Key improvements in 18.4

tNavigator kernel:

• Local grid refinements getting progressively finer in the vicinity of the fracture are introduced for XYZ fractures.
• Default setting of results saving was changed for models in E1/E3 format, if none of the command line options or keywords (RPTRST, etc.) related to selective writing of the results were specified.

Before: all grid properties were recorded on all steps. Now: grid properties will be recorded only on the first and last step. For IM, ST, GE: grid properties are still recorded on all steps.

Geology Designer:

• Grid coarsening with corresponding property upscaling is introduced.
• Multi Point Simulation computation is available, which allows to perform interpolation by using multi point statistics method.
• Velocity cubes from checkshot data can be computed.

Model Designer:

• Import of hydraulic fracture data in GOHFER format.
• Entering of hydraulic fracture parameters in tabular form.

PVT Designer: 

• Thermal variants are supported.

Assisted History Matching and Uncertainty module: 

• Multitarget optimization by particle swarm method is supported.

VFP Designer: 

• Integration with Model Designer is supported. Each well in the Model Designer corresponds to a project in VFP Designer.

Network Designer: 

• Integration with Model Designer is supported. When a dynamic model is loaded to Model Designer, a corresponding Network Designer project is created automatically.

KeyFacts Energy Industry Directory: Rock Flow Dynamics