Petrel* 2019.

1 EasyFrac Plug-in

Release Notes

Version: 1.1.0
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Introduction
Hydraulic fracturing is a mechanical process of reservoir stimulation, in which
the rock is broken along the plane of minimum durability due to the stimulation
pressure created with the injected fluid. On production wells, the process used to
maximize the extraction of underground geological formations to allow natural gas and
oil to flow from the rock pores to wellbore and up to the surface. The process used to
increase the capacity of the injection wells.

The EasyFrac plug-in uses initial information about field development and the
modeled fracture process to define connections of geologically fracture network. Next,
the defined simulation case is used in computing with Eclipse.

Product and feature changes

Version Changes
1.1.0 1) COMPLUMP(L) support (Eclipse)
2) Export of comments to the end of COMPDAT keyword (Eclipse)
3) “Delete EasyFrac keywords” button added (Eclipse)
3) Lots of bugs fixed
1.0.9 Support amalgamated local grid refinement using CARFIN keyword (it
isn’t available for “GSG” grid export type of ECLIPSE100 case)
1.0.8.4 Fixed crash of Petrel 2018 during running EasyFrac Case
1.0.8.3 Bug fixing
1.0.8.0 1) Fracture azimuth from maps and 3D properties (geomechanics
modelling outputs)
2) Export log in separate file instead of message log
3) Bug fixing
1.0.7.0 1) Major update for INTERSECT simulator: fixed issue with
WellToCellConnection parameters
4) New format of field value filter
5) Added closure date to shut corresponding EasyFrac connections
6) Multistage fracture – ability to specify distance from TD and start
point
7) Bug fixing

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 1.0.6.5 1) Fixed issue with export keyword for case with dualporo/dualperm
2) Added validation of strategy property access
3) Added show messagebox if strategy is damaged
4) Fixed convertation issue for Field Unit System
1.0.6.3 Bug fixing
1.0.6.1 1) Fracture visualization settings:
a. Show in the intersection window
b. Show in the 3D window
c. Different plane visualization options
2) Support merging EasyFrac sets
3) INTERSECT Support (Development strategy cases)
4) Field value Filter in EasyFrac Manager
5) Show all and Hide all buttons in EasyFrac Manager
6) Multistage fracture – ability to specify distance from the well target
depth to first fracture stage (was fixed to 3m)
7) Ability to tune numerical dispersion correlation to user average
fracture width (was fixed to 2.6 mm)
8) Before export, development strategy is checked for wells in EasyFrac
set. Fractures for wells that are absent in development strategy are not
exported
1.0.5.4 Bug fixing
1.0.5.1 1) New worskstep EditEasyFracSet, allows users to use EasyFrac
parameters in “Uncertainty and Optimization” process.
2) Asymmetrical fractures are now supported
3) Well productivity decrease over time now can be set as a
logarithmic, exponential or power functions.
4) LGRs and MSW options are now supported
5) Plug-in now can export skin factors instead of CCF
6) Pre- and post-processing workflows for EasyFracE100 Simulation
Case
7) Simplified method of specifying multi-stage fracturing on
horizontal wells is added
8) Hydraulic Fracture can now be visualized on Map and
Instersection Windows (in addition to previously supported 2D
and 3D Window).

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Manipulated domain objects list
 Folder
 Simulation case
 Property (Grid)

Custom domain objects

Types of custom domain objects are “EasyFrac set”, “Slr.SCC.EasyFrac Simulation”.

Petrel ribbon style

Figure 1. New EasyFrac set.

EasyFrac plug-in was built for Petrel 2019.1 version.

Plug-in version 1.1.0

Plug-in release date July 2019

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 Knows issues

Not applicable

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