[Opm] OPM Release 2022.04

[Markus Blatt]

Dear OPM community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the binary packages for the 2022.04
OPM release are now available for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (code name Focal
Fossa) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (code name Jammy Jellyfish). 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
└────

To install the python bindings of OPM in addition, please use the
command

┌────
│ sudo apt install python3-opm-simulators
└────

This is also the first release that comes with official packages for
Debian stable and (in about 5 days) for Debian testing. If you are using
that distributions you can use the apt commands above to install the
packages.

Please note that it will still take a few days to make the Redhat
available.

I would also like to use the opportunity to thank all the contributors
for their effort in improving the simulator, especially David for
testing updating the manual and preparing the release notes, Atgeirr
Bård and Tor-Harald for testing and Arne Morton for building the Ubuntu
and Redhat packages.

Best Regards, Markus Blatt, OPM-OP AS Release manager for 2022.04


1 Release notes for 2022.04
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   The 2022-04 release consists of some new features and various
   improvements and bug fixes. Highlights for this release include:
   implementation of the Salt Precipitation Model, several ACTIONX
   implementation improvements – including support for the COMPSEGS,
   WELSEGS and WSGVALV keywords in an ACTIONX block, improvements to the
   CO2STORE model to work with numerical aquifers and to account for
   thermal effects, support for gas lift optimization for multi-lateral
   wells, the addition of various SUMMARY vectors, plus various
   enhancements to the RESTART file to improve compatibility and
   robustness. Significant work has also been conducted in fixing the
   number of reported bugs.

   When building OPM Flow from source, the default is now be to compile a
   parallel binary if MPI is installed, this was already the default for
   the binary packages that were previously distributed. Secondly,
   support for building OPM Flow with the new current version of DUNE
   (2.8) has been added.


2 Some of the new features:
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   ⁃ Improved version of Python version of the parser in opm-common
   ⁃ Several ACTIONX improvements
   ⁃ Added support for the CO2STORE model to use numerical aquifers
   ⁃ Enabled the CO2STORE model to account for thermal effects
   ⁃ Added support for the GRAVITY keyword in the PROPS section
   ⁃ Improvements on how the well potentials are calculated when the
     wells are under guide rate control
   ⁃ Improvements on how the well rates are calculated for when the wells
     are or not under group control control
   ⁃ Improved ESmry file output by not writing out empty elements
   ⁃ Improved how the summary keywords are handled for inter-region
     summary vectors in ESMRY files, to give a consistent naming
     convention
   ⁃ Several RESTART improvements (see pdf)
   ⁃ Added support for the WTMULT keyword in the SCHEDULE section
   ⁃ Implemented the Salt Precipitation Model (see pdf)
   ⁃ Added support for gas lift optimization for multi-segment wells
   ⁃ Added support for gas-water initialization for two-phase runs using
     PVDG and PVTW keywords in the PROPS section.
   ⁃ Added support for the WVFPEXP keyword in the SCHEDULE section
   ⁃ Added support for LIFTOPT(TSTEP) option that defines the frequency
     of the gas lift optimization calculations.
   ⁃ Water only and water only with thermal models can now be run with
     the flow binary
   ⁃ The VAPWAT keyword in the RUNSPEC section, that activates the
     vaporized water phase, is now active for this release for gas-water
     systems only.

   For further details including a list of known issues and bug fixes
   please see the [OPM Flow Release Notes from the manual].


[OPM Flow Release Notes from the manual]
<http://opm-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OPM_Flow_Reference_Manual_2022-04_Rev-0-ReleaseNotes.pdf>

[Announcement on web page]
<https://opm-project.org/?p=1471>
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Markus Blatt
CEO @ OPM-OP AS, Heyerdahlsvei 12b, 0777 Oslo, Norway
https://opm-op.com | +4916097590858