Network Designer

Network Designer allows the user to create and calculate the surface network both separately, and in a fully coupled way together with the subsurface model. Network Designer is integrated with PVT Designer, VFP Designer, Model Designer, Geology Designer and Simulator.

Create and edit a surface network. Standard Elements Library is available containing: well, injector, source, link, pipe, joint, pump, choke, compressor, 2-phase and 3-phase separators, sink. Objects that specify upper/lower limits of phase rates and pressure for wells and groups of wells are available: automatic chokes, automatic pumps, limits.
Steady-state calculation of the surface network to model flow, pressure & temperature under boundary conditions
Control of network correctness: detection of network’s parts, where a flow is absent, before running calculation; detection inconsistency of heights of pipe end-points at pipe joints; control of sufficiency of the number of boundary conditions (pressure, mass flow rate); control of setting equipment characteristics required for calculations.
Integration with PVT Designer provides unified fluid properties. PVT models: black-oil, compositional and temperature effects.
Integration with VFP Designer provides VFP and IPR tables. Hydrostatic and dynamic pressure losses calculations: different correlations, temperature effects; Burial configuration effects.
Integration with Model Designer. When importing a model into the Model Designer a Network Designer project will be automatically created and available for further editing.
Integration with Simulator. Fully implicit coupling surface with subsurface and wells is provided.
Various tools to analyze and visualize results in graphical interface are available: Bubble maps, Contribution charts etc.
Unified Graphical user interface (GUI) provides a synchronized visualization for integrated modelling.
All the calculations are accelerated with parallel algorithms run on all available cores of the hardware.

Integration. At each time step a fully coupled calculation of subsurface (reservoir) with the surface network taking account well constraints is provided by full integration of Network Designer, PVT Designer, VFP Designer and Simulator.