| Version 2.5 - What's New in this Release |  |
1) Projects Tab
a. New layout and Peformance
i. A full rewrite of the projects list allows for quick folder navigation. The projects themselves are now listed on the right hand side instead of embedded in the folder tree. This allows for less scrolling and faster performance.
b. Editing Folder Settings
i. Folder Settings such as renaming and security have been moved below the folder icon with the gear on it. Clicking on the name of the folder now loads that folders projects on the right hand side.
2) Network View Tab
a. Gantt Popup Chart
i. Clicking on the (Gantt) link beside the Scheduler link at the top of the network tab will bring up a full gantt chart for quick review. The same options as selected for the main gantt chart will be used to draw this chart.
b. Downtime Records moved to Project level
i. Downtime records were previous a named record that was shared by all users in the same company for all projects.
ii. Any project opened in 2.4.1 has all of its downtime records converted to a new asset based downtime record. Each record is created and managed at a single asset (this data is shared in shared assets between Scenarios).
iii. These records are copied with projects and saved to file and do not conflict with any other projects data.
3) Scheduling Data Entry
a. Just in time Conditions
i. Just in Time conditions are now supported in the calcualations. This allows the key timing task to in the middle of a group of related tasks. (Permitting a well just before the rig shows up for instance).
ii. Although not technically required, it is generally a good idea that these tasks to not use a resource unless absolutly required.
b. Rename of Condition Types
i. Start After (Start Finish)
ii. Finish Just in Time (Finish Start)
c. Drilling Entry Changes
i. Step Based Conditions
1. Each step of a well entry may now have its own conditions to other steps in the well. (Previously they always went in step number order).
2. This defaults to steps running in order with each step waiting for the previous steps.
3. Removing the condition will allow all steps to run at the same time.
ii. Step Based Is Active Flag
1. Each Step now has its own Is Active Flag. This allows you to turn off certain step using the Well List but use the same base template
iii. Build Pad Option
1. Currently Hidden in this version
iv. Pad List
1. Currently Hidden in this version
v. Drill in Step Order
1. When a group name is entered, all steps with the same name (accross different wells) will:
a. Use the Same Resource
b. Require a contiguous block of time on that resource
c. All steps will then proceed using that resource, each using their own time on that resource.
vi. Simultaneous Complete?
1. With this flag selcted the Drill in Step Order is modified to:
a. Uses only 1 Resource for the maximum time required of a single step.
b. All steps go on same start day and finish on the same day
vii. Decimal Day Durations
1. Durations on well steps can now be decimal numbers. This is honoured down to the decimal day level
4) Scheduling Gantt Chart
a. Resource Summary
i. A new top panel is included that shows the resource usage over time. Many options are described below for controlling this panel.
ii. Click to Expand/Collapse Clicking on the left side (where the text is) of the resource summary will instantly hide/restore the panels size. Easy way to get it out of the way for a moment.
b. Scrollable Panels
i. The Green vertical and horizontal bars on the page are draggable to change the size of the four panels.
c. Page numbering
i. All available pages will be shown at the top left of the chart for immediate access to all pages. The current page is highlighted purple.
d. Zoom and Pan Start Year
i. Zoom Slider bar changes the zoom level for the gantt chart. As much of the projects calculation windows as possible will be shown in the current window with limits set for performance and download size reasons.
ii. Change the left most year of the calculation shown on the Gantt Chart. Enter directly or use the + or buttons to move 1 year.
e. Gantt Options
i. Draw with Gradient Colours
1. Draws the bars on the Gantt Chart with a gradient colour instead of solid. Just a user preference.
ii. Resource Summary
1. Use Drilling Program Colours
a. Instead of drawing the well colours (general set to use product colourin), the Resource summary will use the specific Drilling program colours.
2. Draw Drilling Program Names
a. Draws the name of the Drilling Program each time a new Drilling program becomes active for a given resource.
3. Draw Double Height Rows
a. Draws the Resource summary with extra tall rows. This provides more room for text.
4. Print/Popup Only the Resource Summary
a. The printable and pop up Gantt charts do not include the detail view, just the Resource Summary.
f. Printable Version Clicking this link creates a new window in the application with the full gantt chart shown. This is then easily available for Copy to Clipboard (Right Click) or to print from the Browser print menu.
i. Note the new Gantt chart option that will only print the Resource Summary and not the detailed view.
ii. This view will still only be for the current page. Extending your page size can help this, but there are local machine browser limitations as to how big of a picture you can download at one time.
g. Trinary Collapse Options
5) Schedule Calculations (No user data changes required)
a. Delayed Finish Finish Adjustments to Schedule
i. When wells are drilled due to recompletion triggers or Fill Facility triggers those wells can cause ripple effects in later pre planned scheduling events. For instance a facility that is planned to Finish-Finish to a later drilling program may find that the extra wells have delayed the drilling program and would be starting too early.
ii. The program now calculates any long term bumping of projects due to resource usage changes.
iii. All changes are still subject to resource availability.
b. Continuing Maintenance Tasks
i. Maintenance tasks now continue to spend capital at a facility, even when all of the wells have stopped producing. This is required to handle situations where further continuous drilling may be ongoing.
ii. Economic limits at the target facility will still stop the maintenance capital, as will setting the number of repeats.
c. Decimal Day Durations in Well Steps
i. Durations in Well Entry Steps for Duration, Mobilization, and DeMobilization now accept decimal number of days. Two, 3.5 day duration wells will now take 7 days to complete.
6) Downtime Records
a. Moved to the Asset Level
i. Downtime records were previous a named record that was shared by all users in the same company for all projects.
ii. Any project opened in 2.4.1 has all of its downtime records converted to a new asset based downtime record. Each record is created and managed at a single asset (this data is shared in shared assets between Scenarios).
iii. These records are copied with projects and saved to file and do not conflict with any other projects data.
iv. You can access an assets down time records from either the Data Menu or from the link at the top of the network view tab.
v. DO NOT DELETE the old records in the database. Older unopened projects may still be linked to those records. This will be done by administrators at a later date.
7) Functions
a. New Functions
i. Filter Lists Lists the available Asset Filters
ii. @MaxStep Returns the zero baed last step of the calcualtion( 2 years == 23).
iii. Owners Cost and UAP added to the list of Capital Types
iv. Net Production added to the list of Production Data Types
v. @CapitalDetailWI() working interest version of the @CapitalDetail() function.
vi. @WellCountNewInj(), @WellCountNewProd(), @WellCountNewRecomplete() returns a monthly value of new wells created by category.
vii. @FixedFirst() and @FixedLast() - Returns the first or last non zero value from the Fixed data column Specified. Returns zero if no non zero value is found
b. Changes in Calculations
i. Using functions that refererence the current period production of an asset (i.e. @Oil(), @Data()) as part of the calculation of current period production (as a decline function or constraint function)
1. Will return the Potential Production of a Well. This is the maximum production that the well is capable of producing in that month.
2. Will in most cases return Zero for a facility or asset that is downstream of the asset being calculated. Solvers like the Full Optimization solver solve the network as a whole and cannot do circular custom logic as part of the NLP. Some solvers may leave the network in unpredictable states during their calculation and this is highly discouraged.
3. You may use @LastStep() to access the previous steps production safely and these functions are perfectly valid when referencing a wells potential production.
8) Report Editor
a. Capital Names. The current projects friendly capital names are now appended to the base Capital Class names to help identify each capital class when building a report.
b. Selecting CapClass1 (My Model Name) still maps to CapClass1 for any model, but this does help when building custom reports for a single model.
c. Save to File, Load to File. This feature is mainly an administrator feature for moving reports from one company to another, but can also be used to take a snap shot of a report definition for backup purposes.
d. User Function Ratio has been changed to User Function Last. This reports the Last value in the time period (december in a year for instance).
9) CSV Import
a. Import Facilities
i. You may now specify a facility sub type. This will create a facility. You may then add Capital and set a flows to target for that facility. This allows the user to create an entire network from the CSV import if desired.
ii. Valid types are: OilWell, GasWell, Injector, BusinessUnit, Capital, Choke, Company, Compressor , Dehydrator, DrillingPlan, Field, FieldFacility, GasPlant, Injection, Manifold, OilBattery, Pipeline, Platform, ReportingNode, RiskNode, SWBattery, Tanker, Terminal, TieIn, Truck
10) Reporting
a. Report Period
i. Reports can now report in a mixed number of time units.
ii. Check the box next to the time scale(s) you want included in the report.
iii. Enter the number of years that each time scale should report. Above the report will have 12 months monthly, 24 months quarterly and any remaining time yearly.
iv. Leaving a box blank will mean the remainder of the report will report in that format.
v. If a report runs out of specified time, the remainder will be included as a remainder line on the report.
vi. Double Clicking on one of the time check boxes will clear all other time scales and just report in that time format. A Quick way to toggle back and forth.
b. Report Groups
i. Report groups allow you to slice and dice your data in the project to get back reports that show sub totals for each group.
ii. To create Report groups
1. Create a report group by clicking on the blue Report Groups link at the top of the report page.
2. This group is by default saved for this project in particular. You can use the Copy to Clipboard and Paste from clipboard to get a report group from one project to another if you desire. Administrators can create common report groups for the company.
iii. To Use Report Groups
1. Select a report group off of the list. This will immediate run the report with the current options.
2. Further changes to the options require you to press the refresh icon 
to get an updated report. These reports can take a while depending on what you are asking for.
iv. Report group Options
1. Show Asset Detail each well or facility will get at least one line in the report if it is included in the report, otherwise you will just get one line per group.
2. Show Date Detail each line in the report will also be expanded to show the yearly or monthly detail. THIS CAN CREATE VERY LARGE REPORTS. Please be cautious.
3. Include Blank Groups groups with a blank label will not be included.
4. Repeat Group Labels each level of detail in the report will include the group labels. This is used generally if you plan to copy the report to excel and resort the rows.
5. Show Group Subtotals Each group gets a sub total line in the report.
6. Show Report Total - A final report total is included
c. Report Filters
i. Report Filters use the common Scenario Asset filters that are also used on the Network Diagram tab.
ii. Filters will run a custom user formula and evaluate is as either true or false for each asset in the model. Those true will be included in the report.
iii. The formulas must be numeric in nature at this point
iv. Examples
1. Just Wells with a SubType of OilWell =@assettype('oilwell')
2. Assets starting in September 2010 =@If(AssetStartDate() = @Date(2010,9,1))
3. Well marked as Exploration = @Scalar(Exploration) where Exploration is a piece of user data.
v. Administrators can set Filters to be available for all users to see automatically.
11) Asset Selection Tree
a. Single Scenario View For perforance and user interface reasons the tree control on the left side of many tabs (Data, Decline, Reporting, Graphics) has been replaced with a control that only shows one scenario at a time, with a scenario selector at the top.
12) PlanView Tab
a. The PlanView tab has been updated for greatly enhanced performance in large projects. The Facility and Well Lists now page the data (10 Facilities, 30 Wells per page).
13) Production Forecasting
a. Added CO2 as a specific product that you can attach a decline to. For a given asset this expects that the CO2 fraction in the general gas composition if Zero.
14) Calculations and Solvers
a. Removal of Full Optimization with Equal Well Curtailment (Use By Pad Version)
i. The Pad version (common Flows to target facility) is more reliable as the general version would shut in all production if any well in the entire model was shut in. This led to models that were difficult to understand why there was no production.
b. Removal of the Alternative Optimizer. This optimizer was very limited in use for projects without product specific pipelines and generally performed in a limited number of cases where the main optimizer failed. Enhancements have been made to the main solver to solver more globally and find fewer local maxima.
c. Calculation Log
i. New Colors for Recompletions and Well Termination events. These are now coloured Red to grab attention.
ii. It can be useful to use the Ctrl-F Find feature in the Calculation Log screen to search for individual events.
15) Performance Tips and Gotchas
a. Drill Wells in Listed Order.
i. Setting this on a Drilling program can have a dramatic (up to 10x) performance increase in calculation time. If you have 6000 wells that all have the possiblity of starting every day of the calcualtion, with this flag set we can stop checking after the first time a well fails to find a resource.
b. Super Wells
i. Using these to condense the result set and speed calcualtions can have a dramatic impact on calculation speed. You can toggle this on or off during the debugging stage of your model to look at individual well results in detail when required.
c. Pad Drilling Conditions
i. Adding an appropriate condition to the Pad drilling program so that all pads are not available to start every day of the calculation can also help performance. This will work for serial pad drilling by setting a finish-finish condition to the previous pads drilling program for instance.
d. Asset Defined User Data
i. DEFINE your user data at the project level. You can still set individual answers for each parameter at each well, but keeping the definition at the project level stops the program from having to create new definitions every time a well is created.
16) Menu Changes
a. Scenario -> Archive Scenario
i. As Described below in Scenario Archiving
b. Asset - >Auto Added Assets
i. Clear (Delete) Auto Added Assets will delete all auto added assets in the scenario. This can be used to make save to files smaller and to clarify the static data in a project.
ii. Convert Selected Asset(s) to Static. The selected asset (or assets if you use multi-select on the Network Tab) will be converted to Static assets. All capital, operating costs, and flow pipelines are also converted to static.
iii. In general you then want to disable or delete the schedule that created these assets as running it again will double up the counts.
c. Calculate No DownTime or Constraints
i. Runs the case with No Downtime AND No Constraints
d. Tools -> Export to Aries 2
i. A more advanced export to the Aries program is available here.
e. Tools -> Monte Carlo (Test)
i. Using functions like the @Random() and @RandomOnce() allow you to set up stochastic distributions on project parameters. This screen is a basic test screen for running a case over and over and looking at some key results and reports. Please Call Enersight if you are interested in guiding this aspect of the program.
f. Admin -> Report Groupings
i. Create Report groups. See the section on using report groups for more information
g. Admin -> US Tax Rates
i. Super Users and Administrators can edit the US State tax rates here.
17) Scenario Archiving
a. A new option is available to archive the current scenario:
i. An archived scenario will look like and has all the same characteristics as a normal scenario
ii. Full calculated results are stored with an archived scenario
iii. There is no need calculate when an archived scenario is opened.
iv. Once created, an archived scenario cannot be recalculated and any input changes made by the user will not be saved.
v. Before creating an archive, make sure you have calculated the scenario and have reviewed the results.
vi. Archived scenarios can be deleted.
b. To create an archive of the current scenario:
i. Make sure you have calculated the current scenario and have reviewed the results.
ii. From the Scenario Menu, select Archive Scenario.
iii. A new scenario will be created with the words (Archived) appended to the name
iv. The name of an archived scenario can be changed.
18) US State Tax Rates
a. US State Ad Valorum and Severance tax rates are now defaulted on a company by company basis. Super Users and Administrators may set the default tax values for their company.
b. Taxes are now broken into 3 groups (Oil & Pentane, Gas, Ethane & Propane & Butane), The EPB group of Natural Gas Liquids has been created using the existing data for Gas on a Butane basis.
c. Project Entry of data still has the option of Manual Entry or one of the states on the list.
d. Editing Company Level Data
i. Super Users and Administrators only
ii. Recommend to Right click and Copy Grid to Clipboard. Copy to Excel and make changes, then copy the entire grid back.
iii. Individual changes can be made in the grid.
19) Export to Excel
a. Number of Years Monthly
i. Setting this value will export the first X years in monthly mode and the remainder yearly