2013.1
• Greater Confidence in Reservoir Economics
• Enhanced Decision-Making
• Improved Productivity & Efficiency
Where to drill? What production strategies to adopt? How to
maximize recovery and unlock the value of your assets?
The latest version of Roxar RMS™, the industry’s most integrated and
powerful geo-modeling solution, comes with innovative new tools
enabling a faster and more productive workflow to further enhance
customer decision-making.
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Innovative and integrated modeling tools with better
control of structural uncertainties provide operators with
the confidence and understanding to maximize the value
of their assets.
Adjustment of grids directly to well picks to give you the
best possible model fitting for your data.
Advanced workflow efficiencies and performance though
multi-threading, improved SEG-Y importing and RMS Data
Explorer.
Continued emphasis on the geophysical domain with
enhancements to RMS 2013 and Model-Driven
Interpretation (MDI).
Greater Confidence in Reservoir Economics
Better Decisions, Better Returns.
production strategies to adopt and how to maximize recovery and
have increased confidence in the economics of the reservoir.
RMS 2013.1 sees RMS’s fault uncertainty tools further integrated
with structural modeling and 3D gridding, enabling users to quantify
uncertainty more effectively via the building of geological scenarios.
Fault uncertainty models correspond directly to the uncertainty in
the input data.
Creating Horizons Based on Uncertainty Data
Users can create horizons and zones based on uncertainty data and
information derived from well picks, velocities, seismic travel times,
and isochors - all acknowledging zone log information such that long
horizontal wells get correctly placed in the zones in which they
belong. This eliminates tedious manual work while at the same time
produces reproducible, easy to update, automated procedures –
money saved and confidence increased!
Extending Uncertainty Modeling
RMS 2013.1 includes new parameters exposed in the uncertainty
workflow. These include parameters for modeling - both fault
sealing effects and fractures. This gives the user more control and
flexibility for modeling uncertainties specific to individual projects.
And the result of these uncertainty improvements? Realistic
structural scenarios, improved volumetric sensitivities, correct
placement of horizontal wells, and greater confidence in oil & gas
volume calculations.
Enhanced Decision-Making
RMS 2013.1 comes with enhanced structural modeling tools that
acknowledge uncertainties in the data, improve volumetric
sensitivities, and make it faster and easier to build geological
scenarios and investigate the full effects of structural uncertainty.
With RMS 2013.1, reservoir management decision-making is
enhanced across the board with improved grid building, new
innovations in isochore modeling, and a predictive analytics tool for
identifying sweet spots.
Capturing Structural Uncertainty
Improved Grid Building & The Satisfying of External Constraints
Previously, reservoir modelers had to make approximate estimates of
faults and horizons with the uncertainty within these interpretations
often neglected.
With the new version of RMS and its tightly integrated structural
uncertainty tools, users can make crucial reservoir decisions on what
The creation of a high quality grid typically requires balancing many
constraints that do not always honor the well picks. To meet this
challenge, the new Adjust to Wells job within RMS 2013.1 supports
the calculation of residuals between the grid and well picks and
adjusts the grid to exactly match the well picks. This generates
models that fully satisfy external constraints and accurately fit the
data.
Isochore Modeling Improvements
Fault Uncertainty envelopes and a map of reduced prediction error around wells
RMS 2013.1 comes with an enhanced and integrated isochore
modeling tool for ever more realistic models and improved usability.
The new tool provides users with full quality control over isochore
input data, with data presented in reference to the well. Other
features include more accurate pinch-out definition for onlapping or
unconformities, more accurate thickness calculations, and a clearer
user interface.
RMS 2013.1
Satisfying Sweet Spots
A new predictive analytics tool that identifies sweet spots within
unconventional fields which combines well data, grid parameters,
maps and/or seismic attributes is also included within RMS 2013.1.
Through the use of a classification algorithm that correlates
high-quality well attributes and identifies similar patterns across the
zone of interest, sweet spots maps are generated that assist in
targeting the most prospective areas and guiding profitable
decisions.
Improved Productivity & Efficieny
Well picks before and after adjustment to the grid
Focusing on the Geophysical Domain
RMS 2013.1 also sees further improvements to the milestone RMS
2013 Model-Driven Interpretation (MDI) release that allows users to
capture uncertainty during the interpretation process.
This includes a new feature for extracting interval velocity maps
where users can calculate interval velocities from a velocity model
between two horizons; and interval velocity logs based on
time-depth tables displayed in well correlation view. The new tools
are highly effective for QC-ing the velocity model, providing input for
Horizon Uncertainty modeling, and for well-ties.
RMS 2013.1 also sees improved efficiency, usability and performance
across the modeling workflow.
Users can now take further advantage of multithreading - the ability
for computing to take place in parallel. This dramatically increases
the efficiency of the model building process. Following up on the
already existing multithreading option in Petrophysical modeling,
RMS 2013.1 has also made multithreading available elsewhere,
including the Facies Indicators module and Resampling.
The new software also sees import and export enhancements with a
strengthened OpenSpirit link and improved SEG-Y importing where
navigation data can be loaded for 2D SEG-Y files and the X-Y layout of
data is better defined.
In addition, users can now manage and manipulate large amounts of
data rapidly and with greater ease through the RMS Data Explorer – a
new data browser for locating and organizing data objects with
particular advances to well administration and fault grouping &
sorting.
Together, these developments represent tighter integration and
significant productivity and time saving gains without compromising
the reservoir characterization’s quality.
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Interval velocity calculated between two horizons
From capturing structural uncertainty to improving workflow efficiencies
and making further inroads into the geophysical domain to improve
decision-making, RMS 2013.1 is changing the reservoir modeling
landscape, helping operators make better decisions and better
investment returns.
To learn more please visit www.roxarsoftware.com or
email us at [email protected].
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