The Wolfram Solution for Petroleum Engineering
Examine seismic exploration and well log data, evaluate reservoir models and visualize it all in three dimensions.
The Wolfram petroleum engineering solution integrates built-in filtering and frequency analysis functions, interactive graphing features and powerful computational abilities for modeling and simulation—improving efficiency and delivering better production results.
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- Key Capabilities
Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions and curated data on many topics that let you:
- Optimize the development of new fields or production from older ones
- Analyze seismic processing data to map underground reservoirs, integrate with GIS data and then visualize in 3D
- Estimate the amount of oil or gas in a reservoir and the recovery rate with advanced statistics and risk analysis
- Study inflow, leak-off and water injection of reservoirs
- Generate synthetic seismic data to verify the quality of a well tie
- Model and simulate reservoirs and flow in porous media
- Handle velocity anisotropy, anomalies and complex fracture structures
- Extract wavelets from well logs to correlate events with the seismic data
- Improve system reliability
- Estimate the lifetime of mechanical assemblies and components
Does your current tool set have these advantages?
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Using original algorithms instead of standard ones lets you develop better reservoir models
Hampson–Russell's black-box tools lock you into standard models -
Analyze well log data with unusual characteristics in nonstandard ways
Other tools allow only a limited choice of analyses -
Build interactive tools into your workflow to efficiently prototype new methods for analyzing seismic exploration and well log data
MATLAB, Excel and the Hampson–Russell suite do not have this capability -
Choose from functional and rule-based programming paradigms as desired to programmatically analyze data
Other computation environments use predominantly procedural languages
Petroleum engineering specific capabilities:
- Filter seismic data with built-in Fourier transforms, frequency domain analysis and filtering functions »
- Built-in volumetric rendering and other 2D and 3D graphics functions to visualize underground structures »
- Easy creation of interactive tools to tweak parameters for prototyping data processing algorithms, models or simulations »
- Fully integrated discrete or continuous high-performance wavelet analysis for thresholding or visualizing in any dimension »
- Built-in curated data on pipelines, oil and gas production and reserves, energy consumption and more »
- Estimate the lifetime of mechanical assemblies and components using built-in survival analysis functionality »
- Complete functionality for reliability analysis, including importance measures for pinpointing subsystems that help improve system reliability »
- Built-in support for more than 4,500 units—including free-form linguistic entry, conversions and dimensional consistency checking across graphics and numeric and symbolic calculations »
- Histograms, statistical distributions and built-in curve fitting functions for analysis of seismic exploration and well log data »
- Easily define and use new distributions from data, formulas or other distributions, including copulas, mixtures order statistics, censoring, truncation and transforms »
- Read in binary seismic trace data for processing and analysis »
- Access curated technical data from Wolfram|Alpha, immediately ready for interactive or programmatic use »
- Import and export common scientific data formulas »
- Symbolic manipulation and optimization of C code and automatic C code generation for immediate use of standalone executables in production systems
- Use rule-based programming to easily create modular import or processing code for nonstandard seismic data files »
- Easy programmability with both symbolic and numeric computations to create sophisticated reservoir models and simulations, perform nonstandard analysis or model the stability of offshore platforms »
- Load and access dynamic libraries and use built-in support for GPU computation with CUDA or OpenCL for high-speed, memory-efficient execution
Wolfram System Modeler is the most complete physical modeling and simulation tool for high-fidelity modeling. With System Modeler, you can:
- Perform hybrid discrete-continuous simulation and model-based design and analysis »
- Perform multidomain lumped system simulation and analysis »
- Connect seamlessly with Mathematica for the ultimate integrated modeling, simulation and analysis workflow
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