Co-hosted by Department of Energy and Resources Engineering and the Precision Petro Forum, the 3rd Workshop on Oil & Gas Development Frontier Techniques was held recently at Peking University. Nearly 70 medium-to-high-level professionals from oil companies at home and abroad, universities and research institutes, and oil technology service companies attended the event.

“It’s the third time that we organized workshop of this type,” said Bin Gong, Chair of the workshop and faculty in the Dept. of Energy and Resources Engineering. “The speakers we invited are top professionals with extended overseas working experience, who know very well the frontier advancement in techniques and engineering in oil and gas development. The workshop is for every participant to learn, to communicate and to inspire thinking.”

This year’s workshop is focused on the development and application of numerical reservoir simulation. In the opening lecture delivered by Prof. Dakuang Han, the member of China Academy of Engineering, he pointed out that the difficult conditions of Chinese oil fields such as high water cut and complex fault structures poses a higher challenge for reservoir modeling and numerical simulation. He said that although China has undertook key problems tackling of numerical reservoir simulation software during the 1980s and 1990s, the gap of technology development between China and advanced countries is growing. Han hoped that young research scholars could work together with industry in persistent strive for an early development of simulation software that meet the requirement of the national oil-gas industry.

In the following lectures, Dr. Hui Cao (Total), Dr. Yuanlin Jiang (QRI Group), Dr. Yuguang Chen (Chevron) and Dr. Bin Gong introduced their latest research progress in the development and high-level application of numerical reservoir simulators. The scholars had an in-depth discussion on simulator framework design, linear and nonlinear solvers, large-scale concurrent computing platform, as well as modeling and simulation in fractured and unconventional reservoirs.

The Precision Petro Forum was co-founded by Gong in 2005. Over the past years, with an increasing number of domestic and overseas members, the forum has become a vital hub to track the latest development in the oil academics and industry. It co-hosted two previous workshops on Oil & Gas Development Frontier Techniques at PKU in April 2011 and July 2012.