Coats Engineering, Inc

Description

Sensor delivers a step-change in reservoir simulator reliability and performance. Efficiency of the simulation engine is by far the most critical factor in the efficiency of any simulation workflow using any given optimization method. Sensor's efficiency is in part due to its superior formulation and its very fast linear solvers, which help to make it many times faster than any other full-physics model. Another reason is experience. Sensor is the latest of many generations of simulators developed by Dr. Keith H. Coats. In fact, Dr. Coats has developed more commercial reservoir simulators than any other person, team, or company. And, Brian Coats is also one of the more experienced simulator developers. He was a principal member of the VIP and Nexus simulator development teams, and the only principal member of both of those teams, for almost 20 years. None of our competitors have developed any successive generations of simulators. We've developed many successive generations of reservoir simulators with continuous and iterative improvement for the last 40 years. It's our exclusive occupation, besides support of course. Coats Engineering provides by far the highest level and quality of reservoir engineering program service and support that is available anywhere. We offer evidence of Sensor's true and superior next-generation performance in the form of an evaluation version with data and documentation, which you can run to obtain current results and performance for industry benchmarks and other reproducible cases. Any integration requirements with your best-of-breed workflow components, including couplings to facility and geomechanics models, are completely insignificant compared to the productivity improvements that you can achieve by converting to Sensor. Runs can be made with Sensor at a rate typically 3 to 10 times higher than can be achieved using any other model. That advantage almost doubles when compared to any parallel model. Where it applies, using Sensor will save huge amounts of time, money, hardware, and energy. We can prove it. Sensor has the features needed for simulation of most isothermal oil and gas recovery processes. It simulates black oil and compositional fluids in single-porosity, dual-porosity, and dual-permeability reservoirs. Its ability to automatically convert compositional descriptions to black oil or k-value representations provides unparalleled ease in determining the required complexity of the characterization. Compositional fluids subject to first-contact miscibility can be automatically pseudoized for large performance increase with no loss of accuracy. Its stable step logic in Impes formulation is state-of-the-art. Its stress- and porosity-dependent treatment of rock compaction with hysteresis and water weakening is the most advanced treatment available short of a coupled geomechanical model. Multiple, unconnected reservoirs with different fluid descriptions are solved faster because they are solved independently. Tracers have little or moderate effect on Impes performance.

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