OLGA Training

OLGA Training
Mohamed Zamrud Bin

Zainal
Instructor Profile
• Mohamed Zamrud Bin Zainal

• Academic Staff in Petroleum Engineering department , UTP since January
2017
• 16 years industry experience in subsurface & production optimization.
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Objective of the training
• This training is focusing on
dexterity exercise on how to
navigate within OLGA GUI.
• At the end of this course, Insya

Allah, the participants are able to
understand basic functionality of
OLGA software, build simple OLGA
model, run the simulation and
extract the results for
interpretation.
OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

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Why OLGA simulation??
• Transient
• Flow Assurance

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Steady state vs Transient State

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Application
• The usage of OLGA simulation may include:
– Design
• Pipeline sizing
• Thermal Insulation requirement
• Inhibition study for wax or hydrate
• Slugging mitigation design
• Processing capacity i.e. separator
– Operation
• Safety analysis
• Start-up & shutdown procedure
• Normal operation i.e. pipeline blowdown scenario, well clean-up &
unloading, pipeline pigging operation, pipeline network analysis
• Emergency procedure
• Training in flow assurance in general & simulating operational
procedure

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Software Elements
• Project file *.OPP & Case file *.OP
• Editors – Pipeline, Well and Bundle editor
– May requires separate licenses
• Fluid & PVT
• Heat transfer
• Boundary condition
• Flow Assurance & special modelling options
– May requires additional licenses
• Equipment & Device – separator, pump, valve
• Control system, - controller, transmitter, etc

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2018
OLGA Front Screen

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2018
Objective 1: To setup the project files
1. To configure the location of the project
2. To configure Auto-save functions
3. To configure type of units to be used in the model

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Click Option ->General tab - >

• Change Project folder to Desktop by clicking ‘Browse’ Button. Rename the folder as ‘OLGA Training’
• Activate Auto-save project features & specify the time interval to ‘5 minutes’

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4
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Switch to ‘Default Units’ Tab

• Select Metric from dropdown list
Click APPLY and then Ok to save the setting and exit to OLGA Front Screen ‘New’
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Assessment 1: To setup the project files
1. Step up a folder named ‘OLGA Training’ in My Documents.
2. Activate Autosave features at 15 minutes intervals
3. Using costumize unit of Field Unit with Length unit defined

in meter. Rename and Save the unit profile as
OilUnit_custom01

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To begin??
There are 2 ways to begin building the model in OLGA.
1. To start new file from sample – using completed model and

modify it to meet the project requirement
2. To start new file from ‘Empty Case’ – start from the scratch
professionally
In this training we will use the 2nd approach.

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Step By Step
In general, the steps involved are:
1. Configure the simulation file & unit
2. Enter General Information under Case Definition
3. Add PVT Black Oil data
4. Add components from Component panel
5. Connect all the components.
6. Define the end nodes
7. Define the flowpath using pipeline editor.
8. Specify Output data
9. Plot results

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Objective 2: To familiarize with OLGA
main screen GUI
To familiarize with:
1. Right panel – model browser

2. Left panel – Component catalogue
3. Top panel – Save, undo, Run simulation, tools, plot results
4. Bottom panel – Monitor simulation progress, error or
warning notification

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To create model from ‘Empty Case’
1
Click the ‘Empty Case’ button
After click,
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OLGA main screen

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Right Panel - Model Browser
• Mostly the input data is entered
through this panel.
• Model components are

structured according to ‘Folder’
structure and it is searchable via
exploring the folder & &
subfolder or by search function
on the Left hand side of the
panel.
• To enter the information of a

particular component, use the
Right hand side of the panel.

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Left Panel - Components
• Catalogue of all the component
that can be added into OLGA
model.
• Some components requires

separate license
• Icon of the component can be

drag and drop into the canvas.

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Top Panel- Icons & Tabs
Other functions i.e. save, undo, copy & paste, Grid, connection, shortcut to
editors, run simulation functions, plot functions,

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Right Mouse click – access to some of
top menu functions
Right Mouse Click anywhere in

the canvas

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Top Panel - Tools
Extra features can be access via Tools icon. This Tools icon can also accessible from OLGA
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Bottom Panel- Output summary
Use for observing the model error or warning notifications, progress of the
simulation, compiling error during model troubleshooting, etc
Simulation status ‘Traffic Light’ indicator – Green if the model input is complete &
ready to run for simulation while Red for not runnable,

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Assessment 2: To familiarize with
OLGA main screen GUI
1. Where can we find button to Run the simulation?
2. Where to find the Separator that is going to be used in the

simulation?
A. Right Panel
B. Top Panel
C. Left Panel
D. Bottom Panel
3. How to know if the model is runnable or not?

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Project Data

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Alpha Onshore Field Layout
Outlet Elevation
Inlet Elevation
=0m
=0m
Xmas Tree
Central Processing
Plant
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Project Parameter Data
Parameter Value
Pipeline Name  Alpha Multiphase pipeline
Start Location  Wellhead_Alpha
End Location  CPP_Alpha
Pipeline Information  Full well streams (Multiphase fluid) from satellite to Central Processing
Pipeline Dimension  Nominal 9.84” Schedule 40 x 10 km horizontal pipeline
Pipeline Material  Carbon Steel (with 0.5” Poly Propylene insulator)
Air condition  Air temperature = 15 Deg. Celsius for elevation 0 meter up to 10 meter
 Air velocity = 4 Meter/second (default)
Model Discretization  Max section length = 100 meter
 Prefix for generated model ‘Pipeline’
Source  500 psig & 70 C
Sink  150 psig & 40 C (min)
PVT data  Use Black Oil method
 Oil: 28 API, Gas 0.5 SG, GOR 280 SCF/STB, Watercut: 30%, water 1 SG.
Simulation time  6 hours
Observation  Trenddata (Flowpath): Liquid STB/D, Oil STB/D, GOR SCF/STB, WC % at
the outlet.
 Profiledata (Flowpath): Fluid Pressure and Temperature
 Animate (Global): 10 sec

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Alpha Onshore Field Layout
Outlet Elevation
Inlet Elevation
=0m
=0m
Inlet Outlet
Wellhead_Alpha • Length: 10 km CPP_Alpha

Fluid conditions • Surrounding Temperature: Fluid conditions
• Pressure: 500 psig 15 C • Pressure: 150 psig
• Temperature: 70 C • Nominal 9.84” Schedule 40 • Temperature: 40 C
 Carbon Steel (with 0.5” Poly
Propylene insulator)

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Objective 3: To configure case
definition
To familiarize with:
1. General Information of the project

2. Simulation integration parameters – ENDTIME, Time Steps

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2018
Enter Project Info in Case Definition

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Specify ENDTIME in INTEGRATION
2
Specify simulation ENDTIME = 6 hours

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2018
Change Unit from Second to Hour

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2018
Assessment 3: To configure case
definition
1. Why we need to specify time ENDTIME?
2. How to change time unit from seconds to hours?

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Objective 4: Define Fluid properties
• Fluid properties in OLGA can be defined by several methods i.e.
– Black Oil
– Compositional (requires PVT software Multiflash from KBC)
– Lookup Table
– Single component
• In this training, we will use Black Oil method.

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Black Oil configuration
To use Black Oil PVT method, the following steps are required:
1. Activate Black Oil Option in Model Browser-> Case Definition -> Options ->
Compositional
– Switch from ‘Off’ to ‘BlackOil’
2. To define Black Oil Component:
– 3 ‘BlackOilcomponents’ Oil, Water and Gas will be added to define each
phase involved
3. To define Black oil Feed:
• ‘BlackOilfeed’ to describe the inlet fluid stream that will be created i.e. for
specifying fluid ratio such as GOR and watercut
4. Assign the newly created Fluid stream in the model to the relevant nodes i.e.
Source of fluid, flowpath (for initial condition), etc. (We will do it later before we
run the simulation)

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Activate BlackOil method as Fluid
Description option to be used
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• From Model Browser - > Case Definition -> Options-> Compositional

• Switch OFF to BLACKOIL keyword
• Save the model
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To add BlackoilComponent
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From Model Browser panel, click ‘Case’ Icon & Right Mouse Click
Add->Compositional->BlackOilComponent
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• Change the Label as ‘Oil’
• Change the TYPE to Oil
from the dropdown
menu list
• Specify APIGRAVITY as
’28’ as per the input data
given
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• Repeat the similar steps for

– Gas
– Water
• Refer to the definition if the keyword

is unclear

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To add
BlackoilComponent

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To add BlackoilFeed

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Configuring BlackOilFeed
• Enter the info in LABEL, OILCOMPONENT, GASCOMPONENT, WATERCOMPONENT,

WATERCUT (30%) and GOR (280 SCF/STB) only.
• IMPORTANT!!! Change WATERCUT unit from Fraction ‘-’ to Percentage ‘%’ by clicking at
the right corner of the box andOLGA
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Assessment 4: Define Fluid properties
1. How many methods of fluid description that are available in OLGA?
2. Why we need to define 3 separate BlackoilComponents in training?
3. What are the steps involved if you want to use Black Oil method for your
fluid description in OLGA?

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Ready to build Model

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Ready to build Model
• Approach to design a pipeline
1. Specify Flowrate and Downstream Pressure to calculate

Upstream Pressure
2. Specify Upstream Pressure and Downstream Pressure to

calculate the Flowrate
In this training, we use Method 2

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Objective 5: Add component/equipment into
OLGA Canvas
• The components can be found from Component catalogue of the Left hand
side of the screen.
• The component can be dragged into the canvas and then attach to the other
component(s).
• The component can be duplicated via copy & paste function.
• In this training, we will use:

– 1 Inlet node (Pressure Node type)
– 1 Outlet node (Pressure Node type)
– 1 Pipeline (Flowpath)

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Components for OLGA model
Mass node will be used as Inlet
node as named as Alpha
Pressure node will be used as

Outlet node and named as
Bravo
Click and drag the components into canvas.

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Search in Component catalogue
Scroll down to find the relevant component OR use search function at the top of the
component panel
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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Connecting the components
Drag the tip of the flowline using mouse

towards the small blue circle at the tip of
Node 3 (only visible while dragging the
equipment)

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Renaming the nodes/equipment
2
To rename the equipment,

1. Click the equipment in the canvas
2. From Model Browser, go to label and change it
Browsing to a different equipment can be done directly via Model Browser

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Alternative: Connecting the equipment
via Network connections
Right Mouse click at the canvas and

select Network Connections

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Alternative: Connecting the equipment
via Network connections
Inlet Node
Outlet Node
Pipeline name
Select the correct node for InletOLGA

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Out of the pipeline
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Assessment 5: Add component/equipment into
OLGA Canvas
1. How to find component/equipment or node from the Component panel?
2. How to connect the nodes?

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Specify the info in the Inlet and the Outlet Nodes
INLET = Wellhead_Alpha OUTLET= CPP_Alpha

TEMPERATURE = 70 C TEMPERATURE = 30 C
PRESSURE = 500 psig PRESSURE = 150 psig
FEEDSTREAM = Alpha Prod FEEDSTREAM = Alpha Prod
FEEDVOLFRACTION = 1 FEEDVOLFRACTION = 1

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To enter information on Flowpath
• Pipeline diameter
• wall thickness
• Pipeline length
• Pipeline material
• Insulation material & thickness, if required.
• Ambient temperature
• Pipeline segment

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Objective 5: Using Pipeline Editor to build
pipeline
• Pipeline Editor helps to enter the pipeline information in more user friendly
interface & reduces the complexity.
• In this training, we will configure:

– the pipeline general info
– Pipeline profile i.e. trajectory
– Pipeline dimension i.e. ID and length & material & insulations
– Ambient condition surrounding the pipeline

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Select Flowpath -> Right mouse click->
‘Open in Editor’

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About Tabs in OLGA
Main Tab – to switch different Case (if

available)
Horizontal Tab – to switch back to

OLGA Main screen @ Canvas or Result
Plots or other editors (if available)
Vertical Tab – more information for entering Flowpath data

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Specify info into the 1st Tab

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Pipeline Profile
Pipeline Profile
10 End Point (Pipeline Outlet)
Start Point (Pipeline Inlet) X = 10000
StartX = 0 Y=0
Elevation, meter
5
StartY = 0
-5 Flow Direction
-10
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000
Length , meter

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Specify Pipeline Profile into the 2nd Tab

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Specify Pipeline Dimension into the 3rd
Tab

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Pipe Standard

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Select pipeline material

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Select pipeline material
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1. The 1st pipe wall layer is created automatically, select Material to Carbon Steel.
2. Add another layer i.e insulation
3. Specify the insulation material as Poly Propylene
4. Change the number of layers to 1, to speed up heat transfer calculation
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Specify Ambient temperature profile
(minimum 2 elevation points)
1. Select Pipeline surrounding :

Onshore
2. Specify elevation point: at 0
meter and 5 meter
3. Specify surface temperature: 15 C
4. Use default value for Air velocity:
4 m/s
Elevation points need to cover the whole elevation along the pipeline profile i.e. min
Elevation and Max Elevation. If the pipe is flat, create a second point slightly higher
than the inlet elevation as shown in this step.
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Adding observation point in the
Equipment Tab
Observation point is OLGA

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Specify the section data & generate
the pipeline into OLGA model

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Switch back to OLGA main screen

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Verify model & error identification
Error due to
FLUID file is
not specified
for Flowpath
Traffic light shows RED.

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No more error

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Configuring output data
• Prior to the simulation run, output data needs to be
configured in order for OLGA to print those data.
• If no output data is configured, all the calculation results will

not be retrievable after the simulation complete.
• The data can be in the form of TREND, PROFILE or 3D plots.
• The some output belong to Global level and the others can
only be found at the individual Flowpath level.

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Example of Output

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Type of Output data
(TREND vs PROFILE)
TREND PROFILE (along the pipeline)
• Output variable that is monitored at a • Output variable that represent the

specific location in the pipeline. whole length of the pipeline.
• The variable is displayed in the format • The variable is displayed in the format
of Parameter vs Time of variable vs pipeline length with time
• Example: Wellhead pressure trend lapse or playback.
versus time within the period of 2 • Example: Fluid pressure profile in
hours during multirate test production tubing with time lapse of 2
days during well unloading.
Pressure, psig
Time = 0h
WHP, psig
Time = 2h
Time, hours Pipeline Length, meter

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2 levels of Output ‘Global or Case’
level and ‘Flowpath’ level.
Flowpath
Level Output
Global Level Output

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To configure the output.
• Liquid rate, Oil rate, GOR and watercut is to be specified as TRENDDATA at

FLOWPATH level
• Pressure and Temperature are to be specified as PROFILEDATA at FLOWPATH level
• 3D Plot or ANIMATE is to be specified at Global Level.

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To add TRENDDATA into FLOWPATH
Flow Component
->FLOWPATH : Pipeline_FLOWLINE_A
->Output
Right Mouse click->Add
->Trenddata

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Outlet of the pipeline is at
10000 m away from the
inlet.
Therefore, specify the

location of the TRENDDATA
at Position->ABSPOSITION
of 10000 meter.
The of variables to be
specified at General-
>VARIABLE

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Use search function and type the variable
names. Do not forget to tick the name in
order to select it before searching for
another parameter or exiting the window.
Variables OLGA Variables Name

Oil rate STB/D QOST
Liquid rate QLST
STB/D
Watercut % WCST
GOR Scf/STB GORST
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Trenddata[3] is where we define variable GOR, Wcut and Oil rate to be observed at location
of 10000 m or at the outlet of the pipe. This is only applicable for FLOWLINE_A.

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To add PROFILE into FLOWPATH
• Add pressure (PT) and temperature (TM) variables into PROFILEDATA of FLOWPATH
• No ABSPOSITION information is required for PROFILEDATA variables.
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To add PROFILE into FLOWPATH

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To add ANIMATE into GLOBAL Output

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To add ANIMATE into GLOBAL Output

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Step By Step
9. Plot results

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Ready to run simulation
Verify button
Simulation run buttons
Indications if the model is runnable:

Traffic light
1. Traffic light is green
2. No error after clicking verify button
3. Simulation run buttons are active (the buttons
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are inactive or greyed out if model error)
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Run simulation
Click Run Interactive or

F5 button
Progress status
Progress bar

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How to see the results
Results section in OLGA

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Plot a Trenddata by picking the data
from the list (Tick box of the left)
Use this filter function to make it easy to find the right data

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Plot a Trenddata by picking the data
from the list (Tick box of the left)
Pick QOST, WCST, GORST, PT and TM and plot the TRENDDATA.

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Plot a Trenddata
Pick QOST, WCST, GORST, PT and TM and plot the TRENDDATA.

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Plot a PROFILEDATA (PT, TM)

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3D Plot

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• Mohamed Zamrud Bin Zainal

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• At the end of this course, Insya

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OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

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Click Option ->General tab - >

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Switch to ‘Default Units’ Tab

2. Activate Autosave features at 15 minutes intervals

3. Using costumize unit of Field Unit with Length unit defined

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

1. To start new file from sample – using completed model and

In this training we will use the 2nd approach.

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

1. Right panel – model browser

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

• Model components are

• To enter the information of a

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

• Some components requires

• Icon of the component can be

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

Right Mouse Click anywhere in

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

2. Where to find the Separator that is going to be used in the

3. How to know if the model is runnable or not?

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

Oil Reservoir OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

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Wellhead_Alpha • Length: 10 km CPP_Alpha

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1. General Information of the project

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Specify simulation ENDTIME = 6 hours

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2. How to change time unit from seconds to hours?

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OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

• In this training, we will use Black Oil method.

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OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

• From Model Browser - > Case Definition -> Options-> Compositional

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• Repeat the similar steps for

• Refer to the definition if the keyword

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OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec

OLGA Training M Zamrud Zainal 18 Dec