KEYFACT Energy
Having just released version 3.3 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, Rich Webb, GIS Software Product Manager, Exprodat, highlights a few of his favourite new features so you can check them out after you have installed the new version.
1 – Create better Gun Barrel diagrams
Our users loved the initial versions of the Create Gun Barrel Plot tool, which allows you to do things like:
- Interactively draw a cross-section line across your key wells and create a Gun Barrel plot from those wells
- Measure true spacing between multiple wells and multiple benches
- Visualize your key geological horizons.
The initial versions of the tool were very popular and through discussions with our users we could see they were making many new and innovative gun barrel plots. We also had lots of enhancement requests for the tool, which is terrific.
So, in thise latest release, you can do even more, such as:
- See 2D measures on graph, broken out into X and Z components.
- View lease boundaries on the graph to see your land position as well.
- Fill and smooth your geological intervals to help bring those to life.
- Control label placement, font and color to help you customize your plot ‘look-and-feel’ even further.
- Exposed the ‘well trim’ controls to help with complex borehole scenarios.
These enhancements really help you create the gun barrel diagrams that you need. A recent conversation with a super-major customer described the new version as “the most comprehensive gun barrel tool I’ve seen”.
If you’re still drawing these manually… then do get in touch!
2 – New tool for moving pads and associated wells
Sometimes, when planning pads, the modelled pad locations need to be slightly tweaked. In previous versions of Unconventionals Analyst this could lead to the slightly annoying situation whereby you also then needed to move all the associated well locations.
To help with this, we created a new tool called Modify Pads, which allows you to quickly move, rotate and resize pads. To further ease your burden, you can now select well layers to move with the pads, as well as update the “constrained status” of pads (based on your Constraints model).
Watch the demo clip below to see a pad being moved to an unconstrained location, the status attributes get updated and the well heads moving with it. Again, this means much faster editing for you!
3 – Control the drained area around existing wells
When building inventory locations, you’re almost always working around existing wells. Often these wells are of varying ages, varying frac technology etc. This means that the potential drained rock volume of these existing wells is… variable. Modelling these variations can be complicated and you told us that you wanted an easier way to do this in the Create Well Sticks tool.
So, to help with that, we’ve added a new capability to control the drained area of existing wells by either specifying a constant value or utilizing the attributes of the existing wells feature class. This new function gives you tighter control of your inventory modelling and much better results.
In the example below, wells 1 and 2 have a more modern frac technology and have drained a wider area than well 3 – to do this I used the new capability to control the setting by using an attribute in the layer.
4 – Control constraints using attributes
In response to your enhancement suggestions, we’ve added the ability to control constraints using values inside layer attributes. This allows you to create varying constraint buffers within the tool without having to break out different features, e.g. highways vs country roads (see below example), or major faults vs minor faults. Simply add an attribute to the features for the buffer distance. Oh, and please do keep peppering us with those enhancement requests!
5 – New methods for calculating well spacing
Finally, the Calculate Lateral Spacing by Well tool has been a firm favourite among the user community since we introduced it, as it systematically goes through each well in a layer (and/or selection) calculating average spacing to every other well within a specified search distance, generating these statistics as well as identifying the nearest well on each side to give an average spacing to the nearest neighbor. This has been giving our users a competitive advantage…. but they never rest, they want a greater competativecompetitive advantage!
Thanks to user feedback we’ve implemented new methods to run the spacing calculations, including the ability to exclude wells based on whether they are older or younger than the source well and the ability to only measure spacing between layers.
These methods allow our users to get historical spacing measurements to compare against production rates and also spacing statistics based on measurements to only PDP wells from modelled inventory wells, for example.
