Schlumberger Petrel 2016.3

Schlumberger has released the 2016.3 Petrel E&P software platform delivering integrated analysis from exploration to production. This release delivers many new workflows and enhancements.

Petrel Platform Release Notes 2016.3 - 9 February 2017:

The key new workflows and enhancements in this release are:

Geophysics: General
- Flip/Roll Mixer tool:Favorites are now window specific. It is also possible to navigate simultaneously between all rows marked as Favoritein all open windows by selecting the Window specific favoritescheck box.
- Use local flash disk cache: A new caching method has been added to enhance ZGY volume rendering performance, especially for large ZGY volumes exceeding the limit of RAM size, in 3D and Interpretationwindows.
- Colorstab in the Seismic Inspector: Data histogram and Opacity selectionare now available from the Inspector, allowing you to apply opacity on the fly by drawing an opacity curve directly on the data histogram. You can also change color limits symmetrically by selecting the Symmetric mode.
- Surface attributes: New surface attributes are available and some of the surface attributes are modified to include new parameter controls, such as Interval parameters and Resample parameters.
- Volume attributes: The volume attributes that use Hilbert transforms now allow the ability to specify a larger window size so that they handle signals with longer wavelength better.
Geophysics: Quantitative Interpretation
- Repeatability QC attributes: As part of the 4D interpretation workflow, the Quantitative Interpretation attribute library has been extended by including the Repeatability Quality Control Attribute.
- EEI surface attributes:A new component has been added to the Extended Elastic Impedance workflow, where you can calculate extended elastic impedance (EEI) surface attribute from Intercept and Gradient or from Acoustic impedance and Gradient impedance surface attributes.
- Advanced Geophysics Ribbon Update: A new set of tools has been integrated into the Quantitative Interpretationand Time-Lapse Analysis tabs, expanding the Advanced Geophysics workflows.
Geophysics: Seismic Well Tie
- Multi-well synthetic generation: Seismic well tie includes a new process dialog called Multi-well synthetic generation, where you can create a synthetic generation study for multiple wells in a single Well section window.
- Snap options for alignment points or bulk shift line: A basic option has been added to increase the accuracy of the Seismic well tie workflow.
- Best wavelet length selection: An additional set of tools to define the Wavelet length parameter has been introduced in the Wavelet toolboxas part of the S/N extraction method.
- Amplitude and Phase spectra error curves: A new option to visualize the amplitude and phase spectra error curves based on the extracted wavelet has been introduced.
Geology: Wells
- Well top spreadsheet Studio sync status: When connected to a Studio repository, you can now see the synchronization status of the markers in the Well top spreadsheet. Use this attribute for filtering in the table.
- Well trajectory interpolation: When viewing the Trajectory spreadsheet for a well, there is now the option to interpolate by either MD, TVD, TWT, or row index at a specified step increment and for a set range.
- Checkshot loader Calculate timeshift when ETZ > SRD: When loading checkshots, there is a new option to calculate the needed time shift to correct data with a time datum different from SRD.
- Explicit Well path/deviation loader enhancement: It is now also possible to load explicit trajectories by using only four channels. You can load either X/DX, Y/DY, Z, MD or X/DX, Y/DY, TVD, MD as inputs and Petrel will calculate the Inclination and Azimuth.
- Translate trajectories to position: By selecting the ‘Translate trajectories to position’ option, it is now possible to translate Explicit and XYZ/TVD trajectories to a given position as well as to move the well vertically by modifying the well datum in the well settings and the Well manager spreadsheet.
Studio: Studio Client Petrel
- New Workstep: A new workstep has been added to the Workflow editor to retrieve any new children items associated with the input data, along with any updates to the item and existing children from Studio.
- Custom Log Attributes: User-defined well log attributes can now be visualized and edited in the Repository data table.

Further information about the before-mentioned workflows and enhancements and more detail in the companion document, Petrel 2016 Release Notes.pdf.


About Petrel E&P Software Platform. The Petrel E&P software platform provides the industry’s most complete E&P software platform, enabling improved integration across all disciplines, access to deep science, end-to-end collaboration, and increased productivity.

Finding, characterizing, and exploiting new and existing reservoirs is increasingly complex. To overcome these challenges, we must continually improve and innovate the way we work. With the Petrel E&P Software Platform, Schlumberger revolutionized the oil and gas industry by bringing disciplines together with best-in-class science in an unparalleled productivity environment.

Our commitment to Petrel resulted in dramatic strides forward in the way we develop and deliver a software platform, and with the Petrel 2016 Platform and update releases, we continue to deliver on our promise of better integration, deep science, and productivity. Today we support an engineering team unrivalled in size and expertise, empowered by the Ocean software development framework. More than ever before, we are positioned to help you develop critical insights into reservoirs throughout the oilfield lifecycle.

With this Petrel E&P Software 2016.3 minor release, Schlumberger continues its commitment to improve and innovate the way you work. Petrel allows multi-domain experts to co-create a shared earth model that can be continuously updated as new information is acquired.


About Schlumberger. Schlumberger is the world's leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. With product sales and services in more than 120 countries and employing approximately 100,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry's most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance.

Schlumberger Limited has executive offices in Paris, Houston, London, and The Hague, and reported revenues of $32.82 billion in 2018.

Product: Schlumberger Petrel
Version: 2016.3
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.software.slb.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 or newer
Size: 2.9 Gb