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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