Abstract
Simulation is one of the most important tools in engineering science. In this research, an integrated engineering software package was designed to simulate oil reservoirs as an efficient tool that simplifies the simulation process and provides the most requirements during the data entry, simulation of the reservoir, and till to reporting and documentation stage. The proposed package is capable to conduct analyzes and drawings in two or three dimensions with an animated three-dimensional virtual view which is the most important feature. This integrated software package named Tiger 2000 can be used for any reservoir, whatever the geometric shape it represents. The 2000 Tiger can handle all operations that may occur in the reservoir such as production or injection as well as the water invasion of the reservoir. A number of engineering and software technologies have been used to accomplish this package, including Open GL, Visual Basic, FORTRAN Power Station, and Visual C. The integrated software package Tiger 2000 consists of five sub-packages: Simulator, Grapher, 2D and 3D Surfer for surface representation, 3D representation, representation of reservoir, aquifer and well sites as well as “Reservoir Show” which is an animated view of the simulated zones. The proposed software package in the current study directly draws and represents the processed data and output results which is simplify the error detection, simulation and decision making for current and future reservoir processing and developments. This software package is the first of its kind designed in Iraq and the Arab world, whereas all the calculations of oil and reservoir studies using ready-software purchased from foreign countries and costs up to millions of dollars. Although this is the first version of Tiger 2000, it is a big and very promising step towards Middle Eastern scientific software that serves scientific and engineering applications. Tiger 2000 can also be used even in simulating groundwater reservoirs and thus provides another service in the extraction and management of groundwater, especially as the abundance of water has become a top concern at all levels.
Highlights
Simulation is one of the important engineering and scientific tool which becomes an essential and reliable to be used in wide variety applications
Simulations are clearly involved in the management of field operations and oil and gas production
Underground fluid flow is represented in porous media by complex mathematical models starting by derivation of what is known as diffusivity equation for each flowing fluid phase
Summary
Simulation is one of the important engineering and scientific tool which becomes an essential and reliable to be used in wide variety applications. The complexity is depending on the nature of fluids flow, porous media, shape of reservoir, and surrounding medium. These complex models are transformed into numerical and software models so that they can be solved by sophisticated computers. The engineer in charge needs to make very large data entry covering the details of the reservoir under study. The size of the data grows with the largeness of the reservoir and the complexity of its geometric shape as well as flowing fluids. An integrated software package called Tiger 2000 is designed to accomplish all these engineering requirements beginning with data entry, simulation, graphics, representation, and reporting in one package.
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