Petrel 2015 1 Release Notes

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Petrel Platform Release Notes 2015.1 2 15 June 2015

Contents
Petrel 2015 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Welcome to Petrel 2015.1 ......................................................................................................................................... 5
What’s New in Brief..................................................................................................................................................... 11
Geophysics: General ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Geophysics: Quantitative Interpretation ............................................................................................................. 15
Geophysics: Seismic Well Tie .............................................................................................................................. 16
Geology: Geology & Modeling .............................................................................................................................. 17
Geology: Well Section Window ........................................................................................................................... 19
Geology: Structural Geology ................................................................................................................................. 21
Geology: Modeling................................................................................................................................................... 22
Geology: Fractures ................................................................................................................................................... 24

Geology: Wells ......................................................................................................................................................... 24
Geology: Reservoir Geomechanics ...................................................................................................................... 26
Reservoir Engineering ............................................................................................................................................ 27
Exploration Geology ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Drilling: General ....................................................................................................................................................... 32
Drilling: Well Design ............................................................................................................................................... 32
Drilling: Real Time ................................................................................................................................................... 33
Drilling: Well Positioning....................................................................................................................................... 33
Production: General ................................................................................................................................................ 34
Production: Well Deliverability ............................................................................................................................ 34
Production: Production Interpretation ................................................................................................................ 34
Studio: Studio Client Petrel ................................................................................................................................... 34
Technology: Shale: General................................................................................................................................... 36
Technology: Shale: Geosteering........................................................................................................................... 36
Technology: Shale: Pad Well Design .................................................................................................................. 38
Technology: Shale: Pad Placement ..................................................................................................................... 38
Technology: Shale: Microseismic........................................................................................................................ 38
Technology: Foundation ......................................................................................................................................... 39
Technology: Guru ..................................................................................................................................................... 40
Known Issues ................................................................................................................................................................ 41
Geophysics: Quantitative Interpretation ............................................................................................................. 41
Geophysics: Seismic Well Tie .............................................................................................................................. 44

Geology: General...................................................................................................................................................... 44
Geology: Well Section Window ........................................................................................................................... 45
Geology: Structural Geology ................................................................................................................................. 46
Geology: Modeling................................................................................................................................................... 47
Geology: Wells ......................................................................................................................................................... 47
Geology: Reservoir Geomechanics ...................................................................................................................... 48
Reservoir Engineering ............................................................................................................................................ 50
Exploration Geology ................................................................................................................................................ 51
Drilling: General ....................................................................................................................................................... 52
Drilling: Well Design ............................................................................................................................................... 52
Drilling: Real Time ................................................................................................................................................... 53
Drilling: Well Positioning....................................................................................................................................... 53
Production: General ................................................................................................................................................ 54

Production: Well Deliverability ............................................................................................................................ 54
Studio: Studio Server .............................................................................................................................................. 54
Technology: Shale: Geosteering........................................................................................................................... 55
Technology: Guru ..................................................................................................................................................... 56
Project Compatibility, Distribution and Licensing ................................................................................................ 57
Project Compatibility .............................................................................................................................................. 57
Licensing.................................................................................................................................................................... 57
System Requirements .................................................................................................................................................. 58
Petrel System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 58
Studio Database System Requirements .............................................................................................................. 59
For Oracle Databases .............................................................................................................................................. 59
For Microsoft SQL Server Databases ..................................................................................................................... 59

Petrel 2015
With this Petrel* E&P Software 2015.1 major 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. These release notes contain short descriptors for the most
significant enhancements, fixed issues, and known limitations as well as system requirements and
recommendations.
The full set of Petrel 2015 documentation and documentation for any prior Petrel release, can be downloaded from
the Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) Support Portal.
Welcome to Petrel 2015.1

The highlights of this release are shown below, and described in greater detail in the following sections.
Upgrade of the Schlumberger License Server

All SIS major software releases after April 2015 will require an upgrade of the SIS License Server to the 2015
version. The old server will not work with the 2015 software releases (starting from Petrel 2015.1) and the license
server should be upgraded in due time to avoid unnecessary downtime. The new Schlumberger License Server
2015 is compatible with older versions of SIS software products and license files. The Schlumberger License Server
2015 is planned for commercial release by April 2015.
Products using the SPT license server are not affected by this change.
Well Data Model Migration

There are significant changes to the Well Data Model in Petrel 2015. Prior to upgrading a project, please ensure
you review the Petrel 2015 Well Migration Reference. This details what to expect and a list of known issues,
some of which can be mitigated in Petrel 2014 before upgrading.
The Petrel 2015 Well Migration Reference (WellMigrationReference.pdf) can be found in the help subdirectory
of your Petrel installation.
New Features
Petrel 2015 delivers many new workflows and enhancements. The new workflows and enhancements are
summarized in the following pages of this document. For more detailed information about these new features and
enhancements, please read the Petrel E&P Software Platform 2015 What’s New Guide.
The key new workflows and enhancements in this release are:
Geophysics: General
• Seismic Mixer: An intuitive and interactive visualization tool allowing you to compare and evaluate multiple
seismic cubes simultaneously and synchronously with three types of workflows.
• Horizon stratigraphy: Stratigraphic information about a seismic horizon can now be managed in the
Stratigraphy tab in the horizon Settings dialog.

Geophysics: General (continued)
• Volume attributes: The Generalized Spectral Decomposition attribute and the Trace AGC (iterative) and RMS
(iterative) attributes are now available.
• Interactive Mesh Editing: Triangle meshes, typically used in salt interpretation workflows, can now be
interactively edited using a variety of tools.
Geophysics: Quantitative Interpretation

• Lithology Classification: This new set of Quantitative Interpretation (QI) processes performs lithology
classification by defining the elastic signature of lithology and fluid types
• Crossplotting of Surfaces, Horizons and Point attributes: This new functionality adds value to the
existing QI workflow.
• Multi-classification Tool in the QI Crossplot: Allows the generation of classification data for each data
type supported by the QI Crossplot window.
• The Rock physics operations: New operations that enable multi-well calculations by using the different
functionalities of the Workflow editor.

• Storage options for the AVO Modeling output files: You are now able to use the Petrel interface to select
the directory where synthetic pre-stack data will be stored.
• Enhancements in the QI tools: Designed to help to improve the productivity of the end users.
Geophysics: Seismic Well Tie

• Interactive bulk shift: Performed to get the closest match between the synthetics and the seismic in the
seismic to well tie process.
• Continuous alignment: This process in the seismic to well process becomes interactive.
• Interpretation display on seismic track: Horizon interpretations and fault interpretations posted in the
seismic track can be used as reference during the tie process.
• Time Depth Relationship (TDR) as active in the well: The TDR generated in the synthetic generation or
integrate seismic well tie studies is now be directly assigned to the well.
• TDR, sonic log, or velocity log contained by the well: Any of these can be selected as TDR input for the
synthetics generation study.
• Multi-well extended white wavelet extraction is available to extract wavelets from seismic volumes.
Geology: Geology & Modeling

• Conformal gridding method: Added to the Make/edit surface process dialog to support 2D mapping
workflows.
• Well list/Saved search: This very powerful filtering tool now supports well data management and control
visualization.
• Map based volume calculation result: The result has been enhanced to also report gas volumes.
• Stratigraphic charts user experience enhancement: Allows you to easily visualize and edit labels and
symbols on continuous curves in densely populated charts.

Geology: Well Section Window
• Well Correlation Ghost Curves: Allow you to create a single curve, multi-log single track, and multi-track
ghost curves, as well as being able to display the well name, well log name, and index tracks and to
deactivate and reactive ghost markers.
• Raster Log functionality: Now incorporated into Petrel, and included in the well correlation license.
Geology: Structural Geology

• Calculation of zone volume: The calculation is performed using Structural Framework models and specified
contacts.
• Isochore Calculation: Calculations can now be performed between Structural Framework model horizons.
Geology: Modeling
• Declustering options: Two new options that allow you to correct for sampling bias in either facies
proportions and histograms, or the property distribution caused by horizontal and clustered wells.
• Use estimated facies proportions from data analysis: This option allows you to fetch estimated global

facies proportions calculated in data analysis from the upscaled and well log input data.
• Use weighting option in Scale up well logs: Allows you to upscale any continuous log curve using one or
more continuous log curves as weights in the selected average method.
• Geological brushes in the Facies tool palette: Allows you to interactively paint channels and geological
features on the 3D facies property.
• Undo/Redo button in Facies tool palette: Undo/Redo functionality is now available for the Iterative facies
editing tools in the 2D and 3D windows
Geology: Fractures
• New permeability upscaling method: A new method for upscaling permeability that is based on the ODA
method taking into account fracture network connectivity.
Geology: Wells
• New model wells: This implementation provides a more efficient structure to support wells with multiple
surveys and plans.
• Well visualization improvement: New options have been added to color well labels and symbols in the
Well folder style settings.
Geology: Reservoir Geomechanics

• Reservoir Geomechanics: Now deployed as part of Petrel 2015.1.
• Performance and user experience improvements: An enhanced Reservoir Geomechanics ribbon tab and
simplified access to related Petrel processes.

Reservoir Engineering
• Reservoir engineering unit settings: Allows you to set the unit system differently from the project unit to
enter and display measurement values in a more familiar unit system.
• Visualization and analysis of simulation results: Gives you faster visualization and analysis of 3D
simulation results and greater flexibility with the selection of results data for both simulation cases using
presets and ECLIPSE cases.
• Initial conditions sets: Introduces two ways to generate an initial condition set for a grid, by using either the
Initial conditions process or the Initialize from maps process.
Exploration Geology: General

• Petroleum system settings: Specifies non-project specific petroleum system settings, such as the PetroMod
installation path and the scope of data saved with “Save project as…” action.
Exploration Geology: Petroleum Systems 3D

• Simulation case: Combines the 3D petroleum systems input model with thermal boundary conditions and
simulation settings and can be directly simulated in Petrel or exported to PetroMod for further refinement and

simulation.
• Geotime player: Allows you to watch and compare results of a 3D petroleum systems simulation through
geological time.
Exploration Geology: Petroleum Systems 3D and 1D

• Time maps and Time trends: Objects can be created for the boundary conditions of the petroleum system
model.
Exploration Geology: Petroleum Systems 1D

• Well log input in Create 1D model process: Allows for selecting facies, TOC, and HI logs to fill the facies
and depth assignment table with the corresponding data.
• Simulation case: Combines the 1D petroleum systems input model with thermal boundary conditions,
simulation, output settings, and can be directly simulated in Petrel.
Exploration Geology: Geotime Window

• Toolbar layout mode: Provides improved geotime window flexibility. It is now possible to display depth
curves and multiple curves in one track.
Production: General
• Production engineering modules: Now included with the Reservoir Engineering core, Shale core, and
Combined core licenses.
Production: Production Interpretation

• Find wells by filtering on production attributes via Studio search. With Petrel now indexing the most
commonly used production variables, you can now find and select focus wells based on KPIs.
• More user-friendly interface: Production Interpretation (PI), which is used for Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
and Analytical Simulation, is more streamlined and user friendly now.

Drilling: General
• Drilling structure slots: Within a drilling structure, slots are used to accurately place wellheads, as well as
allowing you to organize wells.
Drilling: Well Design

• Interactive well path design tools: New tools are provided for digitizing and dragging the design points in
the 3D window.
• Searching: Well plan objects can be searched in the Petrel index through the Studio function.
• Lateral well plans: Plans can now be inserted into the Surveys and plans folder of a lateral well.
Drilling: Well Positioning

• 3D travelling circle: Created along the well plans to estimate the distances between the subject well plan
and the nearby objects, such as the offset well trajectories and the No-go zones for this plan.
• Anti-collision refresh: Provided to indicate if the underlying data has been changed since the calculation
was performed.

• Well positioning for lateral wells: You can create a survey program and calculate the ellipsoid of
uncertainty (EOU) for lateral surveys and lateral well plans.
Studio: Studio Client Petrel

• Expanded data coverage: The Collaborate & Find workflows are now enabled for 3D Grids, Microseismic &
Treatment data, and Geopolygons. Drilling and Production data have been added to the Find workflows.
• Enhanced collaboration: The Collaborate workflows have been enhanced for Raster logs to behave like any
other well log; and for wells, to support the new well model, new trajectory types for surveys and plans, and
the new sidetrack/lateral wells. Furthermore, the Stratigraphic association on Surface, Well top horizon, and
Seismic horizon, as well as the Horizon metadata, are preserved during Studio transfers and available in Find.
• Time Zone: Improvements on how the date-time data and history data are handled through systematic
conversion to/from the server time zone during the transfers.
• Performance: Improvements for Studio transfers for 3D Horizon interpretations, Polyline sets, and Polygons.
Technology: Shale: General

• Petrel Modules: Pad Well Design, Pad Placement, Move Pad Well, Drainage calculator, and Well cost
estimator are now modules in Petrel.
Technology: Shale: Geosteering

• Geosteering in the vertical track: Provides you with the ability to interactively correlate a segment of the
realtime log with the offset well log.
• Curtain section: New features, which includes: Create a tie-in on the curtain section, hide wells or display
additional offset wells nearby the curtain section, display a 3D Property of a model on the curtain section,
display the curtain section in a 3D window, keyboard shortcuts, style settings, and reset input dialogs.
• Gosteering report: Includes new information that will help to interpret well tops using Well section window.
• Well logs: Can now be grouped explicitly into separate horizontal tracks.

Technology: Shale: Geosteering (continued)
• Converted points/polygon set: Now has a suffix of the realtime well name.
• Geosteering Tool palette: Includes tools previously on the Geosteering window toolbar, as well as
additional new tools.
Technology: Shale: Pad Well Design

• Pad Well Design: Now generates advanced plans instead of proposed wells.
Technology: Shale: Pad Placement

• Geopolygons: Now a restriction data type, which allow you to use them as a geometric restriction providing
correct handling of holes.
Technology: Foundation
• Add licenses while Petrel is running: License modules can now be checked out while Petrel is running,
enabling easy access to the required additional functionality for the workflow at hand.
• Project Time zone Reference: Now includes a time zone for storage of time-referenced data, such as real-

time logging data.
• Geopolygons: A new data object for representing closed polygon data with holes and attributes for cultural
data and prospect risk evaluation maps.
• Make/edit polygons process dialog: Enhanced with new usability features.
• Shapefile loader: Petrel 2015.1 introduces a new shapefile loader to support closed polygons or polygons
with holes loaded using the new Geopolygon object.
Technology: Guru
• Petrel Guru: The best access to Petrel user assistance; integrating the help center, guided workflows,
training, and context associated support.
• Guru Quality Reporting: Tools that allow you to carry out quality assurance, tracking, guidance, auditing, and
reporting at all steps of the Petrel workflow.
Further information about the above mentioned workflows and enhancements can be found in the following
sections and, where appropriate, in more detail in the companion document, Petrel E&P Software Platform 2015
What’s New Guide. Complete documentation for this release, and all prior Petrel releases, is available from the
Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) Support Portal.

What’s New in Brief
The following content contains short descriptions of new features and behavioral changes in this release,
organized by domain. The companion document, Petrel E&P Software Platform 2015 What’s New, contains more
detailed explanations, descriptions of functionality, and workflows for these enhancements, where needed.
Geophysics: General
Feature Short Description
Import SEG-Y SEG-Y toolbox (2D) (*.*)
• New functionality to merge two or more contributing SEG-Y files
(e.g., containing partial lines) into a single SEG-Y file, and
optionally pad with empty traces.
• Improved dialog for Detected lines in Separate Navigation file.
Compressed seismic Fixed: better handling of seismic containing NaN values.
Horizon stratigraphy Stratigraphic information about a seismic horizon can now be

managed in the Stratigraphy tab in the horizon Settings dialog.
Horizon metadata The dataset on which a horizon has been last interpreted on is now
captured in the Metadata tab in the horizon interpretation Settings
dialog.
Horizon rendering The Points style for horizon interpretation is now rendered on the GPU
in 2D and 3D windows. Additionally, a new Simplified sphere style is
introduced, which is also rendered on the GPU. This gives fast
performance and interactivity when working with large regional scale
interpretations.
Favorites Fixed: Visualization follows selection option now works for Seismic
2D selection, using up and down arrow keys.
Color table • Fixed: Auto-scale option for horizon interpretations. The horizon
color now scales correctly in 2D, 3D and Map windows, taking
into account all 2D and 3D interpretations in a horizon.
• Fixed: Color table will now update when switching vintages
using the Seismic Inspector.
Inspector • Seismic Inspector - There is now an option to modify colors of
composite sections in the Interpretation window.
• Horizon Inspector - The readout of the inline and crossline
numbers for 3D horizon interpretation is now available from the
Seismic Horizon Inspector.
• Probe Inspector - Box probes can now be manipulated through
slider bars in the Inspector which moves the center point in the
inline, crossline or vertical direction.

Seismic composite A seismic composite line now keeps its digitized length when the
section is manipulated or played, using the intersection player. The
composite length no longer automatically extends to meet the edges
of the survey.
Seismic overlay In the Interpretation window, the displayed foreground vintage
(that is, the overlay object) now supports:
• A user-defined opacity function
• A color legend
Seismic Mixer • The Mixer is a powerful, intuitive, and interactive visualization
tool, which allows you to visually compare and evaluate multiple
seismic cubes simultaneously and synchronously.
• Blending is done on the GPU providing fast access.
• Blending of 3D seismic from different geometries is fully
supported.
• Choose from three types of workflows: Flip/Roll, RGB/CMY
blend, and Masking.

• This supports a wide range of workflows, including structural
and stratigraphic interpretation, 4D/time-lapse, and depth
imaging.
Volume attributes • New attributes introduced:
o Generalized Spectral Decomposition: a hybrid method of
existing STFT and CWT techniques with full control over the
design of the wavelet
o Trace AGC (iterative) and RMS (iterative)
• Default realization quality is now set to 32-bit integer.
• Previously, when assigning a 2D survey folder or sub-folder as
input, the bulk seismic of the first selected 2D line was
repeatedly realized as output. This issue has been fixed.

Horizon Interpretation • Autotracking: A new live trace diagram corresponding to the
wavelet cross correlation diagram has been added. This diagram
also supports the display of random lines.
• New keyboard modifiers to the horizon interpretation modes
allows you to work in a single (favorite) interpretation mode,
while easily accessing the other three modes.
o When in a horizon interpretation mode, you can use
SHIFT+ALT+Drag to erase all points vertically below the
cursor position.
o When in any of the Seismic interpretation tool palette
modes, you can interactively rotate a random line section
using new keyboard modifiers.
• 3D Snap: This tool is now grayed-out by default, until the
Override checkbox is selected. Snapping will work only in the
Override mode.
• Constraining fault: Fixed the issue where using “Seeded 2D

autotracking” mode, the horizon at times tracked through
constraining fault interpretation.
• Quality attributes: Fixed the issue where updates to
Confidence, Amplitude, and Distance grids were at times not
saved with the project. These are updates made to an existing
horizon when using exclusively the “Seeded 3D autotracking”
interpretation mode and/or the “3D track” command within a
Petrel session.
• Active horizon: Fixed the issue where using keyboard shortcuts
to switch between interpretation modes at times reactivates the
previously active horizon.
Horizon interpretation – Behavioral changes:
Interpretation filter • A new 3D horizon interpretation filter named “Others” has been
introduced to represent nodes produced or edited when
Operations such as Union or Interpolate are performed.
• A seed point introduced by the user during 3D autotracking is
now correctly classified as “Manual”.
• Previously, some parts of a horizon were visible only when all
inclusion filters were selected; selecting any one of inclusion
filters did not display the horizon. This issue has now been fixed.
Multi-Z interpretation Fixed: Previously, in cases when the number of points and normals in
a segment were not matching, opening a saved a project could show
some picks in different positions. These normals now remain
consistent when a saved project is reopened.

Interactive mesh editing • Triangle meshes, typically used in salt interpretation workflows,
can now be interactively edited in the 3D window using a variety
of tools.
• New tools are available for interactive editing, including push,
pull, smooth, select, refine, undo, and redo.
• New tools are accessible from the Mesh editing tool palette or
triangle mesh mini-toolbar.
• Extraction box is available to handle large mesh.
• Other features include:
o Editable triangle mesh to multi-Z interpretation
o Identifying holes on editable triangle mesh
o Copy and paste capability
• QC on Interpretation window or general intersection.
Velocity modeling • Velocity (e.g., stacking) points can now be converted directly into
a velocity cube.
• The min/max values of the velocity cube can be extracted as a

function of the vertical position, which can be displayed in the
function window.
• The Simple velocity model can be now created with only a single
velocity cube as input. The new Simple velocity model dialog
box has been added.
• The Make Velocity Model dialog box has been renamed to
Advanced velocity model in the contrast with the Simple
velocity model.
• Interval velocity cubes can be input to the velocity model directly
without converting to average velocity.
• The output velocity cube resolution, when it is created from a
velocity property, can be defined manually by entering
inline/crossline/Z increment values.
• When velocity models are made using a velocity cube or
property, all relevant data objects are now transferred via the
Reference project tool.
• Horizon interpretations, including all sub interpretation grids, can
now be depth converted together from the parent level.
• You can now specify user-defined output parameters, such as
sample interval and samples per trace when depth converting
seismic cubes.
Domain conversion Previously, domain converted fault and multi-Z interpretation retained
their original domain label. This has been fixed; domain labels are
now correct for domain converted interpretations.

Performance Significant performance improvements have been made in the
following areas:
• Amplitude scanning of 2D and 3D seismic SEG-Y data can be up
to 30x faster.
• Amplitude scanning of virtual volume attribute data can be up to
10x faster.
• Realize 3D seismic SEG-Y data to ZGY can be up to 6x faster.
• Prefetching 2D SEG-Y data to cache can be up to 15x faster.
• Exporting 2D and 3D seismic data in SEG-Y format can be up to
8x faster.
• Displaying partially interpreted horizons from very large survey
extents can be up to 5x faster.
• Displaying a single large fault interpretation can be up to 7x
faster.
• Horizon storage - size of internal ZHZ file has been minimized.
• The geobody extraction algorithm has been optimized such that

all available CPU cores are now 100% utilized, significantly
reducing the time to extract a geobody from seismic data.
Due to the improvements made, the performance of the above
activities is now limited by the available storage and network
configurations.

Lithology Classification This new set of QI processes performs lithology classification by
defining the elastic signature of lithology and fluid types using rock
physics analysis and well data through the Bayesian estimation
theory. The signatures are applied to seismic inversion attributes to
generate 3D maps of reservoir properties (for example, porosity and
saturation) with associated probabilities and uncertainties.
Crossplotting of Surfaces, The QI Crossplot gives you the crossplotting of new datasets, such
Horizons and Point attributes as:
• Point attributes
• Horizon interpretation attributes
• Surfaces attributes
Create classification data using One of the key steps when the data is analyzed in a crossplot is being
multiple selections in the QI able to interpret the data by generating multiple selections and then,
Crossplot to classify the information. In this release, a multi-classification tool
has been introduced in the QI Crossplot, which gives you the
generation of classification data for each data type supported by the
QI Crossplot window.

Options to show/hide symbol As part of the continuous improvements of the QI Crossplot
legend and color tables in the QI window, new functionalities have been introduced to show or hide
Crossplot displayed elements. From the QI Crossplot window toolbar or in
the QI Crossplot window tab (Ribbon view), it is now possible to
show or hide the symbol legend or the color table for the crossplotted
collections.
Rock physics operations of the The Rock physics operations can be found in the Workflow editor.
Workflow editor These operations are:
• Elastic parameters estimation
• Shear velocity estimation
• Log blocking Backus
• Fluid substitution
Storage options for the AVO The main difference with the previous version of AVO Modeling, is
Modeling output files that you had the option to define the locations of the modeled pre-
stack data. A new field has been introduced in the user interface,

where you can select the directory where the synthetic pre-stack data
will be stored.
Productivity enhancements in the The QI tools in Petrel 2015.1 contain small features that have the
QI tools objective of improving the productivity of the end users. The following
tools contain the new features:
• QI Crossplot window
• AVO Modeling dialog box
• AVO Reconnaissance dialog box
• Z-level
• Modeless access

Interactive bulk shift In the seismic to well tie process, after the synthetics is generated
from the logs, an interactive bulk shift is performed to get the closest
match between the synthetics and the seismic.
Continuous alignment In the seismic to well process, sometimes small adjustments have to
be made to match the synthetics with the seismic after the bulk shift
is implemented. To perform these adjustments in Petrel, we use the
alignment functionality. In Petrel 2015.1, the process became
interactive.
Well Section Windows (WSWs) A temporary TDR from an active WSW can be used to extract a
temporary Time Depth deterministic wavelet. In the older versions of Petrel, the TDR had to
Relationship (TDR) for wavelet be assigned to the well in order to perform the deterministic
deterministic extraction extraction.
Interpretation display on seismic In Petrel 2015.1, horizon interpretations and fault interpretations can
track be posted in the seismic track, which helps to use them as reference
during the tie process.

Assigning a Temporary TDR as In Petrel 2015.1, the TDR generated in the synthetic generation or
active in the well integrate seismic well tie studies can be directly assigned to the well
from the Output tab of the study itself.
Selecting TDR input In Petrel 2015.1, any TDR, sonic log, or velocity log contained by the
well can be selected as “TDR” input for the synthetics generation
study.
WTB Scale factor In Petrel 2015.1, in the WTB operation on the Scale factor tab, an
escalation of the wavelet is performed in the time domain.
Standard wavelet phase With the aim to be consistent with a generic wavelet phase
convention convention used in the oil industry, a new “Standard phase
convention” option has been introduced in the Wavelet toolbox
under Wavelet display options. This is the default display
convention.
Synthetics in depth The synthetics used to be a time domain object. In Petrel 2015.1, the
synthetics that is generated can be saved with depth as the vertical
index.
One of the key elements for the inversion process is the wavelet.

Multi-well extended white
wavelet extraction (MWEW) There are different ways to extract wavelets from the seismic
volumes. In Petrel, one of these ways is the Deterministic method,
extended white, and it can be used to extract wavelets for a specific
borehole. It works fine when you are only interested in just one well,
but in many cases, for inversion, more than one well is used to
perform the extraction. To solve this issue, in Petrel 2015.1, a multi-
well deterministic wavelet extraction is available.
Geology: Geology & Modeling

Conformal gridding in Make/edit To promote 2D mapping workflows, conformal gridding method has
surface been introduced in the Make/edit surface process dialog.
You can now generate a regular surface that conforms to one horizon
(above or below) or two horizons (above and below):
• The algorithm originates from the CPS-3 library.
• It supports a simple isochore stacking.
• Simultaneous use of two conformal surfaces and isochore are
not possible.
• Fault center lines or polygons are not also supported.
Saved search (Well list) The Petrel Well list/Saved search is now a very powerful filtering tool
to support well data management and control visualization:
• Saved search filter can be dynamic or static.
• Search criteria can be defined in a table with columns to
represent filter type, property and criteria value.
• Multiple search expressions can be combined and grouped.

GIIP output for MBV The Map-based volume calculation result has been enhanced to
also report gas volumes:
• Introduced a Gas check box to report gas volumes.
• Accepted N/G and porosity as properties used to apply
uncertainties and used report gas volumes.
• Generated gas HCPV, STOIIP, GIIP and recoverable gas.
• Accepted rotated surfaces.
Make surface from continuous Continuous polygon attributes can now be used as input data in the
polygon attributes Make/edit surface process to create a regular surface and the use
of additional input data is supported.
Stratigraphic charts user You can easily visualize and edit labels and symbols on continuous
experience enhancement curves in densely populated charts with tools in the Window toolbar
and Stratigraphic chart editing tool palette.
Interpretation of chart columns and geo-time data in the
Stratigraphic chart window are improved by:
• Adding stationary horizontal age line to extend the event line to

Geo-time curves.
• Enabling stratigraphic chart style settings to support header
orientation changes and store resized column width.
• Using the Inspector for continuous and discrete curves.
Extend Age info to surfaces Stratigraphic metadata (event and age) can now be stored in the
Stratigraphy tab of a surface:
• Event info is automatically updated in stratigraphy tab as event
changes.
• Event info is retained on RPT transfer.
Link age to surface, well tops and Automatic link of an event to: surface, well tops horizon and seismic
seismic horizon using Workflow horizon are available in stratigraphic folder of the Workflow editor
editor Operations tab:
• Three different commands can be accessed: namely, link surface,
link well tops horizon, and link seismic horizon.
• Each command accepts only the object type reference in its info
tab.
• Linked event is retained after use as input in the Make/edit
surface, RPT and Studio index operations.

Other enhancements Other enhancements include:
• Convergent interpolation:
The algorithm has been improved with a check box in the Expert
tab to ensure the fixed sample interval to be 0.5 of the cell
diagonal to refine input polylines, no matter the line type.
It splits each segment in a polygon into sections equal to the
sample interval with the last section shorter than the interval.
• Use of Geopolygons as a boundary in:
o Eliminating data inside/outside geopolygons in the surface
operations.
o Using as a boundary in the Make/edit surface process,
quick volume calculations in the Inspector and surface
operations.
• Improvements to the blue arrow in Make simple grid process
dialog:
o The orange (blue) arrow implementation makes it easy to
insert a boundary manually or click on the magnifier icon to

search and select from a list of polygons and surfaces in the
tree.
o Text can be entered in the box to facilitate the search.

XY hinges The ability to create a cross section hinge using only XY locations.
The XY hinge can be created interactively via a 2D, 3D, or Map
window or can be manually entered.
Swap well Allows for the creation of a one well cross section. By selecting
different wells in the 2D, 3D, or Map window, the cross section will
be updated with the selected well. It can be used with vertical,
deviated, and curtain section wells.
Curtain section The ability to use the well path as a part of the cross section or as the
cross section.
Raster log The raster log functionality has been moved from the Shale plug-in,
and it has been incorporated into Petrel. The raster log functionality is
included in the Well correlation license.
True horizontal length True horizontal length (THL) is now a supported depth domain in the
Well section window.
Collapse vertical well Vertical tracks can be collapsed for easier viewing of the deviated
and curtain section wells, and background objects.

Well correlation ghost The following are ghost curves enhancements:
curves • Single curve, multi-log single track, and multi-track.
• Annotation includes the well name, well log name, and index
tracks.
• Marker selection/deselection in the ghost curve.
• Non marker control points.
• Horizontal auto-scroll.
Background wells The ability to post wells within the background of the Well section
window. The wells can be defined by the distance from the cross
section or user defined. The wells can have a well log posted on the
right and left side of the well path. Markers can also be displayed.
Background surfaces Surfaces can now be posted as background objects and are displayed
as the true intersection of the surface with the cross section plane.
Show/Hide 3D grid You can now individually show/hide the 3D grid horizons and faults
that you want to display in the well section background.

Major and minor gridlines Major and minor gridlines can be displayed in the Well section
window when background objects are posted.
Well tops mini Toolbar Right-click a marker in Select/Pick mode to display the marker mini
toolbar in the Well section window.
Find well A well can be centered within an active Well section window by
right-clicking the well of interest in the Input pane, and clicking Find
in active well section.
Number of hinges You can view the total number of Well and XY hinges defined within
the cross section in the Definition tab, in the Settings for X-
section dialog box.
Number of tracks You can view the total number of vertical and deviated tracks in the
Settings for Well section template dialog box.
Polysection You can use the Polysection tool within Studio Find to interactively
identify the wells to be loaded into Petrel and to create a new cross
section.
Template editor Dip type classification is maintained after the Settings for the Well
section template dialog box is closed and reopened.
Curve fill When applying a discrete property with pattern as color fill to a
continuous curve, the undefined classification is maintained as
undefined.
Correlation • Faults no longer truncate to other formations unless you have an
identical fault in an adjacent well.
• Interwell zone fill and zone log now follow the same color fill
rules.
• Editing markers to truncate surfaces no longer remove the edited
well top.
• When unlinking and relinking the well tops to a well trace, the
well tops automatically re-link when displaying the well in a new
Well section window.

Well tops Well tops can be picked while streaming data via real-time data
connection.
Well top attributes The readout value for the last marker attribute displays the proper
depth.
Point well data The time player is available after the point well data has been
enabled in the Input pane. You no longer need to enable the point
attribute folder to activate the time player.
3D model The Well section window no longer encounters a memory leak when
using large 3D models that contain tensor properties.
Comment logs Right alignment for comment log is now working.
Plotting • A bottom border is displayed for wells when printing the Well
section window or the well section viewport of a Plot window.
• Improved exported graphics print quality of curve color fill when
sending to paper size in height greater than 2000 mm.
• The output file size of a CGM and PDF has been reduced when

polar frequency data is included in the Well section window.
• Dot and stippled dot line styles have the same thickness as solid
line when sending to plotter, CGM, or PDF.
• Spacing between the well top labels is maintained when printing
as a PDF.
Summation logs Candidate list in Summation track is no longer removed when the
Summation log limit is changed in the Well log template Fraction.
Background Background property updates after the model has been recomputed.
Time series When multiple time series logs are displayed in a Well section
window, the logs displayed correspond to the active time step in the
time player. If one log does not have data for the active time step, no
log data will display in the track.
Cross section When a cross section name is changed. Inspector and the status bar
now display the updated cross section name in the 2D, 3D, and Map
window.

Volume calculation of structural The calculation of zone volume can be performed using Structural
framework model zones Framework models and specified contacts. The volumetric operations
include gross rock volume and fluid volumes, such as hydrocarbon
pore volume and in-place oil and gas volume.
Isochore calculation between The calculation of true vertical thickness isochores between two
structural framework model horizons of Structural Framework models can be performed.
horizons

Geology: Modeling
Data analysis discrete properties A new Use declustering weights option is available in the
– declustering option Proportion tab and Thickness tab of the Data analysis dialog box.
When switched on, declustering weights pre-computed in the new
Declustering tab will be used to calculate histograms, proportions
and statistics of the input facies data.
Data analysis continuous You can now alleviate the spatial bias in the properties distribution
properties – declustering option caused by spatially clustered and horizontal well data using the new
Declustering option for Normal score transformation. Checking the
Decluster option will weigh the input data with declustering weights
such that data in densely sampled areas receive less weight and data
in sparsely sampled areas receiving greater weight.
Facies modeling – use proportion In Facies modeling, a new Use estimated facies proportions from data
from data analysis analysis option allows you to fetch estimated global facies
proportions computed in data analysis from the upscaled and well log
input data.

Scale up well logs - continuous You can now use one or more continuous logs are weights to
log weighting compute the average of continuous properties during the upscaling
process. This allows you to preserve pore and fluid volumes when
upscaling petrophysical properties.
Facies tool palette • New geological brushes for Interactive facies editing:
You can now directly paint channels as well as geometric and
geologic bodies on the 3D facies property, by using the new
geological brushes added to the facies tool palette.
• Undo/Redo button:
The Undo/Redo functionalities are now available for the Iterative
facies editing tools in the different windows (2D and 3D).
Quality assurance maps You can now display simultaneously attribute values from different
data types (well logs, upscaled data, and map) and well names, when
displaying Quality assurance (QA) maps on a Map window. Also, you
can quickly and automatically create plot windows with several map
viewports upon creation of the QA maps, and list in the output sheet
the attribute values for all the data types (well logs, upscaled, map)
per zone and per well.
Data analysis – interactive Workflow productivity when working with Vertical Proportion Curves
vertical proportion curve editing (VPC) in the Data analysis process is greatly improved with the new
interactive editing functionality for those curves and the ability to edit
only a selected part of the curve.
Modeling input parameters – new A new reporting option is available for the Modeling Input
reporting option in the workflow Parameters (MIP) in the Workflow editor.
editor

Make surface – use input inside When selected, all input points located outside the boundary,
boundary only whether from the main input or from any additional input, are ignored
by the gridding algorithm. When the specified boundary is made of
several closed polygons, the gridding will also be performed
independently in each polygon, ignoring the data lying outside of
each polygon in turns.
Performance improvement for Performance is improved when using a combination of sequential and
Facies and Petrophysical parallel algorithms in the Facies and Petrophysical modeling
modeling methods processes. In addition, performance of the Object modeling algorithm,
when simulating fluvial channels, is greatly improved.
Truncated gaussian with trends • Together option: For the Truncated Gaussian with trends
(behavioral changes) algorithm, since the trend model shown in the section view when
the Use Zones is switched off corresponds to the output trend
of the entire model, the Together option will be automatically
ticked on and disabled.
• Modeling trend in section view: Better approximation

algorithm has been implemented for displaying the trend model
in section view in the Geometry tab of the Truncated Gaussian
with trends algorithm. No changes will be observed in the output
facies model.
Isochore interpolation method in In Petrel versions prior to 2015.1, when running Make/edit surface
Make/edit surface with the isochore interpolation method and using Well adjustments,
the resulting surface could include negative values. In 2015.1, the
Well adjustments, which is a post-processing operation that was the
cause of the negative values, is disabled when using isochore
interpolation method.
Use of Vertical mean trend curve Since 2014.1, in Trend modeling, when creating a new Trend model
in Trend modeling using a Vertical mean trend, there was a bug that inverted the values
with regards to the model layers (the values for the top layer were
interpreted as being at the bottom and vice versa). This has been
fixed in Petrel 2015.1.
Memory consumption of GRFS Up to Petrel 2014.5, running the method Gaussian random function
method with co-kriging simulation (GRFS) with co-kriging was over-consuming memory. This
has been fixed in Petrel 2015.1.
Use of trend surface and absolute When running Gaussian random function simulation (GRFS) and
output data range in GRFS and Sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) using both a trend surface and
SGS methods in Make/edit an absolute output data range in Make/edit surface, the resulting
surface surface was not honoring the range defined prior to Petrel 2015.1.
This has been fixed in Petrel 2015.1.

Geology: Fractures
Fracture density Since the introduction of the dedicated process to estimate fracture
density log on fracture modeling workflow, it is now possible to take
into account any discrete attribute to produce a density log per class
(fracture set, fracture type, etc.).
Extension of fracture data type for The prediction of natural fractures with the Tectonic model process
Natural Fracture Prediction (NFP) can be performed now with any kind of fracture data. Previously, the
process could only consume point well data, assuming the
assignation of a fracture type. Now, the Panel fracture data contains
two sub panels , Wells and Other allowing the use of Point well
data and/or the use of fault patches (Ant tracking, Discrete Fracture
Network [DFN]), or Point sets.
New permeability upscaling In order to produce a new permeability upscaling method that takes
method into account the true connectivity of the fracture network, you can
now choose the Oda corrected method in the corresponding select
list. The aim is to be as close as possible to the Flow based

permeability upscaling method, but also to be faster and to take into
account the whole fracture network.
Geology: Wells
Sidetrack/lateral well Sidetrack, sometimes referred to as a lateral well, is often drilled as
part of an intentional or corrective measure to optimally intercept
geological targets different from the mother bore. It has a defined
relationship to the main bore and survey and always shares the same
surface location as their mother bore.
Sidetrack/lateral well might be a drilled series of horizontal wells in a
shale gas reservoir or drilled as a relief well or to avoid obstructions
near a producing well.
Note the following about sidetrack/lateral in Petrel. (Please refer to
Petrel E&P Software Platform 2015 What’s New Guide for details.)
• The sidetrack/lateral well tie into a main bore and kicks off from
the tie-in MD.
• In the Input pane, the main bore and sidetrack wells exist as
separate objects in the tree.
• The tie-in MD can be specified by you or automatically
calculated during import of the multi-well path/deviation survey.
• To create sidetrack wells and their surveys and plans, and how
to set up the tie-in trajectory and tie-in MD relationship in the
project.
• Sidetracks behavior in the Well manager, and how to import
sidetrack surveys and display sidetrack well logs.
• Changes to the Well settings dialog, the Inspector, and the
survey spreadsheets calculation when you design sidetracks.
• Petrel Studio and RPT support for sidetrack/lateral well.

New well model New model wells implementation provides a more efficient structure
to support wells with multiple surveys and plans in a folder upon
upgrading.
Upon upgrading, the Petrel project will have:
• Well report sheet showing total number of wells.
• Table showing list of wells with differences in the TD location
for you to QC the X, Y, Z & MD before and after upgrade.
• Messages below the bottom section of the output sheet listing
sidetrack wells that failed trajectory calculations.
• In the message log is a one line statement for user to review the
upgrade output sheet and confirm the correctness of the result.
• Wells already in the new model from Petrel 2012.2 to 2014.x will
not be affected.
• Old well trace will be upgraded to explicit survey and set as
definitive. The explicit spreadsheet is read-only and preserves
geometry of the old well trace.

• Surveys and plans folder is initially hidden and ‘show trajectory
providers’ on well/well folder (from the right-click menu) makes
it visible.
• Proposed wells will no longer be supported and will upgrade to
explicit and automatic plans.
• Wells created by best fit, optimized and lateral well path design
are upgraded to explicit and automatic plans. (See the well
upgrade document for details.)
Well trajectory operations Well planning is often used by Reservoir engineers in field
development to achieve optimal hydrocarbon recovery. To support
Reservoir Engineering in this task:
• A new workflow command to create a well from a digitized
polygon has been implemented.
• Ability to create XYZ plan from a polygon, from either right-click
menu or polygon Operations tab in the tree.
• Digitized polygon must have at least two points and not be
closed.
• The command can also be accessed from polygon operations
folder in operations tab of the Workflow editor.
The Well operations command in the Workflow editor has been
modified to only translate and rotate well heads:
• New model wells with multi-trajectory surveys will move when
well head is translated/rotated, depending on the survey type set
as definitive survey.
• Explicit survey is neither translated nor rotated.
• Lateral/sidetrack well relationships are not handled, but mother
bore (main well) can be translated/rotated.
• The Scale well trajectory command is not supported in the new
well model.
• Upgrade old-style well is no longer supported.

Well visualization improvement Color wells by labels and symbols: To reinforce saved search
capability as both a filtering tool and to efficiently control well
visualization in 2D, 3D and Map windows, new options, such as
path, attribute and Path as DLS (Dog Leg Severity), have been added
to color well labels and symbols in the Well folder style settings.
Well sub folder: The color symbol by label is disabled, but can only
be modified from the main Well folder.
Multi-trajectory surveys and The implementation of DX, DY, TVD and XYTVD surveys completed
plans work on trajectories in the new model well generated from secondary
data.
• DX, DY, TVD survey type stores (Dx, Dy, TVD) for each point on
the trace. Dx, Dy is the offset from the well head.
• The survey inherits the Azimuth reference setting from MD
Inclination and Azimuth survey and TVD properties from X Y TVD
survey as described in the spreadsheet.
• XYTVD type survey and its trajectory spreadsheet are read from

TVD elevation reference. Azimuth reference plays no role in
XYTVD survey.
• Inspector for DXDYTVD & XYTVD give read out of trace
information.
Automatic plans: These are plans upgraded from proposed well and
well path design (Best fit, Optimized and Lateral) process to preserve
the original design points.
• Automatic plan trajectory spreadsheet is read-only.
• Automatic plan inspector to modify frequently accessed style
settings in 2D, 3D and Map windows.
• Well design trajectory transfer (DO) (*.dot) format is available for
import and export of an automatic plan in a well.
• Well design X, Y, Z (ASCII) (*.*) format is not supported in the
new well model.
Multiple well path/deviation format file loader: This has been
enhanced to support data in a new well model. The symbol “%”
declares the lateral/sidetrack relationship between wells ONLY in the
dev file, but not necessarily in the tree. In the tree, the main well
name might contain “%”, and a lateral/sidetrack well name may not.

Reservoir Geomechanics now For 2015.1, Reservoir Geomechanics is deployed with Petrel. The
installed with Petrel 2015.1 VISAGE finite element geomechanics simulator is installed
separately and has its separate license features. For further
information, see the VISAGE Release Notes.

Large model support You are able to create a geomechanical model from original grid of up
to 30 million cells, and the maximum final geomechanical model size
increased to approximately 70 million cells.
Performance and user experience This release offers improved user experience through an enhanced
improvements Reservoir Geomechanics ribbon tab and simplified access to related
Petrel processes.
Performance improvements in this release include: property
population; improvements to the overall export process to the VISAGE
simulator; and further improvements to the LGR and material exports
times and file sizes.
Reservoir engineering unit Petrel 2015.1 introduces flexible Reservoir engineering unit settings
settings for some dialog boxes and spreadsheets. This allows you to set the

unit system differently from the project unit to enter and display
measurement values in a more familiar unit system.
The dialog boxes and spreadsheets supporting flexible units are:
Development strategy dialog box, Field management dialog
box, Make fluid model dialog box, Make rock physics
functions dialog box, INTERSECT tabs in the Define simulation
case dialog box, VFP manager, Make initial conditions dialog
box, Initial conditions from maps dialog box, Settings for
'ECLIPSE network' dialog box, Rock physics spreadsheet,
Fluid spreadsheet.
Create initial conditions sets Create an initial condition set for a reservoir which is in hydrostatic
equilibrium, by either manual input of equilibration data (for a single
region), or by supplying a discrete region index property or contact
sets (for multiple regions) and entering the necessary data. Each
equilibration region is mapped to a valid fluid model.
This process allows you to carry out initialization in the context of
the grid. It provides a guided workflow with validation against the
grid, fluid model and simulator, to create a valid initial condition set
for simulation.
Create initial conditions sets Create an initial condition set for a reservoir with areal variation in
from maps the depth of the oil-water and gas-oil contacts; cases where the
reservoir is believed to be in dynamic steady-state situation with
spatially varying FWL, and GOC, due to a regional hydrodynamic
gradient.
This process uses the spatially varying contacts and compositions
(Rs/Pb and/or Rv/Pd) as inputs and discretizes it into thousands of
regions and also associates the correct fluid model to each
equilibration region, with the aid of a discrete PVT region index
property.

Fluid numbering Identify fluids in your project using numbers. Fluid numbers are used
to match fluids to the numbers in the Initial conditions from
maps dialog box when your reservoir model has more than one fluid
model associated with it, usually defined by a PVT region index
property (discrete).
ECLIPSE result generation For ECLIPSE cases, greater flexibility is given to allow you to control
selection options in the Define the output and frequency of the reports generated by the simulator.
simulation case The Results tab in the Define simulation case process now
comprises a series of sub-tabs that allow you to more easily select
the outputs for an ECLIPSE case.
Preset EOR result options in the Simplify the selection of simulation results for enhanced oil
Define simulation case recovery models using preset result selections.
3D results analysis 3D results analysis creates tiled plots of selected 3D results in
camera-linked windows, with legends displayed and all properties
scaled to their data range. This allows faster visualization and

analysis of 3D simulation results for a selected case.
Preset options for 3D results plots Presets are available to target different types of analysis, including
EOR schemes, as well as generally useful plots, such as saturations
and pressure.
Visualizations for deviated tracks Petrel 2015.1 fully supports all workflows involving display and
in the Well Section Window editing of RE data in vertical and deviated tracks and in the
background area in a transparent manner.
The size and shape of data displayed in a deviated track depends on
the orientation of the borehole trajectory relative to the cross-
section plane at the point of the data; the distance of the deviated
track from the borehole trajectory; and the position of the
neighboring trajectory points.
It is possible therefore, that data having the same length in MD,
may appear to have different lengths when viewed in a deviated
track.
Well Section Window template If you make changes to the display style and settings for data in
the template for a Well section window, these styles and
settings are applied if you re-display the same case-log or case-
result combination. Any customized styles and settings in a Well
section window template are automatically applied if you re-run
the simulation case.

Exporting cases from uncertainty The export of base cases used in Uncertainty and optimization
and optimization workflows workflows depends on the simulator used, for example, if the
workflow has a base case and two realizations:
• ECLIPSE exports two cases; one case for each realization. If the
base case has already been exported previously, the realizations
will reference the base case; otherwise they will incorporate
incorporating the necessary information from the base case
• INTERSECT exports three cases; one case for each realization
referencing the base case, and a single copy of the base case.
In Petrel 2015.1, INTERSECT base case sharing can only be used
with Field management strategies.
Support for INTERSECT grid edits • You can now directly export GPM settings into an IXF file.
workflow Edits in GPMs are exported as "editing instructions," and then
INTERSECT applies these to the unedited grid properties after
loading them from data files.
• Support on sparse region definition

Prior to Petrel 2015.1, any region values that did not start at 1,
or where discontinuous, were compacted into a continuous
series starting at a value of 1. With Petrel, region values are
exported as entered.
• Well connections using cell I–J–K index
Well to cell connections are now exported with its correct I–J–
K index rather than using the global ID.
Improved simulation export Simulation export performance has been improved using the
performance following methods:
• Intelligently exporting only changes in 3D grids and properties.
• Base cases share files with U&O realizations.
• Grid properties are compressed when writing to a GSG file.
Define Simulation Case, Function The following new features are available on the Function tab of the
tab Define Simulation Case process:
• For both ECLIPSE and INTERSECT
Low salt (oil wet) relative permeability
• For ECLIPSE 100 and 300 only
o Surfactant miscible relative permeability
o Low salt (water wet) relative permeability
• For ECLIPSE 300 and INTERSECT only
Miscible relative permeability
VFP manager (behavioral change) The “Compare two VFP tables” feature has been removed from
Petrel 2015.1, as it was missing the ability to effectively merge
curves from two or more tables, which resulted in a restricted ability
to analyze.

Exploration Geology
Petroleum system settings Specifies non-project specific petroleum system settings. The
new Petroleum system settings dialog can be found under File >
System > Petroleum system settings.
Petroleum systems 3D - The simulation case combines the 3D petroleum systems input model
Simulation case with thermal boundary conditions and simulation settings. It can be
directly simulated in Petrel or exported to PetroMod for further
refinement and simulation. The simulation - in Petrel or in PetroMod -
requires the installation of PetroMod and a Simulator license.
Petroleum systems 3D - Geotime Animate the results of a 3D petroleum systems simulation, such as
player properties with multiple time steps, accumulations, and percolations
with the Geotime player and watch the model develop through time
in a 3D window.
Petroleum systems 3D and 1D – Create time trend and time map objects for the boundary conditions
time maps and time trends basal heat flow and sediment water interface temperature, and for

paleo water depth.
Petroleum systems 1D – well log If the well you assign in the Create 1D model process contains well
input logs, you can select the facies, TOC, and HI logs to fill the facies and
depth assignment table with the corresponding data.
Petroleum systems 1D – The simulation case combines the 1D petroleum systems input model
Simulation case with thermal boundary conditions and paleo water depth, and
simulation and output settings. It can be directly simulated in Petrel.
The simulation case is saved in the Cases pane and the results are
saved in the Results pane.
Petroleum systems 1D – Geotime In the new Layout mode, you can interactively arrange, resize, move,
window – improved Geotime and align tracks in the geotime window.
window flexibility
Petroleum systems quick look – You can access the entire lithology database on the Templates tab
Lithology database available for when choosing lithologies for input in the Make reservoir properties
PSQL processes and Make seal properties processes in PSQL.
Petroleum systems quick look – You can now choose to input maps for TOC and the thermal boundary
map and time trend input in the conditions heatflow and sediment water interface temperature
Make generation process instead of constant values. You can also use the 1D time trend
objects for heatflow and sediment water interface temperature.
Petroleum systems quick look – The processes for Make generation properties, Make reservoir
Split worksteps in Workflow properties, and Make seal properties have been split in the
editor for Make generation, Make Workflow editor into the settings and run worksteps, because both
reservoir, and Make seal create output. The Make generation properties/Make reservoir
properties processes properties/Make seal properties process entries create a domain
object in the respective PSQL folders in the Input pane, whereas the
Generation run/Reservoir run/Seal run entries create attributes to the
assigned surfaces in the Input pane.

Play to prospect risk processes The Play chance mapping processes have moved from the
were (re)moved (behavioral Petroleum systems tab to the Decision support tab. The
change) Prospect assessment and Sum prospects processes have been
completely removed from Petrel.
Lithologies in Petroleum systems The templates changed from absolute temperature to relative
modeling and Petroleum systems temperature for the following properties:
quick look – Temperature • Thermal conductivity/Minimum temperature
template changed (behavioral • Thermal conductivity/Maximum temperature
change) • Heat capacity/Minimum temperature
• Heat capacity/Maximum temperature
• Miscellaneous/Temperature
• Chemical compaction/Reference temperature
If you use data from a 2014.x project, the data will be automatically
adapted to the new template.
Lithologies in Reference project In 2014, you were not able to place lithologies into an empty Petrel

tool (RPT) project via the Reference project tool (RPT). This has been fixed in
2015.1.
Petroleum systems 1D In 2014, when you copied-and-pasted a 1D simulation case and
opened a burial history of the copied case in the geotime window, it
was possible that some horizons were missing. This has been fixed in
2015.1.
Petrel model export In 2014, if a Petrel 3D model contained a "fractional zone division,"
you might have encountered problems when you performed a PS3D
simulation in PetroMod. It was possible that the PetroMod 3D model
showed the initial zone division or displayed empty layers. This has
been fixed in 2015.1.
Petroleum systems quick look In 2014, when you opened old projects of Petroleum systems quick
look from 2009 and 2010, you could not view accumulations with the
intersection plane. This has been fixed in 2015.1.

Drilling: General
Drilling structure and slots Drilling structure and the slots within a drilling structure are used to
accurately place wellheads. It allows you to organize the wells and
ensures that well heads are maintained by a fixed drilling structure.
Drilling structure slots are used by the well design and well
positioning workflows, but assigning the wells to drilling structures
can be done from any well object and does not require these specific
modules.
Transferring plans or targets In the Petrel releases prior to 2015.1, when transferring well plans or
between Studio and Petrel targets between Studio and Petrel projects, if the Studio repository
projects CRS is incompatible with the Petrel project CRS, after a data round
trip, the plans or targets could mismatch with the original data. This
issue has been fixed for transferring data from Petrel 2015.1. For the
plans or targets that are transferred from the Petrel releases prior to
2015.1, the data could still mismatch after a round trip. To solve this
issue for the legacy project, you can upgrade the Petrel project to

2015.1 and then transfer the data to Studio.

Interactive well path design tools The new interactive well path design tools allow you to create and
edit well plans by digitizing and dragging the design points in the 3D
window. The two interactive well path design tools that are available
on the Tool palette for Well design are Add design points tool
and Edit design points tool.
• The Add design points tool allows you to create new well
plans by picking design points on the displayed objects in a 3D
window; it also allows you to extend the existing well plans by
adding design points at the end of the well plans.
• The Edit design points tool allows you to use the dragger to
interactively move the design points of the well plans in the 3D
window.
Searching well plans Well plan objects can be searched in the Petrel index through the
Studio function. Some plan filters are also provided.
Lateral well plans In the Surveys and plans folder of a lateral well, you can insert a
new lateral well plan.
Go to surface (behavioral change) The Go to surface function in the Well plan designer has been
enhanced. In the Go to surface dialog box, you can now set the
Start elevation for the new start point relative to the Mean Sea
Level and the Kick-off MD.

Drilling: Real Time
Real-time connect In Petrel 2015.1:
• Lateral wells can also receive the real-time data. The
precondition is to have a definitive survey in the MD, INCL, AZIM
type for the lateral well.
• Real-time connect can now accept WITSML in the 1.3.1.1 and
1.4.1.1 formats.
Streaming real-time survey data In Petrel 2015.1, the streamed survey data will be created as the
(behavioral change) definitive survey under the Plans and surveys folder.

3D travelling circle The 3D travelling circle can be created along the well plans to
estimate the distances between the subject well plan and the nearby

objects such as the offset well trajectories and the No-go zones for
this plan. The 3D travelling circle visualizes a circle intersection plane
perpendicular to the plan trajectory in the 3D or 2D window.
Refresh Anti-collision result After running the Anti-collision project scan or Anti-collision
window scan, if any underlying data has been changed since the
computation was performed, the Anti-collision refresh button will
become available to remind you to refresh the Anti-collision result in
the window.
Well positioning for lateral wells In Petrel 2015.1, you can create a survey program and calculate the
EOU for lateral surveys and lateral well plans. The prerequisite is to
have the Survey program for the parent trajectory. For a lateral
survey or lateral plan, its survey program starts from the tie-in MD.
The Anti-collision and No-go zone scan can also include lateral wells.
Survey program (behavioral The new geomagnetic model IGRF-12 is available in the Survey
change) program.
Drilling structure uncertainty in During the Anti-collision and No-go zone computation, depending on
Anti-collision and No-go zone the drilling structure, the drilling structure uncertainty is taken into
computation (behavioral change) account.
• For the offset wells which are assigned to the same drilling
structure as the subject well, the computation will exclude the
uncertainty of their drilling structure.
• For the offset wells which are not assigned to the same drilling
structure as the subject well, the computation will include the
uncertainty of their drilling structure.

Production: General
Production modules license The Production engineering modules, Production Interpretation, Well
consolidation Deliverability, Production Analytics, and OFM data connector, are
now included with the Reservoir Engineering core, Shale core, and
Combined core licenses. A user of any background can now access
these powerful functionalities.
Production: Well Deliverability

Outlet pressure calculation and In the Flow correlation data matching process, for Injector well
flowrate calculation for injector settings, the Outlet pressure and Flowrate run options have been
no longer supported removed and are no longer supported.
Production: Production Interpretation

Find wells based on production Petrel can now index most commonly used production variables. You
attributes via Studio search can now find and select focus wells based on KPIs, for example; ‘time
on production’, ‘total gas recovery till date’, and ‘best 30 days
average liquid production’.
More user-friendly Production You can perform Rate Transient Analysis (RTA) interpretation on
Interpretation multi-windows for different production histories. Common charting
features, such as Zoom in, Export to Excel, and Copy bitmap, are now
available for RTA dignostic charts and production charts.
Studio: Studio Client Petrel

Modeling – 3D Grid: Collaborate & 3D Grids, including pillar grids and stairstep grids, with the exception
Find of simulation grids (that is, 3D grids with dependency on aquifer,
thermal boundary condition, LGRs, contact sets, or streamlines), are
now supported by Studio for collaboration and Find workflows.
Microseismic – Microseismic & Microseismic and Treatment data are now supported by Studio for
Treatment data: Collaborate & collaboration and Find workflows.
Find The Treatment data consist of Treatment intervals and Treatment
stages and are hosted under a well in Petrel. Microseismic data
consist of Microseismic stages and Microseismic event sets and are
linked to the wells through the Treatment stage.
When a Treatment stage is transferred to or from Studio, all its
related Microseismic stages and Perforations are transferred, as well.
Many Find filters have been added to narrow down and retrieve
specific Microseismic and Treatment data and their associated wells.

Foundation – Geopolygon: Geopolygon is a new data object in Petrel representing closed
Collaborate & Find polygon data with holes and attributes. It does not support Z values;
converting a native Polygon to a Geopolygon will flatten the shape, as
the Z value will not be preserved. The Geopolygon is supported by
Studio for collaboration and Find workflows. Performance on data
transfer with the Geopolygon can be, on average, about 20 times
faster than when transferring a similar polygon in Petrel 2014.x or
earlier versions.
Drilling – Find Drilling data are now being indexed in Petrel and Studio, enabling the
Find workflows for the following data objects: Bottom Hole Assembly
(BHA), Target, Risk, Survey program, and Planned well path.
Associated search filters have been added.
Drilling – Risk URL A Drilling risk can be associated with a URL. The URL and URL display
are added to Studio and can be displayed in the Repository data
table.
Drilling – Units of Geological Previously, the units of the Geological Target positions (TargetPointX
and TargetPointY) were not indicated in the Repository data table.

Target positions
This has now been fixed. This fix has triggered a change in the way
we store Target data in Studio. Target data, initially converted and
stored in the repository CRS, are now stored in the CRS of the Petrel
project from which they are transferred. No CRS conversion will be
performed when transferring the Target data into Studio. A CRS
conversion will only apply when transferring the Target data back to
Petrel if the storage CRS in Studio is different from the targeted
Petrel project CRS. In the Repository data table, Target data will
always display in the Repository CRS.
Production – Find The most commonly-used well level observed data have been added
to the Petrel and Studio Find indexes, and enabled as search filters in
order to identify wells based on KPIs.
Geology – New well model Studio supports the new well model, new trajectory types for surveys
and plans, and the new sidetrack/lateral well. In 2015.1, all the old
model wells transferred from Studio to Petrel will be migrated to the
new model, following the same migration rules as Petrel. The Find
workflows have been enabled for both surveys and plans and lateral
wells.
Geology – Raster log The Raster logs data model has been changed to allow a proper
parent-child association with the well. It now behaves like any other
well log in Studio.
Geology – Stratigraphy The Stratigraphic event association on Surface, Well top horizon and
association Seismic horizon is preserved during the Studio transfers. This enables
you to reestablish the link to the Stratigraphy when those data are
transferred back to Petrel and to perform new Find workflows where
Surfaces and Seismic horizons can be retrieved from the Petrel and
Studio indexes based on their geological age.

Geophysics – Horizon metadata The dataset on which a Horizon was last interpreted is preserved in
Studio and added to the Petrel and Studio indexes. In Find, this
metadata can be used to filter the data and/or to organize the search
results. It allows better management and access to the seismic
horizons.
General – time zone We have improved how we handle the date time data & history dates
by systematically converting them to/from the server time zone during
the Studio transfers.
In Petrel, the date time data display in the project time zone and the
history dates display in the local time zone. Both will be converted to
the server time zone when transferred to Studio. These conversion
rules require the Project Time Zone to be set when connecting to
Studio.
General – Transfer performance Transfer performances have been improved for the following
datatypes:
• Retrieval from Studio to Petrel of 3D Horizon interpretation

(~6x faster)
• Transfer to or from Studio of Polyline set and Polygon data
(~20x faster)
Technology: Shale: General

Pad Well Design, Pad Placement, These modules were previously installed as an extension to Petrel.
Move Pad Well, Drainage They have now been moved to Petrel as full modules and no longer
calculator, and Well cost need the extension to be installed. Licensing is through a Shale Core,
estimator now modules or a Shale Suite license on top of the other cores.

Geosteering in the vertical track Geosteering in the vertical track provides you with the ability to
interactively correlate a segment of the realtime log with the offset
well log by stretching, squeezing, and translating a ghost curve.
Create a tie-in point on a curtain While geosteering a well, a point or segment already interpreted and
section seen on the real-time log might indicate the top of a horizon that is
encountered. A tie-in point can be created on the curtain section, and
the horizon(s) shifted by an offset or TVD using the Tie-in point tool.
Changing the shift value recalculates the synthetic log, which is used
to match the real-time log.
Straighten the block while To straighten the block instead of leaving the block as interpreted,
removing a hinge select the Straighten the block check box. This will interpolate a
line from the surrounding two hinges or boundaries. This change will
be recorded for cloning or applying a curtain section with changes.

Display multiple wells in a By default, the curtain section will show the realtime well in the
curtain section curtain section. You can hide this well or display additional offset
wells nearby the curtain section. The projection method used for the
trajectory displayed is orthogonal to the curtain section, and the color
of the well displayed is from the well settings.
Display 3D property of a model in A 3D Property of a model can be displayed in the curtain section
a curtain section similar to a seismic backdrop. This allows for visual guidance for
geosteering of the well with 3D property model data.
Display a curtain section in a 3D A curtain section can be displayed in a 3D window, along with the
window planned well that was used to create the curtain section.
Explicit grouping of well logs Well logs can now be grouped into separate tracks. Enter in the Track
# to indicate which track to visualize the corresponding Well log. This
will group Well logs explicitly into separate horizontal tracks. By
default, the same template is grouped as the same track.
Reset curtain section input When creating a new curtain section, an option to reset the curtain
dialogs section is available. Click the Reset button to clear the inputs of the
curtain section.

New curtain section style settings The new settings have been added for the curtain section and well
logs, and a new tab is included for settings for the well path.
Annotation for the real time well The real time well can now be posted with annotations, such as TVD,
in a curtain section THL, MD, INC, AZI.
Geosteering report includes new The geosteering report has been updated to include new information
information that will help to interpret well tops using Well section window.
Convert points/polygon set now When right clicking on a curtain section, select convert to
with real time well name as suffix points/polygon set. This will output the points/polygon set. The
names of each will include the realtime well name suffix to the
separate horizon names.
Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcuts, now available in the curtain section, can be used
for various functions.
Geosteering Tool palette A new Geosteering Tool palette is available, which includes the
tools previously on the Geosteering window toolbar, as well as
additional new tools.
Geosteering window default For the newly created Geosteering window, both the vertical and
tracks (behavioral change) horizontal tracks are displayed by default.
Cursor tracking in 3D Window To track the cursor in the 3D window, in the Geosteering window,
toggle on cursor tracking. Then, select Track this cursor or Track
all cursors in the 3D window. The cursor will be tracked in the 3D
window as the cursor is moved in the Geosteering window. No
other window is supported. The cursor is not tracked in the
Geosteering window if moved in other windows.
Vertical track resize Previously, the vertical track would not resize when resizing the
window. This issue has been fixed.

Vertical track cursor tracking Previously, when the mouse cursor was in the curtain section, the
with curtain section cursor in the vertical track was showing the TVD of the curtain
section, which is incorrect. This has been fixed to show the depth of
the realtime well at the same horizon location.
Technology: Shale: Pad Well Design

Pad Well Design now generates Pad Well Design now generates advanced plans instead of proposed
advanced plans wells (which are retired in 2015+). This provides better functionality
with Well Design, such as interactive editing, well positioning, and
others.
Technology: Shale: Pad Placement

Geopolygons as a restriction data In Pad Placement, geometric restrictions include Geopolygons as a

type restriction data type. This allows you to use geopolygons as a
geometric restriction providing correct handling of holes.
Technology: Shale: Microseismic

Microseismic events Load microseismic event locations and event properties and display in
Petrel 2D and 3D windows.
Microseismic stages and folders Microseismic data tree structure organizes multiple event sets into
microseismic stages that are grouped with flexible microseismic
folders. Link microseismic stages to related treatment stages to
establish the relationship to stimulation activities.
Event filter editor Single property filters or logical filters are created and applied to
user- selected event sets to filter in display.
Time player Play microseismic event occurrences in time using the Petrel time
player. Display events as they occurred, or over a user-selected
sliding discrete time window.
Real time loading and display Load and display .rdv event files in real time.
Treatment data Store well stimulation treatment data in the wells folders and also in
Global observed data (pumping data).
Treatment Stages and Intervals Create flexible treatment interval and treatment stage relationship.
Treatment intervals define the length of wellbore stimulated and the
treatment stage defines the beginning and ending time of a
stimulation stage. Microseismic stages are associated with one or
more treatment stages to define the relationship between recorded
events and stimulation activities. Well treatment intervals and
treatment stages are stored in the wells folders.
Microseismic and treatment data Spreadsheets to view and QC microseismic event data and pumping
spreadsheet QC data.

Time zone conversion Conversion of data time zone to project time zone during data loading
and Studio transfer.
RPT, Studio, and Studio Find Transfer microseismic event sets, well data (treatment data, pumping
support data) and stage relationships with RPT and Studio. Use Studio Find to
search for and retrieve data based on data properties or proximity to
wells.
Technology: Foundation
Add licenses while Petrel is Petrel 2015.1 introduces the option to check out functional Stack on
running Start license modules while Petrel is running. This enables easy
access to additional functionality needed for the workflow at hand
and avoids to exit and restart Petrel to select additional functional
license modules.
License settings The Petrel license selection dialog offers a new settings tab, which
allows you to configure the behavior of the license selection by

adding or removing options and additional information.
Further settings are available through the Petrel configuration file to
allow tailoring the license selection process to specific company
needs.
Shapefile loader Petrel 2015.1 introduces a new shapefile loader to support closed
polygons or polygons with holes loaded using the new Geopolygon
object.
Companion file support A number of spatially enabled data objects create a companion file
when exported from Petrel, which contain detailed Coordinate
Reference Information. When available, companion files are
recognized by Petrel on import to ensure spatial integrity of the Petrel
project.
Project time reference Petrel 2015.1 introduces support for a project time reference, which
enables users to set a time zone reference for a project through an
option in the project settings dialog.
• Projects created in previous versions will be assigned the
“Unspecified” time zone. As with any change to the frame of
reference, you should exercise caution when changing time
zones.
• When importing Point well data with a Timestep attribute, you
may specify a file time zone; data will be converted to the project
time zone (PTZ).
• Project time zone mismatch will restrict data transfer in the RPT
and Studio.
• Note your choice of PTZ does not affect the display of object
history; this is always in the time zone specified for the
computer.

Geopolygons Geopolygons are a new data object for representing closed polygon
data with holes and attributes for cultural data and prospect risk
evaluation maps. The key features of geopolygons are:
• Importing Shapefiles containing polygons creates geopolygon
objects.
• Improving the handling of polygons with holes.
• Being able to create and edit geopolygons interactively in the 2D
window with a new set of tools.
Make/edit polygons process The “Input” and “Result” blue arrows in the Make/edit polygons
dialog process and Seismic Mixer have been enhanced with the following
new usability features:
• The arrow doubles as a tooltip, listing the valid objects for the
drop site.
• You can click on the magnifier icon to see a list of valid objects
in the project.
• Typing in the drop site performs a search for valid objects in the

project.
Search • Search results now include Processes, Commands and Tools
• Additional keyboard controls are available (Ctrl+Up/Down,
PgUp/PgDn) for the navigation of the search results list.
Players The Players dialog can now be customized to include all the players
that you are working with.
Full screen mode • Full screen mode (F11) now also minimizes the Ribbon.
• A modified Full screen mode (Shift+F11) is provided, which
unpins the Explorer panes, rather than hiding them
Data management perspective A new Data management perspective has been created to draw
together the tabs containing the Input/Output, Quality control, and
Monitoring/Reporting functions.
Cursor tracking Cursor tracking has been enhanced with the option to apply the
cursor tracking style (size, colors, etc.) to all visible windows. This
usability improvement avoids changing the cursor tracking style for
each window individually.
Technology: Guru
Petrel Guru Petrel Guru and the Help center have been integrated in Petrel 2015.
You can search the standard online Help and the premium Guru
content via the same interface with improved search results and
filtering functionality.
Guru Quality reporting The Quality reporting tools allow you to carry out quality assurance,
tracking, guidance, auditing and reporting at all steps of the Petrel
workflow.

Known Issues
The following content summarizes known issues and limitations for this release, organized by domain.

Affected Feature Issue or Limitation
AVO modeling • Prestack datasets, which belong to an AVO modeling study, need to
be reconnected when the Petrel project is moved to a new location.
Workaround:
o Identify the prestack datasets inside the borehole at the AVO
modeling study folder.
o Right-click on the prestack data set and from the menu select
“Reconnect missing file …” option.
o Identify the related prestack data in your directories.
o Make sure to select the correct prestack dataset.

• Changes in prestack datasets, which belong to an AVO modeling
study, are saved independently of the Petrel save mode. It means
that any change to the AVO study parameters or inputs will always
be kept in the final result, when the study is in Auto-update mode
or when Apply or OK is selected.
Workaround: It is recommended to save the Petrel project every
time an input or parameter is modified in an AVO modeling study,
in order to keep the consistency between input and output.
• Copy/Paste of prestack datasets, which belong to an AVO modeling
study, disable the editing feature in the AVO modeling study.
Workaround: If a copy of the prestack dataset is needed, export the
prestack dataset and re-import it in the Petrel project.

QI Crossplot • When a 3D Crossplot is used to display a collection containing
poststack seismic data, some points of the collection will appear
outside the axis, when the amplitude range at the statistics of the
seismic volumes is not correct.
Workaround: If post-stack seismic data is being used in a 3D
crossplot, make sure that the amplitude range is correct, in order to
define the proper limits in the axis. Change the scan values by
going into the seismic volume Settings, select the Operations tab
and then the Amplitude sub-tab; the Scan and Rescan buttons can
be used to determine the amplitude range from the data.
• Axis labels rendering artifacts can appear when a 3D crossplot
when it’s displaying data with logarithmic scale at any of the axis.
The most common case is when the difference in magnitude
between the axes is very large
• The classification data generated by the QI Crossplot such as: Well
log classification data (discrete log), Point classification attribute

(discrete attribute), Horizon interpretation classification attribute,
and Surface classification attribute are outputs that are always
updated by any modification in the related QI Crossplot collection
or Crossplot selection. This means that if any of the outputs is
modified after its creation, by using Calculators, Log editors, Log
conditioning and so forth, and then, the related QI Crossplot
collection or Crossplot selections are modified, the classification
data will come back to its initial state, losing all the prior edition.
Workaround: It is recommended to create a copy of the
classification data (if after its creation), edition of the outputs is
needed. Then, edit the copy of the classification data instead of the
original classification output. This will prevent undesired changes
in the edited data (copy of the classification data) when the QI
Crossplot collection or Crossplot selections are modified.

QI Licensing Some of the Quantitative Interpretation tools are not available when
you select a new License Module in an active Petrel session (warm
check out). The following processes are not activated when using this
functionality:
• Seismic trace alignment
• Seismic resampling
• Reservoir AVO modeling
• Inversion property builder
• Simultaneous seismic inversion
• Stochastic seismic inversion
• Inversion QC plot
• Litho classification tools
Workaround: Close Petrel, re-open it, and select the Quantitative
Interpretation license; after that, all the Quantitative Interpretation

tools will be available.
QI Reservoir AVO modeling The random noise attribute generated by QI Reservoir AVO modeling
has a dependency on how the data are passed to the component by
Petrel. We have seen an issue when comparing random noise attributes
in 2014 and 2015 that they are different, due to data blocking changes
between Petrel 2014 and 2015.
Random noise attributes produced in 2015 are consistent from one run
to another (if a fixed seed is used) so the issue is one of incompatibility
between Petrel versions 2014 and 2015.
Workaround: No workaround for a match between 2014 and 2015, but
running multiple times in 2015 will give the same results.

Various features • For every study, a temporary folder and objects will be created
and stored under the Input tree; they will be located under
Well > Study Folder > Visual. This folder should not be
deleted.
• Deleting any required input data belonging to a study from the
Input tree will close and delete the current study. All the objects
saved from the study will still be preserved in the Input tree.
• If a seismic, log, or wavelet used in an SWT study is deleted, the
SWT settings will be auto populated by the next available object
using the same template.
• Deleting the Well section window study will delete the
information inside this study and temporary objects created for
visualization. All the objects saved from the study will still be
preserved in the Input tree.

Geology: General
Mapping > Enhanced Contours • Enhanced contour maps displayed in more than five Map
windows at a time could cause Petrel to crash.
• Enhanced contouring with fault polygons may fail when using
running on Windows 8.
Surface triangulation Triangulation of a surface bet, for some processes that use surfaces
as input (for example, Make horizons and Make zones) may show
slight changes in the volume calculation result compared to Petrel
2014.x

Simulation logs When you upgrade a project from Petrel 2009 or 2010 to Petrel 2015,
the simulation logs are upgraded as regular logs in the Well section
window.
First workaround:
• Open the project in Petrel 2010. On the Input pane, clear the
check boxes of the simulation logs, and update the template.
Then, select the check boxes of the simulation logs in the Input
pane, update the template, and save the project.
• Open the project in Petrel 2009. On the Windows pane, expand
a Well section window, and delete the simulation logs. On the
Input pane, select the check boxes of the simulation logs to re-
add them to the Well section window, and then save the project.
Second workaround: Delete the invalid logs, and then recreate the
logs in the current version of Petrel.

Polysection x-section When the well head is selected in the Settings for x-section
creation via polysection dialog box, the polysection uses the well
head to define the wells that are included in the cross section. The
cross section fence alignment will use the default setting with
alignment at the bottom of the well and not the well head.
Workaround: You can change the fence alignment in the Settings for
X-section dialog box by clicking the Definition tab, and then
clicking the Alignment tab.
Time series mini toolbar A time step within the time series log must be activated via the 3D
window and time player before the mini toolbar icons can function for
time series logs in the Well section window.
Reference project tool A Plot window has been defined containing a Well section window in
Petrel 2013. When using this 2013 project as a Reference project tool
background project in Petrel 2014 or 2015, the Plot window will be
empty and Petrel might crash.
Workaround: Upgrade the project from Petrel 2013 to Petrel 2014 or
Petrel 2015.
The Reference project tool can be used with the newly-created Petrel
2014 or 2015 project, which will result in maintaining the data
displayed in the Plot window.
Global well log It will take several minutes or several hours to delete a global well
log when you are displaying a large number of wells (>1000) in a Well
section window.
Workaround: Close any large Well section window prior to deleting
the global well log.

Horizontal and vertical scale When a Well section window is a part of a tiled window set and is
not the active window, the vertical scale and horizontal spacing list
might be grayed out.
Workaround: Activate the Well section window or close the Well
section window, save the project, and exit Petrel. Then, launch Petrel
and open the project. The horizontal and vertical scale list will be
available.

Horizon Modeling - Volume Based It is not possible to explicitly define truncation rules between
Modeling (VBM) Method unconformities other than by top-down order: upper unconformities
always truncate any unconformities located below. As a
consequence, base-base relationships are not working as expected.
Missing fault face causes When running the Structural gridding process for a VBM model with

leakage in simulation between faults, the faults are stair-stepped by calculating the fault faces.
isolated block During this calculation, some pairs of cells are missed at the vicinity
of the tip loop of the fault. This issue will lead to a hole in the fault
with cells on either side of the fault being connected. When you add
a Transmissibility Multiplier to such a fault, and run a simulation, the
absence of the fault face will cause an unwanted leakage between
the two isolated block of the grid.
This type of issue can be detected by running a FrontSim simulation
(or by generating streamlines from ECLIPSE simulation results). Once
the pair of cells is identified, setting one as inactive will restore the
isolation of the blocks.
Wrong layering produced when When using the Stratigraphic layering method, only the new
vertical or near-vertical faults are stratigraphic layering algorithm in Structural gridding process relies
present on information provided by the VBM model on the pillar. In some
scenarios with vertical fault (or parts of the fault being vertical), the
information returned by the VBM model has to be slightly displaced in
order to avoid numerical instabilities, which blocks the construction
of the grid. This small displacement can, however, create an artifact
on the produced layering, resulting in wrong layers in the grid.
After having identified the section of vertical faults, try to slightly
modify the fault in order to have them less vertical.
Note that a more reliable solution is being worked on for a future
release of Petrel.

Geology: Modeling
Use of Depospace in Facies and When using Depospace in Facies and Petrophysical modeling, the
Petrophysical modeling non-objectivity of the mapping between the Geospace and the
Depospace leads to the following artifacts:
a. 1D filter and depospace simbox: When using a 1D filter (located
in the Input pane) and the depospace simbox view in a 2D or 3D
window, you may observe that some cells are filtered out when
they should not be and vice versa. Therefore, if filtering is
needed, it is recommended to use the filters located in the Filter
tab of the Properties settings (in the Models pane). Similarly,
when using a filter for conditioning a modeling simulation, some
cells are disregarded when they should not be and vice versa.
b. Use of trends: Modeling a facies or a property using a
conditioning to some non-depositional property could lead to

some inconsistencies. This can happen when using a vertical
function as a trend or a seismic attribute as a secondary variable
in co-kriging. This is also due to the non-bijectivity of the
mapping (e.g., several cells from one grid mapping in one cell of
the other grid).
Geology: Wells
Upgrade The well upgrade in 2015.1 may take a slightly longer time to
complete, depending on the content of the project. This lag in project
startup will happen the first time a project is opened in Petrel 2015.1.
Visualization The Well tops symbol visualization problem in a 2D/3D window could
be related to your system’s older graphics card drivers. Ensure your
system graphic card update is compatible.
Trajectory calculation The consequence of setting a failed calculated survey/plan (with a
red X symbol) as the definitive survey or active plan will cause the
well to have an empty trajectory spreadsheet.
Find When loading wells to your project from a Find Index search, only the
well head location will be transferred if run in Silent Mode. Silent
mode supports only upper-level objects. To load all the surveys and
trajectories, use the Reference project tool.
Import The following formats are no longer supported when importing well
data:
• Petrel Format Binary
• Well Design XYZ

Well plans • Automatic plans for wells do not currently support editing. This
will be addressed in a future release of Petrel 2015. XYZ Plans
are editable via the spreadsheet.
• Interactive well design of a lateral well is currently not supported
when the active plan of a tie-in well is an Explicit, Automatic, or
XYZ plan.
RPT User-defined well attributes may be lost in the receiving project when
transferring wells.
Workflow editor Support for Well Operations has changed, with regards to well plans.
Currently, they only support wells where an XYZ plan is active for the
well. The Scale well trajectory and Upgrade old style well commands
are no longer supported in the new well model.
Well Attributes Petrel projects with an active velocity model created a TWT 1
attribute with a value for each well in prior releases of Petrel. In
2015.1, the TWT 1 attribute will not have a value. This occurs when
you right click on the Well Attributes folder and select domain

convert by active velocity model. The created attribute can be
displayed in the Well Manager and temporarily fixed by deleting it
from the tree.
Well Design When a 2013.x Petrel project is opened in 2015.1, the Automated
design icon may be deactivated in the Well Path group of the Well
Design ribbon. This can be fixed by saving the project in 2014.x, prior
to upgrading to 2015.1.

General known issues • Implicit Fracture Network (IFN) models are not supported.
• Support for nodal-based data (allowing display of distorted grids
and surfaces) is not available with this release.
• If a new simulation queue is added in Petrel, this will not
immediately appear in the RG Simulation
• Launch process. Petrel must be restarted to enable the queue.
• The following Petrel functionality is not supported in this release:
o Running remote cases through EnginFrame.
o Transferring geomechanics information between projects using
the Reference project tool (RPT).
o Petrel Uncertainty and Optimization (U&O) workflows.

Coupling with ECLIPSE • The following updating of ECLIPSE reservoir simulations (in 2-
way coupling with VISAGE) are supported by this release:
o Simple reservoir models: permeability and porosity
updating
o Simple reservoir models with LGRs: permeability
updating only
o Dual porosity ECLIPSE models: permeability updating
only
o Dual porosity ECLIPSE models with LGRs: no updating
• There is a limit of 99-coupled steps when performing 2-way
coupled simulations with ECLIPSE.
• For 2-way coupled simulations with ECLIPSE, models should be
stored on a local or shared drive when running on remote Linux
systems.
• Coupling with ECLIPSE will not work if ECLIPSE uses GSG grids.
• Coupled ECLIPSE case names must be less than or equal to 29
characters.

• Automatic time-stepping in ECLIPSE can impact results from
ECLIPSE restarts. This can cause differences in two-way coupled
simulations. Consult NEXTSTEP keyword in the ECLIPSE
documentation for a solution.
GPU display • On Windows where the GPU is used for display and compute
capability, the maximum model size that can be run on a GPU is
either ((System Memory Size in MB - 512 MB) / 2) or the value of
PAGING_BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE, whichever is lower. The value
of PAGING_BUFFER_SEGMENT_SIZE varies according to the
Windows version, but is typically 2 GB.
• Querying for remote GPUs and running remote GPU simulations is
not supported on HPC.
• GPU querying and running is not supported on machines being
accessed over Microsoft remote desktop connections.

Local grid refinement • Only regular Cartesian local grid refinements (i.e., Cartesian Nx,
Ny, Nz LGRs and Cartesian Dx, Dy, Dz LGRs) are available with this
release. Gradual (including logarithmic) LGRs, Coarsen LGRs and
Unstructured LGRs are not available
• Hierarchical/multi-level LGRs (that is, LGRs inside LGRs) are not
available with this release.
• Material models for LGR cells must be the same as for the master
cell.
• When a VISAGE case containing a local grid set is exported, the
source information used to create the local grid set in the Make
local grids process is removed from the system. Create a duplicate
before export if you want to retain details on how the local grid set
was created.
• Local grids that appear at the side boundaries of a model cannot
be used.
• When using local grid sets containing multiple local grids:

o If the bounds of the local grids intersect, the local grid set
cannot be used and must be combined into one local grid.
o If any of the local grids are touching another local grid, and
these grids have a different number of IJK divisions, then they
cannot be used.
• When using the Populate properties process to generate materials
within local grids that use the dip angle template, for example
friction angle and dilation angle, the values are not set. Use the
Calculator to override the values.
Handling of nested INCLUDE files A nested INCLUDE (referencing one INCLUDE file within another
INCLUDE file) causes the second-level INCLUDE file to be ignored.
Workaround: Move the information from the nested INCLUDE file up
to the .data file or first-level INCLUDE.

Exploration Geology
General After copying/pasting a Play Chance Mapping, Prospect Assessment,
Prospect Summing, Petroleum Systems 1D, or Petroleum Systems 3D
object in the Input pane, the “Edit existing” area in the process
dialogs is not updated immediately, i.e., does not show the copied
object (only while the process is open).
Templates and units for There is a potential legacy issue with conflicting units of
"Temperature/Heat capacity" data "Temperature/Heat capacity" data imported to PetroMod in versions
prior to Petrel 2012.2.
Workaround: Re-import any overlays that were imported prior to
2012.2.
3D simulation is not possible An error message generated by the simulator states that the facies
when facies values are missing property has undefined values in valid elements.
where zone geometry is defined Workaround: Create property "Zone (hierarchy)" using "geometrical
modeling" and compare the statistics of both properties, facies and

zones hierarchy. If the "Total number of defined cell in the entire
property, including local grids" is less for the facies properties than
for the zones hierarchy property, the facies in the simple grid will
have missing values, which can lead to problems during simulation.
The undefined facies cells can be found by using "Settings for
'Properties" -> "Filter" and switching off "Defined values only".
Play chance mapping - If you work with PCM in the Reference project tool, after a CRS
Coordinate reference system conversion, the resulting surface may be distorted or has a rotation
(CRS) conversion possible wrong angle. The reason is that the master grid may no longer be
results orthogonal, which is mandatory for PCM to work properly.
Workaround: Specify the master grid after the CRS conversion and
run PCM again.

Drilling: General
Drilling structure and slots Drilling structures do not have Studio support. Wells associated with
drilling structures that are pushed to Studio will lose the reference to
the drilling structure.
Studio index for drilling risks For the drilling risk objects that are created in the Petrel releases
prior to 2015.1, the TVD values of those drilling risks are stored
incorrectly in the data model. When the old risk objects are indexed
by Studio, the TVD values of those drilling risk data could be wrong in
the Studio index detail. This could also affect the result of risk
filtering by TVD hole depth.
Workaround: To correct the old risk TVD data, which is either created
in the Petrel releases prior to 2015.1 or loaded through the Studio
index, you can open the settings of the old risk objects with Petrel
2015.1 or any later releases, and click Apply or OK. The risk TVD
values will be recomputed and stored correctly in your local Petrel
project.

Deleting drilling risks Deleting the drilling risks folder may take up to one minute,
depending on the number of risk objects. The issue is caused by risk
visualization performance improvement.
Workaround: To avoid a potential slowdown, a project containing
multiple drilling risks should be open with no windows open (hold the
Ctrl key when opening a project).

Well plan display in an If an Intersection window is associated with a curved surface, the
intersection window display result of certain plans might be incorrect.
Plan grid convergence values In the 2012.1 release, if a project was set up with mixed units, the
grid convergence for the plan might be calculated incorrectly. This
issue was fixed in the 2012.2 release. However, if a project is saved
with the 2012.1 version and is opened with any newer version, an
incorrect grid convergence will occur.
Workaround: To correct this, you must trigger a plan recalculation by
editing the plan (with Well path designer, dragger or Inspector) in a
3D window.
Transferring plans or targets When transferring well plans or targets between Studio and Petrel
between Studio and Petrel projects, if the Studio repository CRS is incompatible with the Petrel
projects project CRS, after a data round trip (Petrel project > Studio
repository > Petrel project), the plans or targets could mismatch
with the original data.
Workaround: Choose or set the Studio repository in a compatible CRS
with the Petrel project.

Drilling: Real Time
Transferring data over different For some particular data sets, when one incoming log in the server
index ranges contains multiple passes of data over different index ranges, if the
deeper data range is downloaded before the shallower or earlier data
range, the shallower or earlier data might be skipped during data
transfer. For more details, see the online Help.

Trajectory uncertainty • If the start point of the plan trajectory is NOT at the same XYZ
location as the well head, you cannot calculate out the EOU for it
in Petrel.
Workaround: Create a new well using the start point of the
trajectory as the well head location, and then copy the plan to

the new well.
• When an EOU cannot be calculated out, an empty
EOU object is still created. However, it does not
contain any EOU data.
Showing EOU and VOU • Displaying a lot of EOU or volume of uncertainty (VOU) might
cause performance issues.
Workaround: To avoid performance issues, you can hide the EOU
or VOU display by toggling off the Show EOU or Show VOU
button, or you can display only the VOU, without EOU.
• When EOU and VOU are displayed at the same time, the shape of
the EOU might not be correctly visualized.
Workaround: To correctly visualize them together, you need to
toggle on the Orthogonal camera mode on the 3D window
toolbar.
Showing No-go zone • The 3D No-go space is visualized by connecting all the No-go
zone cross sections from wellhead to TD. As a limitation of this
algorithm, the No-go zone beyond the offset well TD cross
section cannot be visualized although there is some extended
trajectory uncertainty.
• The No-go zone only gives you a view of collision hit. On the No-
go zone boundary, there might be small calculation bias
compared to the Anti-collision result. The actual collision risk
level must be confirmed using the Anti-collision scan.
Making driller’s target You cannot make the driller’s target if the associated geological
target was created from a polygon.

Production: General
Failure to run PIPESIM engine if In the Schlumberger Licensing tool, all the license servers listed are
non-working server is above scanned one-by-one if the option Read all server paths in the
working server in license list Remote License Server List is selected. Starting from the top of the
list, the scan checks for the first working license server that can run
Petrel (in other words, Petrel server). If any of the license servers
(both Schlumberger and 3rd party) above the working Petrel server in
the list is not working, the Well Deliverability module will fail to run
the PIPESIM engine.
Workaround: Move the working Petrel server to the top of the Remote
License Server List or remove the non-working server(s) from the list.
Production: Well Deliverability

In the VFP table process or the Nodal Analysis process, sensitizing on

Sensitivities analysis for SSSV
size or ESP Speed/Frequency is the SSSV (subsurface safety valve) size or the ESP (E speed or ESP
not supported frequency) is not supported. No workaround is available at this
moment.
Well deliverability charts cannot Well Deliverability charts (NA or FCDM) created by using the
be visualized in packages other Reservoir Engineering (RE) core, Shale core, or Combined core
than RE, Combined, or Shale core licenses will not have results available if you try to visualize the
charts in another instance of Petrel that does not have at least one of
the RE core, Shale core, or Combined core licenses. No workaround is
available at this moment.
Studio: Studio Server

Data transfer Due to the interdependency of some seismic data items, there is a
case where transferring back seismic data items (listed under
mandatory OCRS) to Petrel is being blocked after performing CRS
consolidation in Studio.
This occurs due to a CRS mismatch between the seismic data being
transferred and the seismic 3D survey in Petrel.
It is recommended that you perform the same CRS consolidation on
the Petrel side to update the OCRS of the original data in Petrel and
try to transfer the data again.
Match rules on lateral wells The match rules defined for wells do not apply to lateral wells during
the Studio transfers. Only main wells are impacted.

Managed object transfer When transferring a 3D Grid, the QA maps underneath the grid will
not be transferred to or from Studio.
When transferring grid properties with user-defined color tables, the
user-defined color tables will not be transferred. In this case, the
property color table will be set to the default color table defined for
the property template.
Batch transfer The option to ‘Transfer the entire project’ to Studio in batch mode
does not include managed objects, such as Grids.
Publishing data to Studio with a This potentially only affects Studio installations that are using Oracle
large number of points could lead Locator for spatial storage.
to an error and unsuccessful Publishing data to Studio with a large number of points could
transfer generate an error either related to:
• The operand value exceeds system limits
• OCI-22165
This could lead to an unsuccessful transfer.

This is due to a limitation with Oracle Locator in the number of
ordinates Oracle Locator can store.
Data types likely to trigger this error are: 2D Lines, 2D Interpretations,
Fault Interpretation, and Multi-Z.
Workaround: Run an Oracle script to increase the maximum number
of ordinates. Details on how to run this script and other information
are included in the Studio 2015.1 Installation and Configuration
Guide. Please refer to section, "Script to Enable Support Storage of
Large Geometries" for more information.

Displaying 3D property of a model LGR is not supported.
with Local Grid Refinement (LGR)
Geosteering Tool palette The Active mode is not displayed in the Tool palette.
Performance while property is The performance while geosteering may be affected when the
displayed property is displayed.
Printing of the geosteering Using the print feature in Petrel for the Geosteering window is not
window supported.
Workaround: The Geosteering window is outputted to a
Microsoft® Word report, which can be used to print. Use the screen
capture tool to make a screen capture, and edit it in Word or other
image editors.

Technology: Guru
Images not displaying correctly When selecting a test page in the Guru Editor, occasionally, some
on test page images are not rendered except for their outline.
Guru Editor does not launch in If you change the theme of the Windows Operating System to Classic
Windows Classic mode mode, the Guru Editor will fail to launch.
Cannot enter 0 in Ask for a If you run a guided workflow with an Ask for a number workstep in it,
number workstep it will not accept a 0 as a valid input.
Certain special characters cause If you use special characters <, >, or | in the search bar located at the
Guru to crash if used in the top of the Guru viewer and run a search, this will cause Guru to crash
windows search bar and force you to restart Guru.

Project Compatibility, Distribution
and Licensing
The Petrel 2015 release is available by download using the appropriate links on the Software Integrated Solutions
(SIS) Support Portal. A user account is required on the portal. If you do not already have a user account, you can
register to access the portal at http://support.software.slb.com.
Project Compatibility
The Petrel platform preserves the value of your historical data. Projects saved in all earlier Petrel versions will load
directly into Petrel 2015 without any need for data migration. However, note that projects saved with Petrel 2015
will not be backwards compatible (e.g., cannot be opened) with earlier versions.
Licensing

Petrel 2015 requires the new 2015 version of the Schlumberger Licensing Tool.
• Petrel 2015 will not work against a Schlumberger 2014 or earlier License Server. You must use a
Schlumberger 2015 License Server.
• All older versions of Petrel will continue to work against the 2015 License Server.
• The new 2015 server is available from the licensing folder of the Petrel Distribution.
A Petrel dongle and a valid license are required to run this release.
Petrel licenses incorporate two important dates, the maintenance expiry date and the license expiry date. You can
verify the validity of your license, as follows:
FEATURE Petrel_01220255_MAAAdLyku/aUAslbsis<yyyy.mm> <d-mmm-yyyy>.<#>
Where
• <yyyy.mm> is the maintenance expiry year and month
• <d-mmm-yyyy> is the license expiry day, month, year
• <#> is the number of licenses
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.

System Requirements
Petrel System Requirements
The following section contains the current brief system recommendations for Petrel and Studio* Database. For
more information on the Petrel system requirements, operating systems, and hardware selections, please refer to
the Petrel 2015 Installation Guide.
Note: It is recommended running Microsoft Windows with the Aero theme when using Petrel 2015.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition (64-bit, SP1)
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise or Ultimate Edition (64-bit)
Minimum Preferred

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 (32+ GB recommended) 64 GB RAM memory
Fast rotational speed HDD (10,000–15,000 rpm) or SDD or SSD primary storage
SSD primary storage
NVIDIA® Quadro® K4200 or NVIDIA Quadro K2200 NVIDIA Quadro K5200 or NVIDIA Quadro M6000
graphics cards (desktop) graphics cards (desktop)
NVIDIA Quadro K3100M or NVIDIA Quadro K2100M NVIDIA Quadro K5100M or NVIDIA Quadro K4100M
graphics cards (mobile) graphics cards (mobile)
The quality of the viewing experience increases with The quality of the viewing experience increases with
the size and number of monitors* the size and number of monitors*
Other Required Software
Microsoft .NET® Framework 4.5
* Petrel will run on 4K (display devices or content having horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels).
However, it is recommended to use the DPI setting of 100% or 125%. By running Petrel on 4K display devices,
you may experience visual artifacts regarding labels, icons, and font sizes. We are working towards increasing
Petrel's compatibility with 4K through future releases of Petrel.
Note: The Petrel 2015 interface is optimized for horizontal resolutions from 1280 and higher and for vertical
resolutions from 1024 and higher.

Studio Database System Requirements
For Oracle Databases
Minimum Preferred
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.2 or 6.5 (64-bit) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 or 6.5 (64-bit)
x64 dual quad-core processor x64 dual six-core processor
32 GB memory 64 GB or greater memory
Oracle® Database Enterprise Editions 11.2.0.3 or 12.1.0.2
Oracle Locator or ArcSDE™ 10.0 SP3 or ArcSDE 10.2.2 (64-bit)
For Microsoft SQL Server Databases

Minimum Preferred
Windows Server® 2012 R2 Standard (64-bit) Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (64-bit)
x64 quad-core processor x64 dual quad-core processor

32 GB memory 64 GB or greater memory
SQL Server® 2012 Standard Edition SP2

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