(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Itasca Consulting Group, Inc. is very pleased to announce the appointment of our new Brazilian software agent SimWorx, located in Campinas, Brazil. SimWorx has a solid foundation in numerical modeling, is very active in the Brazilian oil & gas market and plans to develop the rapidly expanding Brazilian civil engineering markets. Founded in…
We would like to congratulate our employee Fábio Luis Gea dos Santos for the conclusion of his masters in civil engineering at UNICAMP graduation program. The dissertation theme involved: “Study and automation of the loading rate influence in response on quasi-brittle fracture”, where it was partially presented in Pirenópolis GO at CILAMCE conference and soon…
In April, the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency (ANP) published a resolution (nº 21/2014) related to hydraulic fracturing activities in unconventional reservoirs. The regulatory was imposed in face of the necessity of establishing essential requirements and operational security and environment preservation standards in the country. Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation technique that enhances well productivity…
SimWorx is currently attending the most important event of the Brazilian geotechnical community. Surrounded by many geotechnical and participants from all over the world, this is the 60th anniversary of COBRAMSEG! Taking place in the period of 9-13 September 2014 in the city of Goiania, the conference is hosting 4 important events: • XVII Brazilian…
The matrix acidizing simulator 2.0 version was recently released. The simulator, called Matrix, was developed exclusively for Petrobras under CENPES (Petrobras Research Center) team coordination. Finished a few months ago, the project was developed in a two year contract, having the 1.0 version been released at the end of 2012. Among many uncertainties regarding what…
The IP3D 3rd version due January 2013 is ready and operational. A restrict beta release is in use for a couple of weeks now. Fixes and adjustments identified in that test phase are already implemented on the final stable release. IP3d implemented functionalities that contract include: Highly Inclined and Inclined wells. Limitations on the parametric…
We would like to congratulate SimWorx’s team for its commitment with the academic improvement. At the end of 2013, three of our employees Nathan Shauer, Fábio Gea and Bruno Firmino da Silva and, more recently, Lívia M. Marques and Milena Ponczek were approved in the masters qualifying exam in UNICAMP graduation programs, including civil, petroleum…
The first installment from FINEP – Innovation and Research – is now official. The MapDano project was submitted last year (2013) and then accepted at the beginning of this year and just recently implemented. The MapDano goal is to use available information from intelligent well systems as input data for numerical simulations which will augment…
