埃尼部署了先进的动态油藏模拟装置

据能源之声11月13日消息称埃尼公司宣布将在工业上部署先进的动态油藏模拟装置ECHELON，以优化现场监测、开发和生产。ECHELON软件允许用户在创纪录的时间框架内运行数千个并行油藏模拟，进一步加速了项目的上市时间。

这项技术的开发是为了支持埃尼在管理不确定性的同时提高对油田行为的早期了解，以做出更有效的业务决策，HPC5的部署将使该公司的整体计算能力在2020年第一季度达到每秒70千万亿次的峰值，再加上该公司最近升级的超级计算基础设施，证实了该公司数字化进程的进展。

作为其数字化转型议程的一部分，埃尼在2018年与Stone Ridge Technology（SRT）签署了战略协议，旨在共同追求ECHELON的开发和产业化，这是第一个动态油藏模拟装置，其设计和开发充分利用现代高性能通用计算图形处理单元的能力。ECHELON虽然能够有效利用GP-GPU提供的计算能力，但与其他商用油藏模拟装置相比，它的处理时间减少了5倍，同时提供了相同的精度水平。

埃尼对ECHELON的部署将持续到2020年公司的核心资产上，以期实现其价值的最大化，此外，Eni和SRT正在计划于2020年第二季度发布合成模拟装置的高级工业版本。

曹海斌 摘译自 Energy Voice

原文如下：

Eni deploys advanced dynamic reservoir simulation

Eni announced the industrial deployment of ECHELON, an advanced dynamic reservoir simulator, for optimisation of field monitoring, development and production. ECHELON software allows users to run thousands of parallel reservoir simulations in a record timeframe, further accelerating projects time-to-market.

This technology was developed to support Eni in managing uncertainty while improving early understanding of field behavior for more effective business decisions and, together with the recent upgrade of its supercomputing infrastructure thanks to the deployment of HPC5, which will bring the company’s overall computational capacity to a peak of 70 Petaflops in the first quarter of 2020, it confirms the progression of the company’s digitalisation process.

As part of its digital transformation agenda, in 2018 Eni has signed a strategic agreement with Stone Ridge Technology (SRT) aimed at jointly pursuing the development and industrialisation of ECHELON, the first dynamic reservoir simulator designed and developed to fully harness the power of modern high-performance General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GP-GPUs). ECHELON, while able to efficiently employ the computational power provided by GP-GPUs, it features a 5-fold reduction in processing times compared to other commercial reservoir simulators, while delivering the same level of accuracy.

ECHELON deployment at Eni will continue throughout 2020 on the company’s core assets aiming to maximise their value, furthermore Eni and SRT are planning the advanced industrial release for compositional simulator in the second quarter of 2020.