New Software Release

The Eclipse™ 2024.1 release includes key developments that improve field management and reporting workflows, as well as usability enhancements to various features.

Key release updates

Direct regrouping of wells

A “direct” regrouping option that allows unconditional transfer of wells to a new group has been added. This will prove useful in several field management scenarios, such as regrouping wells to different manifolds, facilities, or production targets.

 High well count waterflooding project displaying streamlines generated using Eclipse

Additional inflow control device information in RFT reports

RFT reports for wells containing inflow control devices (ICDs) have been extended to include three latest items: ICD (inflow control devices) length, scaling factor, and maximum flow rates at segment conditions. These can be useful for quality checking the inflow performance for these devices and can be visualized from Petrel™ subsurface software.

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Further release updates for improved functionality

Eclipse 100 and Eclipse 300 simulators

• Validation has been improved for xxxREG keywords to avoid incorrect diagnosis of data errors.
   
• Validation has been improved to ensure clean termination when an unsupported option is requested in a parallel run.

Eclipse 100 simulator

• Stability of local grid well reporting in parallel runs has been improved.
   
• Transmissibility calculations of radial grids under specific configurations have been made more robust.
   
• Validity checking for well regrouping has been improved.
   
• End-point validation and its reporting has been improved.
        

Eclipse 300 simulator

• The stability of simulations using Vertical Flow Performance (VFP) tables that could lead to network flow calculation problems has been improved.
   
• Reporting of lumped completion keywords in global and local grid wells has been made more robust.
   
• Treatment of RPTxxx (RPTSOL, RPTRST etc) mnemonics that have different inputs for Eclipse 100 and Eclipse 300 now have improved handling.
   
• Processing of RPTGRID and RPTGRIDL has been improved.
   
• Real values in messages are no longer truncated to 8 characters, providing better reporting of such quantities.
   
• Messaging about well Bottomhole Pressure (BHP) exceeding the critical pressure of water has been improved in parallel runs.
   
• The behavior for thermal datasets which do not use the component and density type keywords has been improved.
   
• Reporting has been improved for decks with the NONNC keyword.