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Intersect 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.
Applications
The Intersect reservoir simulator supports:
- Comprehensive reservoir modeling: supports conventional and unconventional reservoirs
- Enhanced oil recovery: simulate chemical, miscible, and thermal EOR processes including alkali, surfactant, polymer, low salinity, and gas injection
- CO2 storage and new energies: models for CO2 injection and storage in saline aquifers and depleted reservoirs, hydrogen storage, geothermal, and critical minerals extraction
- Well modeling: near wellbore effects and advanced well completions, including horizontal and multilateral wells
- Field development planning: optimize and evaluate production, depletion, and injection strategies
- Integrated surface-subsurface modeling: couple multiple reservoirs and surface networks for dynamic forecasting and operational planning
Benefits
Superior performance
State-of-the-art algorithms that work across various hardware configurations, 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.
Features
Intersect 2025.1 features
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.
Training
Intersect training courses address the unique need of each learner, our courses, delivered by world-class experts, teach learners how to deal with real-life scenarios and solve genuine problems.
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Intersect simulator
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Industry-leading reservoir simulation technology—with the physics, performance and resolution you need for every asset.
Industry-leading reservoir simulator for every assetIndustry-leading reservoir simulation technology—with the physics, performance and resolution you need for every asset.
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Intersect EOR
Simulate a wide range of enhanced oil recovery methodsSimulate a wide range of enhanced oil recovery methods.
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Intersect field management
Complex simulations for multiple scenariosComplex simulations for multiple scenarios.
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Intersect simulator deployment services
Ensure that you get the maximum value from the Intersect simulatorEnsure that you get the maximum value from the Intersect simulator.
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Intersect thermal
Simulate heavy oil reservoirs using a variety of thermal recovery processesSimulate heavy oil reservoirs using a variety of thermal recovery processes.
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Intersect new features
Modeling at the scale you need with the physics you needModeling at the scale you need with the physics you need.
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