ECHELON's Characterization of an Unconventional Reservoir

Challenge

The Permian Basin located in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico is the largest unconventional onshore oil producing region in the United States. To more accurately predict the performance of the reservoir, engineers at iReservoir needed to determine the sensitivity of the model results to a large number of parameters. These sensitivities were calculated by executing numerical simulations on a large ensemble of model realizations, each with millions to tens of millions of active grid cells. Such multiple realization studies using existing simulators are severely restricted by both software and hardware limitations, take days to weeks to run and require substantial hardware resources.