Rock Flow Dynamics
Alexandra (Kuznetsova) Kidd has a diverse and extensive work experience in the field of petroleum engineering. Alexandra began their career as an Intern Geologist at Gazprom Dobycha Krasnodar in 2010. Alexandra then worked as a Geologist at North-Caucasus Research Design Institute of Gas (SevKavNIPIgaz) from March 2011 to September 2011. Alexandra then gained experience as a Design Engineer at Neolant-Service from October 2012 to July 2013. Alexandra pursued a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University from December 2013 to November 2017. Alexandra currently holds a role as a Reservoir Engineer Team Lead at Rock Flow Dynamics, starting in January 2021. Alexandra had previously served as a Reservoir Engineer at the same company from July 2017 to December 2020.
Alexandra (Kuznetsova) Kidd holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Geological realism in uncertainty quantification from Heriot-Watt University, which they completed from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, they obtained an MSc with distinction in Engineering Geology (Georesources) from the New University of Lisbon, for the academic year 2011-2012. Alexandra also has a Specialist degree in English technical translation, which they earned with distinction from North-Caucasus State Technical University in 2011. Before that, they completed their Specialist degree in petroleum geology with distinction from the same university, focusing on the Geology of Oil and Gas, from 2006 to 2011.
Rock Flow Dynamics
New technologies developed by the research and product development teams of Rock Flow Dynamics are integrated into the company’s flagship product – tNavigatorTM. This software is designed for running dynamic reservoir simulations on engineers’ laptops, servers, and HPC clusters. tNavigator is written in C++ and designed from the ground up to run parallel acceleration algorithms on multicore and manycore shared and distributed memory computing systems. The software employs Qt graphical libraries, which makes the system true multiplatform. By taking advantage of the latest computing technologies like NUMA, Hyperthreading, MPI/SMP hybrids, the performance of tNavigator by far exceeds the performance of any industry standard dynamic simulation tools. Only by using tNavigator can users be sure to unlock the full potential of modern computing hardware. Unlike other competing software products, tNavigator license pricing doesn’t depend on the number of cores employed in the shared memory computing systems. One of the other distinctive features, which sets tNavigator apart from any existing products, is the interactive user control of the simulation run. Users can not only monitor every step of the reservoir simulation at runtime, but also, they can directly interrupt and change the simulation's configurations with just a mouse click.