September 2011 - The Petrel Plug-in Network Newsletter

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The Petrel Plug-in Network Newsletter Sept 2011

Welcome to the inaugural Petrel Plug-in Network Newsletter – which

will hopefully be the first of many more such newsletters!

For those of you who are members of the Geomodeling Network, you will

immediately recognize the format of this newsletter which has been

shamelessly copied and regurgitated for this newer group – so shoot me!

Why are we putting together a newsletter? Well at the time of writing,

the Petrel Plug-in Network on LinkedIn is approaching the 500 member

mark and there are still only a few discussions on the discussion board. I

thought it was therefore about time to kick off some interesting

discussions about: Ocean, available Petrel plug-ins, future Petrel plug-ins,

plug-in developers and anything else related to the expansion of Petrel on

the Ocean platform.

This month’s articles are based around some of the newer Petrel plug-ins

currently available on Schlumberger’s Ocean Store website

(www.ocean.slb.com). We also have some Plugin user feedback, vendor

profiles along and information on what’s coming to the Ocean store soon.

As an independent provider of Petrel plug-ins Blueback obviously has an

interest in the success of the Ocean store, so we would like to hear your

feedback (good/bad) on your experiences to date. There are a number of

Schlumberger members in this group, so I’m sure any feedback you

provide will be taken on board and used to help improve the Ocean store

experience for all – so come on, don’t be shy!

Cheers for now,

Mitch Sutherland ([email protected])

http://www.ocean.slb.com/

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.blueback-reservoir.com/






Table of Contents

1.News from Schlumberger: i. The Ocean Store

A new look for the Ocean Store. Page 3

ii. Supported Platforms

Platform updates – 32bit, 64bit & Windows XP Page 6

2.Company Profile:

Resoptima AS Page 6

3.Blueback Reservoir The Project Tracker and NEW Spatial Extension tool Page 7

4.Terra3E - VolTerra Estimation of Oil Initially In Place (OIIP) is one of the priority tasks defining reserves. This plugin calculates volumetrics using high-resolution Petrel geological models. Page 9

5.Client Reviews Page 11 6.New to the Ocean Store New Petrel plugin functionality that will soon be available to download from the Ocean store Page 12

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Member Articles, Reviews & Questions

1. News from Schlumberger

i.New Look & Feeds on the Ocean Store

Explore the new look of the Ocean Store plug-ins catalogue while staying up to date using the RSS

feeds! Drew Wharton – Ocean Partner Program Manager, SIS

The Schlumberger Ocean group is pleased to announce the launch of the redesigned

Ocean Store plug-ins catalogue (www.ocean.slb.com/store) now providing a better view

of each product and related collaterals. The design now provides the capability to filter

for all new plug-ins. And don’t forget to visit the Plug-in Summary page for your

overview of what’s happening on the Store.

The Ocean Store site also now features the new RSS feed subscriptions on the news

headlines as well as the Ocean calendar events which will allow you to stay up to date

with the latest. Click to subscribe: Ocean News RSS feeds & Ocean Calendar RSS feeds or

read more below about the RSS feeds functionality.

Subscribing to Ocean RSS feeds

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. RSS technology allows

you to subscribe to online information that changes frequently so that it automatically

updates itself. When you want to see the latest Ocean headlines, you don't need to

open visit the Ocean site, just check the RSS feed to look for any headlines that interest

you. Every time a new article is posted to the Ocean web site or calendar, this will show

up as an RSS feed, as well. A feed is just a mechanism for updating information as it

changes.

There are many ways to set-up your feed reader, but the most used ones are either

through your e-mail application or your Internet browser.

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"Some things Man

was never meant

to know. For

everything else,

there's Google."

Anonymous

http://www.ocean.slb.com/store

http://www.ocean.slb.com/Pages/category.aspx?category=new

http://www.ocean.slb.com/Pages/news-article.aspx?NewsItem=Plug-in%20Summary

http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/OceanNewsRssFeed.aspx?List=Posts&View=RSSFeedView

http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7BE92363B8%2DFB65%2D4BBE%2D839C%2D4E3B39480E6F%7D



Option 1: Receive RSS feeds to your e-mail inbox in Microsoft Outlook.

It’s almost like having the site send you an e-mail with the newest post (except that we

don’t need your e-mail address so you don’t have to worry about spam or unwanted

posts). Outlook 2007 or later has a separate folder for receiving RSS feeds, so you can

organize the information in a way that you find useful.

To set up an RSS feed through Outlook, follow these steps:

1. Choose Tools --> Account Settings.

The Account Settings dialog box appears.

2. Click the RSS Feeds tab.

The RSS sign-up page shows the list of feeds to which you're subscribed.

3. Click New.

The New RSS Feed dialog box appears.

4. Enter the URL of the RSS feed.

Copy and paste the following URL(s):

- for the Ocean Store News:

http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=a9e61254%2D4980%2D4257%2

D8b99%2Dbb2c2b8a67d7&View=49bbd99c%2D2da6%2D4e65%2D8853%2D91052be5fe

6

- for the Ocean Calendar:

http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=%7BE92363B8%2DFB65%2D4BB

E%2D839C%2D4E3B39480E6F%7D

These URLs are typically long. If you enter the address inaccurately, it doesn't work. So it

is best to copy from above.

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to find happiness,

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plug.”

Josh Billings

"Unix is user-

friendly. It's just

very selective

about who its

friends are."

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http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List=a9e61254%2D4980%2D4257%2D8b99%2Dbb2c2b8a67d7&View=49bbd99c%2D2da6%2D4e65%2D8853%2D91052be5fe67







5. Click Add.

The RSS Feed Options dialog box shows a variety of changes you can make to your

subscription:

• Feed Name: You can change the name Outlook displays.

• Delivery Location: You may want to send that information to a special folder or even to

a totally separate data file.

• Downloads: Outlook automatically downloads only a brief summary of each item,

which saves disk space but requires you to manually download full text of each item one

by one. If you want Outlook to simply download the whole message, click the box

labeled Download the Full Article as an .html Attachment to Each Item.

6. Click OK.

7. Click Close.

Your new RSS feed is ready to bring you the latest on the Ocean Store.

Option 2: Review the RSS feeds in your Internet browser.

Instead of going to the web site, scrolling and navigating to find out what’s new and

checking manually for any updates, you can set up a feed reader to do that for you. Each

time you log in to the feed reader, it will have a list of every news item or calendar event

that has been written since you last checked.

Most Internet browsers have an RSS Feed reader built-in and all you need to do is click

on the RSS icon and follow instructions (if displayed) or simply monitor the respective

folder (in Internet Explorer 8, for example, ‘Feeds’ are displayed under a separate tab

together with your ‘Favorites’ and ‘History’ panel on the left).

Click on these links now to add the Ocean Store RSS feeds to your Internet browser RSS

feeds reader: Ocean News RSS feeds & Ocean Calendar RSS feeds

Alternatively, seek for instructions inside your preferred Internet browser.

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of people in the

world: those who

understand

binary, and those

who don't."

Anonymous

http://www.ocean.slb.com/_layouts/OceanNewsRssFeed.aspx?List=Posts&View=RSSFeedView




ii.Supported Platforms for Petrel and Ocean for Petrel Drew Wharton – Ocean Partner Program Manager, SIS

Schlumberger Information Solutions will retire support for the Microsoft Windows XP

operating system starting with Petrel 2012 and Ocean for Petrel 2012 release next year.

Please, also note that Petrel 2011 and Ocean for Petrel 2011 are the last releases to

support a 32 bit operating system.

In summary, the supported systems for Petrel software and Ocean for Petrel framework

will be:

Petrel and Ocean

Releases

Microsoft Windows operating systems

XP 32 bit XP 64 bit Vista 64 bit Windows 7

64 bit

2010.2 Supported Supported Supported Supported

2011 Supported Supported Supported Supported

2012 X X Supported Supported

2. Company Profile – Resoptima AS Resoptima is an independent technology company based in the central of Oslo, Norway.

Resoptima provides software solutions and consultancy services for the oil and gas

industry, and specializes in reservoir engineering challenges such as history matching,

uncertainty assessment and production optimization. (Read more).

Olyx

Olyx is a plug-in from Resoptima which enables the users to utilize their Petrel RE license

to its fullest extent. Olyx allows your Petrel users to carry out advanced history matching

studies, uncertainty assessments and to solve other reservoir optimization challenges.

The plug-in bridges the uncertainty loop between static modeling and dynamic

simulation in Petrel RE.

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http://www.resoptima.com/



Current plug-in specifications:

Integrated with the Petrel Workflow manager Fully compatible with all Workflow manager supported simulators Enables parallel optimization for the simulation work New sophisticated objective function definition Fast and robust post-processor Evolutionary optimization algorithms Simulation database which is completely integrated with Petrel simulation cases Extensive cross plotting features

What's coming?

Seismic History Matching Enhanced Uncertainty Analysis (Experimental design, Multivariate analysis) Enhanced production optimization Advanced weight function New optimizers Training material and demo data

For additional information (video and pictures), click here.

3.Blueback Reservoir – the Project Tracker and NEW Spatial Extension

The Blueback Project Tracker:

The Blueback Project Tracker is a plug-in for Petrel for data managers to track and

monitor Petrel projects from all their Petrel users.

It provides extensive information about the Petrel project content and history. With a

powerful and customizable search engine, you can quickly identify data inconsistencies,

duplications, reference project relations and changes over time.

The Blueback Project Tracker is a powerful and much needed toolkit for controlling and

managing an increasing number of Petrel projects scattered around your disks. A new

version was released in September 2011 with a series of updates and improvements.

See these links for more information.

“Getting

information off

the Internet is

like taking a

drink from a fire

hydrant. “

Mitchell Kapor

http://www.resoptima.com/products



Blueback Project Tracker Spatial Extension

The release of the Blueback Project Tracker v2.0 has a series of upgrades and

improvements based on user feedback. In addition, this release presents a new module

facilitating integration of the Blueback Project Tracker database with ESRI ArcGIS. The

module, named Spatial Extension, provides tools to visualize the findings in the Blueback

Project Tracker database. By using ESRI ArcGIS to display mispositioned Petrel data, data

duplications and project outlines, together with cultural data like coast lines and license

boundaries, Petrel data managers can quickly take action when errors are detected. The

visualization is also of great help when streamlining project management processes.

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Display map view of all Petrel data across all Petrel projects

Detect mispositioned Petrel data

Inspect Petrel data from map view

Detect Petrel reference data duplications

For more information on the Tracker and the Spatial Extension see either of the

following websites below or contact [email protected]

The Ocean Store:

http://www.ocean.slb.com/Pages/Product.aspx?category=all&cat=Ocean&id=PPTR-B1

Blueback Reservoir website:

http://blueback-reservoir.com/index.php/software/software-products/project-management/project-tracker

4.Terra3E – VolTerra (now available on Ocean Store)

Overview

Estimation of Oil Initially In Place (OIIP) is one of the priority tasks in defining reserves. This plug-in calculates volumetrics using high-resolution Petrel geological models. The calculations are based on the equilibrium between gravity and capillary forces. It provides fluid volumes in standard and reservoir conditions, 3D saturation distributions of each phase and saturations along wells.

Features

The physics are fully respected using:

1) the most available geological description in lithofacies,

2) the 3D porosity distribution,

3) the capillary pressure curves associated to each lithofacies and

4) the thermodynamic of the oil and gas. The method is particularly well suited for carbonate reservoirs because it can account for lateral and vertical heterogeneities. This approach does not require the use of a reservoir simulator.

“Once a new

technology rolls

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not part of the

steamroller, you're

part of the road.”

Stewart Brand

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.ocean.slb.com/Pages/Product.aspx?category=all&cat=Ocean&id=PPTR-B1



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"VolTerra" process dialog

This dialog provides an automated tool to include input data of

geological models in order to estimate volumes of oil and gas

initially in place. This method, calculating OIIP in standard and

reservoir conditions, is the natural end point of any workflow

devoted to the geological modeling of newly discovered or

mature reservoirs. It is particularly suited to highly

heterogeneous reservoirs.

“Results” tab

“Results” tab contains the phase pressures at

equilibrium, volumes of fluids in place in standard

and reservoir conditions and 3D saturation grids of

each phase (Sw, So, Sg). In addition, 3D

visualization of the saturations grids can be

compared to well values derived from logs.

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it is often the early

bird that makes

the worm.

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"My software never

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develops random

features."

Anonymous

Page 11



(To find out more on Terra3E & VolTerra please click here)

5.Client Reviews

Patrick Wong – Senior Reservoir Modeler at Noble Energy, Houston

I have been using Blueback's Set Upscaled plug-in. It is a simple but great application that allows users to use any cells as upscaled cells (cells with "[U]" status) for property modeling. We can also use it in Petrel Workflow.

One application is cross-validation. E.g. use (n-1) wells for property modeling, use the nth well for testing the prediction, loop the process n times, and then calculate the average error. We can minimize the error by optimizing the geostatistical parameters such as variogram variables. The script may be tedious though... so it would be nice to have a plug-in for general cross-validation purposes.

(Thanks for the review Patrick - it would be great if other members could provide feedback on their experiences with Ocean plug-ins).

Visualization of results

VolTerra provides: the phase pressures at equilibrium, 2D and 3D saturation grids and

saturations along the well.

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operating systems.

Linus Torvalds

"The box said

'Required Windows

95 or better'. So, I

installed LINUX."

Anonymous

http://www.terra3e.com/

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6.New arrivals to the Ocean Store

WesternGeco Prestack Seismic Interpretation:

In order to better understand seismic interpretation anomalies and to incorporate the wealth of information lying in the prestack domain, WesternGeco has brought prestack viewing, stacking, interpretation and on-the-fly processing to the Petrel desktop along with an integrated prestack workflow.

Blueback Reservoir – Project Tracker Spatial Extension:

The Blueback Project Tracker plug-in for tracking and monitoring Petrel projects on network drives, creates a SQL database and has a range of tools to detect errors and data management issues related to Petrel projects. Spatial Extension integrates ESRI ArcGis® to enable visualization of detected problems with the Petrel project data management.

Both the Blueback Project Tracker and the new Spatial Extension module, are targeting

Petrel data managers. They are not a Petrel end-user tools, but facilitates improved

Petrel project management.

PetroMod Data Exchange:

The output of a simulated 3D petroleum systems model in PetroMod 2011.1 can be loaded to Petrel 2011 for comparison to existing Petrel models. Any simulated event (geological age) and related overlay (property) can be chosen for import. Once loaded drainage areas and hydrocarbon flowpaths or percolation stringers can be viewed (depending on the simulation method: Flowpath, Hybrid, or Invasion Percolation). With PetroFlash, hydrocarbon compositions of accumulations and compositions at surface temperatures and pressures can be investigated.

Raster Log:

With the Raster Log plug-in for Petrel you can display raster logs in the Well Section window along with digital logs, seismic and property model backgrounds, etc., to use all of your data for correlating wells and picking well tops, and you can share raster logs among multiple projects. The plug-in supports TGS A2D SIF, IHS RasCal XML, Petra LIC, and MJ Systems’ LogSleuth formats.

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use backups, they

post their stuff on a

public ftp server

and let the rest of

the world make

copies."

Linus Torvalds

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SIRENN:

Sirenn is a very powerful and flexible tool to build proxy models of reservoir simulators. The proxy models are developed using artificial neural networks, a technique that has been expanding rapidly in petroleum engineering applications, as in other fields requiring huge computer power like aerospace (flight simulation). Sirenn can be used for many applications: the Well Placement Optimization, Field Development Scheduling, History Matching with Multiple Models, Global Optimization of Oil Production Systems, Screening and Designing Improved Oil Recovery Methods.

Spectral Decomposition Solution:

Any observation whether it is a photograph, a seismic shot record or migrated data-set depends on the scale at which it is obtained. The Spectral Decomposition plug-in analyzes the scale dependence of seismic data. This tool is based on 2D and 3D wavelet transform techniques applied in form of continuous wavelet transform. This method is based on the assumption that the rise and decay of wavelet coefficients are directly related to scale and thus related to singularities in data-set.

To find out more information on all of these new plugins, please click here

Hope you enjoyed this newsletter. The plan is to send out similar newsletters every 2 x

months or so, but in order for this to happen I need some articles. They can be:

1. From plug-in developers – new technology, company updates etc

2. From plug-in users – reviews of products, plug-in requests

3. From Schlumberger – Ocean news

Fin

http://www.ocean.slb.com/Pages/category.aspx?category=new

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