The structure is adjacent to gas-condensate structures: Sleipner Vest, Loke and Sleipner Øst, justifying the need to understand the source of the oil reserves. Gas condensate is present in both Jurassic/Triassic Sandstone and the Heimdal formation of the Sleipner and Loke Structures.
The WITSML database may be used to calculate the Well deviation, Geomechanical analysis, Drilling operation activity analysis, Prediction of drilling issues
The license governing the Volve oil field dataset strongly influences its the outreach and potential applications. The dataset was initially released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license that prevented commercial use of the dataset and mandated all derivative material to be open-source, non commercial. Essentially, the dataset was supposed to be used exclusively by the open academia, and not for commercial entities. This license agreement was criticized by the community. ...
The simulator calculates the initial equilibrium state of the reservoir and defines the the pressure and saturations in each grid cell. For a reservoir with multi-phase fluid, the vertical pressure and saturation gradient can be determined from the contact depths, together with the capillary pressure at these depths.
Petrophysical data of the Volve data is available in the Well_logs folder of the dataset. The data is available as raw and processed well log data files along with interpretation reports. We will be using the Welly Python Library to import and process the Well logs. A newer well log format - the JSON well log - will used to instead of the other formats
This section contains the pressure and saturation dependent properties of the simulation dataset. This would generally include fluid PVT properties, rock compressibility and saturation values for the grid.
The Drill Stem test on the discovery well 15/9-19SR indicated a low API gravity and a very high sulphur content, when compared to other North sea crudes. Further, geochemical analysis was performed to understand the composition, origin and maturity.
OPM-Flow is an open source fully implicit, black oil reservoir simulator developed under the Open Porous Media Initiative. The simulator is based on a Linux workspace and requires the installation of a virtual-box in windows based machines. We’ll be using this simulator for our simulation and visualization of the Volve oilfield model.
The Volve oilfield PDO (Plan for Development and Operation) was originally published in Norwegian and is an authorized document. We provide you with an English translation of the document. ...
Statoils Geological Laboratory performed whole rock X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Petrographic point count, and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis on cored intervals of the 15/9-19 SR Well. The analysis characterizes the mineralogy and petrography of these sandstone units and evaluates their controls on reservoir quality. ...
