Page 47 - KAPPA Software Technical Summary (September 2012)

FEATURES
Interactive build tools
Automatic grid
Flexible, coherent upscaling on any time scale
(
PTA/PA/full field)
Horizontal well model; any trajectory, any layering
By using flexible upscaling the same grid can be
used at the different time scales demanded by
transient, production and full field analysis. This,
for example, allows the user to grab a sector from
the full field model for transient analysis or transfer
the model between various analyses by seamless
drag-drop.
Using the same grid we can therefore progressively
see from extremely close to the wellbore, as in a
formation test or unconventional resource analysis,
progressively deeper into the reservoir to observe
the effect of other wells and the boundaries, all with
perfect coherence.
In the latest development the Voronoi grid has
been adapted to extreme geometries to enable
the analysis of true horizontal wells. The wriggly
well model handles any well trajectory across
any stratigraphy.
A numerical model should be quick and intuitive to build, allowing users to solve
day-to-day problems without deep specialist simulation knowledge. Developed
at the core of the workstation the automatic unstructured Voronoi grid tips
conventional model building on its head. The model is simple to build using
interactive geometry tools or by importing from geomodelers. The grid is then
filled automatically into the created space, freeing the mind to concentrate on
the physical problem with a turn around of minutes rather than hours or days.
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