SPT believes in engaging with our customers because this helps us develop products that efficiently address real problems. To this end we have initiated several joint industry projects (JIPs) aimed at building on the MEPO framework to address specific industry challenges for which no adequate solution currently exists.

The MEPO FORWARD  I JIP focused on the area of production optimisation and field management and was run in partnership with BG, ConocoPhillips, ENI and Statoil.

The MEPO FORWARD II JIP started in late 2011 and looks at the development of enhanced optimisation techniques and workflows  with application to integrated modelling.  Current partners are BG, DONG, ENI and Total but is still open to further participants.

The JIP is separated into three major project tasks:

• Task 1: Implementation of software components
• Task 2: Workflow designs
• Task 3: Support of pilot projects for active
  knowledge transfer

Development areas:

• Optimization concepts
  - Structured optimisation
  - Hybrid optimisation
  - Discrete optimisation
• Optimisation logic
  - Introduce logic language
• Model coupling
  - Plug n play perception when interfacing software applications
• Integrated modelling results presentation
  - Platform for superimposing detailed results from a variety of software applications used in an integrated asset model
• 4D Seismics
  - Efficient incorporation of 4D results in reservoir simulation work flows
  

MEPO Forward II was started November 2011. For motivation and scope-of-work please watch the introducion video.

MEPO_Forward2.mov

Project contacts:

Norbert Hoyer
Ralf Schulze-Riegert

Sponsors: