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Powersim provides business tools tailored for forecasting and analysis of dynamic problems with Business Intelligence and strategic simulation software delivering projects for clients in the oil and gas industry, where scenario planning is used in combination with optimization and risk management
Published February 16, 2023
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Updated November 4, 2024
Oil & Gas
Completions
Drilling
Production
Subsurface
Product Overview
Overview
Powersim's flagship product is pForecast, a cloud-based SaaS solution for production forecasting. It integrates input data from subsurface tools like ECLIPSE and ResX, facilitates standardized workflows across assets, and allows last-minute adjustments to save time before reporting deadlines.
pForecast's value proposition centers around digitalizing, simplifying, and standardizing production forecasting. It enables companies to semi-automate the yearly reporting process, perform incremental profile analyses at the project level, and conduct corporate roll-up analyses across assets. The platform. enables a full lifetime simulation of the production and injection forecast, including historical data, in keeping with the industry’s ever-increasing need for agility.
Key features include:
- Simplified reporting with customizable formats (PRMS, NPD standards)
- Incremental profiles for project-level production analysis
- Corporate roll-up for asset portfolio analysis
- Uncertainty mapping in drilling schedules with Gantt charts Monte Carlo simulations for low/mid/high case forecasts
- Recent additions: well dependency logic, customer database integration, well intervention modeling, facility-to-facility connections
Business Model
Their legacy solution Powersim Studio is offered on a stand-alone app with a licensed agreement.
Their SaaS solution pForecast is delivered using cloud service
- Accessed from a browser
- Apply different levels of access control for your organization: admin, approver, contributor, reader and editor
- Annual, corporate-wide subscription based on pay as you go
Technology Innovations
- Open API development (in progress) for input/output, aiming for broad applicability vs. single-client customization
- Well dependency features to model sequential production interactions between wells
- Direct customer database integration for seamless data updates, e.g. Production Data Mart
- Well intervention modeling to quantify impact of maintenance activities
- Facility-to-facility connections to model interactions in multi-facility assets
Applications
- Corporate production reporting and forecasting
- Asset-level forecasting and planning optimization
- Quantifying impact of infill drilling programs
- Evaluating asset acquisition and divestiture opportunities
- Regulatory reporting like RNB in Norway