Paper Info
Title
A Grid-enabled problem-solving environment for advanced reservoir uncertainty analysis
Abstract
Uncertainty analysis is critical for conducting reservoir performance prediction. However, it is challenging because it relies on (1) massive modeling-related, geographically distributed, terabyte, or even petabyte scale data sets (geoscience and engineering data), (2) needs to rapidly perform hundreds or thousands of flow simulations, being identical runs with different models calculating the impacts of various uncertainty factors, (3) an integrated, secure, and easy-to-use problem-solving toolkit to assist uncertainty analysis. We leverage Grid computing technologies to address these challenges. We design and implement an integrated problem-solving environment ResGrid to effectively improve reservoir uncertainty analysis. The ResGrid consists of data management, execution management, and a Grid portal. Data Grid tools, such as metadata, replica, and transfer services, are used to meet massive size and geographically distributed characteristics of data sets. Workflow, task farming, and resource allocation are used to support large-scale computation. A Grid portal integrates the data management and the computation solution into a unified easy-to-use interface, enabling reservoir engineers to specify uncertainty factors of interest and perform large-scale reservoir studies through a web browser. The ResGrid has been used in petroleum engineering. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1002/cpe.v20:18
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data management,uncertainty analysis,Grid portal,data set,engineering data,petabyte scale data set,reservoir uncertainty analysis,uncertainty factor,various uncertainty factor,Data Grid tool,Grid-enabled problem-solving environment,advanced reservoir uncertainty analysis
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
18
1532-0626
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
5
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhou Lei1175.15
Gabrielle Allen2839116.72
Promita Chakraborty322.11
Dayong Huang4254.29
John Lewis510.36
Xin Li625819.84
Christopher D. White721.44