An Autonomic Reservoir Framework for the Stochastic Optimization of Well Placement

Abstract

Abstract. The adequate location of wells in oil and environmental applications has a significant economic impact on reservoir management. However, the determination of optimal well locations is both challenging and computationally expensive. The overall goal of this research is to use the emerging Grid infrastructure to realize an autonomic self-optimizing reservoir framework. In this paper, we present a policy-driven peer-to-peer Grid middleware substrate to enable the use of the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) optimization algorithm, coupled with the Integrated Parallel Accurate Reservoir Simulator (IPARS) and an economic model to find the optimal solution for the well placement problem.

An Integrated Grid Portal for Managing Energy Resources

“…An autonomic reservoir framework for the stochastic optimization of well placement has been studied by W. Bangerth, H. Klie, et al [3]. It emphasizes the optimization and the integration of high level services for well placement and its economical influence.…”

Dynamic Data-Driven Systems Approach for Simulation Based Optimizations

“…Consider optimization in oil reservoir management [1] in the context of the first goal described above. The number and locations of wells in an oil reservoir have significant impact on the productivity and environmental effects of the reservoir (i.e., optimum economic revenue, minimum bypassed hydrocarbon, minimal environmental hazards/impact).…”

“…In these applications, the feasibility of the tasks depend heavily on how simulations and optimization are effectively combined [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. The overall goal is both to generate good estimates of optimal parameter values and to reliably predict end results.…”

ResGrid: A Grid-aware Toolkit for Reservoir Uncertainty Analysis

“…An autonomic reservoir framework [4] has been studied by W. Bangerth, H. Klie, etc. A prototype application was designed and developed to use P2P interactions between applications and services on the Grid to enable the automonic optimization of an oil reservoir.…”