Producing more by producing less
“The pressure in the separation unit, where the produced oil is separated from gas, is the ultimate driver for your entire field development approach,” says Alexey Danilko, production engineer at…
Rock Flow Dynamics
The human touch in reservoir modelling
As our 30-minute conversation took place on a Tuesday morning in early September, three emails arrived in Bastian’s inbox. Three separate and unrelated enquiries from customers in Switzerland, Germany, and…
Blurring the line between geology and reservoir engineering
How often has it happened that a dynamic simulation grid turns out to be not fit for purpose because something goes wrong – too fast a pressure build-up, too fast…
Some snakes don’t bite
Everybody is talking about machine learning and big data these days, but what does it mean in reality, and how do geoscientists embrace it in their daily lives? To learn…
Why preserving a detailed facies reservoir model has everything to do with your graphics card
“Imagine a bulldozer,” says Vasilii Shelkov, CEO of Rock Flow Dynamics, from his office in Houston. “That is how you need to envisage the power delivery of the Central Processing…