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Stereo Vision-based Autonomous Navigation for Oil and Gas Pressure Vessel Inspection Using a Low-cost UAV

Leijian Yu, Erfu Yang, Beiya Yang, Andrew Loeliger, Zixiang Fei
2021 2021 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR)  
It is vital to visually inspect pressure vessels regularly in the oil and gas company to maintain their integrity.  ...  This work focuses on enhancing some existing technologies to support low-cost UAV autonomous navigation for visual inspection of oil and gas pressure vessels.  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENT Thanks are given to the supports from Strathclyde OGTC robotics research team, especially Dr Gordon Dobie, Dr Charles MacLeod, Mr Mark Robertson and Prof Xiutian Yan.  ... 
doi:10.1109/rcar52367.2021.9517584 fatcat:oygcfcleyzd4xjb374equa6aha

Strategies to Improve the Performance of a Geophysics Model for Different Manycore Systems

Matheus S. Serpa, Eduardo H.M. Cruz, Matthias Diener, Arthur M. Krause, Albert Farres, Claudia Rosas, Jairo Panetta, Mauricio Hanzich, Philippe O.A. Navaux
2017 2017 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Workshops (SBAC-PADW)  
Many software mechanisms for geophysics exploration in Oil & Gas industries are based on wave propagation simulation.  ...  To perform such simulations, state-of-art HPC architectures are employed, generating results faster and with more accuracy at each generation.  ...  It was also supported by Intel under the Modern Code Project, and Petrobras.  ... 
doi:10.1109/sbac-padw.2017.17 dblp:conf/sbac-pad/SerpaCDKFRPHN17 fatcat:jibvih6yizfhlesot7jfb3tcg4

GPU-accelerated hydraulic simulations of large-scale natural gas pipeline networks based on a two-level parallel process

Yue Xiang, Peng Wang, Bo Yu, Dongliang Sun
2020 Oil & Gas Science and Technology  
numerical method for hydraulic simulations of natural gas pipeline networks are proposed.  ...  The numerical simulation efficiency of large-scale natural gas pipeline network is usually unsatisfactory.  ...  Figure 11 shows a great improvement in computing performance using high-speed memory and coalesced memory accessing.  ... 
doi:10.2516/ogst/2020076 fatcat:bpjqlbuldzbynhqkmysaikwnam

Acceleration of stochastic seismic inversion in OpenCL-based heterogeneous platforms

Tomás Ferreirinha, Rúben Nunes, Leonardo Azevedo, Amílcar Soares, Frederico Pratas, Pedro Tomás, Nuno Roma
2015 Computers & Geosciences  
Seismic inversion is an established approach to model the geophysical characteristics of oil and gas reservoirs, being one of the basis of the decision making process in the oil&gas exploration industry  ...  However, the required accuracy levels can only be attained by dealing and processing significant amounts of data, often leading to consequently long execution times.  ...  Introduction In the last few decades, high-performance computing infrastructures have become essential tools in the oil and gas industry, in order to satisfy the ever growing needs for oil and gas production  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2015.02.005 fatcat:pmtkxxms6fcxrfi3poq5yf2ire

Analysis of IDR(s) Family of Solvers for Reservoir Simulations on Different Parallel Architectures

Vincent Seignole, Jean-Frédéric Thebault, Raouf Nabil, S. de Chaisemartin
2016 Oil & Gas Science and Technology  
This work is the result of continuous efforts towards time-response improvement of Storengy's reservoir three-dimensional simulator named Multi, dedicated to gas-storage applications.  ...  The present contribution consists in providing a detailed analysis of several realizations of the IDR(s) family of solvers, under different facets: robustness, performance and implementation on different  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank Patrick Egermann for fruitful comments and suggestions.  ... 
doi:10.2516/ogst/2016018 fatcat:4ifpszn6tfg2vgig7wcaaslpc4

Experimental study on horizontal-well multi-thermal fluid stimulation process in offshore heavy oil reservoirs

Yigang Liu, Jian Zou, Xianghai Meng, Fayuan Zhou, Hao Liu, Qiuxia Wang, Zhilin Qi, Jie Fan
2020 Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology  
The HW-MTFS process had a higher oil rate and production, and the recovery of HW-MTFS process was 42% higher than that of HW-CSS in three cycles.  ...  The development of offshore heavy oil is sensitive and complex, which is limited by factors such as platform space, economy, pollution and security, so conventional thermal recovery techniques such as  ...  Acknowledgements The study was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Projects of China (2016ZX05058).  ... 
doi:10.1007/s13202-020-00877-6 fatcat:n6nrg3a4vnh43ajhzcoob22jsm

A multilevel preconditioner and its shared memory implementation for a new generation reservoir simulator

Shuhong Wu, Jinchao Xu, Chunsheng Feng, Chen-Song Zhang, Qiaoyun Li, Shi Shu, Baohua Wang, Xiaobo Li, Hua Li
2014 Petroleum Science  
We investigate the parallel computing resources (such as high-performance clusters), desktop computers and workstations still dominate the work environment for reservoir simulation engineers.  ...  a single core has almost stopped improving.  ...  Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank RIPED, PetroChina, for providing data for the numerical tests and support through PetroChina New-generation Reservoir Simulation Software (  ... 
doi:10.1007/s12182-014-0370-1 fatcat:7bdkwfliwzgbfdhoia5dquptay

A Multi-Stage Preconditioner for the Black Oil Model and Its OpenMP Implementation [chapter]

Chunsheng Feng, Shi Shu, Jinchao Xu, Chen-Song Zhang
2014 Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering  
A significant portion of our energy needs is met using oil and gas, and mathematical models of flow through porous media play an important role in developing and managing oil and gas reservoirs.  ...  A preconditioner is an approximation to A −1 , and its action on a vector should be easy to compute. The preconditioners used in reservoir simulators mainly fall into two  ...  Moreover, we use R so to denote the gas solubility, and we use Q W s , Q Os , and Q Gs 1 to denote the volumetric production rate of water, oil, and gas, respectively.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05789-7_11 fatcat:ts2z6m4cfbhn5gdywgqfi334bm

GPU Accelerated Stochastic Inversion of Deep Water Seismic Data [chapter]

Tomás Ferreirinha, Rúben Nunes, Amílcar Soares, Frederico Pratas, Pedro Tomás, Nuno Roma
2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Seismic inversion algorithms have been playing a key role in the characterization of oil and gas reservoirs, where a high accuracy is often required to support the decision about the optimal well locations  ...  Since these algorithms usually rely on computer simulations that generate, process and store significant amounts of data, their usage is often limited by their long execution times.  ...  the performance of oil and gas producing fields.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14325-5_21 fatcat:kwi2onvimfflljnclstoce5joa

RescUSim and IPython: An environment for offshore emergency preparedness planning

Markus Brachner, Lars Magnus Hvattum
2016 Norsk Informatikkonferanse  
Emergency preparedness is crucial for oil and gas operators.  ...  We discuss the modules in the existing Python ecosystem that are used for data preparation and analysis.  ...  Acknowledgements We would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their effort in helping us to improve the manuscript.  ... 
dblp:conf/nik/BrachnerH16 fatcat:c6l4cox4k5epbmf7momizyhqny

Study on the Key Technology of Deepwater Oil Spill Simulation in the South China Sea

Jianwei Li, Wei An, Yuanshou He, Weiwei Jin, Shasha Song
2022 International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy  
In order to improve the capacity of deepwater oil spill contingency response and management in the South China Sea, an user-friendly and robust 3D (three-dimensional) underwater oil spill simulation system  ...  With the development of oil and gas fields in deepwater areas, the risk of deepwater oil spill accidents is increasing.  ...  We also acknowledge the constructive and valuable comments and suggestions of the reviewer and the editor.  ... 
doi:10.11648/j.ijepp.20221003.13 fatcat:witapt4yjna6dli4tt7jgze3ry

Development of a Numerical Simulator for Chemical Composite Flooding in Large-Scale Reservoirs [chapter]

Chunrui Wang
2024 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications  
It is equipped with a large-scale complex chemical composite flooding numerical simulator with advanced performance, such as data flow integration, pre-and post-processing visualization, large-scale fine  ...  mathematical model of oil-gas-water three-phase chemical flooding based on convection, dispersion and diffusion and the fast decoupling sequence solution method, found the mathematical model of the mechanism  ...  and evaluation, data management and sharing, which not only improves the efficiency of numerical simulation, but also improves the engineering level of the simulator effectively and guides the subsequent  ... 
doi:10.3233/faia231310 fatcat:4syyfasyrzcelkeriuebz2xioq

A simulation and data analysis system for large-scale, data-driven oil reservoir simulation studies

Tahsin Kurc, Umit Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Joel Saltz, Ryan Martino, Mary Wheeler, Małgorzata Peszyńska, Alan Sussman, Christian Hansen, Mrinal Sen, Roustam Seifoullaev, Paul Stoffa (+2 others)
2005 Concurrency and Computation  
The main goal of oil reservoir management is to provide more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally safer production of oil from reservoirs.  ...  The low cost/performance ratio of such systems makes them attractive platforms for interactive data analysis applications.  ...  Blue Horizon computer and HPSS for running the simulations and storing the datasets.  ... 
doi:10.1002/cpe.898 fatcat:acai4ssgsjhgva3vicehfvaqs4

Multiresolution visualization of massive black oil reservoir models

Frederico Abraham, Waldemar Celes
2019 The Visual Computer  
As a consequence, these simulations produce an unprecedented volume of data, which must be visualized in 3D environments for careful analysis and inspection.  ...  Recent advances in parallel architectures for numerical simulation of natural black oil reservoirs have allowed the use of very discretized domains.  ...  This research was initiated during the Doctoral Program of the first author, financially supported by CNPq (Brazilian National Research and Development council).  ... 
doi:10.1007/s00371-019-01674-x fatcat:bhllshqpbzfqthu4sdekvbtxiu

TunaOil: A tuning algorithm strategy for reservoir simulation workloads

Felipe Portella, David Buchaca, José Roberto Rodrigues, Josep Ll. Berral
2022 Journal of Computational Science  
Reservoir simulations for petroleum fields and seismic imaging are known as the most demanding workloads for high-performance computing (HPC) in the oil and gas (O&G) industry.  ...  This work presents TunaOil, a new methodology to enhance the search for optimal numerical parameters of reservoir flow simulations using a performance model.  ...  (PETROBRAS) for funding this work, Computer Modeling Group (CMG) for providing the simulator used in this research, and Laboratório Nacional de Computac ¸ão Científica (LNCC) for providing their HPC infrastructure  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2022.101811 fatcat:m23lbnsj5fgz3ojgd7pbwzhsi4
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