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US 2010/0250215 A1Published application
Methods of modeling flow of gas within a reservoir
AssigneeObject Reservoir, Inc.
InventorsStephen R. Kennon, Narayan Nair, Arden McCracken
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Abstract
Methods of modeling flow of gas within a reservoir are provided. A particular method includes generating a representation of a gas reservoir, where the gas reservoir includes at least two phases of matter. The representation of the gas reservoir models the gas reservoir as a single phase. The method also includes modeling flow of gas within the gas reservoir using the representation.
Claims32
A method comprising:
- generating a representation of a gas reservoir, wherein the gas reservoir includes at least two phases of matter, and wherein the representation of the gas reservoir models the gas reservoir as a single phase;
- and
- modeling flow of gas within the gas reservoir using the representation.
A method comprising:
- generating a representation of a gas reservoir, wherein the representation of the gas reservoir includes a proxy system compression factor to model free gas and gas desorption in the gas reservoir;
- and
- modeling flow of gas within the gas reservoir using the representation.
A method comprising:
- generating a representation of a gas reservoir, wherein the representation of the gas reservoir includes a proxy gas compression factor to model free gas and gas desorption in the gas reservoir;
- generating a modified viscosity curve that is adjusted for the proxy gas compression factor;
- and
- modeling flow of gas within the gas reservoir using the representation.
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A computer-readable medium having processor instructions that are executable to cause a processor to:
- generate a single phase representation of a gas reservoir, wherein the gas reservoir includes at least free gas and gas adsorbed to a solid substrate, and wherein characteristics of the single phase representation of the gas reservoir are selected to account for the free gas and to account for the adsorbed gas with respect to particular gas reservoir conditions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.