New Software Release

Product details

The Petrel™ automated well placement plug-in enables reservoir engineers to identify, design, and evaluate infill well opportunities under subsurface uncertainty. The plug-in integrates opportunity mapping, engineering constraints, automated trajectory generation, customized completion generation, simulation-case setup, and probabilistic production assessment within a unified Petrel workflow.

The Petrel automated well placement plug-in is designed to work with Petrel 2024.1 or higher. It is powered by workflow components and algorithms originating from the FDPlan Concept Generator, bringing proven automated development concept generation capabilities into the Petrel environment.

Release highlights

The guided, well placement workflow connects reservoir opportunity analysis with technically feasible well design and simulation-based evaluation. Engineers can generate and compare alternative development concepts while retaining visibility of the geological, engineering, completion, and operating assumptions used in each scenario.

Figure 1. The plug-in interface offers step-by-step guidance for well placement inputs.

Probabilistic opportunity identification: generate opportunity index and probability maps from deterministic reservoir simulation models or ensemble of realizations to identify target areas while preserving the relationship between individual realizations and the aggregated uncertainty result.

Figure 2. Probability-based opportunity analysis generated from multiple reservoir realizations.

Generate explicit three-dimensional well trajectories while honoring selected drilling centers, existing wells, spacing rule Constraint-based well placement and trajectory designs, development patterns, surface constraints, and trajectory limits.

Figure 3. Automatically generated well trajectories honoring engineering and operational constraints.

Customized completion generation: create casing and perforation configurations as part of case construction. Perforations can be restricted to target or intersected flow units and filtered using selected properties, surfaces, or depth criteria.

Simulation-case generation: create simulation-ready development scenarios containing generated wells, completion intervals, schedules, and operating controls for subsequent production evaluation..

Probabilistic production assessment: compare generated development alternatives across multiple realizations using production distributions and percentile-based results to support uncertainty-aware ranking.

Figure 4. Probabilistic production assessment comparing candidate wells.

Integrated FDPlan concept generation workflow: Following opportunity identification in Petrel software, embedded FDPlan Concept Generator algorithms automatically generate technically feasible well trajectories, completions, and development scenarios while honoring engineering and operational constraints. All outputs are stored as native Petrel project objects for further interpretation, refinement, and simulation.

Figure 5. End-to-end well placement workflow in Petrel software

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