BENEFITS AND FEATURES

Streamline everyday workflows using

flexible, dynamically linked 3D, section,
and map canvases.

Perform stratigraphic interpretation,
contouring, map editing, and structural
complexity evaluation prior to modeling.

Bridge the gap between seismic
interpretation and modeling with the
structural framework and volume-based
modeling tools.

Gain a better understanding of trends
and correlations using powerful data
analysis and trend-modeling tools.

Use the most extensive array of
algorithms in the industry to model
geology as geology.

Enhance characterization of depositional
features identified in seismic attributes
with seismic sampling and geobody
modeling workflows.

Incorporate new data using local model
update, without disturbing the history-
matched model away from the changed
region.

Leverage the naturally fractured
reservoirs modeling workflow,
integrating all cross-domain fracture
observation data.

Confidently estimate reserves
while assessing uncertainty from
all perspectives.

Rapidly update high-quality maps
when new data is available.

Capture and reuse knowledge
throughout the entire workflow.
Geoscientists and engineers are only able to assemble all the pieces of the subsurface puzzle in
a shared software platform. With the Petrel* E&P software platform, the best technology ensures
that the most complex challenges can be solved. In 3D, map, or section views, you can visualize,
analyze, interpret, and edit geophysical, geological, reservoir engineering, production, and drilling
data. The Petrel platform provides seamless and repeatable workflows from exploration through to
production, captures your teams geological knowledge, and manages the subsurface uncertainty.
With the Petrel platform you get what you need, when you need it, in a productive environment
no barriers, no silos, no data integrity loss, and no wasted time.
Boost conventional workflowswith increased productivity
To better delineate prospects, it is important to understand geology from both regional and
local perspectives. With the Petrel platform, all the conventional toolscross sections, well
correlation, reservoir summation, maps, and volumetric calculationsare accessible to
you and your team in a single, integrated environment. These tools are multidisciplinary and
multifunctional, allowing you to view and edit information from every angle. The Petrel platform
facilitates geologists everyday work, going further than traditional workflowsbridging the gap
between static and dynamic modeling and production geology workflows.
The multiuser interpretation environment provided by the Studio* E&P knowledge environment
ensures efficient collaboration between all geoscientists and engineers in the team. In addition
to receiving instant notifications on data and interpretation updates, geoscientists can retrieve
and seamlessly add new data into their work. Furthermore, the Studio environment provides the
geoscientist unique and unrivalled capabilities to quickly find and access any relevant
data, directly within the context of their Petrel session.
In the Petrel platform, 3D, section, and map canvases are flexible, multidisciplinary, and dynamically linked.
A window layout composed of different views can be saved for later restoration, so you never lose a special
arrangement that is so important for your workflow productivity.
Petrel Geology and Modeling
Integrate data from all domains to create consistent, realistic models
Petrel Geology and Modeling
Fundamental mapping and stratigraphic interpretation
Maps are the basis for understanding regional, reservoir, and prospect
level structures and characteristics. The Petrel platform enables you
to generate high-quality maps at the regional or prospect scale, and
update them quickly without having to change applicationsdisplay the
data you want to visualize and interactively adjust the scale and style
settings. Object layering hierarchy, customizable labels, and pie charts
representing well data enhance reports and presentations. Vitally, if any
data is modified in the project, maps are updated with minimal effort in
secondskeeping your maps live.
The correlation window is the ideal choice for conventional
stratigraphic interpretation, seismic well tie, 4D workflows, reservoir
modeling QC, and production history matching. Geoscientists can
perform fast, accurate, and high-quality interpretation using the myriad
of logs, core images, seismic data, grid data, and even time-playable
logs, completions, and simulation results integrated in the well section
canvasmaking this a unique working environment for collaboration
among all disciplines. Users can also interactively create sections
from any 3D or map window and quickly change the view to any
premade sections. Customized well section displays are easily shared
between projects, without the need to save the window. Log estimation
using neural networks and interactive log conditioning enhance your
stratigraphic interpretations.
Evaluation of exploration geology
Acquiring the right acreage and drilling the best prospects are the
central investments impacting exploration success. Understanding
key risk factors is crucial in making these investment decisions. The
Petrel Exploration Geology module provides workflows to improve these
decisionsfrom early phase exploration through to appraisalso you
can evaluate the key components of exploration uncertainty, assess plays
with results connected directly to interpretations, generate prospects
incorporating play level assessments, perform chance-of-success
estimates, and accurately predict probabilistic volumes. Since results
are linked to data and interpretations, you can easily reference the input
geology and interpretations, get rapid updates when new information
dictates a change in interpretations or analyses, and have consistent
evaluations across your organization.
When stratigraphy and structure matter in model building
For geoscientists, a fundamental modeling requirement is constructing
geocellular frameworks and populating them with properties for
volumetrics and ultimately reservoir production and engineering
workflows. Watertight frameworks of structurally or stratigraphically
complex regions are quickly built using the new volume-based
modeling functionality. This allows you to represent any tectonic
environmentincluding thin-bedded stratigraphy, compressional
structures and highly deformed horizons and salt bodieseven when
fault blocks have poorly defined seismic interpretations or erosion
issues. The implicit function honors the geological relationships
between horizons within the sealed framework. Subsequent conversion
of these models to pillar, partially stair-stepped, or fully stair-stepped
grids enables distribution of properties from wells and seismic
throughout the 3D grid, with the most extensive list of modeling
algorithms in the industry, and swiftly produces the 3D model for
simulation. With the direct link between the interpretation, the structural
framework, and the model, you can easily go back and forth at any
stage to reinterpret or refine for greater accuracy and control when
evaluating complex reservoirs.
Display deviated wells accurately in the cross-section display
for improved correlation and characterization.
Regional and local exploration of plays and prospects using hydrocarbon
generation and flow analysis, and burial history plots to evaluate the timing of
the geological eventscombining all elements into play chance maps.
Volume-based modeling of a structurally complex region.
Petrel Geology and Modeling
Data analysis with increased insight
Representing the subsurface according to analogues and your
geological concepts, while honoring data trends and distributions,
is essential for volume estimations and fluid-flow simulations.
Combining interactive analysis of data between histograms, function
and stereonet windows, and powerful data analysis provides a better
understanding of those distributions, trends, and relationships. The
Petrel platform supports a variety of multidisciplinary workflows:

Quality-checking velocity modeling and well-tie analyses

Analyzing log data to delineate different rock types
and their distribution across the reservoir

Finding relationships between well data and seismic attributes,
to better understand lithology for reservoir characterization

Preparing facies and petrophysical input data for 3D-grid property
distribution and, in particular, variogram evaluation and nested-
variogram modeling

Plotting simulation and production results

Evaluating uncertainty studies results
Furthermore, the Petrel platform lets you understand fault-horizon
relationships and reservoir juxtaposition along fault planes, define
critical-flowing or sealing windows along faults, ensure that
transmissibility across fault blocks is not neglected in dynamic
simulations, and design well placement with a better knowledge
of fault properties.
A new look at modeling naturally fractured reservoirs
A critical feature of carbonates, shales, and basement reservoirs
are the fractures; accurately modeling these fractures is essential to
simulating flow and production. The Petrel platform and the Techlog*
wellbore software platform provide optimal environments to visualize,
analyze, and integrate the various data types that may be direct or
indirect indicators of fractures. These indicators, together with a faulted
structural framework model, are used to compute paleostress and
predict natural fracture development, from which fracture-attribute
maps help constrain the discrete fracture network simulation. These
input parameters are used for stochastic distribution in a 3D grid.
Complex fracture networks are modeled using a smart combination of
discrete and implicit fractures, a revolutionary method that eliminates
memory-handling problems due to the high number of fracture planes
created in a typical discrete representation. The fracture property
upscaling workflow generates the final fracture parameters required
for the reservoir fluid-flow characterization. Dual-porosity and dual-
permeability simulation of fluid flow on facies such as carbonates
can be performed using the modeled fracture networks.
Integrate geophysics
In traditional modeling workflows, incorporating geophysical data
primarily involves building 3D structural grids with depth-converted
horizons and faults. The Petrel platform goes much further. In addition
to creating a watertight structural framework, any seismic attribute
volume can be used directly in a 3D grid. This offers a huge range of
possibilities for attribute volumes (e.g., simple calculations and filtering)
to data analysis and modeling processes. Depending on the geological
environment, you can identify and isolate stratigraphic and depositional
features directly in seismic data, extract them as geobodies, sample
them directly into the model, and use them in property distribution
instantly. This unique, seamless workflow is extremely productive and
enables better characterization of subsurface features that represent
levees, channels, and any other geological or depositional feature.
Data analysis windows for well properties and seismic attributes.
Naturally fractured reservoir models incorporate integrated cross-domain data that
defines the distribution and properties of the fracture families.
Stratigraphic or depositional features isolated from a seismic attribute volume,
extracted as geobodies and used instantly for property distribution.
Petrel Geology and Modeling
Model geology as geology
How do you model the depositional concepts imagined by the
geoscientist, while at the same time honoring all available data? With
the wide variety of modeling algorithms available in the Petrel platform,
you can select the appropriate algorithm based on available data and
the geological environment.
For facies distribution, you choose from a list of deterministic or
stochastic methods including indicator kriging, object modeling,
sequential indicator simulation, truncated Gaussian simulation, and
multipoint facies simulation. All stochastic methods have been revised
to include servo-systems, to fine-tune the algorithms and better match
target facies fractions. For better control when inserting facies objects,
geometrical trend modeling enables you to generate flowline-derived
azimuth propertiesespecially useful in guiding adaptive channels.
In areas with sparse well control, you can gain a better understanding
of regional trends by correlating well information with seismic
attributescreating probability volumes to guide the spatial distribution
of rock properties. For petrophysical modeling, fast kriging and Gaussian
random simulations are provided, as well as traditional geostatistical
algorithms. Continuous primary property distribution can combine up to
five secondary properties of various types and dimensionsprobability
curves, maps, seismic attribute trends, and more.
Geoscientists gain a better understanding of the subsurface by building
a realistic shared earth model, using all available information and
expertisewith lithology fractions and reservoir connectivity that
best represent the depositional system. All this leads to simulations
that accurately represent the geology and support more accurate
drilling and development plans.
Local model update
To incorporate new data into a model, it is often necessary to modify
the structure of your grid locally by flexing horizons and internal
layers, without changing previously distributed properties. This can
be performed on the entire gridwhen assessing various velocity
modeling scenariosor locally inside a polygon, which is essential
for well placement workflows. Gridded properties can be updated
only in the cells you want to modifymaintaining continuity with
the surrounding model and ensuring your history matched model
is maintained away from the updated region.
Uncertainty and optimization
The uncertainty and optimization process provides powerful analysis
tools to analyze sensitivities or multiple alternative scenarios throughout
the entire E&P cycle.
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representative to learn more.
Trend-modeling processes enable better control of the distribution of rock
properties in the reservoir model.
Property modeling based on facies model input, seismic attribute, and well log data.
Local model update tools allow integration of new well data without sacrificing the
history match of the surrounding area.
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