News – whitson+ just got a lot better! 🚀

whitson+ just got a lot better! 🚀

06 January 2025

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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Happy exploring! And remember we are always here to support at support@whitson.com

PVT

Huge PVT revamp.
10x speed increase to create phase envelope, PVT table.
100x speed increase for GOR + psat method.
100x speed increase for gas Huff-n-Puff PVT experiment.

DCA

Month option (x-axis: month | convert daily data to monthly data)
Bulk edit plot settings
Linked cutoff rates
PHDwin import
Mosaic: ratio forecast export/import
Aries: ratio forecast export/import

BHP

Option to specify the lift gas density
Maximum injection depth for “automatic” valve depth calculation
Liquid level in static / quiet side calculations
2x speed increase, plus stability improvements

RTA

PNR vs Cum plot: new default to lower right, with forecast appended
EUR calculation (we recommend doing this in real time)
Option to add D_lim and/or cut off rate to empirical forecast

Numerical RTA

Important Stability Upgrade
Option to plot choke and bottomhole pressure on secondary axis

Numerical Model

Frac angle option: provide lateral and fracture azimuth to evaluate wells where fracs are not perpendicular to the lateral.
Distance dependent fracture permeability: change fracture conductivity as a function of fracture length.
Economic Limit: cut off rate.
Sensitivities: reporting errors of each run.
Reporting base case error.

Nodal: IPR/VLP

IPR / VLP saved cases are now in editable form. Much better experience for creating sensitivities and multiple cases at the same time.
Include critical rate to lift for all VLPs (oil and gas), previously was only shown for gas VLPs
Warning when the correlation selected is different than the correlation used for BHP.

Nodal: Gas Lift Optimizer

Plot gas lift rate vs BHP, in addition to gas lift rate vs oil rate.
Mass run of gas lift optimizer for 1000s of wells. Automatically picks the latest production date, and generates a gas lift optimization curve for all wells.
Results page with all gas lift optimizer results, for identifying wells under-injecting vs wells over injecting.

Nodal: Gradient

Show open GL valve depth on gradient plot.
Report open GL valve on case table and on the plot.
Improved table of detailed results, including deltaP per segment for friction, gravity and acceleration.
In detailed table, added a new menu with check boxes to show/hide columns.

Auto-Forecast

10x speed increase
Partial fit: decide if you want to fit the last x % of production data, the last x days of production data or a date range
Ratio forecasting: apply a GOR, WOR, CGR, WGR or water cut forecast on your secondary phase.
Auto-Forecast Hierarchy: Group Forecasts Under Type Well Areas
Customizable plot settings: Set how You Would Like to visualize the plot

Type Well

Blended forecasts in type well (use a mix of saved forecasts)
Speed improvements for larger datasets
Ability to append ratio forecasts
Type Well Hierarchy: Group Forecasts Under a Type Well Area

Comparison Plot

Append DCA option (can mix different DCA’s to be appended)
Highlighting feature: single click time series in plot or well in well list.
Aggregate: by sum or by average
Save a Template
Copy Plot to Another Project

Bulk Operations

Bulk edit scenarios
Bulk save the ‘Main’ case as a scenario
Bulk run gas lift optimizer
Bulk visualize / sort gas lift optimizer results

… in addition, this will be deployed the near future.
Filter and GIS upgrade

Merging of filter and GIS
Filter wells by graphical selection
Save a filter set
And / or option for filter
Clustering

Cross Plots

In comparison plot.

Production Data

Truncate data option. Don’t delete but change the window where production data starts and ends.