Sensor

[Shakespear]

I have been listening to the Advance PVT course by Whitson and heard him mention a simulator called SENSOR. Has anyone used this?

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[amyours]

I have heard that this software is not so accurate while simulating a period when system is shifting from undersaturated to saturated oil.

[Shakespear]

I was just curious if it was used much as it is the first time that I have heard about it.

[resman]

Sensor was developed by Keith Coats and has been used by ConocoPhillips since the mid 1990's (they now call it PSIM and they have their own development team). It is also used by several other IOC's and a large number of consultants. It is by far the most accurate and reliable available simulator. For compositional problems it can be a hundred times faster than Eclipse, for black oil maybe 10 times. It is still being developed by Coats at Coats Engineering, and marketed by them and JOA, who provides pre/post processing software for it. The main drawback is that it does not interface with the most popular static modeling packages (i.e. Petrel).

Regards,
John

[Shakespear]

Hi John

Thanks for that information.

One would think that SLB with all its resources would have gotten the best minds to deal with the PVT portion of simulation. Maybe SLB has fallen complacent to believing it is the Best.

Chuck Kossac works for them so there is no excuse.

[Sequestrator]

to refresh the post... I think the great thing is that Sensor has freeware version for educational purpose and up to 6000 cells (without visualization tools etc).
I used it on 2006, and it was very simple yet powerful simulator, and as long you don't care about importing from petrel or quick diagrams and 3D images, it's great.
I've been working in CMG, Eclipse, and Sensor so far and the Sensor is definitively the fastest.
It would be great to share some sample input files and to make short comparison of simulators.

[Sequestrator]

to refresh the post... I think the great thing is that Sensor has freeware version for educational purpose and up to 6000 cells (without visualization tools etc).
I used it on 2006, and it was very simple yet powerful simulator, and as long you don't care about importing from petrel or quick diagrams and 3D images, it's great.
I've been working in CMG, Eclipse, and Sensor so far and the Sensor is definitively the fastest.
It would be great to share some sample input files and to make short comparison of simulators.