NSERC / Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation

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The long-term goal of this five-year Chair is to provide a reliable tool to explore and validate the best novel**recovery processes that are both economically viable and environmentally sensitive and reduce water use and**greenhouse gas emissions. This research is vital to the viability of the oil and gas industry, one of Canada's**most important industrial sectors, which has been operating under low commodity prices for two years. The**new processes to explore were identified by industry as requiring validation prior to field testing. Accurate**reservoir models and efficient simulators developed in this program are the tools required to study and**optimize oil recovery processes with successful prediction of reservoir behaviours and environmental impacts.**Essential features of flow and transport processes in petroleum reservoirs will be reflected in new mathematical**models. New numerical models can reliably generate solutions without false information. Accurate algorithms**and computational codes will then be developed to support the greening of heavy oil and oil sands recovery**processes and the renewal of a more sustainable oil and gas industry. This can only be achieved when each**novel recovery process is carefully modelled and reliable simulations demonstrate the validity of the process.