Patent ID: 7451066

Claim:
A method of modeling a reservoir field including a plurality of wellbores, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a data set which represents said reservoir field comprised of said plurality of wellbores, one of the plurality of wellbores being a specific wellbore; (b) in response to the receiving step (a), modeling and simulating a region of said reservoir field located within a boundary around the region of said reservoir field which includes said specific wellbore and is in an immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore without also simulating a remaining portion of said reservoir field thereby focusing said modeling and simulating step on said region of the reservoir field which is located in the immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore; (c) in response to the modeling and simulating step (b), determining a first plurality of simulation results that are representative of said region of the reservoir field located in said immediate vicinity of said specific wellbore; and (d) displaying said first plurality of simulation results representative of a set of earth formation characteristics in said vicinity of said specific wellbore.