Accelerating Tight Reservoir Simulation Workflows With GPUs

There are numerous complex characteristics that impact the long-term decline behavior of wells in tight oil and gas reservoirs. We present our efforts to help eliminate this tradeoff by building a fully-implicit black-oil simulator that combines recent advances in simulation algorithms with the high performance of GPUs.

K. Mukundakrishnan, K. Esler, D. Dembeck, V. Natoli, J. Shumway, Y. Zhang, Stone Ridge Technology, and J. R. Gilman, H. Meng, iReservoir.com, Inc.