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Thermal Simulation And
Interpretation
Olivier Allain – Dorian Fructus - Yusak Barnabas –
Losamo Benano-Melly
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Introduction
The purpose of this document is to describe the latest thermal models available in Rubis and
Emeraude, to present some comparisons / validations between those models, and to highlight
possible issues with the quantitative interpretation of temperature profiles. The Emeraude
model described herein is part of Emeraude v2.60. The Rubis thermal model will be released as
a non-commercial option of Ecrin v4.20.
2 - Rubis thermal model
The Rubis thermal model development followed an initiative from Elf in 1994 [SPE 28588,
Maubeuge et al.]. In collaboration with Total, the original ideas and equations were extended
within the Rubis framework, to address transient multiphase flow in a coupled wellbore-
reservoir system. With the Rubis thermal option, temperature can be output as a function of
time at any depth in the wells, in the reservoir as temperature fields, or as logs at a user
specified time interval, see below.