We hope that this collaboration between Heriot-Watt and Rock Flow Dynamics will create opportunities to apply tNavigator €™s cutting edge parallel reservoir simulation technology in IPE €™s learning and research programs
The Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE) is delighted to announce Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD), software developer for the petroleum industry, has made a significant donation of 30 free licenses of its novel parallel reservoir simulator, tNavigator „¢ to be used for teaching and research purposes.
Dr. Vasily Demyanov established the collaboration between Heriot-Watt University and Rock Flow Dynamics in 2011 which has since generated several pilot research studies using the tNavigator „¢ software.
In a recent visit Dmitry Eydinov, RFD Business Development Director, donated $1.5 million USD worth of tNavigator „¢ licences to the Institute, with an additional $1.5 million USD worth of tNavigator „¢ licences donated to Heriot-Watt approved learning partner Tomsk Polytechnic University.
Dr Demyanov stated "We hope that this collaboration between Heriot-Watt and Rock Flow Dynamics will create opportunities to apply tNavigator €™s cutting edge parallel reservoir simulation technology in IPE €™s learning and research programs".
New computer technology provides a faster, more efficient way to simulate large oil and gas field models. The speed and compute efficiency of tNavigator „¢ has capability to solve complex problems like modelling uncertainty in oil reservoir forecasting which requires many simulations runs.
Under a separate agreement the Heriot-Watt spin-out company Epistemy is working on better integration of its uncertainty quantification software Raven with tNavigator „¢ to provide the fastest platform for history matching reservoir simulation models.