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Intersect high-resolution reservoir simulator

New insights with high-resolution reservoir simulation

Intersect High-Resolution Reservoir Simulator
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The Intersect high-resolution reservoir simulator is the answer to many of your reservoir challenges. By combining physics and performance in a fit-for-purpose reservoir simulator for your reservoir models, the Intersect simulator enables modeling at the scale you need with the physics you need—fast. Reservoir engineers are provided with results that can be trusted to provide insight into understanding the progression of hydrocarbon in the reservoir at a resolution that is otherwise too costly to simulate. The outcome is improved accuracy and efficiency in field development planning and reservoir management, even for the most complex fields.

From black oil waterflood models, to thermal SAGD injection schemes, to efficient handling of unstructured grids, the Intersect simulator delivers a new approach to reservoir simulation for meeting your reservoir management challenges. The Intersect simulator reveals new insights through the efficient simulation of high-resolution models while employing robust physics to support better field development decisions. Detailed reservoir characterization, together with well and network coupling, can be honored with only minimal or no upscaling.

The Intersect simulator supports:

  • Complex geological structures and highly heterogeneous formations.
  • Advanced physics for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 storage modeling and simulation (CCUS).
  • Challenging well and completion configurations.
  • Advanced production controls, flexible field management strategies, and reservoir coupling.
  • Full extensibility through Python scripting.
  • Superior performance—a hardware agnostic simulator with state-of-the-art technologies.
  • Rapid simulation of multiple concurrent cases in the cloud using On Demand Reservoir Simulation on Delfi.

Next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation

You can access next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation capabilities with Petrel subsurface software and Intersect simulator.

  • Leverage our best-in-class high performance simulation solution and model CO2 storage at the scale you need.
  • A wide range of end-to-end integrated storage workflows are supported in the Intersect simulator and the Petrel platform.
  • Workflows aiming for the main trapping mechanisms in both saline aquifers and depleted reservoirs and specialized physics properties including solubility, diffusion and thermal effects are available.
Next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation
You can access next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation capabilities with Petrel subsurface software and Intersect simulator.

Better simulations: Closing the gap with seamless geomodelling to simulation solutions

The Intersect simulator provides outstanding performance in advanced geomodelling to simulation workflows that enable reservoir engineers to produce comprehensive views of the reservoir behavior. Understand and quantify the geological risk and make the best decisions to ensure profitability of your projects.

Intersect: different field development scenarios
Generate multiple geological models and quickly evaluate different field development scenarios harvesting the power of the performance of the Intersect simulator

Everybody’s in: Real integration from reservoir to processing

Using Intersect Field Management, you can recreate close-to-operations controls of even the most complex fields, for accurately predicting and generating behavior. The module is accessed through IAM (Integrated Asset Modeling), which provides an advanced framework to couple the Intersect simulator to networks, facilities, and processing simulation tools.

Intersect: reservoir to processing
Intersect Field Management provides advanced and flexible controls through a close-to-exact representation of the field operations

Keep it real: The Intersect simulator and Depogrid produce reliable result

Depogrid enables geologists and geomodelers to capture all the different unconformities and changes on the structure of the reservoir with high levels of detail. The unstructured nature of the gridding Depogrid models are simulated by the Intersect simulator to capture the effects on fluid flow.

Intersect simulator and depogrid
Depogrid enables geologists and geomodelers to capture all the different unconformities and changes on the structure of the reservoir with high levels of detail

Intersect new features

Intersect 2024.1 Release Announcement
Intersect 2024.2 Release Announcement

Physics, CO2 storage capabilities, performance, field management, and usability form the core pillars for the development of the Intersect™ high- resolution reservoir simulator. The release of Intersect delivers many key features and updates reflecting these focus areas.

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Intersect training courses address the unique need of each learner, our courses, delivered by world-class experts, teach learners how to deal with real-life scenarios and solve genuine problems.

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