News – 202409 Whitson Update
whitson+ just got a boost! 🚀
27 September 2024
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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Complete Refactor of Comparison Plot
Tremendous DCA Upgrade
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Happy exploring! And remember we are always here to support support@whitson.com
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
Auto-forecast (DCA for multiple wells)
Results page
Nodal Upgrades
Numerical Model: History Matching, Sensitivities & Probabilistic
Multi-well Numerical Model
Data integration
Bulk Run
Bulk Export
Bulk Edit
PVT
BHP
General
New whitson+ Certificates
New Unit Systems
- 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