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Petrel 2008.1

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Targeted delivery March 31, 2008

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Petrel 2008.1

GeophysicsNEW Geobody interpretation

Synthetics– Load synthetic trace (indexed in TVD or TWT) from ASCII or SEGY file

Further enhancements

– Autotracker improvements

– Vintage handling – improved consistency

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– Attributes – improved workflow support, input parameters from existing

– New slice renderer (inlines/xlines/tslices only) – improved quality and performance

– Seismic cache - prefetch ZGY/SEGY volume data from disk

– Annotate horizons / faults – interpretation window

– Vertical polygon display in Interpretation Window (Show block boundaries on seismic)

– Workflow support – many new seismic operations

– Fault surface display – New triangulation algorithm

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Petrel 2008.1

Geobody Interpretation

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Petrel 2008.1

Interactive Autotracker

Instant undo and track mode

Graphical interface to define

vertical dip constraints

Stops at top and bottom constrain

horizons

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Symmetrical and non-symmetrical

wavelet tracking

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Petrel 2008.1

Additional Autotracker Enhancements

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Re-organised tabs

Dip control

Ability to constrain tracking with upper/lower horizons – plus offset

Support for asymmetric wavelet

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Petrel 2008.1

Improved Fault Triangulation

New triangulation algorithm

Interpret faults on any plane (slice,

arbitrary)

Significantly improves speed and

accuracy of manual fault interpretation

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Use Context Menu to activate faults

directly on the 3D View

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Petrel 2008.1

Seismic Cache

Load your seismic into memory (Seismic cache)

– Enhancing seismic display responsiveness

Pre-fetch operation is multi-threaded and asynchronous

Decide which level of details to load– New slice renderer can be set to show user-specified level of detail

SEGY/ZGY support

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SEGY/ZGY support

Can be used in conjunction with Virtual Cropped Volumes

Option has similar behavior to Petrel 2005 ‘Load Into Memory’

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Petrel 2008.1

Annotation of Horizons/Faults

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Petrel 2008.1

Interpretation Window - Polygon and Grid line display

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Petrel 2008.1

Geology & ModelingProperty modeling– kriging performance on large datasets / multithreaded

Volumetric calculation performance gains

Channel modeling– levee object addition

Well Section – improved ghost curve

Fracture modeling

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Fracture modeling – stereonet display of orientations

Selection tool updates– broader filter support

3D Context Menu– 3D usability– Virtual reality

UWI support improvements

Mapping – well symbol control for sub-folders

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Petrel 2008.1

Volume Calculation

Multi threaded

– typically 250% - 500% faster

– function of machine, model size

and number of processors

Case selection now in report tab

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Case selection now in report tab

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Petrel 2008.1

Adaptive Channel Modeling

Inclusion of levees

Honor N/G distributions

Channels can correlate

across layers

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RMB on object gives

context menu

�Object is selected in

Petrel 2008.1

Context Menu in 3D/2D window

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�Object is selected in

tree

�Same menu as on tree

�Visibility & Activation

from menu

�Also available on plot

windows

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Petrel 2008.1

Reservoir Engineering

• Sector modeling

• Completions

– Equipment

– Hydraulic fractures

• Development strategies

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• Development strategies

• Local gridding

• Compositional

• Variables in user keywords

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Petrel 2008.1

Sector ModelingExtract a sector model and flow or pressure

boundary conditions from the full field

model.

Add a local grid, insert an infill well and quickly

simulate the sector model

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Petrel 2008.1

Completions

Equipment

– Globally defined

• e.g. properties of 95/8” casing

– Use in many/all wells

– Changes to equipment

properties ripple through to all

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properties ripple through to all

wells that use it

Casing & Tubing Strings

– Allow properties of casing and

tubing to vary with depth

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Petrel 2008.1

Hydraulic Fractures

• Fractures are defined by length,

height, permeability and orientation

• Simulated by modifying well PI and

transmissibility of surrounding cells

• No need for LGR - quicker full field

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• No need for LGR - quicker full field

simulation

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Petrel 2008.1

Hydraulic Fractures - Petrel vs. ECLIPSE NWM• Fracture on producing lateral

• Modeled by Petrel and by

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Petrel 2008.1

Hydraulic Fractures - Petrel vs. ECLIPSE NWM

• Near identical BHP

• 6 times faster from Petrel

(same speed as no fracture)

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Petrel 2008.1

Development Strategies• Filtering of Development Strategy tree

• Historical quantities automatically calculated:– Field– Ratios (water cut, GOR, OGR)

• Support for time steps < 1 day

• Well efficiency factor in both history and

Filter to B9

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• Well efficiency factor in both history and prediction

• Well model option rule

• Valves automatically expanded in tabular rules

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Petrel 2008.1

Gradual local grids

• Gradually coarsening of

local grids around wells

• Linear or logarithmic

increase in cell size away

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increase in cell size away

from the well

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Petrel 2008.1

Compositional fluids

Import matched equation of state

Define the samples’ compositions

Plot samples’ phase envelopes

Include EOS in simulation

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Petrel 2008.1

Variables in user keywords

• Variables in user keywords allows Petrel uncertainty to apply to all

ECLIPSE data, including that not yet in user interface

• Insert Petrel workflow in a user keyword; e.g.

• INCLUDE

• ‘.. \ .. \ RockTab$loop.inc’ /

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• ‘.. \ .. \ RockTab$loop.inc’ /

• Define variable value in workflow loop:

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Real-Time Data Link for Petrel

New real-time sources:– RigLink, InSite.

More control:– Optionally specify start index for data

loading.– Support for connections via proxy.

Improved user interface:– Filtering organization and field in

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– Filtering organization and field in InterACT connections.

– More feedback when no matching data is found.

– Change focus on current server without needing to log in again.

Write to server:– Send logs from Petrel back to real-time

server (certified for InterAct only).

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Petrel 2008.1

Data ManagementReference project workflows– Well matching

OpenSpirit – V 2.9.4 and V3.1 support

– 2D interpretation write back

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– 2D interpretation write back

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Petrel 2008.1

Reference project workflows

Improved Usability

– Can open Petrel 2005 projects as read-only source of data

– Guides the user to the reference project in use

– Opens automatically when only one reference project is in use

Units and coordinates aware

– Allows movement of most data items only when units and coordinates match

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– Allows movement of most data items only when units and coordinates match

– Allows movement of some data items (templates) when coordinates don’t match

– Allows movement of some data items (windows, workflows) when units &

coordinates don’t match

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Petrel 2008.1

Reference projects - advanced workflows

Reference Project Tool now

allows wells to pair up using

natural match criteria

– Match by well name, UWI,

surface location, etc.

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– Allows dependent data to be

merged in destination project

– Can match manually

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Petrel 2008.1

OpenSpirit

Versions 2.9.4 and 3.1 supported

– Support includes data Key re-linking

• Allows existing projects with OpenSpirit 2.9.4 links to be

upgraded with no loss of data or linkage to data stores (such as

GeoFrame)

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GeoFrame)

– Upgrades to version 3.1 are not reversible

2D interpretation write back

Many performance enhancements

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Petrel 2008.1

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