The egg model - A geological ensemble for reservoir simulation

The ‘Egg Model’ is a synthetic reservoir model consisting of an ensemble of 101 relatively small three-dimensional realizations of a channelized oil reservoir produced under water flooding conditions with eight water injectors and four oil producers. It has been used in numerous publications to demonstrate a variety of aspects related to...

A simple algorithm to generate small geostatistical ensembles for subsurface flow simulation

This note describes the theory behind a simple Matlab program to generate ensembles of geological realizations of relatively small-scale reservoir models (permeability fields) for subsurface flow simulation. The algorithm makes use of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to parameterize the spatial covariance of a reference image, and a Bayesian...