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TEMPEST is an effective and full-featured filtration modeling software with
unique capabilities for creating multivariate models. It contains convenient 3D visu-
alization, non-isothermal models, dual porosity/permeability models, compositional
modeling, accounting for shale gas desorption, PVT data incorporation. The soft-
ware can calculate well hydraulics, perform economic evaluation and much more.
The program contains automated adaptations of geological and hydrodynamic
models for the history of the development of an uncertainty analysis. Therefore,
Tempest users cannot only create and adapt a single version (implementation) of
the filtration model in the development history, but also obtain a representative
multivariate field model, which can then be used to evaluate and optimize future
production under conditions of uncertainty. Tempest also takes into account reser-
voir properties (heterogeneity, fracturing), filtration characteristics of reservoir
fluids (non-Newtonian properties of high-viscosity oils, formation of a “plug” in the
near zone of gas condensate wells), as well as the use of various methods of
enhanced oil recovery (steam injection, water-gas effect, for example).
As it was said above, the application of any EOR technology at the field cannot
be sensibly started with without prior analysis by the hydrodynamic simulators. The
use of appropriate simulators is a necessary and very important step in the modern
development of oil and gas fields.