PIMS/Shell Lunchbox Lecture: How Can Parallelization Recover More Oil?

For large oil and gas heterogeneous fields, vast amounts of seismic, geologic and dynamic reservoir data yield high-resolution geological models. These models involve mega (million) to giga (billion) grid block cells. Recent advances in the development of parallel reservoir simulators are capable of the solution of field simulations of these sizes within minutes. These parallel simulations provide increased recovery of oil and gas resources, due to a full utilization of available data and a better understanding of the chemical and physical mechanisms involved, process design and uncertainty analysis