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Merlin/Apprentice Advanced School 1

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Merlin/Apprentice Advanced School 1 - Course Outline

Apprentice Introduction Digitizing Exercise   

  • Digitize bit map on screen using the mouse
  • Import wells from an Excel spreadsheet

Practical Apprentice Digitizing and Mapping Exercise  

  • Digitize maps
  • Draw grid on the map
  • Generate different geostatistic interpretations
  • Perform volumetrics
  • Create new maps using grid to grid operations
  • Export maps to Merlin

Merlin Advanced Features Review 

  • Regions – PVT, lease, rock , calculation
  • Orthomin Solver – tightening solver constraints
  • New IMPES solver with flowing bottom hole pressure included
  • Hydraulic Fracture Modeling
  • Gas Condensate/Volatile Oil Modeling
  • Lock parameters
  • Juxtaposition modeling

Using Rock, Calculation and Lease Regions in A Full Field History Match Example 

  • Build rock regions in Apprentice
  • Build calculation regions for history matching in Apprentice
  • Build lease regions for tracking fluid movement in Apprentice
  • Migrate regions to Merlin
  • History match using the calculation regions

Building Aquifers, History Matching, and Implementing/Analyzing Grid Refinement in a Full Field Model

  • Add aquifer to full field model 
  • Adjust aquifer size and orientation until history match obtained
  • Review effects of grid refinement on history match

Gas Condensate Simulation – depletion drive and gas cycling

  • Review of PVT requirements and theory in general
  • Correlations available for characterizing PVT data
  • Building a simple lab test in Merlin to reproduce a lab test
  • Building a Full Field Model
  • Running depletion drive and gas cycling production schemes

Integrating Tubing Curves 

  • Build simple tubing curves in Avalon
  • Link tubing curves to full field model
  • Run model with and without tubing curves

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