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Petrel 2011

Delivering confident decisions

Petrel 2011 affords powerful new science, workflow productivity, and enhanced collaboration. Revolutionary new tools help geoscientists and engineers deliver confident decisions—prospect selections, reserves estimates, and well placements—even in challenging environments, where quantifying and managing risk are critical in determining economic success or failure.

Deliver confident prospect selections

• Assess seal capacity and charge timing as you interpret seismic, make maps, and calculate volumes
• Capture prospect uncertainty from the start
• Get better results faster with new and improved interpretation tools: automatic fault tracking, 3D seismic flattening, and additional modes for tailed interpretation
• Experience a step change in spatial accuracy with a patent-pending positioning and visualization method when moving or merging well and 3D seismic data
• Identify stratigraphic traps using the new attribute player combined with geobody isolation capabilities
• Leverage new Ocean plug-ins from WesternGeco for prestack interpretation capabilities

Deliver confident reserves estimates

• Test the limits of all your key parameters; accurately assess structural integrity, stratigraphic features, fluid contacts, and property distributions
• View and interact with 2D well data, including raster logs with seismic fences and grid model objects, in the new flexible well section window
• Use new stair-step gridding to correctly model even the most complex faulted reservoirs for a robust sealed structural framework that is optimal for property population and fluid flow simulation
• Perform local model updates with new well data, properties, and markers to preserve history match for existing wells

Deliver confident well placement

• Evaluate reservoir quality and heterogeneity; model and simulate horizontal wells, multilateral wells, and intelligent completions
• Achieve faster history matching—evaluate parameter sensitivity, optimize simulation input, and use local model updates to work directly on problem areas and run new scenarios to better match production history
• Take advantage of property modeling advances—honor target fractions for multipoint facies simulation
• Handle large and complex fields with the fast performance and scalability of the INTERSECT next-generation simulator, which uses novel numerical techniques for non-uniform and unstructured grids

Revolutionize the way you work with the new Studio E&P knowledge environment

• Streamline everyday tasks with numerous workflow improvements
• Personalize your workspace with your own collection of favorite objects and processes
• Search seamlessly across the data environment and multiple projects and extract information in context
• Collaborate with peers or company experts globally