ECLIPSE (reservoir simulator)

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ECLIPSE is an oil and gas reservoir simulator originally developed by ECL
(Exploration Consultants Limited) and currently owned, developed, marketed and
maintained by SIS (formerly known as GeoQuest), a division of Schlumberger. The
name ECLIPSE originally was an acronym for "ECLs Implicit Program for Simulation
Engineering". Ian Cheshire was the team leader.[1]
ECL was, as its name implied, an exploration oriented consulting firm. Ted Daniels,
CEO and Chairman of ECL, decided to expand into reservoir engineering in order to
broaden the base of the company and to avoid the cyclic downturns in exploration based
revenues, and specified the requirements for corner point geometry in order to better
model the subsurface geology. That and the implicit technology enabled ECLIPSE to set
new standards in reliability, stability and accuracy for reservoir simulators. ECL had
previously been awarded the Queens Award for Exports and, based upon the success of
ECLIPSE, was subsequently awarded the Queens Award for Technology.
The first ECLIPSE sale was made to BHP in Australia, followed shortly by major sales
to Statoil in Norway. The program ran on a wide range of computers from large IBM
systems to the HP 9000, a desk top unit. It is written in Fortran 77 and was used to help
debug F77 compilers at IBM and Cray Research.
ECLIPSE uses the finite volume method[2] to solve material and energy balance
equations modelling a subsurface petroleum reservoir. Versions include:

ECLIPSE 100 solves the black oil equations (a fluid model) on corner-point
grids.

ECLIPSE 300 solves the reservoir flow equations for compositional

hydrocarbon descriptions and thermal simulation

See also

Nexus

Notes
1.

Information regarding Ian Cheshire [1]

2.

Schlumberger. "ECLIPSE 2010 Reservoir Engineering Software"

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