Roxar Launches Tempest™ 6.4
Roxar, a leading technology solutions provider to the oil and gas industry, today announced the release of Tempest™ 6.4, its software suite for advanced reservoir simulation. Tempest™ 6.4 will allow users to conduct faster simulation runs and in greater detail, will provide improved returns on existing investments and greater compatibility with other simulation models, and will also enable users to model the injection of steam into their fields.
The result will be more reliable production forecasts and maximum reservoir performance.
Said Roxar CEO, Gunnar Hviding:
“Today represents a significant milestone for Tempest™, improving performance and capabilities, and allowing our users to work more seamlessly with existing simulation models. With the focus in our industry on achieving better integration and added value, Tempest™ 6.4 gives users and managers a greater return on their existing investments”
He continues:
“With Tempest™ 6.4, users can create and simulate larger and more complex models, allowing them to gain a greater understanding of their reservoir flow, more reliable production forecasts and maximized reservoir performance. With the latest release of Tempest™, our customers are also safe in the knowledge that Tempest™ is a solution that we intend to support and further innovate on for many years to come.”
Tempest™ 6.4 will enable users:
•To conduct faster simulation models and increase the detail of the model. Tempest™ 6.4 provides extended parallel processing capabilities by performing the grid calculations such as transmissibility calculations in parallel mode. This greatly increases the size of problem that can be run in parallel as the grid storage is not duplicated across the processors.
Tempest™ 6.4 also includes speed improvements in both serial and parallel simulation runs, which together with the ability to handle even larger models, allows greater detail in the simulation model and increased honoring of the geological characteristics of the reservoir.
•To leverage existing models and investments through improved compatibility and ease of use. Tempest™ comes with improved compatibility, reducing the effort required to run existing ECLIPSE input datasets. In addition, Tempest™ 6.4 has an improved capability to display results from other 3rd party simulation engines, providing added value by leveraging the investment already made by organizations.
Tempest™ also comes with improved co-visualization of measured and simulated data. Historical measurements are loaded directly into the viewer and displayed on sets of user-defined graphs, allowing the immediate appreciation of important results.
•To model the injection of steam into fields. Another advance in Tempest™ 6.4 is the ability to model the injection of steam into fields containing live oils with hydrocarbon gas in the reservoir vapour. Tracers may be attached to any of the reservoir components to follow the movement of fluids around the field to provide insight into the recovery process.
Users will be able to upgrade seamlessly from previous versions of Tempest™ at no additional cost. Tempest™ 6.4 is closely integrated with Roxar’s industry leading modeling solution, IRAP RMS™, which comprises 18 fully integrated software modules including mapping, modeling, planning and workflow management tools.
Tempest™ 6.4 comes with state of the art modeling and simulation capabilities, including the ability to simulate a wide range of physical processes within one program, such as black oil, compositional, dual porosity, steam, coal bed methane and polymer injection.
Tempest™ comprises four integrated software modules covering the different stages of reservoir simulation. These are: Tempest™-MORE, a full-field modern simulator capable of running black oil or compositional simulation models; Tempest™-View, a graphical interactive program that provides simulation pre and post processing; Tempest™-PVTx, a program for fluid characterization; and Tempest™-Venture, an integrated tool for economic evaluation and risk analysis that works directly on simulator output to estimate field cash flow and Net Present Value (NPV).
Roxar creates value for its customers through its Reservoir Interpretation, Reservoir Modeling, Reservoir Simulation, Well and Completion, Production and Process Solutions and Consultancy Services.
