The ECHELON Plug-in for Petrel
The most advanced reservoir simulator is now embedded directly into Petrel™.
Fast, Seamless Model Export and Simulations
Petrel™is a leading environment for geo-modelers and reservoir engineers to build dynamic models and derive insights from simulation data. Often, these professionals exchange Petrel projects instead of simulator-ready decks. The ECHELON Plug-in solves this by enabling Petrel projects to generate, export or directly submit ECHELON cases. This empowers users to maintain their existing workflows while benefiting from ECHELON's extreme simulation performance.
Launch ECHELON Anywhere
The plug‑in offers three ways of executing ECHELON:
Local Workstation Execution
Users on Windows workstations equipped with GPUs can launch ECHELON directly from Petrel. By adding the ECHELON executable to the system path, the plug‑in manages export, simulation, and result retrieval, loading outputs back into Petrel as they would normally expect.
HPC Cluster Deployment
Organizations with access to HPC clusters can submit jobs remotely. After configuring SSH access and queue settings through Petrel's UI, the plug-in handles submission, monitoring, and cancellation. File transfers (via scp or sftp) and support for schedulers like LSF, PBSPro, Slurm and UGE are all built in. Custom scripts can also be generated for specialized environments.
SRT Cloud (AWS-based) Integration
For those without local HPC resources, the plug-in enables simulation on the SRT Cloud (leveraging AWS or RunPod). Users can create and manage cloud accounts directly via Petrel, submit jobs, and retrieve results, all through the familiar interface and even buy cloud compute hours as needed.
Why Engineers Choose the ECHELON Plug-in
Uninterrupted Workflow
Keep using Petrel as before, only now with ECHELON's industry-leading simulation speed.
Flexible Deployment
Run simulations wherever you need: local workstations, HPC clusters, or scalable cloud resources.
Want to Learn More?
The ECHELON Plug‑in for Petrel integrates ECHELON into your Petrel workflows, delivering extraordinary performance gains with zero changes to your established process. Run simulations locally, on an HPC cluster, or in the SRT Cloud.
Feature | Description |
Integrated Workflow | Export models in Petrel, run ECHELON, and reload results seamlessly. |
Flexible Execution Modes | Supports deployment on local machines, HPC clusters, or the SRT Cloud. |
Automation and Compatibility | Handles export, job submission, monitoring, file transfer, and scheduler support all within Petrel. |
Testimonials
What industry experts are saying about ECHELON.
“The speed and flexibility of ECHELON will be the key elements for the subsurface modelling in the energy transition pathway.”
“By running ECHELON on IBM Power Systems, users can achieve faster run-times using a fraction of the hardware. The previous record used more than 700,000 processors in a supercomputer installation that occupies nearly half a football field. Stone Ridge did this calculation on two racks of IBM Power Systems machines that could fit in the space of half a ping-pong table.”
“ECHELON has transformed the way we develop and simulate complex models with many millions of cells. What previously took days or weeks now takes minutes or hours and we are able to retain reservoir detail and complexity by addressing very large models not previously possible.”
“You have all done great work with Echelon. It is a 'gold standard' for cost-effective, high-end flow simulation. I look forward to your future efforts!”
“ECHELON is easy to set up and run. Simulation runs that took about an hour to complete are ready now in a couple of minutes.”
“Stone Ridge Technology have really done it, they have done exactly what I wanted to do, they have a super-fast reservoir simulator, which is run on GPUs and is compatible with Eclipse.”
“ECHELON is one of the most disruptive technologies I’ve seen in my career doing simulation. It has proven ability to rapidly run very large, multi-million cell, full-physics models using massive parallelism. For iReservoir, this has led to improved understanding of complex systems by allowing for broad ranging sensitivity analysis in vastly reduced time frames.”
“Thanks to ECHELON in the cloud, we are finally able to simulate realistic situations in a dual porosity/dual permeability reservoir capturing the effect of a Fishbone multi-lateral completion.”
“In very few days our reservoir engineer was able to carry-out thousands of fluid-dynamic simulations, varying many different reservoir parameters, from geological and engineering point of view: a remarkable performance for a full range risk analysis, not achievable with any other available software.”
“We have been using ECHELON to evaluate a UK North Sea oil field development project, which has limited appraisal data and a wide range of reservoir uncertainties to consider. The team was required to run multiple development scenarios in order to explore the robustness of different options as part of the Concept Selection process. Our evaluation has shown that ECHELON can reduce our 15-year life-of-field simulation case runs from 7 hours, using an industry-leading black-oil simulator, to 20 minutes while delivering the same results. This offers us substantial time and cost savings.”
“Its [ECHELON's] implementation significantly changed our activities because, thanks to the speed of ECHELON (...) we were able to better calibrate the reservoir model (...) and span all the relevant uncertainties by creating hundreds of simulations in a short time.”
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