The Permedia Research Group was founded in 1998 to develop MPath, the industry-leading software for predicting and risking high resolution petroleum migration trajectories and reservoir filling histories. Based on research by Dr. Dan Carruthers, MPath was the first commercial solver to use modified invasion percolation algorithms to simulate migration and reservoir filling.

Also in 1998, the Permedia Research Group formed the Permedia Research and Development Consortium to help fund and guide the development of MPath. The three founding Sponsors were Norsk Hydro, Statoil and British Gas (BG). The Consortium now includes eleven of the world's leading upstream companies: Anadarko, BG, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Eni-Agip, ExxonMobil, Norsk Hydro, Shell, Statoil, and Total.

Now a mature product, MPath is available on a commercial basis or for case study consultancies.

The next phase of MPath's development added reservoir solvers as part of the three-year Reservoir fluids and fluid mixing project, also funded by the Permedia Research and Development Consortium. Started in 2005, the project leverages MPath's existing high resolution rapid modeling capabilities.

Also in 2005, Permedia released MPath's visualization tools as a separate product, Permedia Viewers.

In 2008, Permedia launched the three-year CO2Toolkit research and development project to discover and apply novel techniques for understanding CO2 injection and storage at basin, field and reservoir scales. The project is supported by the world's leading industrial and academic organizations currently pioneering CO2 storage.

To learn more about the Permedia Research Group, please contact Dan Carruthers at 613 230-6209 or dan@permedia.ca.

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