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Country of Origin: United States of America
Release Date: August 2014

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Contents
OFM Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What’s New in OFM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Compatibility with Schlumberger Platforms and Software Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
OFM User Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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OFM Overview
OFM is a powerful suite of modules developed by Schlumberger Information Solutions,
designed to aid in the day-to-day surveillance and management of oil and gas fields. OFM
provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface enabling you to view, enhance, and analyze
production and reservoir data within the Microsoft® Windows® environment. Using OFM,
you can perform basic or complex analyses for individual or multiple completions, groups of
wells, an entire field, or several fields. OFM is the ideal tool for reservoir production
environments and users. It is ideally suited for the occasional user, yet sophisticated enough
for the experienced geoscientist or petrophysicist, whether at the well site, office, or home.

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What’s New in OFM

This section describes new features and functionality in OFM.

API The 2014.1 release of OFM provides an Application Programming Interface. The Interface
permits the creation of “Plugins” for OFM. These Plugins are exposed at two “levels”:
• Plugin Functions – user defined calculations that perform like System Functions
• Plugin Analyses – native views in OFM with their own ribbon icons, properties pane and
visualization window

API User Assistance Included in the OFM installation directory to assist you with the API are:
• The online help file - \Help\API Documentation\ OFM API Documentation.chm.
• The getting started guide - \Guides And Release Notes\Getting Started with the OFM
API.pdf .
• Sample plugins - \Sample PlugIns

Additional
Enhancements

Plugins Location Plugins may be stored in any accessible folder. This is controlled via a new feature in the
Workspace > Options dialog.

Office Theme OFM sessions use the Microsoft Office 2013 background theme.

Compatibility An OFM 2012 project will open normally in OFM 2014 (backward compatibility), but equally
an OFM 2014 project will open normally in OFM 2012 (forward compatibility).

Data Dictionary Additional items have been included in the Data Dictionary, notably relating to production
chemistry and material balance time.

Solutions Catalog Additional items have been included in the Catalog, principally for waterflood-type
operations.

Tiling The arrangement of multiple open OFM views can be controlled via the View > View Styles
ribbon tab.

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 System Requirements

System Requirements
Before installing, make sure your system meets these minimum system requirements.
Table 1-1 OFM System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

Operating system Windows 7
Processor 2 GHz x86 or x64
Physical memory 2 GB RAM
Hard disk space 2 GB
Graphics Microsoft DirectX® 9-compatible graphics card
Display 1280 x1024 screen resolution with 32-bit colors

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Compatibility with Schlumberger Platforms and Software Products

Compatibility with Schlumberger Platforms and Software Products

OFMworks with the following Schlumberger platforms and software products:
• Avocet* 2012.1 and 2013.1
• Petrel 2013.x and 2014.1
• Merak* Peep 2013.1 and 2013.2 - New OFM-Peep Integrated link was implemented
starting with Peep version 2013.1.

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OFM User Assistance

OFMprovides user assistance with online help, PDF documents, and video tutorials.

Online Help For your convenience, help is provided online with an index, a table of contents, and full text
search.

Example Workflows The online help system for this release now includes example workflows. The examples use
more than one feature or type of analysis to show a potential workflow.
The examples help you to understand the different OFM features within workflows. You can
use the sample workspaces in your OFM installation folder to work through the examples.

Online Help PDF Documents The OFM online help is available in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file format. There is one file for
each major heading in the online help. The files are located in <installation
directory>\Help\Offline PDF Files.

Guides and Release The following files are installed in the OFM installation directory:
Notes
• \Guides And Release Notes\OFM_InstallationGuide.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\OFM_LanguageGuide.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\OFM_ReleaseNotes.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Getting Started with the OFM API.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Spanish\OFM_InstallationGuide_Spanish.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Spanish\OFM_LanguageGuide_Spanish.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Spanish\OFM_ReleaseNotes_Spanish.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Russian\OFM_InstallationGuide_Russian.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Russian\OFM_LanguageGuide_Russian.pdf
• \Guides And Release Notes\Russian\OFM_ReleaseNotes_Russian.pdf

Using PDF Files With PDF files, you can navigate through a document quickly and perform full-text searches.
In addition, you can view the PDF files online, distribute to multiple users electronically, or
print.
You must have Adobe Reader® installed to read the .pdf files.
To view PDF files, double-click to open them, and then move through the document by
clicking topic headings in the left pane or blue hypertext links in the text. To print copies,
select File > Print.

Installing Adobe Reader Adobe Reader installation programs for common operating systems are available in a free
download from the Adobe Web site at www.adobe.com.

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Video Tutorials Videio tutorials are provided for:

• Creating an After-Before-Compare Plot
• Finding the Best Three Months of Production
• Creating Customized Well Symbols

Technical Support Schlumberger has sales and support offices around the world. For information on
contacting Schlumberger, refer to the information below.
Technical Support for SIS software:
•Schlumberger Support Portal:http://support.software.slb.com
•Support Contact Details:http://support.prod.software.slb.com/pages/
SupportContacts.aspx
Sales, Training, and Other inquiries:http://software.slb.com/Pages/ContactUs_visitor.aspx

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