Avalon

Avalon is an advanced, nodal analysis program that can generate nodal analysis curves for determining the deliverability of oil and gas wells under different produced fluid and reservoir compositions, for different well bore and pipeline arrangements.

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

Avalon has a transparent link to the Merlin simulator which allows horizontal flow lines to be interactively designed using the well locations in the simulator. These nodal curves can be automatically linked to various wells in the simulator, allowing users to optimize reservoir performance with accuracies not possible in Avalon alone.For example, the simple reservoir pressure drop equations used in Avalon’s reservoir module calculations are replaced by the sophisticated reservoir model in Merlin. With this link, Avalon has the ability to optimize well tubing designs not only on an average well design basis, but on an individual well basis in a complicated reservoir with many heterogeneities.Avalon has a wizard that can allow tubing curves calculated in other commercial packages to be seamlessly integrated into the Merlin simulator.OPTIMIZE FLOW LINE ARRANGEMENTSAvalon can quickly build tubing curves including flow lines for different wells going back to either a platform or subsea manifold. It is routinely used to compare the economic benefits of different subsea tubing and flow line arrangements.STAND ALONE ANALYSIS TABLESAvalon can be used as a stand alone application where well bore hydraulic and average reservoir performance curves can determine fluid deliverabilities at various stages.