Emerson Roxar Tempest 7.2 reservoir engineering software

Roxar Tempest 7.2 is the latest version of Emerson’s integrated reservoir engineering software suite that can be applied in a wide variety of scenarios such as field appraisal, field optimisation and brownfield development.

Tempest 7.2 comes with enhancements to its history matching and uncertainty analysis module Tempest ENABLE that will help oil and gas operators generate accurate production estimates, quantify uncertainty and minimise financial risk.

Tempest 7.2 includes the ‘Roxar App Connector’ that allows users to set up a complex, multi-application description of their reservoir which can be used in ensemble-based workflows — a set of runs of linked programs that can predict how an oil reservoir may respond and provide accurate statistics on field performance.

To take into account the natural but unknown variations in the geological representation of a reservoir, Emerson has now augmented and expanded its proxy with a stochastic component. As a result, a more realistic assessment of the underlying uncertainty in the production estimates is achieved as well as encouraging greater collaboration between reservoir engineers and geologists.

Tempest 7.2 also comes with enhancements to its Tempest MORE and Tempest VIEW modules. Updated Tempest MORE features include more stable well control, modelling threshold and breakthrough pressures and handling branched well fractures, improved facilities for sector modelling, and the splitting of models for faster history matching. Users of Tempest VIEW will also be able to conduct more flexible history matching analysis on a wide range of results including water breakthrough.