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IMEX is a full-featured three-phase, four-component black oil
reservoir simulator for modelling primary depletion and
secondary recovery processes in conventional oil and gas
reservoirs. IMEX also models pseudo-miscible and polymer
injection in conventional oil reservoirs, and primary depletion
of gas condensate reservoirs, as well as the behavior of
naturally or hydraulically fractured reservoirs
IMEX has the capabilities and features required for small to massive (100+
million grid block) simulations for screening prospects, setting up pilot
designs, monitoring and optimizing field operations, and complex full-
field reservoir studies, all with the objective of improving production
rates, ultimate recovery and value. The coupling of IMEX to surface
pipeline network simulators provides a very effective solution for
optimizing production from multi-field offshore developments or from
large gas fields in which surface flowline constraints can affect reservoir
performance and project economics.
Primary Depletion
Infill drilling optimization
Horizontal well placement
Multi-lateral well placement
Coning studies
Under-saturated/saturated oil reservoirs
Gas condensate reservoirs
Gas deliverability forecasting
Reservoir/surface facility optimization
Secondary Recovery
Waterflooding
Surface facilities modelling
Polymer injection
Dry gas injection
Pseudo-miscible solvent injection
WAG processes
IMEX
IMplicit-EXplicit Black Oil Simulator
Dynamic Reservoir Modelling
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Gas Storage Fields
Cycle optimization
Compaction/Dilation
Pressure-dependent porosity and permeability
with hysteresis
Fractured Reservoirs
Naturally fractured reservoirs
Hydraulically fractured reservoirs
Gas-oil gravity drainage
Applications of IMEX:
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Advanced Features of
IMEX include:
Pseudo-miscible and Polymer Injection
Modelling
Pseudo-miscible fluid injection
- solvent solubility in water, chase
gas injection
- first contact miscible (Todd and Longstaff)
Polymer injection
- aqueous phase viscosity increase
- polymer adsorption and dispersion
- absolute and relative permeability reductions
Advanced Well Modelling and Well
Management Features
Well Modelling
Fully implicit source/sink well model
Vertical, inclined, horizontal and multi-lateral wells
Horizontal wellbore friction pressure drop
Wellbore crossflow
Wellbore fluids mixing with full material balance
Well, Well Group and Surface Manifold Controls
Pressure, rate, and ratio constraints for surface
(tubing head) or downhole conditions
Automatic switching criteria
Alternative remedial actions
Injection and production manifold controls
Surface Network
- Reservoir Model Coupling
Surface network modelling software that can
be run coupled to IMEX
- FORGAS - from Neotechnology
Consultants Ltd.
- GAP - from Petroleum Experts, Ltd.
Single or multiple reservoirs
Time-step level coupling
Field development scheduling controls and
constraints
Multi-phase flow in both the gathering
system and wellbore
Dynamic Reservoir Modelling
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For more information or to arrange a demonstration of IMEXs capabilities in your
office, contact any of the CMG Marketing and Sales offices worldwide:
Head Office: (Calgary, Canada) 1-403-531-1300 Fax: 1-403-289-8502 Email: cmgl@cmgl.ca
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CMGs Suite of
Integrated
Modelling Tools
Gridding Options
Fundamental grid options: cartesian, corner-point,
cylindrical and fully unstructured
Multi-level, static or recurrent local grid refinement (LGR)
Naturally and Hydraulically Fractured Reservoir Modelling
Dual porosity
Dual permeability
Subdomain dual porosity
Multiple interacting continua dual porosity
Multi-phase non-Darcy flow
Integrated to Pinnacle Technologies, Inc.s FracProPT fracture
design software
Integrated to Fracture Technologies Ltd.s WellWhiz well,
completion and fracture design software
Other Features
Tilted oil-water contact
Gas condensate modelling
Streamline calculation and output
Multiple aquifer models
API tracking for reservoirs with simple compositional gradients
Multiple Platform Support: Windows, Linux, UNIX
IMEX supports the following Operating Systems:
Windows XP (32 bit and x64) and Vista x64
Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 (64 bit)
IBM AIX 5L (5.3 & higher)
Performance Enhancing Features
Parallel Processing multi-CPU parallel processing is
supported providing significant decreases in model run times.
CMGs unique parallelization method enables ANY model to be
parallelized regardless of the complexity of the grid or the
location of wells.
IMEX
IMplicit-EXplicit
Black Oil Simulator
STARS
Steam, Thermal
and Advanced process
Reservoir Simulator
GEM
Compositional Simulator
RESULTS
Post-Processing
Applications
TECHNOLOGY
LAUNCHER
BUILDER
Pre-Processing
Applications
WINPROP
Phase Behavior Analysis
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