Intersect (IX) is Chevron’s next generation reservoir simulator. Intersect is an adaptive-implicit black oil, compositional, and thermal simulator based on next-generation architecture. It is being developed under a multi-year collaborative project involving Chevron, Schlumberger, and Total. It offers improved performance and scalability that makes it ideal for large and highly heterogeneous simulation models with complex grid geometries. Another benefit is the flexible field management system.

 

This set of tutorial examples show how to perform a coupled simulation using the advanced geomechanical framework of ParaGeo with the flow capabilities of IX. To that end Pore Volume Compressibility tests (PVC) and simulations of reservoir production at field scale will be undertaken.

 

The PVC tests (IX_001) are performed using ParaGeo only and serve to provide understanding of the geomechanical processes occurring during production at reservoir conditions. Both Poroelastic and poro-elasto-plastic (SR4) simulations are undertaken to understand the influence of plasticity on property evolution.

 

The reservoir production field scale simulations (IX_002) use the coupling capabilities between ParaGeo and IX and show the file set up to perform coupled simulations and the response of a field scale model during production. Single porosity/single permeability and a couple of different dual porosity/dual permeability models are undertaken showing the influence of fractures in the flow pathways and hence on stress distribution evolution during production. Note that in that example the geomechanical influence of fractures is ignored.

 

The fractured PVC test (IX_003) is simulated using ParaGeo only and aims to show the geomechanical influence of fractures in the system.

 

 

 

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