HYDROCARBON SIMULATOR TUTORIAL SERIES IN WINDOWS

Download ResInsight and load Volve Dataset — Part III

Download ResInsight and load Volve Dataset

I n this third and last post we are going to download a simulation results viewer called ResInsight. This software, which runs entirely on Windows (although it can also be installed directly on Linux) will allow us to view the simulation results generated by the Equinor team for the Volve field.

ResInsight

ResInsight is a Post Processing of Reservoir Simulations, which among the many advantages it offers is that it is open-source (free). Additionally, it offers a simple and intuitive interaction.

To download it we must go to its main page, which we can access through the following link: https://resinsight.org/. Here, we go to the “Download and Install” section.

In the installation section, we select the Windows Intallation option.

As indicated in the instructions, we must download a compressed folder (ZIP) by accessing the link https://github.com/OPM/ResInsight/releases, which contains the binary files.

Because it is an open source program, the developers have a repository on Github, in which they can review and keep updated on the main and continuous improvements that are made to the program.

At the bottom of this page we go to where the compressed folder (.zip) is located, which in my case corresponds to ResInsight-2020.10.1_oct-4.0.0_win64.zip

After clicking on that folder, the download process should start automatically.

Because it is a compressed folder, it is necessary to use some decompression program (in my case I use WinRAR). After selecting the folder, it is necessary to click on the button “Extract To”

And in our file structure it is necessary to select the location where we want to save our folder. In my case, create a new folder inside the “Program Files” folder.

After the decompression process we can open the unzipped folder,

and we proceed to look for the executable file (ResInsight.exe).

We already have our program fully installed on our system.

Now, we need to go to the File tab, select the Import >> Eclipse Cases option, and select the Eclipse Case option.

Then, we look for where we save the data downloaded from the Equinor server previously (Part II), which must have a .GRID extension.

Finally, we can visualize the reservoir model and the simulation results. In order to improve the visualization I select the cube (1) and change the vertical scale from 5 to 30 (2).

Since the simulation was carried out in a time horizon (from December 2007 to August 2016), after selecting the dynamic property to be displayed (in my case select the oil saturation, SOIL), we can click on the Play button (2).

As we can see, this model is quite large (680,400 cells of which 183,545 are active during the simulation).

Congratulations, you can now view the results of the simulation of the Volve field.

Summary

Throughout this series of posts, we download the data from the Equinor server (using Azure Store Explorer), and visualize it in a ResInsight.

In later posts, we will explore the possibilities of downloading a reservoir simulator (OPM-Flow) under Windows Subsystem Linux, and generating our simulations, which we will visualize in Windows.