NSERC / Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation

这个为期五年的主席的长期目标是提供一个可靠的工具，以探索和验证最好的小说 经济上可行、对环境敏感并减少用水的回收工艺， 温室气体排放。这项研究对石油和天然气行业的生存能力至关重要， 这是最重要的工业部门，两年来一直在低商品价格下运行。的 工业界认为，需要探索的新工艺需要在实地测试之前进行验证。准确 油藏模型和有效的模拟器在这个程序中开发的工具，需要研究和 通过成功预测油藏动态和环境影响来优化采油过程。 新的数学模型将反映油藏中流动和运移过程的基本特征， 模型新的数值模型可以可靠地生成没有错误信息的解决方案。精确算法 然后将开发计算代码，以支持重油和油砂回收的绿色化 石油和天然气行业的可持续发展。只有当每一个人 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 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.