Ensemble Subsurface Modeling Using Grid Computing Technology

Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) uses a randomized ensemble of subsurface models for error and uncertainty estimation. However, the complexity of geological models and the requirement of a large number of simulation runs make routine applications extremely difficult due to expensive computation cost. Grid computing technologies provide a cost-efficient way to combine geographically distributed computing resources to solve large-scale data and computation intensive problems. Hence, we design and implement a grid-enabled EnKF solution to ill-posed model inversion problems for subsurface modeling. It has been integrated into the ResGrid, a problem solving environment aimed at managing distributed computing resources and conducting subsurface-related modeling studies. Two synthetic cases in reservoir studies indicate that the enhanced ResGrid efficiently performs EnKF inversions to obtain accurate, uncertainty-ware predictions on reservoir production. This grid-enabled EnKF solution is also ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IMSCCS
• Authors: Xin Li, Zhou Lei, Christopher D. White, Gabrielle Allen
• Keywords: EnKF Inversions, EnKF Solution, Grid-enabled Enkf Solution, IMSCCS 2007, Theoretical Computer Science