ert - Ensemble based Reservoir Tool - is designed for running ensembles of dynamical models such as reservoir models, in order to do sensitivity analysis and data assimilation. ert supports data assimilation using the Ensemble Smoother (ES) and Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation (ES-MDA).

pip install ert
ert --help

or, for the latest development version:

pip install git+https://github.com/equinor/ert.git@main
ert --help

For examples and help with configuration, see the ert Documentation.

The primary goal of the Everest tool is to find optimal well planning and production strategies by utilizing an ensemble of reservoir models (e.g., an ensemble of geologically-consistent models). This will enable robust decisions about drilling schedule and well placement, in order to achieve results of significant practical value.

pip install ert[everest]

We use uv to have one synchronized development environment for all packages. See installing uv. We recommend either installing uv using your systems package manager, or creating a small virtual environment you intall base packages into (such as uv and pre-commit).

Once uv is installed, you can get a development environment by running:

git clone https://github.com/equinor/ert
cd ert
uv sync --all-extras

The tests can be ran with pytest directly, but this is very slow:

uv run pytest tests/

There are many kinds of tests in the tests directory, while iterating on your code you can run a fast subset of the tests with by using the rapid checks from the justfile:

uv run just rapid-tests

You can also run all of the checks in parallel with

uv run just check-all

Git LFS must be installed to get all the files. This is packaged as git-lfs on Ubuntu, Fedora or macOS Homebrew. For Equinor TGX users, it is preinstalled.

If you have not used git-lfs before, you might have to make changes to your global Git config for git-lfs to work properly.

git lfs install

test-data/ert/block_storage is a submodule and must be checked out.

git submodule update --init --recursive

If you checked out submodules without having git lfs installed, you can force git lfs to run in all submodules with:

git submodule foreach "git lfs pull"

You can build the documentation after installation by running

uv run just build-docs

and then open the generated ./ert_docs/index.html or ./everest_docs/index.html in a browser.

To automatically reload on changes you may use

uv run sphinx-autobuild docs docs/_build/html

There are a set of style requirements, which are gathered in the pre-commit configuration, to have it automatically run on each commit do:

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install

There is also a pre-push hook configured in pre-commit to run a collection of relatively fast tests, to install this hook:

pre-commit install --hook-type pre-push

As a simple test of your ert installation, you may try to run one of the examples, for instance:

uv run just poly

This opens up the ert graphical user interface with a simple example using polynomials (see ./test-data/ert/poly_example).

Finally, test ert by starting and successfully running the experiment.

The default maximum number of open files is normally relatively low on MacOS and some Linux distributions. This is likely to make tests crash with mysterious error-messages. You can inspect the current limits in your shell by issuing the command ulimit -a. In order to increase maximum number of open files, run ulimit -n 16384 (or some other large number) and put the command in your .profile to make it persist.

To actually get ert to work at your site you need to configure details about your system; at the very least this means you must configure where your reservoir simulator is installed. In addition you might want to configure e.g. queue system in the site-config file, but that is not strictly necessary for a basic test.