NSERC / Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation

这一为期五年的主席的长期目标是提供一个可靠的工具，以探索和验证最佳的新恢复过程，既经济可行，又对环境敏感，并减少用水和温室气体排放。这项研究对石油和天然气工业的生存能力至关重要，石油和天然气工业是加拿大最重要的工业部门之一，两年来一直在低商品价格下运行。工业界认为，需要探索的新工艺需要在现场测试之前进行验证。本项目开发的精确油藏模型和高效模拟器是研究和优化采油过程所需的工具，可成功预测油藏动态和环境影响。新的油藏模型将反映油藏中流动和输运过程的基本特征。新的数值模型可以可靠地生成没有错误信息的解决方案。然后将开发精确的算法和计算代码，以支持重油和油砂开采过程的绿色化，以及更可持续的石油和天然气工业的更新。这只能实现时，每一个新的恢复过程是仔细建模和可靠的模拟证明了该过程的有效性。

The long-term goal of this five-year Chair is to provide a reliable tool to explore and validate the best novelrecovery processes that are both economically viable and environmentally sensitive and reduce water use andgreenhouse gas emissions. This research is vital to the viability of the oil and gas industry, one of Canada'smost important industrial sectors, which has been operating under low commodity prices for two years. Thenew processes to explore were identified by industry as requiring validation prior to field testing. Accuratereservoir models and efficient simulators developed in this program are the tools required to study andoptimize 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 mathematicalmodels. New numerical models can reliably generate solutions without false information. Accurate algorithmsand computational codes will then be developed to support the greening of heavy oil and oil sands recoveryprocesses and the renewal of a more sustainable oil and gas industry. This can only be achieved when eachnovel recovery process is carefully modelled and reliable simulations demonstrate the validity of the process.