Reduced-Order Optimal Control of Waterflooding Using POD

Abstract

B009 REDUCED-ORDER OPTIMAL CONTROL OF WATERFLOODING USING POD 1 J. VAN DOREN * R. MARKOVINOVI� * AND J.D. JANSEN *+ * Delft University of Technology Dept. of Geotechnology PO box 5028 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands + Shell International Exploration and Production Exploratory Research PO box 60 2280 AB Rijswijk The Netherlands Abstract Model-based optimal control of water flooding generally involves multiple reservoir simulations which makes it into a time-consuming process. Furthermore if the optimization is combined with inversion i.e. with updating of the reservoir model using production data some form of regularization is required to cope with the ill-posedness