Dear OPM community,

We would like to invite you to participate in the 2019 OPM Summit on January  24th and 25th  in The Netherlands! This year the event will be hosted by TNO and we hope to welcome all of you in Utrecht. The details of the event are as follows:

*   Location:            Princetonlaan 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands
*   Dates/Time:      24th and 25th of January 2019. Start: 10:00 on Thursday and end at 15:00 on Friday
*   Fees:                   There are no fees for the meeting, Conference facilities and food will be provided by TNO

Please let me, Rohith Nair (rohith.nair@tno.nl), or Frank Wilschut (frank.wilschut@tno.nl) know as early as possible if you are planning to join the summit, so that we can make the necessary arrangements. We plan to make Thursday (24th) more user centered and Friday (25th) more developer focused, however the agenda is flexible and you can participate on either or both days. The agenda and the presentation slots for the meeting are still open so you are welcome to propose items you would like to share with the rest of the OPM community. If you would like to make a presentation please make the same request to the organizers with a title, authors and a paragraph describing the talk, preferably before 15 January. The agenda will be published on the website and to the participants as soon as it has been set. There will also be a conference dinner on the evening of the 24th (Thursday); in your reply please indicate if you would like to join the dinner.

Travel/Accommodation: Participants must make their own arrangements. Our office is on the university campus, but we recommend hotels in the city center or near the central train station (e.g. the NH and Apollo hotels). From the city center, TNO is easily accessible by bus or taxi.

Looking forward to seeing you here!
The Organizers (Rohith Nair and Frank Wilschut)

A new version of ResInsight has been released, for more information about version 2018.11 see the announcement on the ResInsight website.

Binary packages for this new version are now available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 6 and 7) repositories as well as in the Ubuntu repository (ppa).

Major reorganization of opm modules have taken place in preparation for the next release:

• The opm-core module has been removed, its contents moved to appropriate locations in other modules.
• The opm-parser and opm-output modules have been folded into the opm-common module. If you do not need these features, there are build-system options for opm-common that allow you to build without them: set ENABLE_ECL_INPUT to false to not build the Eclipse deck parser feature, and/or set ENABLE_ECL_OUTPUT to false to not build the Eclipse binary I/O feature. Both of these default to true, and setting them to false will disable building some downstream programs such as Flow.

The new structure is shown on the module page.

A new version of ResInsight has been released, for more information about version 2018.01 see the announcement on the ResInsight website.

Binary packages for this new version are now available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 6 and 7) repositories as well as in the Ubuntu repository (ppa).

Dear OPM community,

We have created an update for the 2017.10 release. It fixes a few bugs in Flow that could affect simulation results slightly and also lead to very bad performance when running Flow in parallel using MPI. The effect was most pronounced when running with more than 4 MPI processes.

Binary packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 have been updated, and for most users your systems will ask to install the updated version or do it automatically.

For those who compile OPM from source, the release branches on GitHub have been updated and tagged with

release/2017.10/update1

The master branch of course includes the same fixes.

Hi,

On behalf of the OPM project, I’m happy to announce that version 2017.10 has been released. Packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and Red-Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 have been prepared or should be available soon.

As usual, this release contains a multitude of new features and improvements. Most notable are probably that the Flow simulator is now considerably faster than in the 2017.04 release, Flow now supports the solvent and polymer black-oil extensions and that there now is freely available documentation for the file format that is used to specify the input.

Finally, as the release manager, I’d take the opportunity and thank everyone involved in making the release process for 2017.10 go as smoothly as it did.

Have A Lot Of Fun!

Andreas

A reference manual has been created for OPM Flow, the fully implicit reservoir simulator program. The manual describes the structure and keywords of the input deck format, how to run Flow, and command line parameters. We hope that it will be useful!

We would like to thank David Baxendale in particular for his hard work on the manual.

A set of three specialized simulators are now available, for the black-oil + solvent, black-oil + polymer and two-phase water + oil cases.

They are available on GitHub, and you need to build from the latest OPM master branches to get them. Their functionality will be part of the next OPM release (in October) if you prefer to install binary packages. The simulator programs are called flow_ebos_solvent (replacing flow_solvent), flow_ebos_polymer (replacing flow_polymer) and flow_ebos_2p.

Performance of the new simulators is significantly better than the existing ones, especially the specialized two-phase simulator.

It is our goal to incorporate all of these specialized simulators in a single Flow executable, which automatically will select the best variant to run each case.

The OPM software suite is one of three mathematical frameworks worked on and improved through the European research project “Mathematical modelling, simulation and optimization for societal challenges with scientific computing“, or MSO4SC. The two other frameworks involved are Feel++ and Fenics. One aim of the project is to improve deployability, scalability and usability of the frameworks, especially in cloud or HPC settings. For each framework, one or more pilot applications have been chosen, and for OPM that is the reservoir simulator Flow.

Starting the coming Monday (22nd of May 2017) there is a workshop in Budapest, Hungary, organized by the MSO4SC project. The workshop web site contains information about the program and participants. It will be possible to follow most of the talks online, during or after the workshop.

If you have any questions or requests regarding OPM and the MSO4SC project please contact Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen (SINTEF).