[ Fractal Multigrid Reservoir Simulation ]

3 Minutes
Not 12 Hours

Full-field reservoir simulation with fractal multigrid V-cycle solver. O(N) convergence. Lock-free parallel. No GPU required.

Fractal reservoir grid
240×
faster than industry standard

Industry-standard simulators (Eclipse, CMG, tNavigator) use flat-grid iterative solvers with O(N²) or O(N¹∙³) complexity. The fractal multigrid V-cycle converges in O(N) — the same physics, fundamentally different math.

How it compares

Eclipse (Schlumberger)
12 hrs
CMG (IMEX/GEM)
8 hrs
tNavigator (GPU)
2 hrs
ZYZ Fractal Multigrid
3 min

Why it's different

Metric Industry Standard ZYZ
Solver Conjugate Gradient / GMRES Fractal Multigrid V-Cycle
Complexity O(N1.3) O(N)
Iterations (1M cells) 350+ 20
Parallel Scaling 60-70% efficiency 95%+ (lock-free)
GPU Required Yes (tNavigator) No
Scaling Behavior Degrades with size Improves with size
10M cell model 12 hours 3 minutes
O(N)
Convergence

Multigrid V-cycles solve at every scale simultaneously. The coarse grid corrects the fine grid. Convergence is independent of problem size.

95%
Parallel Efficiency

Lock-free architecture means no mutex contention. Every core works at full speed. Efficiency improves as you add cores.

$0
GPU Cost

No PCIe bottleneck. No kernel launch overhead. No GPU memory limits. Runs on commodity hardware at GPU-beating speeds.

What this enables

Real-time well placement optimization

Run thousands of scenarios in the time it takes competitors to run one. Find optimal well configurations that extract 2-5% more recoverable oil from every field.

History matching in minutes

Calibrate reservoir models against production data interactively. What takes days of compute becomes a conversation with the model.

Field-scale uncertainty quantification

Monte Carlo over geological uncertainty — hundreds of full-field runs per hour instead of per week. Know your risk before you drill.

Energy security at national scale

2% improvement in US recovery factor = 13 billion additional barrels. At $70/bbl that's $910B in value. The math isn't incremental — it's civilizational.

Production Impact

The numbers that matter

13B
ADDITIONAL BARRELS
From 2% recovery factor improvement across US proven reserves alone
$910B
VALUE CREATED
At $70/bbl. This is found oil — no new exploration, no new leases, no new risk
2.4B
BARRELS / YEAR
Additional daily production potential spread across optimized field operations
1000×
MORE SCENARIOS
Per engineering hour. The bottleneck shifts from compute to decision-making
Intellectual Property

Patent 065 — 310 Claims Filed

Fractal multigrid solver with lock-free parallel V-cycle and LoNC well placement optimization. Black-oil, compositional, EOR, CO₂ storage, unconventional, digital twin. Part of the Origin 22 portfolio: 91 provisional patents, 25,000+ claims.