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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2008
Dirk Roelof Brouwer, Rijswijk, NL;
Johan Dirk Jansen, Rijswijk, NL;
Gerardus Jozef Peter Joosten, Rijswijk, NL;
Stijn Vlemmix, Waddinxveen, NL;
Dirk Roelof Brouwer, Rijswijk, NL;
Johan Dirk Jansen, Rijswijk, NL;
Gerardus Jozef Peter Joosten, Rijswijk, NL;
Stijn Vlemmix, Waddinxveen, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for producing hydrocarbon fluid, such as crude oil and/or natural gas, through a well or well cluster of which the trajectory is at least partly defined and iteratively optimized by an well trajectory optimization algorithm that is coupled to a finite difference reservoir simulation program that represents a hydrocarbon fluid containing reservoir as a set of grid cells with a specified permeability and fluid content, wherein the algorithm: