Emerson Process Management will donate a number of licenses of its Roxar Tempest™ full field reservoir simulation solution to the University of Leeds. The software will be used by Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) students in the University’s School of Earth and Environment as the central platform for learning about production simulation modeling.

The Tempest reservoir simulation suite, used in hundreds of installations worldwide, guides users through the entire reservoir simulation process. The software covers the preparation and analysis of original data, compositional and black-oil simulation, results study and visualization, and economic evaluation. Specific features of Tempest software include advanced processing capabilities, intuitive visualization through a consistent and powerful graphical interface, and an integrated workflow. The result is increased productivity and accessibility within reservoir asset teams.

“Tempest software is the ideal tool with which our students can learn production simulation modeling,” said Dr. Piroska Lorinczi, lecturer in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering. “It’s extremely easy to use, has an excellent graphical user interface, and provides a streamlined and integrated workflow. We are delighted to be using it as our preferred teaching software.”

Ordin Husa, Managing Director of Roxar Software Solutions added, “As operators look to optimize production from increasingly marginal assets, effective reservoir simulation will play a vital role. By investing in the petroleum engineers of the future and by providing them with access to our advanced reservoir simulation suite, we are ensuring that the industry will have the right skills and knowledge moving forward.”

The adoption of Tempest software follows completion of the university's highly successful, multidisciplinary IPEGG (Integrated Petroleum Engineering, Geomechanics and Geophysics) research project, in which the simulation software played a key role. The aim of IPEGG was to better integrate software and workflows used in petroleum engineering, geology, geomechanics and geophysics to better model reservoir deformation and track the evolution of seismic properties during the production of petroleum reservoirs.

During the IPEGG project, Tempest software was coupled with ELFEN, a geomechanical model produced by Rockfield Software Ltd. “The software developers at Roxar were extremely helpful, and the close cooperation meant that we were able to couple Tempest software to ELFEN using a Message Passing Interface (MPI),” said Quentin Fisher, Professor of Petroleum Engineering, who lead the IPEGG project. “This meant that simulations could be run far faster than with other simulation packages, which depend on the use of restart files to transfer data between the programs. Our success with ELFEN persuaded us that Tempest software was the ideal simulation platform to base our production simulation modeling on.”

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