Exciting news – your whitson+ software just got a major upgrade! 🎉 You’ve been updated to the latest version, packed with new features and enhancements to make your experience even better.
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Detailed Release Notes
Complete Refactor of Comparison Plot
- 10x faster and more stable
- Option to save a plot (both single and 2×2)
- Smoothing option
- Aggregate by attribute or by group
- Synchronize colors in 2×2
- Option to customize title size, legend location, legend size, grid lines, number notation
Tremendous DCA Upgrade
- New segment types: semi-log, power-law
- Ratio forecasting: GOR, WOR, OGR, WGR, water cut
- Secondary, customizable plot showing all streams, meta data (e.g. EUR/ft)
- Option to back-calculate cumulatives for QC purposes
- Option to sync x-axis of secondary plot with primary plot
- Option to plot ratios (GOR, WOR, OGR, WGR) and BHP in secondary plot
- Upgrade of plot to be same component as rest of software, much nicer drag and drop functionality
- Linking of segments being default, and linking of rates, not only time
- Short-cuts to run auto-fit (alt + enter), save case (ctrl + s), go to next well (PgUp, PgDn), Cycle to next phase (shift+s), change phase (shift + o/w/g)
- Rename Decline Types to Secant Effective and Tangent Effective to be SPEE compliant.
- Optimized ARIES export to make it almost 100x faster
- Ability to import ARIES and MOSAIC forecasts into whitson+
- Being able to bulk edit DCA saved cases
Devon Quantification of Interference (DQI) feature
- Link to manual here: https://manual.whitson.com/modules/well-performance/dqi/
- Work by Almasoodi et al. 2023.
Type Well Upgrade
- P50 is new default.
- Option to plot geometric mean and arithmetic mean over time for diagnostic (link here)
- Ratio forecasting: GOR, WOR, OGR, WGR
- Custom normalization feature (non-linear / power-law)
- Be able to turn off normalization in probit
- Be able to pick a probit best fit range (e.g. do a probit best fit between 31% and 86%)
- Be able to view “associated” wells for a type well saved case
- (All DCA upgrades mentioned above are also relevant for the Type Well feature)
Auto-forecast (DCA for multiple wells)
- Option to set custom settings for primary and secondary plot
- Add cumulative errors to autofit table overview
- Set bound ranges using sliders
- (All DCA upgrades mentioned above are also relevant for the Auto-forecast feature)
Results page
- Custom: View calculated results in bulk (e.g. EURs, LFPs, OOIPs) for 1000s of wells
- Liquid loading dashboard: overview of liquid loading issues for 1000s of wells
Nodal Upgrades
- Possibility of selecting which columns to display in gradient calculator
- Add cumulative pressure drop from friction, gravity and acceleration to gradient report
- Report flowing BHP at each point in Gas Lift Optimizer
- View, edit and delete wellbore configurations in gradient and GL Optimizer
- Show open GL injection depth on gradient plot, if GL is present
Numerical Model: History Matching, Sensitivities & Probabilistic
- Updated time stepping allow for 10x faster runs
- Option to set forecast start day to something else than end of history.
Multi-well Numerical Model
- New custom time stepping, allowing for 10-50x speed increase in runtimes.
- Option to save multiple multi-well numerical models (ala comp plot, auto-forecast and type well)
- Option to add forecast to each well individually
Data integration
- Upload forecasts from ARIES / MOSAIC
- New interfaces for ACCUMAP, PAS (flowback), GEOSCOUT
Bulk Run
- Estimate pRi with nodal IPR
- MFMB autofit
- NGL calculation
Bulk Export
- 100x increase in DCA export
- DCA to PowerPoint, ARIES, MOSAIC
- NGL calculations
Bulk Edit
- DCA: plot settings
- DCA: saved cases (name, forecast, delete)
- ARTA: Lock/unlock intercept
- ARTA: Empirical assumptions
- Export Numerical RTA results (LFP & OGIP/OOIP) to Numerical Model
- Scenarios
- Simple Material Balance
PVT
- Option to visualize compressibility in PVT table plots
- Option to visualize Z-factor in PVT table plots
- Option to visualize OGR vs pressure in the Rv plot
- Option to visualize GOR vs pressure in Rs plot
BHP
- Option to plot well configuration segments over time (also in production data).
General
- Option to link production data and well header data when copying wells
- Favorite field option
- Can make a field private / public
- Spray gun fit option in multiple places, like DCA, MFMB and Analytical RTA
- Option to calculate compressibility with Hall correlation
New whitson+ Certificates
- Nodal
- BHP
- Well Test
New Unit Systems
- Canada + Field Mix
- Argentina
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whitson supports energy companies, oil services companies, investors and government organizations with expertise and expansive analysis within PVT, gas condensate reservoirs and gas-based EOR. Our coverage ranges from R&D based industry studies to detailed due diligence, transaction or court case projects. We help our clients find the best possible answers to complex questions and assist them in the successful decision-making on technical challenges. We do this through a continuous, transparent dialog with our clients – before, during and after our engagement. The company was founded by Dr. Curtis Hays Whitson in 1988 and is a Norwegian corporation located in Trondheim, Norway, with local presence in USA, Middle East, India and Indonesia