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Preface

Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation is a vehicle for widely
disseminating reservoir simulation technology. It is not a mathematical treatise
about reservoir simulation, nor is it a compendium of case histories. Both of
these topics are covered in several other readily available sources. Instead,
Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation is a practical guide to reservoir
simulation that introduces the novice to the process of reservoir modeling and
includes a fully functioning reservoir simulator for the reader's personal use.
Part I explains the concepts and terminology of reservoir simulation. The
selection of topics and references is based on what I have found to be most useful
over the past two decades as both a developer and user of reservoir simulators.
I have provided advice gleaned from model studies of a variety of oil, gas, and
condensate fields.
Participation is one of the best ways to learn a subject. The exercises in
Part I give you an opportunity to apply the principles that are discussed in each
chapter. As a means of integrating the material, the principles of reservoir
simulation are applied to the study of a particular case in Part II. By the time
you have completed the case study, you will have participated in each technical
phase of a typical model study.
Parts III and IV are the User's Manual and Technical Supplement,
respectively, for the three-dimensional, three-phase black oil simulator
BO AST4D that accompanies the text. BOAST4D is a streamlined and upgraded
version of BOAST II, a public domain black oil simulator developed for the U. S.
Department of Energy in the 1980's. As principal author of BOAST II, I have
added several features and made corrections to create BOAST4D. For example,
you can now use BOAST4D to model horizontal wells and perform reservoir
geophysical calculations. The latter calculations are applicable to an emerging
technology: 4D seismic monitoring of fluid flow. The inclusion of reservoir

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