Intersect — 2025.1 new features
Intersect reservoir simulator
Industry-leading reservoir simulation technology—with the physics, performance and resolution you need for every asset.
Overview
The Intersect™ reservoir simulator empowers reservoir engineers to tackle today’s most complex subsurface challenges with confidence.
Combining leading science, superior performance, and flexible gridding, the Intersect simulator delivers fast, scalable modeling for every reservoir type—whether it is a mature oil and gas fields, appraisal/exploration fields, unconventionals, or new energy applications like CO2 storage.
Seamlessly bridging data from geology, geophysics, geomechanics, and production engineering, the Intersect simulator enables smarter, more integrated workflows. It helps teams simulate reservoir behavior with greater accuracy, and in a faster, more cost-effective manner than ever before.
The result? Sharper insights, optimized recovery strategies, and more confident field development decisions.
Superior performance
State-of-the-art algorithms, that work across any hardware, for more confident simulation insights in an operational timeframe.
Leading science
Leveraging four decades of pioneering research and innovation in reservoir science, validated through industrial partnerships.
Integrated workflows
Multi-domain integrated workflows: for better field development decisions, uncertainty quantification, and optimized recovery.
Delfi on Demand Reservoir Simulation
Leverage the full potential of the Intersect simulator using the Delfi digital platform to rapidly simulate multiple concurrent cases using Delfi on Demand Reservoir Simulation.
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Black oil initialization for hydraulic fracture simulations now available!
Unlock fast, accurate hydraulic fracture modeling with new support for initialization by black oil enumeration for embedded discrete fracture modeling (EDFM). Pressure, saturation, and other dynamic properties can now be independently initialized within the EDFM domain without impacting the properties in the matrix model.
Model biochemical reactions with greater accuracy for hydrogen storage cases
Confidently simulate key biochemical processes in underground hydrogen storage (UHS), using the double Monod model. This method captures microbial growth response to substrate availability, enabling more realistic, science-driven predictions of reservoir behavior.
Improved performance for hydraulic fracture cases using multiscale
The enhanced multiscale pressure solver now handles transmissibility contrasts between matrix and EDFM fracture cells more efficiently, delivering significantly faster performance. In field-scale hydraulic fracture models, this enhancement has shown speed-ups of up to four times in tested scenarios.
Intersect reservoir simulator
Simulate a wide range of enhanced oil recovery methods
Simulate complex field development plans, multiple reservoirs and coupled networks
Integration of work processes enables the capture and preservation of knowledge contributing to a shared vision of the subsurface
Ensure that you get the maximum value from the Intersect simulator
Key technology enabler for increased reservoir understanding that improves reservoir management and field development planning
Simulate heavy oil reservoirs using a variety of thermal recovery processes
Intersect video library
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Intersect simulator and depogrid
Capture all the different unconformities and changes on the structure with high levels of detailDepogrid enables geologists and geomodelers to capture all the different unconformities and changes on the structure of the reservoir with high levels of detail.
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Intersect different field development scenarios
Closing the gap with seamless geomodelling to simulation solutionsAdvanced geomodelling to simulation workflows that enable reservoir engineers to produce comprehensive views of the reservoir behavior.
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Intersect reservoir to processing
Advanced and flexible controls through a close-to-exact representation of the field operationsIntersect Field Management provides advanced and flexible controls through a close-to-exact representation of the field operations.
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Next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation
Access next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation capabilitiesAccess next generation CO2 storage modeling and simulation capabilities with Petrel subsurface software and Intersect simulator.
Intersect webinar library
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Models in Minutes—Using Carbon Storage Model Builder for Rapid CO2 Storage Capacity Modeling
The carbon storage model builder provides a step-by-step guided workflow for the setup of a simulation model to estimate CO2 capacityThe carbon storage model builder provides a step-by-step guided workflow for the setup of a simulation model to estimate CO2 capacity.
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Introducing Well Placement Advisor
Living digital webinar - Well Placement Advisor is an ensemble-based well placement solution under uncertaintyWell Placement Advisor is an ensemble-based well placement solution under uncertainty. It is an analysis extension in Reservoir Engineering Workspace.
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Asset management strategy
A holistic approach combining multiple domain modeling techniques for better outcomesA holistic approach combining multiple domain modeling techniques for better outcomes.
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Living Digital: Agile Reservoir Modeling
SLB's recently launched Agile Reservoir Modeling workflow combines physics-based solutions with AI and high-performance computing on the cloud to orchestrate, model, and simulate responses to different development scenarios at unprecedent speeds.In this webinar, you will learn directly from SLB Subsurface Team about how Agile Reservoir Modeling will enable you to make better decisions faster.
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