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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2017
Gauthier D. Becker, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Hao Huang, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Huafei Sun, Houston, TX (US);
Gauthier D. Becker, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Hao Huang, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Huafei Sun, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for modeling a subsurface reservoir system, the method including: generating, with a computer, a background mesh that does not honor at least one subsurface feature included in the subsurface reservoir system; splitting, with a computer, the background mesh along the subsurface feature included in the subsurface reservoir system such that a resulting mesh honors a geometry of the subsurface features; identifying, with a computer, element faces or edges where the resulting mesh is non-conforming and/or the element faces or edges lie on subsurface features; and performing a computer-based numerical simulation utilizing the resulting mesh to model at least one fluid-related or geomechanical reservoir response, wherein mass or traction balance is enforced on the identified element faces or edges.