Petrel Simulati on Program

Ahmed H. Abdul’aal Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering Suez Canal University

Industrial obstacles and challenges are demeaned everyday by the virtue of new technological advances and engineering breakthroughs. The role of those wonder soluti ons is increasing with a head spinning speed. The mark of a true successful engineer is to always be up to date, ti relessly catching up with a fi rm steady grip to every work-related cutti ng edge inventi on and ti me saving outbreak.

One of the factors which revoluti onized today’s petroleum industry is modeling soft ware. Modeling soft ware helps petroleum engineers to get a bett er visualizati on for the subsurface structures helping making bett er interpretati on for fi nding the hydrocarbons hence saving ti me and opti mizing the process.

One of the latest modeling soft ware is Petrel. Petrel is a cutti ng-edge modeling soft ware package that consists of unifi ed seismic interpretati on, geological modeling, and reservoir engineering soft ware. So for every geologist, geophysicist and reservoir engineer, Petrel package will be the tool.

Petrel delivers fast, intuiti ve, and producti ve geophysical interpretati on, geologic modeling, reservoir engineering, and innovati ve domain science for more accurate reservoir characterizati on. It is capable of interpreti ng work fl ow effi ciencies and allowing rapid assessment of explorati on acreage. Not only it runs multi ple iterati ons to rank and risk prospects but also it can run uncertainti es easily around velocity, structure, porosity, or any other relevant property.

Petrel creates powerful workfl ows that impact the business by providing completely unifi ed seismic to simulati on workfl ows which unravel scalability and performance, maximizing investment in hardware by leveraging the latest graphics and multi cores. In additi on to geological modeling and workfl ows, there is also geophysical workfl ows models with scalable 2D and multi ple 3D volume seismic interpretati on that delivers fast, intuiti ve seismic interpretati on allowing rapid prospect identi fi cati on as well as integrated seismic inversion workfl ow improving the understand of rock properti es.

Before starti ng the producti on process, the questi on that needed to be answered fi rst is where is the most promising area to start drilling that’s why we need to get powerful 3D modeling for making bett er decisions regarding where to start, and this can be performed through Petrel, it provides multi point geostati sti cs combining hard well data with analogs to distribute properti es based on seismic att ributes for improved reservoir characterizati on.

So, in summary, Petrel is a powerful package that helps every reservoir engineer, geologist and geophysicist to get a bett er visualizati on and analysis about the reservoir’s properti es and performance and it provides:

(1) Bases to increase reservoir performance by improving asset team producti vity. Geophysicists, geologists, and reservoir engineers can develop collaborati ve workfl ows and integrate operati ons to streamline processes this is provided by: Petrel Seismic to Simulati on Soft ware opti mizing

(2) Identi fying and recovering hydrocarbons requires an accurate, high-resoluti on geological model of the reservoir structure and strati graphy. The Petrel geology capabiliti es, all seamlessly unifi ed with the geophysical and reservoir engineering tools, enable an integrated study by providing an accurate stati c reservoir descripti on that evolves with the reservoir this is provided by Petrel Geology and Geological Modeling.

(3) Fully integrated with the geological and engineering tools, Petrel geophysical soft ware allows for rapid 2D and 3D seismic interpretati on. Sample your seismic data directly into a 3D reservoir model to predict pay and bias reservoir property distributi on using a geostati sti cal approach.

An extensive library of seismic att ributes and volume rendering techniques can help identi fy hydrocarbon indicators and fracture patt erns. A fully scalable soluti on, Petrel soft ware takes you seamlessly from regional explorati on to reservoir development through Petrel Geophysics.

(4) Performing streamline simulati ons, reduce uncertainty, and plan future wells with the Petrel simulati on workfl ow. Recreate geologically accurate models using advanced upscaling techniques for full reservoir simulati on this is done through Petrel Reservoir Engineering.

(5) Well path design, drilling visualizati on, and real-ti me model updates. Petrel workfl ows improve operati onal effi ciency by setti ng an environment to visualize and understand relati onships between the drilling processes in the earth context. Also provided by Petrel Drilling Workfl ows.

On the last version of Petrel 2010, new features and properti es were added not only to facilitate the modeling process, but also to ease complex calculati ons, and these features are:

Reservoir engineering

• Enhance reservoir contact and recovery using complex well capabiliti es and automated design, placement, and completi on opti mizati on.

Multipoint Statistics Functionality The new Multipoint Statistics (MPS) Functionality uses images and drawings to model intricate geometries such as channel complexes or turbidite systems

Structural Framework Functionality The new Structural Framework Functionality handles complex, faulted fi elds and converts faults into stair-step faults for effi cient reservior simulations.

cases and stati c volumetrics.

• Improve producti vity using new and enhanced capabiliti es in reservoir simulati on workfl ows.

Field development planning

• Characterize strati graphic and structural details—extract geobodies from seismic, use analogs to evaluate reservoir potenti al.

• Characterize fractured reservoir properti es using seismic data and stati sti cal modeling.

Development drilling

• Accurately model overburden to reduce drilling risks with the Drilling Visualizati on plug-in.

• Place wells precisely, evaluate and modify the well path while drilling.

Evaluate trip, reservoir, charge, and seal

• Manage huge seismic volumes and multi ple regional datasets from basin to prospect.

• Validate hydrocarbon charge.

• Build your structural framework automati cally while interpreti ng.

• Evaluate fault properti es and seal integrity with the Fault Analysis module.