Use of streamline simulation in reservoir management

Because of increased speed and accuracy, 3D streamline simulation can model a wide range of reservoirs. Large reservoirs with hundreds or thousands of wells, several hundred thousand grid blocks, and an extensive production h istory are a challenge for finite-difference simulation, The size and compl exity of these reservoirs generally have limited simulation to sections or well patterns, The streamline technique enables simulation of these reservo irs by reducing the 3D domain to a series of 1D streamlines, along which th e fluid-flow computations are performed, offering computational benefits or ders of magnitude greater Maintaining the sharp flood fronts from the displ acement processes and reducing grid-orientation effects increases accuracy. The streamline-simulation results have additional value as a reservoir-man agement tool when used with traditional reservoir-engineering techniques, s uch as standard finite-difference simulators.