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    CHALLENGE

    Sustain production of Norwegian Continental


    Shelf (NCS) hydrocarbons by optimizing
    development of existing producing assets;
    overcome resource and computing limita-
    tions to more efficiently perform ECLIPSE*
    simulations.
    SOLUTION
    Provide high-performance, remote computing
    capability; integrate new IBM blade cluster
    with ASP environment and simulation data;
    install the following components:

    ECLIPSE reservoir simulation software

    Petrel* seismic-to-simulation software

    64-core, IBM blade cluster.
    RESULTS
    Gained access to the most powerful
    CPUs available for ECLIPSE via SIS remote
    hosting; significantly decreased turnaround
    time for all simulation models; improved
    ECLIPSE license equity and use.
    The new, faster solution helps
    Petoro reservoir engineers in
    their work with complex reservoir
    models. Having this solution
    delivered remotely minimizes
    our IT footprint and makes the
    technology even more attractive.
    Asbjrn Voll
    Senior Advisor
    Petoro AS, Norway
    Optimize development and production of existing fields
    Petoro AS was established by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) on behalf of the
    Norwegian government in 2001, with the unique goal to manage the direct government stake
    in oil and gas reserves and developments on the NCS. Petoro is one of the biggest production
    license holders in many major NCS assets, including Troll, Snorre, Heidrun, and Gullfaks.
    However, Petoro faces constraints from not being an operator on any of its licenses and not
    having an organization or company budget for software or IT infrastructure that corresponds to
    the size and number of assets.
    NCS operator companies typically have access to a large, high-performance computing
    infrastructure that enables them to perform numerous dynamic simulations in their quest for
    ultimate development scenarios and production optimization. While Petoro collaborates with these
    operating companies on jointly-owned production licenses, it does not have as many engineers as
    its partners and is constrained in terms of in-house computing resources and software technology.
    With a recent decline in NCS oil production, the Norwegian government asked Petoro to play
    a more active role in the large mature fields and contribute to a better strategy for license groups
    to optimize the development and production of these fields. The task of optimizing production on
    existing assets requires analysis using static and dynamic models, as well as performing more
    simulations in less time.
    CASE STUDY
    Reservoir Simulation Software
    Petoro AS Improves Simulation Speed
    for Complex Reservoir Modeling
    ECLIPSE software and remotely hosted, high-performance
    compute clusters aid Norwegian Continental Shelf studies
    SIS remote hosting provided access to powerful CPUs for faster ECLIPSE simulation modeling.
    Remotely-hosted, high-performance compute clusters
    First solution
    In 2008, Petoro had its first experience using the Schlumberger
    Information Solutions (SIS) remotely-hosted, high-performance,
    compute clusters for quick simulation of ECLIPSE models. Complex
    simulations were needed for Snorre field within a short timeframe,
    for which SIS mobilized a cluster, hosted remotely by HP, located in
    Swindon, UK. Access to the service was provisioned by SIS in record
    timeless than 1 monthand was used by Petoro reservoir engineers
    for the next 3 months to perform approximately 150 simulations, enabling
    them to finish the Snorre project on time. Subsequently, discussions took
    place between SIS and Petoro to arrive at a similar solution housed at
    Petoros Stavanger location, on a more cost-effective basis, with even
    more computing power.
    A more powerful solution
    In May 2010, SIS installed a new, 64-core, IBM blade cluster in its
    Tananger office that would be used remotely by Petoro from its
    downtown Stavanger office. Extensive testing was performed before
    the hosting agreement was finalized. SIS reservoir engineers tested the
    performance of five simulation models provided by Petoro on the most
    advanced hardware available. This was done to give Petoro a strong
    business case for adopting this solution.
    During this timeframe, SIS leveraged experience from a first-ever
    installation of an ECLIPSE cluster in Scandinavia that had been created
    for another client and was being hosted from the same SIS office in
    Tananger. These valuable lessons helped SIS to accurately budget and
    quickly execute the Petoro projectfully meeting client expectations.
    Improved simulation efficiency
    SIS remote hosting provided access to the most powerful CPUs
    available for ECLIPSE simulation modeling. Petoros simulation
    turnaround time was greatly reduced, for example, from 70 to 24
    hours for a giant oil and gas field offshore Norway. Utilization of equity
    licenses was also improved via faster hardware that allowed licenses
    to be released more quickly to other simulations waiting in the queue.
    Overall, Petoro was empowered to run more simulations per month using
    the same pool of core ECLIPSE licenses.
    This solution has led to other Petoro initiatives of a similar nature,
    including a system that is already in use and receiving compliments
    by staff reservoir engineers, at both Petoro and Schlumberger.
    Furthermore, a joint study of Heidrun field offshore Norway was
    launched in 2010, by Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services (DCS)
    and Petoro engineers. This project required many simulations of the
    reservoir model to improve its history match using 4D seismic data and,
    therefore, benefitted from a new, higher-performing simulation cluster
    that helped maintain the teams timeline. A multiple realization
    approachversus traditional history matching methods enabled them
    to significantly improve the history matching to production data
    providing additional production targets.
    Also during 2010, SIS deployed three remotely-hosted simulation HPC
    clusters, for three other Norwegian clients, from one server room in
    the Schlumberger R3 building in Stavanger. In the future, SIS plans
    to build on its ECLIPSE cluster-hosting experience and expand the
    solution to provide more flexibility and more computing power needed
    by ever-growing operator companies in the NCS region.
    Schlumberger Information Solutions
    Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) is an operating unit of
    Schlumberger that provides software, information management,
    IT, and related services. SIS collaborates closely with oil and gas
    companies to solve todays tough reservoir challenges with an open
    business approach and comprehensive solution deployment. Through
    our technologies and services, oil and gas companies empower their
    people to improve business performance by reducing exploration and
    development risk and optimizing operational efficiencies.
    E-mail sisinfo@slb.com or contact your local Schlumberger
    representative to learn more.
    www.slb.com/eclipse
    *Mark of Schlumberger
    Other company, product, and service names
    are the properties of their respective owners.
    Copyright 2011 Schlumberger. All rights reserved. 11-IS-0416
    CASE STUDY: Faster ECLIPSE simulations optimize asset development

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