MCERS

The Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies

Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department

Research Projects

 

Multiscale Simulation of Locally Anisotropic Fractured Reservoirs

 

Multiscale Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs for Large Compositional Systems

 

Semianalytical Pressure Transient Model for Complex Well-Reservoir Systems

 

Multiscale multimesh numerical simulation for two-phase flow in highly heterogeneous reservoirs

 

Multi-scale formulation and simulation of three-phase flow with interphase mass transfer

 

Non-Darcy single- and multi-phase (compositional) flow effects in performance of hydraulic fractures.

 

Non-Darcy single- and multi-phase (compositional) flow effects in dual-porosity naturally fractured reservoirs.

 

Streamline modeling in dual-porosity reservoirs for identify propensity for poor drainage of oil and gas associated with well pattern.

 

Practical methods to upscale reservoir properties from core to geocellular to reservoir flow models.

 

Reservoir engineering aspects of horizontal and deviated wells.

 

Dual-mesh methods to capture the fine-scale heterogeneity effects in displacement processes.

 

Hybrid analytical-numerical modeling of transient flow in hydraulically fractured horizontal wells.

 

Matrix refinement in streamline modeling of water imbibition in dual-porosity naturally fractured reservoirs.

 

Analytical transient well index in numerical modeling of horizontal wells.

 

Analytical model for transient response of naturally fractured reservoirs containing multiple sets of intersecting fractures.

 

Numerical modeling of reservoirs containing sparse naturally fractured regions.

 

Improved modeling of matrix vertical flow in dual-porosity reservoirs.

 

Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) for medium gravity foamy oil reservoirs.

 

Wasatch and Mesa Verde reservoir characterization.

 

Multilevel fractured modeling of naturally fractured reservoirs.

 

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