ECLIPSE Blackoil Course
RUNSPEC Section
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Purpose of the RUNSPEC Section
Set the start date of the simulation
Define the basic character of the model
Allocation of memory (RAM)
Simulation grid
Wells
Tabular data
Solver stack
Sample RUNSPEC Section
RUNSPEC
TITLE
ECLIPSE Course Example
DIMENS
20 5 10 /
Units may also be
FIELD
METRIC or LAB Phases present may be
OIL oil, water, gas, disgas
(dissolved gas), vapoil
WATER
(vaporized oil)
{
WELLDIMS
4 20 1 4 /
Number of PVT, SCAL
Aquifer Tables, Wells, AQUDIMS
4* 1 250 /
Connections, Segments
TABDIMS
2 2 50 50 /
START
1 JAN 1994 /
Required
RUNSPEC Keywords
The ECLIPSE Reference manual
contains information about all
keywords
Data File Overview chapter Reference Manual
shows keywords by section
Keywords chapter contains
details about each keyword
ECLIPSE Parallel
Allows the simulation of a single data set to be distributed across a
number of processors
Large simulations can be run in a shorter time
Memory requirements for each processor are smaller
Rule of thumb: 50k cells per processor
PARALLEL
--#Procs MachineType
4 DISTRIBUTED /
How Parallel Works 1
Pre-96A RUNSPEC Fixed Format
Prior to 96A ECLIPSE had a RUNSPEC
19 28 5 /
different format for RUNSPEC T T T T F F F F 0 0 0 /
To convert: 30 30 1 1 F F /
35 1 F T F F F F T 1 1 /
Load into ECLIPSE Office 5 1 100 T F T F 1 1 /
$edit or @edit (see manual for 5
20
F
40
F
2
F
20
0
0
F
0
0
/
0 0 /
instructions) F 0 3 /
10 10 10 10 1 1 /
10 10 1 /
2 120 0 0 /
01 'JAN' 1967 /
T 25 F F T T /
RUNSPEC Special Case: Fast Restarts
A fast restart is a way to start simulation from any report date
of a previous run
A SAVE file must be requested during the first simulation run
The LOAD & RESTART keywords replaces the normal
RUNSPEC, GRID, EDIT, PROPS & REGIONS sections of the
restart run
More information about restart runs at the end of the week
Aids for Non-Unix Users
The ECLIPSE Blackoil Training Manual contains a handy list of
common Unix commands
To open a text editor, type:
vi name-of-file
Depending on the system, jot & textedit may also be
available
jot name-of file
textedit name-of-file
Common vi commands are also listed in the training material
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EX 1:
Coning Model RUNSPE
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