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     Computational Mathematics in the Oil and Gas Industry II
     Organizers: German Larrazabal & Saul Buitrago
     Speakers: Eduardo Sanchez, German Larrazabal, & Carlos Torres M.
Abstract
The oil and gas industry are a perfect target for applications of mathematics techniques. From subsurface exploration to production, refining, transport and finally distribution of oil, gas and products, real life mathematical and decision problems arise continuously. This mini-workshop aims at bringing together scientists and engineers from academia, research laboratories, and industry, to promote the application mathematics techniques to the oil and gas industry problems. Papers on all aspects of mathematical theory, and computational and applied mathematics focus to solve oil and gas industry problem are invited to be presented at the mini-workshop.
 
Eduardo Sanchez
Modeling and Simulation of the Production Process of Electrical Energy in a Geothermal Power Plant
 
German Larrazabal
3D Seismic Survey Design
In this work we present a 3D seismic survey design tool for oil exploration. The geological media is modeled using layers. Each layer is characterized by a constant velocity. The acquisition geometry is designed by the user or loaded from a file in SPS, RPS and XPS format. We have implemented seismic ray tracing as an optimization problem. The tool was tested on a real world case, the Orocual field, Estado Monagas, Venezuela. The results show three fundamental aspects: the procedure is automatic requiring little user intervention while showing good efficiency and robustness.

Keywords: Survey design, Seismic Ray Tracing.
 
Carlos Torres
CFD Modeling of Pressure Drop on Fixed Packed Beds

 

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