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Below is a selected list highlighting some of the more significant improvements included in this release.
Structural Framework
Volume Based Modeling (VBM): A new modeling method that complements various legacy methods
and uses robust and innovative algorithms for creating horizons in Structural Framework models.
Exploration Geology
Module: The Exploration Geology module (Petroleum Systems 1D and 3D, Petroleum Systems Quick Look,
and Play to Prospect Risk) is now an integrated part of Petrel; it requires an Exploration Geology license.
Lithology Database: A new set of lithology templates has been added to the Petrel templates for use
with the Exploration Geology modules.
Petroleum Systems 1D and 3D: Added the ability to view invasion percolation simulation results and a
simplified workflow for ages, facies, and default lithologies.
Geophysics
Seismic reconstruction 2D: Defines the geological type of horizons in order to handle unconformities
such as erosional surfaces, resulting in chrono-stratigraphic displays of seismic sections.
Seismic Compression: A process to compress ZGY volumes for 3D seismic data, for file size reduction
while maintaining data fidelity.
MultiZ (body) interpretation: A new object, which handles seismic interpretation for complex
subsurface structures with multiple time/depth values, is now available in Petrel.
Interval velocity maps: The velocity modeling process allows you to create output Interval velocity
maps.
New option in Sonic Calibration process: For the generation of a smooth drift curve by using a
polynomial fit to honor the knee points.
Fracture Modeling
Geomechanical driver: A new geomechanically-based approach that is based on inverse and forward
stress computation for constraining the Discrete Fracture Modeling (DFM).
Reservoir Engineering
INTERSECT 2013.1 support: A new connector for INTERSECT is available with this release, providing
access to INTERSECT 2013.1 functionality, and additional Field Management strategy options.
Production
Production Analytics: New features for analysis of production data added to Petrel, within the
combined core license.
OFM Data Connector: Modifications include import well annotations and import completion level data.
Further information on the above mentioned improvements can be found in the following sections and in more
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
are not backwards compatible (e.g., cannot be opened) with earlier versions.
Structural Framework
Feature Short Description
Performance and robustness The Volume Based Modeling (VBM) horizon method always produces
improvements watertight zones independently from the complexity of the model. For
complex models, the performance of zone creation has been vastly
improved.
QC manager A new tool allowing QC of the quality of the fault interpretation prior
to the construction of the horizon surfaces has been introduced.
Exploration Geology
Feature Short Description
Exploration Geology now a Exploration Geology was previously a plug-in requiring separate
module installation via the Ocean plug-in manager. From 2013.2 onwards,
Exploration Geology is a module, which is included in the full
installation of Petrel.
Lithology database Lithologies are needed to define the facies of the zones or layers of
your petroleum systems model. The lithology information will be used
by the simulator to calculate generation, migration, and accumulation
of hydrocarbons.
Fracture Modeling
Feature Short Description
New geomechanically-based This module is based on iBem3D (Poly3D) engine and aims at
driver for DFM computing maps of both natural fracture orientation and density trends
from computed stress field using observed major faults (Petrel seismic
structural framework) and observed fracture data. The following lists
the various attributes of this new driver:
Computation speed - Forward stress simulation takes less than
3 minutes to compute independently from the fault network
complexity.
Handling complex fault networks - The iBem3D (Poly3D)
engine, based on the boundary element method, allows handling
complex fault networks and fault geometries.
Tectonic stress inversion - A technique that allows recovering
tectonic stress inversion characteristics through time and used as
boundary conditions for the forward stress simulations.
Well Design
Feature Short Description
Risk manager Several issues related to performance and filters of risk manager have
been addressed.
Well report Previously, if more than one sidetrack well was tied into the same
main well, generating a well report for all wells could result in a crash.
Production
Feature Short Description
New Production Analytics The Petrel combined core license enables new features including
abilities to manually back allocate, visualize completion level data in
the well section window, and generate grid and bubble maps of
production data.
The features of the production analytics module include:
Production Bubble Mapping Process: You can post
production bubbles at depth and play through time.
Production Mapping Process: You can generate grid maps for
production data and play them through time.
Production Track for Well Section Windows: You can post
completion level data in a track alongside log and cross section in
the production track for the well section window.
Split Set and Split Set Manager: The Split set and Split set
manager allow you to manually allocate well level production to
the completion level.
Reservoir Engineering
Feature Short Description
Changes to INTERSECT support in When you install Petrel 2013.2, you have the choice between installing
Petrel the connector to INTERSECT 2012.2 or INTERSECT 2013.1. The
connector is that part of Petrel that creates Field Management
strategies and exports INTERSECT simulation cases. The default
choice is to install the connector to INTERSECT 2013.1, the newest
release of INTERSECT. You can later change the connector by using
the Modify option in the Petrel E&P Platform installer.
Correct specification by Petrel of WSEGVALV pipe diameter and cross-sectional area are taken from the
valve pipe diameters may result in devices inner diameter or the constriction diameter (whichever is the
changes to the frictional pressure greater), rather than using the WELSEGS-attributes.
drop
Unrecognized summary results are Unrecognized summary results are now listed in the Results pane, and
now visible in the Results pane can be viewed through the Results Charting and Analysis process.
Improvements to the reference Completion design operations that make use of the 'physical valves
valve calculation when converting equivalent' attribute allowing a single device to represent any
to simulation design number of physical valves on export to the simulator now have all
WSEGVALV and WELSEGS items scaled correctly.
General
Feature Short Description
Structural Framework
Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
Volume Based Modeling (VBM) Baselap-baselap relationship is not working as expected. It is not
Method possible to explicitly define truncation rules between
unconformities: the youngest unconformity is always assumed to
be truncating older unconformities.
The stair-step faulting process is disabled when using faults
coming from a VBM model.
Eroded horizon surfaces coming from VBM models are not always
handled properly in pillar gridding. They may be extrapolated
beyond erosion line.
Geophysics
Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
Seismic Compression Volume attributes generated from compressed cubes may display
cosmetic artifacts along its edges. These edges are typically zones
along boundaries of irregularly shaped surveys, muting zones at
edges of surveys and zones above sea bottom which in the
compressed cube borders consecutive neighboring samples with
zero values.
WORKAROUND: These cosmetic artifacts can be cropped from
view. Alternatively crop the compressed cube prior to generating
volume attributes.
For compressed cubes intended for more permanent storage, we
recommend to (re)generate these using the next release of seismic
compression process.
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.
MultiZ interpretation Create triangle mesh (Meshing) process doesnt release all the
memory it used. Depending on the memory available and the size of
Fracture Modeling
Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
Large 3D grids An observation grid (reservoir grid) with more than one million cells
will take approximately 10 minutes to compute during the 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.
Converting a simple proposed A simple proposed well is created with Well path design by
well to an advanced plan manually digitizing the design points. When converting a simple
proposed well to an advanced plan, the design points will be converted
into Station points in the advanced plan.
If you click Go to surface or add any curve section to the top in
Well path designer, for the Station points, only MD, INCL and
AZIM values will remain unchanged during calculation, but X, Y,
Z and TVD will be recalculated.
If the last point of the simple well (TD) is above MSL, the
conversion will fail due to TVD and MD being referenced to MSL
instead of to Kelly Bushing (KB).
WORKAROUND: Edit settings for the proposed well by changing from
Well Deliverability
Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
Different TVD for Deviated Wells Petrel and PIPESIM use different algorithms to calculate true vertical
in Petrel vs. PIPESIM depth (TVD). As a result, when you import a deviated well from
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.
Studio
Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
Re-parented 3D interpretations In Find, when you display an indexed 3D interpretation that was
Displayed in Find re-parented to a survey with a different geometry, Find only displays
the surveys bounding polygon.
Licensing
A Petrel dongle and a valid license are required to run this release.
License files prior to 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:
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 expiry date. All license inquiries should be made to your SIS account manager,
but note that you will normally be contacted by Schlumberger before your maintenance expires.
Minimum Recommended
Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit, SP1) Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate Edition
(64-bit, SP1)
Quad-core processor (best with fast clock speed and Dual quad-core or hex-core processor (best with fast
large cache) clock speed and large cache)
16 GB RAM memory 64 GB RAM memory
Fast rotational speed hard disk (10,00015,000 rpm) Fast rotational speed hard disk (10,00015,000 rpm) or
or solid state drive solid state drive (300 GB)