Extracting oil from a complex reservoir, such as a compacted sand formation, used to be far too expensive and not economically viable. Now that the price of an oil barrel has increased, this complex method of sourcing oil has become an option for oil production companies. This doesn’t make the process of extracting oil any easier though.

Fortunately, 3DS SIMULIA has an engineering solution that can help oil production companies simulate the process to virtually test the extraction of oil from a particular reservoir before drilling begins.

Fully coupled temperature-displacement-pore fluid flow solution method in Abaqus/Standard was developed to model temperature dependent flow in porous media and solve this specific problem. We’ve created this new tech brief (attached below) to outline the process.