Evaluation of explicit coupling between reservoir simulators and production system

Abstract

In recent years, the oil industry has used various methodologies to solve numerical coupling of reservoirs and production systems to properly model complex projects needing an integrated solution of computational models that represent the fluid flow through the reservoir up to the surface. We present a study of explicit coupling methodology testing the production system on common operating conditions, verifying the benefits and quantifying limitations of explicit methodology, due to numerical stability errors reported in literature