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Petrel is a software package for reservoir modeling, data management and reservoir engineering. It offers capabilities such as data storage, log and seismic interpretation, surface and fault modeling, gridding, facies and property modeling, volume calculations, data analysis and visualization of simulation results. Some limitations include a lack of built-in petrophysical formulas and no dedicated workflow for saturation modeling. Overall, Petrel provides a comprehensive suite of tools for reservoir modeling and analysis.

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Chapter 2

Petrel is a software package for reservoir modeling, data management and reservoir engineering. It offers capabilities such as data storage, log and seismic interpretation, surface and fault modeling, gridding, facies and property modeling, volume calculations, data analysis and visualization of simulation results. Some limitations include a lack of built-in petrophysical formulas and no dedicated workflow for saturation modeling. Overall, Petrel provides a comprehensive suite of tools for reservoir modeling and analysis.

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Overview of the Petrel - general what you can done and what you can not done with

petrel

So for newcommers there is a hard decision what software to use .

For the moment on the market there several commercial packages available.

They are

Petrel from Schlumberger , Rms - form Roxar , Powermodel from Landmark .

There is also inhouse software like Gocad but in order to work on them you need to work in host
company .

The most popular are Petrel form Schlumberger and Rms from Roxar .

It is up to you what to choose but i would advise you take Petrel and to understand the reason lets go to
the past ...................

in 2002 Schlumberger acquired Technoguide company and there product Petrel . But who are this
people standing for Technoguide company ?. Several Roxar employees for years were trying to enhance
Rms with features they thought would breakthrough the product , but as usual management pay no
attention to their efforts, and our heroes decided to quite . After they found Technoguide company and
make they own package called Petrel . In 2 years they throw away Rms from key customer- that was
there 1 win and sweet revenge....

So Petrel is enhance and more advance version of RMS - take the best .

So for what purposes you can use petrel.

1. Data base - it is quite reliable data base which can contain various type of data related to you project.
The data of a various types, even you can store reservoir maps in jpeg format , how - will be shown later.

2. Log interpretation tool - within petrel you can make simple calculations on well logs , make statistics
and make regression analysis calculations. Petrel does not have buildin petrophysical formulas but you
can easily put them the only requirements for that you need to know them.

3. Geological interpretation tool - you can easily build cross-sections with certain logs to make geological
interpretation of you horizons. It is more user friendly and easy to understand process

4. Fluid contact interpretation - making comment logs you can easily make cross section with all you well
tests to see the depth of you well inflow

5. Making function - you can make correlation of 2 parameters and create function. This function can be
used as trend or input data. This tool is quite useful as it allows you fast to find needed correlation. For
example you need to see is there any function between depth and poro . In normal life you would need
to open each log and put values of depth curve and poro curve to excel sheet . Here you just click 2
buttons and you get your correlation.

6. Making editing surfaces - You can make and edit surfaces using several algos , and make any statistic ,
volume and area calculation and different edit operations .

7. Loading and visualizing 2D and 2 D seismic - Loading 2D 3D seismic


8. Interpret seismic ( horizons, bodies) - several tools available for seismic interpretation , but as i said
before i will pass this section as i am not professional in it

9. Building velocity models - making simple velocity models to convert from time to depth

10. Making fault models - Advance tool to create fault with vast import parameters , will be covered
later

11. Making corner point grid - The corner point format assumes that grid cell corners are distributed
along vertical, linear pillars. All grid cells have 8 corners, but these may not be geometrically distinct due
to grid pinch-outs. Since the grids are allowed to contain vertical faults, all the eight corners are
provided for each grid block.

12. Structural modeling - Making complex horizon and zones with possible pitchout zones

13 Facies modeling - facies are a body of rock with specified characteristics , so petrel has as
deterministic and stochastic algos to model . Also it has algos to model environment of depositions like
channels , delt, etc.

14 Petrophysical modeling - quite advance tool to model petrophysical parameters like NTG , Poro and
Perm in inner well space , i will describe later available algos

15 Volume calculation - Calculate volumes of you model for any type of HC

16 Make upscaling - Upscaling process is when you try to change resolution of you new grid but take
parameters from existing grid with different scale .

17 Make data analysis - statistical tools for searching ranges and making proper data destitution will be
covered in detail in certain chapter

18 Make statistics - this is lack in RMS but vast in petrel you can take any statistic you want

16 Simulation ( i will not describe it as running all simulation in other simulator)

17. Importing and visualizing eclipse results - this is a keen point as Flowvis is peace of sh*t and
completely stacks with big simulation models ( >400 k active cells) . You can easily import and view you
results and print for example current pressure maps weighed on poro volume and get average reservoir
pressure around your wells ( more advance compare to WBP9)

18. Making workflows - this is powerful tool that can speed up you process it several times , you can
create export change rebuild surfaces points logs properties automatically . I will dedicate one full
chapter were we will construct several easy workflow and will supply you with existing workflows.

19.Writing you own plugins - but this world is not perfect certain things you can not do in workflows or
you can but the process is to slow. Plagins is the add in you can write in Ocean environment using Visual
Basic . It is advance area so if any has Ocean for 2009 you are welcome to post it here .

What you can not do in petrel

There is now dedicated workflow to model saturation and this you need to create by yourself

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