Patent ID: 8165816

Claim:
A method for causing a computer processor to assist with management of an impact, on an earth formation, of fluid injection operations associated with hydrocarbon recovery from at least one well formed in the earth formation, the method comprising: a) generating at least first and second sets of equations to model contributions to the impact of the operations due to at least first and second physical processes associated with the injection operations, wherein the fluid injection operations comprise injecting a fluid into the at least one well and the fluid comprises at least one of steam, water, natural gas, carbon dioxide, polymer, and acid; b) providing non-transitory computer readable instructions to the computer processor to cause the computer processor to obtain solutions to the first and second sets of equations to determine contributions to the impact of the operations due to the first and second physical processes; c) combining the solutions to the first and second sets of equations to determine the impact of the operations on the earth formation; and d) adjusting the fluid injection operations of the well based on the combined solutions.