Quote Originally Posted by Yengineer View Post
What temr is asking is, if it is possible to develop an open source reservoir simulation tool.
In my opinion a very difficult task if not impossible and it doesn’t matter which route you go static or dynamic. Here is why: modeling the reservoir and PVT, as well as solving fluid flow equations is difficult and requires thousands line of code. It requires excellent knowledge of reservoir, PVT, geology and programming language. The number of reservoir engineers capable of doing that is very little and they are mostly specialized in one or another field, therefore such a project has to be a join effort of many specialists.
How big the chances are that ---h like this will come true?
Now let assume that such a program was build and offered for free to the users. Now, you have to convince them about the produced results not to mention the user friendly interface, support etc etc... very difficult task in my opinion.
I will agree with you Yengineer, but currently on project 5 full time expert involved.
First version will let you create data base , make 3d gridding, property modeling, sw modelling, and upscaling. Also the will be support of eclipse binary files so you can import eclipse deck runs for visualization and analysis.
I am not saying that this will be easy i am sayng that this will be very interesting