Using moundary integral methods to couple a semi-analytical reservoir flow model and a wellbore flow model

摘要

Complex wells such as horizontal wells or multi-lateral wells are increasingly used in reservoir engineering to improve the oil recovery. A widely used semi-analytical method to study the behavior of this kind of wells, such as production performances or transient pressure responses is the source function method. However, the source method is only a particular approach to this problem, and it can be improved using boundary integral techniques.