Speaker:

Dr. Antoine Tambue, AIMS South Africa and CERECAM, University of Cape Town

Abstract:

The required exploration and production of hydrocarbons incorporate great technological challenges for the oil and gas industry. Indeed, there are about 70 hydrocarbon fields that are more than 30 years old. But several of these fields are exhibiting a significant production decline. In order to meet the world’s future demand for oil and gas, further technological advances are essentially needed, where new developments should aim at efficiency and accuracy in subsurface mapping, monitoring of reservoir depletion, and numerical simulation of production scenarios. This requires research across multiple disciplines, including mathematics, geophysics, geology, petroleum engineering, signal processing, and computer science. In this talk, mathematical models for subsurface energy recovery (oil, gas or geothermal energy) will be provided, along with some efficient numerical methods for their approximations. We will end by presenting some numerical simulations of production scenarios.

Date:

Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 14:00

Venue:

Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Besprechungsraum 1, building 16.3, room 350

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