Irap rms

IRAP RMS™ is Roxar ASA’s flagship software suite intended to accelerate the field development planning cycle by allowing multiple disciplines to work together on a common reservoir model in parallel. IRAP RMS is a solution for integrated static and dynamic reservoir modelling.
History of IRAP RMS™

While today’s IRAP RMS comprises 17 fully integrated software modules and is
supported by a team of 80 dedicated software programmers, things were very
different in 1987. It was then that reservoir software company, Geomatic, first brought to market its 2D
reservoir modelling IRAP classic product. In 1994, this became IRAP RMS™,
the industry’s first 3D modelling package.
It was in 1995 that Smedvig Technologies, which later become Roxar AS, acquired
100 percent of the shares in Geomatic AS and another equally important software
company, ODIN Reservoir Software.
ODIN was a company set up by IBM and the Norwegian Computing Centre
(NCC) to commercialise research into stochastic reservoir modelling. Its product,
STORM was a collection of core assimilation programmes with no user interface and
users having to understand the underlying algorithms.
With Smedvig’s analysis and processing software, ResView, all the pieces of the
jigsaw were now in place to develop the IRAP RMS™ we know
today. A modelling solution that would break down the barriers between geoscientists
and engineers and provide a seamless, integrated 3D modelling workflow.
Versions
IRAP RMS™ 6.0
It was in April 2000 that the company, now named Roxar ASA, made the single most important announcement relating to IRAP RMS - the launch of IRAP RMS™ version 6.0.
Version 6 was an ‘industry first’ in many ways. For the first time, it brought together STORM’s stochastic modelling as well as structure and fault modelling capabilities into a single workflow suite with a user-friendly interface - ideal for the common geologist.
Most importantly of all, however, was that IRAP RMS 6.0 introduced Roxar’s Workflow Manager to the E&P operator. The Workflow Manager, and the concept of setting up a workflow before executing it, has become a de facto industry standard with many of Roxar’s competitors following suit.
The Workflow Manager tool, central to IRAP RMS’s success, allows users to build and update reservoir models in minutes rather than hours and, through the use of powerful workflow templates, to facilitate technology and skills transfer amongst the user community. IRAP RMS™ has been more responsible than any other reservoir management solution for breaking down the barriers within asset teams and increasing employee productivity.
IRAP RMS™ 7.0
In 2003, IRAP RMS™ 7.0 was released with a significant upgrade to the user interface and a new, user friendly well planning tool, RMSwellplan™.
Other new modules soon followed - RMSflowsim™, a flow simulation module that integrates dynamic reservoir data with the static model; a powerful new well correlation tool, RMSwellstrat™; RMSfaultseal™, an easy to use, multi-platform fault seal analysis solution; and FracPerm™ which incorporates fracture modelling into mainstream 3D modelling and simulation activities.
And with Roxar’s Workflow Manager and a new modernised, Windows-based user interface in place, all new modules could be incorporated seamlessly into the reservoir characterisation and modelling workflow. The old-style Unix applications of the 1980’s and 1990’s were gone forever.
RMS2009
RMS2009 has a brand new user interface. Other key features of the release include improved structural modelling and data import, real time well monitoring and a new local model updates module.

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