Hi All, What are the technical requirements for selecting a black-oil simulator

soi

Hi All, we are using Elclipse E100, but nevertheless our company is in the process of reviewing several simulators. Can anyone teel me what the technical requirements are for selecting a black-oil simulator (requested by our IT department). Thanks in advance for your feedback.

soi

Such a document can become endless in these cases, but can be narrowed reasonably down by eliminating the obvious stuff. Basically you need to define what do you need from such a simulator to meet all your business requirements. A few sample bullet points could be:

- Be able to accept different grid geometries (i.e. name corner-point, radial, cartesian, unstructured...anything usually you work with in your models).
- Be able to perform LGR around production and injection wellbores (at least).
- Have no limitation in the number of active cells.
- Allow the use of at least two different matrix solvers.
- Be able to work with ASCII type files, both in the input and output (i.e. for troubleshooting purposes).
- Be able to run a XXX cells model, through YY years forecast using ZZ timesteps in less than 8 hours using a Windows PC computer with the following specifications.
- Be able to be installed in a Linux cluster and queue remote runs.
- Menus to be written in English, Russian and Spanish.
- Incorporate the following post-processing tools (i.e. name them).
- Etc, etc...

This is just a 1% of how the final document should look like, as this goes on and on until the most critical items your company need are listed.