Saudi Aramco Debuts Giga-Cell Reservoir Simulation Technology

January 30, 2010 – The Advanced Research Center of Saudi Aramco Exploration and Petroleum Engineering Center (EXPEC) recently debuted its giga-cell reservoir simulation technology, GigaPOWERS. The new technology is the second generation of Saudi Aramco’s leading reservoir simulator, POWERS (Parallell Oil, Water, and Gas Enhanced Reservoir Simulator), which simulates fluid movement in the reservoir to optimize production, injection, and management of the reservoir. GigaPOWERS sets a new industry record with its ability to simulate giant fields at seismic or near-seismic resolution. This new capability will replace the less accurate conventional practice of averaging the simulation model cells to reduce their number, which also decreases the amount of information in the model. GigaPOWERS is able to simulate models of more than one billion cells, thus producing a more accurate simulation than ever before.