Dear OPM community

The 2025 OPM Summit was in Bergen at Norce (Nygårdsgaten 112) from 26-27th of May.

Presentations are available through the links in the program.

Program

Monday 26^th of May

0930	Registration and Coffee
1000	Welcome and information	Tor Harald Sandve (NORCE)
1010	OPM Flow, status and ongoing work	Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen (SINTEF)
1035	Reservoir simulations on the Troll field using OPM Flow	Kjetil Bjørke (Equinor)
1100	Break
1120	CO2 simulations in OPM Flow. Highlights from the HPCG project	Tor Harald Sandve (NORCE)
1145	OPM Flow Implementation Project	Edel Reiso (Equinor)
1210	Lunch
1300	Compositional Simulation Development in OPM-Flow	Kai Bao (SINTEF)
1325	Latest contributions to OPM from TNO	Artur Castiel (TNO) and Paul Egberts (TNO)
1350	Break
1410	Geomechanics in OPM Flow	Halvor Møll Nilsen (SINTEF)
1435	Use of OPM Flow in the Python Ensemble Toolbox (PET) with applications	Rolf Johan Lorentzen (NORCE)
1500	Break
1530	Adaptive time stepping in reservoir simulations	Erik Hide Sæternes. (Simula)
1555	Subsurface Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Integration	Phoo Pwint Nandar (NTNU)
1620	End of program
1900	Dinner

Tuesday 27^th of May

0900	Welcome and information.	Tor Harald Sandve (NORCE)
0905	OPM Flow R&D priorities in Equinor, and overview of what is already qualified	Alf Birger Rustad (Equinor)
0930	New Developments for Linear Solvers within OPM’s GPU ISTL Framework	Jakob Torben (SINTEF)
0955	Break
1010	Well Solver on GPU	Vinicius Martins (Unicamp)
1035	Preparing the Property Evaluation for GPU Execution	Tobias Meyer Andersen (SINTEF)
1100	Break
1115	Pre- and post-processing tools for OPM: Pycopm and Plopm	David Landa Marban (NORCE)
1140	Sub-grid model for convective mixing (DRSDTCON)	Trine Mykkeltvedt (NORCE)
1205	Lunch
1300	From block-shaped to flexible LGRs	Antonella Ritorto (OPM-OP)
1325	Local grid refinement in OPM: latest status and next steps	Artur Castiel (TNO)
1350	Break
1410	Parallelization of Multisegment Wells	Lisa Julia Nebel (OPM-OP)
1435	The new default grid partitioner	Michal Toth (OPM-OP)
1500	Ending remarks	Tor Harald Sandve (NORCE)
1510	End of program

We would like to invite existing users of OPM Flow as well as others that are interested in simulation tools for CO2 storage to a webinar on the 16th of December. At the webinar we would highlight recent development in OPM Flow. The webinar is from 1 pm to 2 pm CET. To participate please register here.
All registered participants will get a link to the meeting before the webinar starts.

The webinar is finished but the presentations can be downloaded by clicking the links in the program.

Program:

• CO2 simulations using OPM Flow. Alf Birger Rustad, Equinor
• SPE11 CSP using OPM Flow. Tor Harald Sandve, Norce
• CO2 injection in depleted fields using compositional simulations in OPM Flow. Kai Bao, SINTEF and Negar Khoshnevis Gargar, TNO.

The SPE11 CSP targeting CO2 storage simulations was recently released ( https://www.spe.org/en/csp/ ).

If you are interested in simulating the CSP using OPM Flow you can check out the open framework created by David Landa-Marbán. The framework can be used to setup and run Flow based on the description given in the SPE11 CSP.

https://github.com/OPM/pyopmcsp11

Preliminary simulation results for the  B case.

Dear OPM Users,

It is my pleasure to announce that the binary packages for the 2021.04 OPM release are now available for RHEL 7 and 8, as well as for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (code name Focal Fossa) and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (code name Bionic Beaver).  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

Alternatively, you can install 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.

Best Regards,

Tor Harald Sandve

Norce

Release notes 2021.04

The current release consists of some new features and various improvements and bug fixes. 

Highlights from the 2021.04 release is support for numerical aquifers, gas lift optimization, network models and support for diffusive flow.  

New features:

• Gas lift optimization. With gas lift optimization enabled the simulator can allocate gas lift to wells and groups.
• Numerical aquifers. Numerical aquifers allow for flexible and efficient inclusion of pressure support from adjacent aquifers.
• Support for wells split between several process domains. This potentially gives better parallel grid partitioning. The well split is only implemented for standard wells.
• Network option. Allows for cross well/group coupling through tubing head pressure.
• Diffusion. Diffusive effects can optionally be included in the simulation.
• WELPI-based scaling of a well’s connection transmissibility factors.
• Three-point vertical scaling of relative permeability functions (keywords KRGR, KRORG, KRORW, and KRWR).
• Support for well and group names with more than eight (8) characters in summary output.
• Expanded possible actions in ACTIONX, including WELPI and UDQ updates.
• Support for IMPORT keyword in GRID section.

Improvements and fixes:

• Various fixes for thermal simulations
• Fixes in the GCONINJE implementation
• Support for aquifers in MPI runs
• Fixes in the boundary setup when using the OPM specific BC keyword. 
• Correct inclusion of the group efficiency for the top group level 
• Improved convergence of the multi-segmented well equations. 
• Various MPI related fixes. Avoiding dead-locks etc.

Dear OPM community,

I am happy to announce the 2018.04 release. Packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Red-Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 is prepared. New in this release is that also the Red-Hat packages are shipped with mpi support.

In addition to various minor bug-fixes and a reorganization of the code, the release contains new functionality for the Flow simulator like DRSDT support, experimental CPR preconditioning and enhanced output capability. Note that number of modules are reduced to simplify the build process and the code maintenance. The new module organization is shown here.

Read about the OPM meeting here: http://www.iris.no/home/focus-on-open-porous-media-opm-  

Most of the presentations are found here:  https://opm-project.org/?page_id=39

Registration

The workshop is free and open to everyone who is interested. Please register before 1st of October using the following link.

Program

DAY 1 Wednesday October 18

Place: Scandic Ørnen.

10:00 – 10:15    Coffee

10:15 – 10:30    Welcome (Tor Harald Sandve, IRIS)

10:30 – 11:00    OPM: current status and overview (Alf Birger Rustad, Statoil)

11:00 – 11:30    Flow-MPI (Markus Blatt, HPC simulation software and services)

11:30 – 12:00    Salt precipitation modeling in OPM. (Paul Egberts, TNO)

12:00 – 12:30    Robust tuning to improve runtime and accuracy of Flow simulations (Rohith Nair, TNO)

 12:30 – 13:30   Lunch

13:30 – 14:00    Comparison of Linear Reconstruction for Second Order Finite Volume Schemes on Polyhedral Grids (Anna Kvashchuk, IRIS)

14:00 – 14:30    Well modeling in OPM: recent development (Kai Bao, Sintef)

14:30 – 15:00    PorePy: A Python Simulation Tool for Fractured and Deformable Porous Media (Eirik Keilegavlen, UiB)

15:00 – 15:30    Performance in Exa-Dune: Finding a tradeoff between efficiency and framework generality” (Steffen Müthing, Uni. Heidelberg)

15:30 – 16:00    Coffee

16:00 – 16:30   Recent developments in the Matlab Reservoir Simulation Toolbox: Implicit schemes for compositional flow and hybrid schemes for CO2 storage (Olav Møyner, Sintef)

16:30 – 17:00   Nonlinear solvers for OPM Flow (Atgeirr Rasmussen, Sintef)

17:00 – 17:45  Python wrappers for Eclipse and OPM-Parser (Joakim Hove, Statoil)

We have reserved tables at the hotel restaurant for dinner at 19:00

DAY 2, Thursday October 19

Place: IRIS office.  Høyteknologibygget.  (8th floor)

09:00 – 09:15    Coffee

09:15 – 09:45    CO2-EOR simulations in OPM (Tor Harald Sandve, IRIS)  

09:45 – 10:15    Impact of convection on CO2-hydrocarbon mixing in EOR reservoirs (Sarah Gasda, UNI-CIPR)

10:15 – 10:45    Past experience and future needs in simulation of CO2 storage and CO2 EOR (Alv-Arne Grimstad, Sintef)

10:45 – 11:00    Coffee

11:00 – 12:30    Group / plenum discussions.  

12:30 – 13:30    Lunch

13:30 – 15:00    How to make your own simulator in OPM Ewoms?  Tutorials and examples. (Andreas Lauser, Poware software solutions) / SIMCO2EOR project meeting. 

 

 

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