Internship in Advanced Reservoir Simulation Options For New Energies
Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris, France
Duration: 4 to 6 months
Starting Date: March-December 2025
Job Reference: RP-2025-01
Internship in Advanced Reservoir Simulation Options for New Energies
Job offer
Internship in Advanced Reservoir Simulation Options For New Energies
Title
Evaluation of reservoir simulators options dedicated to Carbon Storage and Geothermal Energy.
Intern profile
Final year student enrolled in a master’s degree program with geosciences and reservoir engineer skills. Fast learner and eagerness to understand and master technical software. A good undersanting and intuition to represent physical phenomena is needed.
Objectives
As a leading consulting firm in geoscience-related problems, supported by research and development performed at IFPEN Group, Beicip-Franlab is investing more and more resources in creating workflows and solutions to tackle the Energy Transition challenge.
As such, Beicip-Franlab offers an internship dedicated to the technical evaluation of different options from different reservoir simulator tools addressing the technical challenges associated to Carbon Underground Storage (CCUS) and/or energy production from geothermal reservoirs.
In more details, the following dedicated options of several commercial simulators will be investigated and compared to the existing corresponding options in IFPEN simulator PumaFlow
- Fluid models in presence of CO2
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- Impact of CO2 content on computed water properties (density, viscosity)
- Representation of the Joule-Thomson effect when injecting CO2 in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs
- Geomechanical models: stress computation and impact of fluid injection (CO2 for CCUS or water for geothermal) on petrophysical properties on matrix and porous media
- Geochemical models: computation of chemical equilibrium of the water components in space and time, as a consequence of the mixing between injected fluids and reservoir fluids
- Coupling options to integrate thermodynamics / hydrodynamics / geomechanical and geochemical options altogether
The objective of this internship is to provide a panorama of the available options from the mentioned reservoir simulator tools and propose a critical comparison, supported by simulated case studies, of the merits and limitations of these options.
Main tasks undertaken during internship
- Critical understanding of available ‘New energies’ options in different commercial reservoir simulators
- Construction and simulation of technical case studies to illustrate the differences (or similarities) between the different simulators
- Redaction of relevant supportive material (report, slides) to document the results, including a marketing-oriented document to promote PumaFlow capabilities for New Energies topics
- Preparation of a tutorial documentation for CCS simulation with PumaFlow
- Participation to other (shorter) reservoir simulation tasks, if any and if deemed relevant
The internship will be supervised by a senior reservoir engineer.
Software used
Reservoir simulators (CMG suite (STARS, GEM, IMEX) / SLB Eclipse / t-Navigator / IFPEN PumaFlow)
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