with Texaco. GSI markets a user friendly PC based integrated mapping, simulation, and nodal analysis system throughout the world, and currently the company has licenses in more than 65 companies. GSI also offers reservoir engineering training and consulting simulation services.

He is a member of SPE and has worldwide experience in reservoir engineering, and simulation. He maintained and enhanced Texaco’s in-house simulator before forming GSI. He was also active in developing easier to use simulation interfaces, which resulted in a faster simulation work flow at Texaco, and expansion of the simulation community from a dozen or so experts to hundreds of engineers in the 1990’s.  

 

He has published numerous times on various topics in the reservoir simulation field. He holds B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.