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Petrel reservoir engineering
A collaborative environment for reservoir characterization, development planning, production evaluation, and optimizing reservoir performance.
Petrel™ subsurface software enables engineers and geoscientists to collaborate seamlessly by integrating static and dynamic data for accurate reservoir characterization and optimized production strategies.
It supports workflows across traditional domains like geology, geophysics, geomechanics, and production, as well as new energy applications such as geothermal and carbon storage. Petrel software also provides robust tools for planning greenfield developments, managing operational fields for both conventional and unconventional reservoirs, and optimizing infill well and workover designs in brownfields.
What benefits does an integrated reservoir simulation environment offer for reservoir characterization and management?
Petrel reservoir engineering delivers advanced simulation, user-friendly tools, high performance computing (HPC) integration, powerful analysis, enabling efficient, collaborative reservoir characterization and management.
- Simulation support: Petrel reservoir engineering supports the Eclipse™ reservoir simulator and the Intersect™ reservoir simulator for various studies, including black-oil, compositional, thermal, EOR, carbon storage, geothermal, and unconventional simulations.
- User-friendly environment: Provides an easy-to-use interface for assembling, quality checking, running, and managing simulation studies with advanced physics and high-fidelity simulators.
- Advanced visualization: Features include streamlines, filtering options, a time player, and calculation capabilities for in-depth simulation analysis.
- Powerful analysis tools: Quick plots and interactive 3D analysis in geological contexts enhance productivity and decision-making in reservoir engineering studies.
- HPC integration: Supports simulation workflows with customers’ HPC environments and SLB elastic HPC environments (on demand reservoir simulation).
- Collaboration and guidance: Studio™ E&P knowledge software facilitates efficient collaboration, while Petrel guru offers in-context guidance, customizable workflows, and a library of model tests and reports.
How does Petrel software help quantify and manage uncertainty while optimizing field development strategies and production forecasts?
Understanding uncertainty in reserves estimates and production forecasting is crucial for effective field development decisions.
- Integrated uncertainty studies: Petrel software enables integrated studies, combining static volumetric uncertainty and dynamic model connectivity for better screening and model selection.
- Uncertainty and optimization framework: Run uncertainty to assess the risks and create automated workflows to optimize well placement and production forecasts.
- Advanced visualization tools: Features tools like correlation and cluster analysis, and tornado charts for effective forecasting and decision making.
What are the key ways Petrel reservoir engineering software supports robust production interpretation and history matching for optimized reservoir performance?
Petrel software enhances production optimization with seamless data integration, advanced analytics, intuitive visualization, and streamlined workflows to maximize reservoir performance and well productivity.
- Production data integration: Petrel subsurface software seamlessly integrates with OFM™ well and reservoir analysis software, ensuring production, well, and completion data remain up to date. Its intuitive design enables smooth integration and analysis of production data at both well and completion levels.
- Comprehensive production analytics: Powerful set of analytical simulation tools to optimize production.
- Advanced visualization techniques: Features tools like bubble mapping, production grid mapping, and well section window tracking to integrate production history into the earth model, linking well production data with geology.
- Well deliverability module: Allows reservoir engineers to validate and fine-tune reservoir simulation models using hydraulic vertical flow performance tables and nodal analysis, supporting optimization of well completions and predictions of well productivity.
- Streamlined history matching: Simplifies the history matching process by defining objective functions, offering a variety of global optimization algorithms, and managing simulation runs through an advanced run management system. Enhanced analysis tools are also available to interpret and aid understanding of the history matching results.
High-resolution modeling and field management
Petrel software enhances reservoir modeling with advanced gridding, local refinements, and optimized workflows, enabling accurate simulations, efficient field management, and improved decision making.
- Field development and workflow optimization: Provides a framework to build scalable models and manage wells, fields, rigs, and resources efficiently, using advanced strategies, constraints, and conditional logic through an intuitive interface. Seamlessly works with the Intersect simulator to run geological-scale models and support advanced field management strategies.
- Advanced gridding techniques: Petrel software supports structured gridding (e.g., corner point and stair-step grids for complex faults) and unstructured grids like depogrid and embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM) for high fidelity and performance in unconventional studies.
- Local grid refinements (LGRs): Multi-level structured and unstructured LGRs effectively capture reservoir dynamics, addressing challenges like coning, and accurately model horizontal and multilateral wells.
Optimized well and completion design
Petrel software leverages time-saving automation for well placement and advanced completion design, optimizing reservoir development strategies and enhancing well performance.
- Automated well placement and design: Petrel software enables precise design and placement of complex wells within geological bodies. By combining advanced well design with uncertainty and optimization workflows, it streamlines well placement and completion strategies, saving time and improving accuracy in reservoir development strategies.
- Advanced completion design: Supports the design of advanced completions, including inflow control devices (ICDs) and flow control valves (FCVs), enhancing well performance. Petrel advanced completion optimization (ACO) enables reservoir and completion engineers to customize FCVs using an innovative optimization routine, which is performed as the simulation is operating in the Intersect simulator. Instead of running multiple cases to find an optimum, ACO optimizes and updates FCV configurations as the simulation runs. It finds the best case in just a single run.
Enhanced usability with guided workflows
Petrel software offers guided workflows for carbon storage, unconventional, and conventional model building, enabling quick and accurate simulation models for CO2 storage, hydraulic fracturing, and field development scenarios.
- Carbon storage model builder: Step-by-step guided workflow for the setup of a simulation model to estimate CO2 capacity in saline aquifers. Engineers can model the complex physics of CO2 behavior in a few user-friendly steps with a set of pre-selected correlations and populated default values.
- Unconventional model builder: Guided workflow to incorporate effects of complex hydraulic fracture stimulation into simulation models. Quickly create reservoir simulation models with hydraulically fractured horizontal wells.
- Conventional model builder: Simplified guided workflow to generate simulation models for field development scenarios, including a variety of completions and well patterns.
Petrel reservoir engineering portfolio
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Petrel unconventional model builder 2024.2 plug-in now available for Petrel subsurface software
The Petrel unconventional model builder is a streamlined plug-in for Petrel subsurface software, designed to generate models for hydraulic fracture simulation in unconventional reservoirs. It introduces a guided workflow to construct a simulation model from scratch, with hydraulically fractured wells and field management scenarios.
Petrel 2024.2 release announcement