ECLIPSE 2018.2 development has focused on the improvement of existing functionalities in two areas: usability and client requested enhancements. User permeability can now be defined in J-Function to enable workflows such as sensitivity study of permeability for history matching without affecting the fluid in place. ECLIPSE 2018.2 delivers several enhancements based on customer feedback, including performance improvement, large model management, and well controls.
For ECLIPSE 100, you can now define the permeability values to be used for J-Function by using the PERMJFUN keyword and setting the permeability direction to ‘U’ in the JFUNC or JFUNCR keywords. In the Define simulation case process in Petrel 2018.2 and later, you can supply a grid property as the J-Function permeability. This enables you to run many new workflows, such as creating a sensitivity study of permeability for history matching while fixing the fluid in place with PERMJFUN.
ECLIPSE 2018.2 contains several changes to address issues discovered in previous releases, as part of our ongoing commitment to improving ECLIPSE.
ECLIPSE: Reservoir engineers involved in production forecasting, reserves estimation, field development planning, or reservoir management.
FrontSim: Geoscientists and reservoir engineers performing geological model screening and ranking or pattern flood management.
Schlumberger has the commitment to continuously develop ECLIPSE industry-reference reservoir simulator, which has more than three decades in the market and has been used by almost all operators and service companies around the globe. ECLIPSE simulator is positioned as the industry reference simulator used to predict and plan field production strategies. It is important to highlight the continuous commitment from Schlumberger to support and enhance the ECLIPSE simulator.