Stimplan 8.0 hydraulic fracture design

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Stimplan 8.0 hydraulic fracture design​


StimPlan™ is a complete and integrated software solution for hydraulic fracture design, analysis, and optimization. With a comprehensive integrated toolkit and the industry’s most rigorous geometry models, StimPlan™ helps operators worldwide maximize their well performance while lowering expenditure and reducing their environmental footprint, however complex their reservoir or fracture treatment design.

Post-frac benchmarking studies show that rigorous hydraulic stimulation design and treatment optimization helps both reduce operational problems and significantly improve well performance. Through optimizing the hydraulic fracture treatment, StimPlan™ helps operators not only increase production but also drive down well costs through savings in proppant, pumping, and water disposal.
With an ever-increasing emphasis on minimizing the environmental impact of oil and gas exploitation, StimPlan™ also helps ensure environmentally responsible hydraulic fracture operations.

StimPlan™ V8 Released First Quarter 2020

Look & Feel

The major change for Version 8 (is a major change) will be in the GUI – the “look and feel”. This has been completely revamped to a “tree” structure allowing more direct, and hopefully more intuitive access to every input dialog. This access has been designed to allow a logical workflow. This total rewrite of the software also promotes stability, and ultimately allows an option for cloud computing where the software resides on a network server. An example of the new architecture is seen in the pictures below.

The major change for Version 8

The major change for Version 8 2

The major change for Version 8 3

StimPlan Files Now Includes Inputs and Simulation Results

StimPlan Version 8 has moved from input STP files and Simulation Results package folders to a unified dataset system with the extension .dat. These files will include all inputs that a user works on along with simulation results for Frac Geometry Models and Reservoir Models.

Please note that previous versions of StimPlan STP files are compatible with version 8, and results packages as well. Also, if a user chooses to share a dataset with another user, they have the option to include or exclude results when their dataset is being exported from StimPlan.

Advantages of Server-Client Structure

With new StimPlan V8 Cloud, you can run dozens of designs in less time than you previously spent completing a single simulation – without the cost of adding hardware or multiple software licenses.

  1. Run multiple cases at the same time in a server.
  2. The running speed can be well improved depending on the server’s computation capability.
  3. Easy to organize and search for cases.
  4. Easy to share information among cases and users.

Search Function Available in Several Pages

Search function is included in several different pages of StimPlan to facilitate finding information needed by the user. Search function is available under Datasets, Rock Types, Proppant Data, Fluid Data, Pipe Friction, and Results Summary.

New Function in Logs

Auto-Pick of Layers in Log has a new and improved algorithm. Auto-Pick function allows the user to select different parameters to be considered for layering selection and set different smoothing and sensitivity levels to each parameter.

Auto-Pick of Layers in Log has a new and improved algorithm

Generate synthetic shear log. If dipole sonic logs are available for an offset well, StimPlan can generate a synthetic shear sonic log for the treated well that has the compressional log only.

Generate synthetic shear log

New Input Pages in Frac Geometry Models

  1. Separate “Deviation Data” from “Well Data”, because it is used in both “Logs” and “Frac Geometry Models”.
  2. Separate “Perforations” from “Geologic Layering” to accommodate multiple perforation interval inputs in unconventional.
  3. Add a new page of “Microseismic” to load microseismic data.
  4. Add a new page of “Multiple Stages” that allows different number of perforations and pump schedule for each stage.
 
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