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the quality of the flood management solution given by the streamline-based method; a
direct comparison of approaches should in turn reveal a number of hybrid efficient
methodologies for the management of water floods (for example, a good initial guess for
a gradient-based optimization algorithm might be quickly obtained by streamlines);
delineate situations where streamlines can/cannot be used for flood management
optimization;
investigate if streamline specific information can be directly incorporated in the more
rigorous flood optimization and management problem formulation, in the hope of
improving convergence and solution accuracy.
Initially, the same problem presented in Thiele and Batycky (2006) will be used. This is a small
but real reservoir with nine producers and eight injectors (see Figure 2) with a grid of size
80x81x20 (129,600 grid points). The goal is to improve (optimize) sweep over a period of five
years by setting target rates every three months on both producers and injectors (this yields a
total of 340 optimization variables). Additionally, the problem can be constrained to total
available injection rate, for example. After this first test, the reservoir considered can be larger
and more realistic.
The project aims at a formal study of a streamline-based optimization methodology and
assessment of its use in water flood management scenarios, with several applications of this
methodology in cases of practical interest.
References
Thiele, M.R., and Batycky, R.P., Using Streamline-Derived Injection Efficiencies for Improved
WaterFlood Management, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering (SPEREE), Vol 9, No 2,
187-196, April 2006 (SPE84080-PA).