"EnSight and Kraken Applications for Reservoir & Basin Simulation in the Oil & Gas Industry"
Clovis Maliska Jr., President, ESSS

Abstract

Oil & Gas is currently one of the industries that contain the largest variety of applications. From the process of searching and mapping new basins and reservoirs, to oil exploration, transport, storing and processing for obtaining each end-customer product, numerical simulation is intensively used by the major oil companies to improve each of these applications.

The presentation is divided into two parts (upstream and downstream applications) and will show how visualization with EnSight and Kraken is being used in the Oil & Gas industry.

Biography
Clovis Maliska Jr. graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 1997, and obtained his masters in 2000 in Thermal Sciences from the same university.  He has worked with software development, focused in 3D visualization, since 1988.  In 1995 Clovis won the national software contest in Brazil with the library COI-lib, devoted to such applications. In the same year he founded the company ESSS (Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software) together with three other university colleagues and one professor to develop and market COI-lib technology commercially.

Clovis has been the president of ESSS since then, and is directly responsible for the software development division of the company. He is currently involved with several software development projects with companies from Brazil, Europe and North America, most of them for Oil & Gas exploration companies.