Most presentations from the OPM Summit are now available, linked directly from the program post. Thanks to all contributors!

Venue

The 2024 Summit will be held at Meet Ullevål, at the Ullevål Stadium in Oslo, Norway. At the venue, take entrance D, and proceed to meeting room M6. How to get there.

Participation

Participation is open to all. Notify the local organizer, Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen, by email atgeirr.rasmussen@sintef.no if you have not yet been in contact.

Program, April 9

Program, April 10

The OPM Summit 2024 will be held as previously announced in Oslo on April 9 – April 10. The venue will be “Meet Ullevaal” at Ullevål Stadion, close to the metro stop with the same name. A full program is not yet ready, but times will be as follows.

Tuesday April 9:
0930-1000: welcome and registration,
1000-1700: main program.
Wednesday April 10:
0900-1630: main program.

This year, on April 9 – April 10 the OPM summit will be held in Oslo, Norway. This is a two-day workshop that is open to all users, developers and others who have an interest in OPM. We seek contributions in the form of talks and possibly also posters, if there is sufficient interest. If you would like to contribute, participate or have questions please contact one of the members of the preliminary program committee: Eduardo Barros, TNO (eduardo.barros@tno.nl), Tor Harald Sandve, NORCE (tosa@norceresearch.no), Alf Birger Rustad, Equinor (abir@equinor.com) or Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen, SINTEF (atgeirr.rasmussen@sintef.no).

More details including venue, registration and program, will be coming later.

Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen,
on behalf of the program committee.

Here are the presentations from the webinar on simulating CO2-storage with OPM Flow that was held on September 22, 2023.

CO2 simulations in OPM Flow, an overview (Tor Harald Sandve, NORCE)

Performance acceleration for CO2 simulations (Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen, SINTEF)

CO2STORE: Case studies (Cintia G. Machado, TNO)

The manual for OPM Flow has been updated for the latest release: OPM Flow 2023.04.

The release notes are also available separately: OPM Flow release notes 2023.04.

This version along with older versions of the manual are available on the manual page.

Dear OPM community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the 2023.04 OPM release is now ready. Thanks to all contributors for your improvements to the software and documentation, and to users for alerting us to bugs and problems.

This release is dedicated to the memory of Ove Sævareid, who regrettably passed away suddenly this April. Ove was a long-standing contributor to OPM, and active up to the last. We are thankful for his contributions to the OPM community. His enthusiasm, know-how and scientific expertise will be missed by colleagues and friends.

The most significant change to OPM Flow for this release is that the simulator is now by default a lot more restrictive about accepting unsupported keywords in the input deck. Any keyword (or part of a keyword) that could potentially affect the simulation results and is not supported by OPM Flow will now prevent the simulator from running. Unsupported keywords such as ECHO/NOECHO that have no effect on the simulation will still be accepted with a warning. If you for any reason require less strict behaviour, you can use the command-line option:

--parsing-strictness=low

Adding that option will let OPM Flow ignore all unsupported keywords. In the opposite direction, using “high” instead of “low” will cause OPM Flow to stop for any unsupported keyword or parsing anomaly.

Full release notes will be available with the updated manual soon.

Binary packages for the 2023.04 OPM release are available for RHEL 7, as well as for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (code name Jammy Jellyfish) and 20.04 LTS (code name Focal Fossa). The Ubuntu packages may be downloaded from the OPM Project’s Personal Package Archive (ppa:opm/ppa).  If you have not already included this in your package sources, you can do so with the commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:opm/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Then you can install the simulator and its prerequisites using the command:

sudo apt install libopm-simulators-bin

You can install python bindings for opm via pip (https://pypi.org/project/opm/) using:

pip install opm

Best Regards,

Arne Morten Kvarving, SINTEF
Release manager for 2023.04

Dear OPM community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the binary packages for the 2022.10 OPM release are now available for RHEL 7 and 8, as well as for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (code name Jammy Jellyfish) and 20.04 LTS (code name Focal Fossa). The Ubuntu packages may be downloaded from the OPM Project’s Personal Package Archive (ppa:opm/ppa).  If you have not already included this in your package sources, you can do so with the commands

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:opm/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Then you can install the simulator and its prerequisites using the command

sudo apt install libopm-simulators-bin

You can install python bindings for opm via pip (https://pypi.org/project/opm/) using

pip install opm

I would also like to use the opportunity to thank all the contributors for their effort in improving the simulator and documentation!

Best Regards,
Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen, SINTEF
Release manager for 2022.10

Release notes for 2022.10

The release notes section of the OPM Flow manual has been updated, and can be downloaded: OPM_Flow_Reference_Manual_2022-10_Rev-1_Release_Notes.

The full updated manual will be made available soon.

We have created a logo for OPM, shown below. Before we start using it, we welcome comments and feedback on the mailing list, in case there are legal or other reasons we cannot adopt the current proposal as our logo.

If there are no significant obstacles reported, this will become the OPM logo. A usage policy will also be created.