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Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 2 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Contents Petrel 2013 4 Welcome to Petrel 2013.3 4 Project Compatibility 5 What’s New in Brief 6 Geophysics 6 Geology & Reservoir Engineering 7 Modeling 8 Geology 8 Geology: Wells 8 Well Section Window 9 Well Design 9 Production 9 Reservoir Engineering 9 Studio 10 Known Issues 11 Structural Framework 11 Geophysics 11 Exploration Geology 13 Fracture Modeling 13 Well Design 14 Production 15 Reservoir Engineering 15 Distribution and Licensing 16 Licensing 16 System Requirements 17 Petrel System Requirements 17 Studio Database System Requirements 17 For Oracle Databases 17 For Microsoft SQL Server Databases 17 Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 3 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Petrel 2013 With this Petrel* E&P Software 2013.3 update release, Schlumberger continues its commitment to improve and innovate the way you work. Petrel allows multi-domain experts to co-create a shared earth model that can be continuously updated as new information is acquired. These Release Notes contain short descriptors for the most significant enhancements, fixed issues, and known limitations as well as system requirements and recommendations. The full set of Petrel 2013 documentation, or documentation for any prior Petrel release, can be downloaded from the Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) Support Portal . Welcome to Petrel 2013.3 Petrel continuously promotes disciplines working together and, with this release, a significant new step is introduced with the Dual Scale Modeling workflow spanning Geology and Reservoir Engineering. Other significant new features have been added in Geophysics, Production and Studio, along with performance and stability improvements. The key new features in this release are: Geophysics • Surface attributes - resample option: Allows resampling of the input seismic trace prior to surface attribute computation to address amplitude extractions in areas of dipping seismic reflectors. • Interval velocity maps: The Velocity Modeling process now allows creation of Interval velocity maps directly from the velocity model. Geology • Well log calculator: The workflow for generating logs for bulk wells has been significantly improved. • Well tops attributes and editing: Improvements and fixes, including allowing deletion of well tops horizons selected in a 3D window. • Log visualization: Significant performance improvements when working in 3D or Interpretation windows. Geology and Reservoir Engineering • Dual scale reservoir modeling: This new reservoir model building workflow enables you to build linked geological and simulation models that contain the structural resolution and geological property resolution necessary to characterize the static and dynamic reservoir behavior. It enables fast and accurate upscaling of grid properties between the geological and simulation grids. Production • OFM: OFM calculated fields can be imported and well mappings are preserved. Studio • Web Map Gallery: Enables users to choose from a selection of pre-defined map-services. • Data Synchronization: Several enhancements have been added to the data synchronization workflow. Further information on the above mentioned improvements can be found in the following sections and in more detail in the companion document , Petrel E&P Software Platform 2013 What’s New . Complete documentation for this release, and all prior Petrel releases, is available from the Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) Support Portal. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 4 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Project Compatibility The Petrel platform preserves the value of your historical data. Projects saved in all earlier Petrel versions will load directly into Petrel 2013 without any need for data migration. However note that projects saved with Petrel 2013 will not be backwards compatible (e.g., cannot be opened) with earlier versions. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 5 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use What’s New in Brief The following content contains short descriptions of new features in this release, organized by domain. The companion document, Petrel E&P Software Platform 2013 What’s New , contains more detailed explanations, descriptions of functionality, and workflows for these enhancements. Geophysics Feature Short Description Surface attributes: resample option There is now an option to resample the input seismic trace prior to surface attribute computation to mitigate artifacts arising from the discrete nature of seismic. In this new release, this option is available for a few surface attributes. Interval velocity maps In the 2013.2 release, you could create Interval velocity maps for the existing velocity model. The 2013.3 release presents an additional option to create Interval velocity maps while you are running the Velocity Modeling process. These output maps can be used for QC purposes. Keyboard shortcut key Shift + E The shortcut key Shift + E can be used to access the “Select a single point” icon. Seismic volume rendering Ray casting technology is now used for volume rendering of seismic cubes. This enables rendering techniques like depth effect for crisper and more continuous amplitude visualization. Geobody interpretation Improved interactivity of the probe opacity manipulation. Volume attributes: Depth conversion Previously, assigning an Interval Velocity cube as an attribute created a cube with “0” value result. This has been fixed. Volume attributes: Consistent dip Previously, when input seismic is in depth domain, generating the Consistent dip attribute produced random noise. This has been fixed. Volume attributes: Favorites The issue to allow right-click on a seismic volume in the Favorites pane to access the Volume attribute process has been fixed. Surface Attributes : Non- overlapping surfaces Previously, generating an attribute surface between two input surfaces produced numbers with large values in areas where the two surfaces do not overlap. This has been fixed to produce an NaN (undefined) value. Seismic interpretation: Visualize mode Seismic interpretation commands now remain enabled when Toggle visualization on plane mode (blue button) is activated. Seismic interpretation : Autotrack The dialog box display issue to support large fonts at 125 dpi Windows setting has been fixed. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 6 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Feature Short Description MultiZ interpretation • The Create triangle mesh (Meshing) process now releases the memory it used for calculations. • In the 2013.2 release, MultiZ interpretation, in some circumstances, rendered slowly. This has been fixed. • With the Structural and Fault analysis license enabled, MultiZ interpretation objects no longer have the Structural Analysis tab available. Mis-tie manager Inserting Mis-tie manager on a dataset with missing intersecting lines no longer causes Petrel to crash. SEG-Y 2D Toolbox • The Shot point scalar now supports values up to 10,000. • The issue for numerical precision for scaled shot point numbers has been fixed. • The issue of coordinate support for measurements in arc seconds has been fixed. • The “Existing 2D lines” function now correctly supports imperial units. • The loading of traces with varying time-of-first-sample (TOFS) now activates sinc interpolation. SEG-Y to ZGY converter The issue where certain ZGY cubes were created with checker board- like artifacts has been fixed. Seismic Well Tie Previously, when wavelets were created using the statistical extraction method, the history was tagged incorrectly; it showed those wavelets as the extended white method. This has been fixed. Geology & Reservoir Engineering Feature Short Description Dual scale reservoir modeling workflow A new dual scale reservoir modeling methodology brings significant benefits for the Geologist and the Reservoir Engineer: • Build a first model grid at the simulation grid resolution so that the geologist and reservoir engineers together identify the structural resolution necessary to capture the dynamic reservoir behavior • Refine the grid, without changing the structure, in order to maximize the accuracy of well log upscaling and property population at the appropriate fine geological grid resolution • Maintain explicit mapping between coarse and fine grid for fast accurate upscaling of grid properties. For additional details, please see “Modeling” in Petrel E&P Software Platform 2013 What’s New . Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 7 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Modeling Feature Short Description Scale up well logs When running the scale up well log process, if the horizons of the 3D grid were not perfectly tied to the well picks, there was no guarantee that the correct data was upscaled in each zone. In the 2013.3 release, a zone correction option has been added to ensure that the upscaled well data is correctly mapped to each zone. Geology Feature Short Description Backward compatible projects We have addressed a compatibility issue between 2013.2 and 2013.1, that may have occurred when using Annotation Style. Some projects saved in 2013.2 will not be able to be opened in 2013.1. Open these projects in 2013.3, save, and then open in 2013.1. Geology: Wells Feature Short Description Checkshot loader When importing checkshot data exported from GeoFrame, where the file contains a header, units can now be reset and user-specified units can also be stored for use in the next import activity. Well log calculator There is now a seamless workflow when generating logs for bulk wells with the calculator operations in Workflow editor, so that you no longer need to delete the logs prior to operation rerun. The well log calculator no longer fails to overwrite existing logs. Well tops attributes When computing zone thickness by using a Boolean log filter in well tops attributes, zero values are no longer produced if there are three rows in the spreadsheet. In such cases, Petrel now correctly computes the first filter interval as well as the end of each interval. Well tops editing in 3D windows In edit mode, you can now delete well tops horizons selected in a 3D window. Well section window display You can no longer create incomplete input data, which would otherwise result in project corruption. This fix will not correct an already corrupted project, but you can manually delete the incomplete point from the well trace spreadsheet, then save the project before visualizing in the Well section window. Transferring wells with RPT Petrel no longer crashes if you open and close RPT multiple times when transferring wells across projects. Log visualization in 3D and Interpretation windows There are no longer log visualization problems in the TWT domain when you work in 3D or Interpretation windows. In prior releases, a shift resulted from the use of only time samples from trajectory points. Now all time samples interpolating the trajectory at each sample are used to visualize in the TWT domain. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 8 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Well Section Window Feature Short Description Reference Project tool The transfer of Well section windows and cross section objects is now possible using the Reference project tool for Petrel project versions 2013.1 and onwards. You need to upgrade your projects to at least the 2013.1 version to use this feature. Plotting The SDI_Print failed error has been fixed when trying to plot a cross section hardcopy. Well Tops Several use cases that caused well tops not to display in the cross section have been fixed. Well Design Feature Short Description BHA display in Well section window You can now hide a BHA display in the Well section window by clearing the depth settings for the BHA. You can also display the BHA as a depth line by setting the same start and end depths. Production Feature Short Description OFM - Importing from OFM OFM calculated fields can be imported. OFM - Petrel 2013.1 OFM Data Connector Templates Well mappings are preserved when an OFM Data Connector template from a 2013.1 project is used in a 2013.2 project. Production Analytics - Split Sets Split sets can make the round trip from 2013.2 to 2013.1 and back to 2013.2. Well Deliverability - Petrel Projects with TUFFP Flow Correlations Because the TUFFP Unified 2-phase v2007.1 flow correlation is no longer supported by Petrel and PIPESIM, you will receive a warning message if you try to open a Petrel project that was saved with a TUFFP Unified 2-phase v2007.1 flow correlation. Reservoir Engineering Feature Short Description Exporting multiple realization cases Exporting multiple realization cases no longer include the MULTREAL keyword when exported outside either the Workflow editor or Uncertainty and Optimization process. Specifying the simulator version when exporting a data set containing the WSEGVALV keyword If your version of ECLIPSE is earlier than 2013.1, you must specify the simulator version when exporting a data set including the WSEGVALV keyword. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 9 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Studio Feature Short Description Web Map Gallery A new Webmap Gallery has been added, which enables users to choose from a selection of pre-defined map-services. Data Synchronization Enhancements have been added to the data synchronization workflow. These enhancements include the option of using a filter to control what data is selected from the database and the ability to only send new items with particular data statuses. Re-parented 3D interpretations displayed polygon only in Find This issue, described in the 2013.2 Release Notes, has been resolved in 2013.3. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013.3 10 23 October 2013 [...]... version of Petrel (2012.2+), and then re-export RESQML The re-exported RESQML file can then be read by newer versions of Petrel Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 15 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Well Section Window Issue or Limitation Petrel and PIPESIM use different algorithms to calculate true vertical depth (TVD) As a result, when you import a deviated well from PIPESIM to Petrel, ... inline) while editing it on the crossing section (e.g., crossline) • The restrict mode is not available in the 2013. 3 release WORKAROUND: Use Flip in front of/behind plane instead Seismic Well Tie • • • • • • Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 The new version of Seismic Well Tie uses the Petrel domain conversion algorithm, while the old version used a proprietary algorithm; hence, small numerical... before your maintenance expires Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 16 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Where • is the maintenance expiry year and month • is the license expiry day, month, year • is the number of licenses System Requirements Petrel System Requirements Below are the current brief system recommendations for Petrel and Studio* For further... The Petrel 2013 release is available by download using the appropriate links on the Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) Support Portal A user account is required on the portal If you do not already have a user account, you can register to access the portal at http://support .software. slb.com Licensing A Petrel dongle and a valid license are required to run this release License files prior to Petrel. .. more permanent storage, we recommend to (re)generate these using the next release of seismic compression process • Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 Velocity cubes and other non-zero mean (e.g., positive only values) data types should be compressed with a high (enough) value SQNR to maintain adequate signal quality 11 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Issue or Limitation • Baselap-baselap... as a property surface can lead to a Petrel crash WORKAROUND: Use discrete surface attributes Well Design Affected Feature Well plan display in an intersection window Converting a simple proposed well to an advanced plan Well path creation with non S-3D profile Plan grid convergence values Transferring data over different index ranges Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 A simple proposed well is created... Generate Fracture Driver process Fold related fractures Models with fold-related fractures cannot give coherent results since the methodology is based on fault-related fractures Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 13 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Play Chance Mapping Issue or Limitation After copying/pasting a Play Chance Mapping, Prospect Assessment, Prospect Summing, Petroleum... (64-bit) or Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) x64 dual quad-core processor 48 GB or greater memory Other Required Software SQL Server® 2012 Standard Edition SP1 with Cumulative update package 2 Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 17 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Quad-core processor (best with fast clock speed and large cache) 16 GB RAM memory Fast rotational speed hard disk (10,000–15,000 rpm)... Petrel 2012 need to be updated Petrel licenses now incorporate two important dates, the maintenance expiry date and the license expiry date You can verify the validity of your license, as follows: FEATURE Petrel_ 01220255_MAAAdLyku/aUAslbsis . The license is valid to run Petrel up to the license expiry date; it allows you to run any Petrel version that is released before the maintenance... PIPESIM to Petrel, the TVD values will be slightly different in the two applications Petrel imports Measured Depth (MD) values exactly as they are in PIPESIM, but Petrel uses a more advanced algorithm that allows for curved paths True vertical depth is then derived from the MD values WORKAROUND: If you want your TVD values in Petrel to match the same well in PIPESIM, after importing the well from PIPESIM, . a mark of Schlumberger. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 2 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use Contents Petrel 2013 4 Welcome to Petrel 2013. 3 4 Project Compatibility. additional details, please see “Modeling” in Petrel E&P Software Platform 2013 What’s New . Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 7 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use. only in Find This issue, described in the 2013. 2 Release Notes, has been resolved in 2013. 3. Petrel Platform Release Notes 2013. 3 10 23 October 2013 Schlumberger Private – Customer Use