Reservoir simulator RN-KIM is designed to create, simulate and analyze three-dimensional digital oil and gas field models.
In December 2021 it was 17 years since the first state registration of the RN-KIM computer program. The RN-KIM hydrodynamic simulator is designed to create and analyze three-dimensional digital field models. A digital field model is used to calculate reserves and forecast hydrocarbon production. The model takes into account the geological and field information about the field, reproduces the operation of the wells and is a digital clone of the field for the “what if” analysis.
Today, hydrodynamic modeling is characterized by complexity and increasing dimensions of models; multivariate parallel calculations on supercomputers are used all over the world. RN-KIM offers advanced computing technologies and daily use tools to support the development of large and giant reservoirs.
More than 1000 full-scale and sector models are prepared and updated annually in RN-KIM to solve wide range tasks.
We release updates of RN-KIM every three months.
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In 2007, after passing independent tests, RN-KIM received the Gosstandart of Russia certificate of conformity, this was the beginning of Rosneft using its private hydrodynamic modeling software for preparation and protection of field development design documentation.
With the increase in dimension and complication of hydrodynamic models, the requirements for RAM and computer system performance increase. Speeding up model calculations is a priority for the simulator development. The parallel multithreaded version for workstations allows to reduce the calculation time due to the use of multi-core processors. The simulator is adapted to work on cluster and supercomputer systems. Thus, when calculating on 32 cluster nodes for models with hundreds of millions of cells and tens of thousands of wells, the calculation was accelerated up to 24 times.
For automatic adaptation tasks, optimization algorithms are used. Using multivariate parallel model simulations, the effectiveness of development systems is evaluated. The optimization criterion is any complex technical and economic parameter, for example, oil recovery ratio or NPV. Other target functions are set using the Python programming language. As a result, with the help of the simulator and routines in Python it is possible to solve a wide range of problems in the optimization of development history (History Matching).
To simulate filtration in fractured porous reservoirs, the simulator implements a model of double porosity and double permeability. Cracks and blocks of the matrix are considered as two media by embedding one into the other. The flow along cracks, the flow along blocks of matrices and flows between cracks and blocks of matrices are calculated separately. The mechanism of gravity impregnation and drainage was implemented according to the Gilman and Kazemi and Quandalle and Sabathier models. The option is especially relevant for the development of shales, Bazhenovskaya and Domanikov suite.
The simulator contains functionality for predictive calculations on the use of group control of wells and economic constraints. The user can determine the automatic actions performed according to a given condition, for example, for editing events of property cubes, using the Python interpreter built into the simulator. The built-in interpreter allows to access the model parameters and simplifies the addition of new options with minimal programming knowledge.
The prepost processor supports the Eclipse™ (Schlumberger), Tempest™ (Emerson) data formats and allows to convert the model to the RN-KIM format. Also, the interface allows to load simulations from the formats “RN-KIM”, “Eclipse”, “Tempest” and make comparisons between them.
When modeling gas and gas condensate reservoirs, integrated models of the surface gas collecting system influence on well operation modes are used. For strategic planning while prepairing process design package, RN-KIM offers the option of a simplified integrated modeling NETWORK in Black-Oil formulation. For detailed modeling of the reservoir and gas collecting system up to the entry point to the gas treatment system, the option of joint work with IPM Suite 12.5 by Petex has been implemented. In "RN-KIM + Prosper + GAP" combination Resolve acts as a control process. That is why the process of switching to RN-KIM does not require getting used to another workflow for a user who is accustomed to working with other hydrodynamic simulators in integrated modeling. RN-KIM has been working in conjunction with IPM Suite in Black-Oil formulation since version 2021.1.
The implemented model allows taking into account flows along the wellbore for correct modeling of the simultaneous development of several reservoir layers.
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The flow between the matrix and the crack is due to three mechanisms:
Local grid refinement improves the accuracy of the solution near the wells. Grid coarsening can be used to combine those areas of the reservoir whose modeling accuracy is not significant.
Today, all personal computers have muticore processors. Our simulator parallelizes calculations using threads and achieves good speedup.
In RN-KIM the inflow to the fracture is modeled by the source method. The results are compared with the grid refinement method, in which the grid cells are ground to the size of the fracture, and high permeabilities are set in the fracture cells.
Conclusion: accuracy was verified, less than 1%, on a series of simulations of models with a horizontal well.
Conclusion: when comparing RN-KIM and Eclipse, the maximum discrepancy in the cumulative integrated characteristics is 1%.
