TY - JOUR
T1 - Large-Scale Reservoir Simulations Using PC-Clusters
AU - Zhao , G.
AU - Yin , Z.
AU - Wu , Y.
AU - Chen , J.
JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling
VL - 0
SP - 153
EP - 160
PY - 2005
DA - 2005/11
SN - 2
DO - http://doi.org/
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/957.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">Going through the development more than forty years, the
overall water-cut to Daqing Oilfield has almost reached 90%. But there
is still considerable residual oil in the place. Reservoir engineers
want to know the residual oil spatial distribution and how to dig it.
This requires large-scale reservoir simulation within limited time.
Enlarged scale and highly expected efficiency need higher technical
capability for reservoir simulation. By using PC-Cluster technique
developed in recent years, large-scale reservoir simulation can be
carried out at a relatively low cost. The first PC-Cluster used for
reservoir simulation in Daqing Oilfield was designed and built. Based on
this developing environment, the serial black oil simulator was
parallelized by using the SLES components in PETSc. Then this parallel
simulating technique was applied in seven oil production districts of
Daqing Oilfield, where the PC-Clusters were configured and the parallel
black oil simulator PBRS2.1 we had developed was installed and good
results were achieved. In this paper, the hardware and system software
configuration of PC-Clusters built is briefly introduced, the idea and
method for parallelizing the serial black oil simulator is discussed,
and the simulation study at seven typical field blocks and their
application results are described and presented.</p>