RESOLVE

RESOLVE has been developed as a master controller to communicate and control the link between Reservoir Simulators, Process Simulators, other third party software, as well as client proprietary tools and the IPM suite.

RESOLVE: Features - Main

• Application to connect and run integrated models comprising of an unlimited number of applications
• Hyper-threaded
• Strong parallelisation of solver algorithm wherever this is possible
• Makes use of local (multi-processor) and network (remote machine) resources
• Any topography of connected system is allowed
• No fixed concept of upstream or downstream
• Entirely open architecture
• User connections can be developed (many examples of this)
• The application as a whole can be controlled from an external controller
• In addition to our optimisers, users can use their own external optimiser (see below)
• Models can be run predicatively or at a snapshot in time

RESOLVE: Reservoir Coupling

• Petroleum Experts-developed algorithm for improved coupling stability
• Non-iterative - good performance
• default scheme does not use Newton coupling (although available as an option)
• iteration between reservoirs and GAP is possible, but is rarely required with the default algorithm
• Tested extensively on fields throughout the world
• Adaptive time-stepping also available

RESOLVE: Surface Network Implementation

• Resolve is set up to take full advantage of the features of Petroleum Experts 'GAP' software
• optimisation
• production AND injection systems in a single license
• distribution of network models and parallel optimisations over a network

RESOLVE: PVT

• Thermodynamic consistency between applications in an integrated model is ensured Black-oil models can be mixed with fully compositional models