An Introduction to Multiphase, Multicomponent Reservoir Simulation

Matthew T. Balhoff is a Professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and Director of the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment at UT-Austin. He co-leads the Industrial Affiliates Program on Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery. Dr. Balhoff received his BS (2000) and PhD (2005) in chemical engineering from Louisiana State University. He became an SPE Distinguished member in 2017 and is a winner of the 2017 SPE Southwestern North America Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, 2014 SPE International Young Member Service Award, and 2012 SPE International Teaching Fellow Award. Dr. Balhoff has over 70 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of numerical reservoir simulation, pore-scale modelling, enhanced oil recovery, carbon storage, and unconventional resource production. He has taught dozens of undergraduate and graduate courses on numerical reservoir simulation, reservoir engineering, and fluid properties.

1. Review of Rock and Fluid Properties
2. Single Phase Flow in Porous Media
3. Finite Difference Solutions to the 1D Diffusivity Equation
4. Control Volume Approach, Heterogeneities, Gravity, and Nonlinearities
5. 2D and 3D Single-Phase Flow
6. Wells, Well Models, and Radial Flow
7. Component Transport in Porous Media
8. Numerical Solution of the Black Oil Model
9. Multiphase Compositional Modeling