Emerson Roxar Tempest 8.0 reservoir management software

Emerson Automation Solutions has launched the latest version of its reservoir management software suite — Roxar Tempest 8.0 — designed to bring reservoir engineers more tools to maximise the potential of their fields.

Roxar Tempest 8.0 provides several improvements. The Tempest ENABLE uncertainty management and history matching module includes Ensemble Smoother-based history matching, a complementary technique to proxy-based history matching which enables conditioning on all types of data — in particular spatial data, such as seismic — ensuring that all uncertainties are comprehensively accounted for. The Tempest MORE reservoir simulation module has increased software performance and improved user experience. The latest features include API tracking to efficiently model the flow of fluids with different properties, enhanced aquifer and pore volume specification, and control over relative permeability and capillary pressure at the completion level.

In the Tempest VIEW module, users are given the ability to load and display simulation results from METTE, Emerson’s production modelling and management tool, allowing for a better understanding of the flow behaviour due to added navigation, filtering and display options.

There is also now further integration from geosciences to production, offering reservoir engineers an automated workflow that tightly integrates static and dynamic domains throughout the field’s lifetime, incorporates the stochastic property of geological inputs and ensures optimal consistency of the reservoir properties with the underlying geology. Reservoir engineers can also utilise the Roxar App Connector to run additional third-party programs or in-house applications, leading to improved uncertainty analysis through the closer integration of geology and engineering.