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ENERXICO
The ENERXICO project, funded by a EU H2020 grants, develops beyond state-of-the-art high performance simulation tools that can help modernize the energy sector and meet future energy demands. It will also improve the cooperation between industries and leading research groups from the EU and Mexico. The European part of the project is leaded by BSC (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
- Wind energy industry
- Combustion efficiency for transportation
- Oil & gas industry in upstream, midstream and downstream sectors.
UGA/ISTerre is partner of this H2020 project, and is active on the seismic modeling and imaging part of the project (O&G)
ENERXICO enables the development and application of state-of-the-art computational and experimental tools for efficient industrial-scale hydrocarbon exploitation. HPC seismic modeling and inversion codes, highly consistent with real wave physics, are enhanced and evaluated within the project. Their main application is to assist on field assessment and imaging of complex Earth models, as demanded by modern oil and gas (O&G) exploration. Multiphase flows are precisely modeled during hydrocarbon production in naturally fractured reservoirs and during pipeline transportation, by means of novel and massively parallel fluid simulators with high physical fidelity. This project also aims at suitably exploiting in-silico models of new catalysts for crude oil refinement in order to reduce the dependence on traditional time-consuming laboratory experiments. Four industrial and academic partners in Europe (REPSOL, BSC, TUM, UGA) and seven similar institutions in Mexico (PEMEX, ININ, UAM-A, UNAM-FC, UNAM-IINGEN , CINVESTAV, IMP, IPN-ESIA) are jointly working in ENERXICO to improve the O&G efficiency cycle by providing and tuning these sophisticated exploitation tools.