New Software Release

In this release you will find:

→ Numerous usability improvements to Petromod™ basin modeling software

→ The first version for multiple scenario analysis has been implemented. Users can now simulate several versions of a model varying one parameter at a time

→ New features and enhancements related to carbon storage workflows

→ Open Simulator can now be used as a stand-alone Python module without using Petromod software!

→ A whole host of refinements to IP Express

→ Much, much more...

Additional release highlights and information:

Model of CO₂ dissolved in water and transport with the waterflow:

Advection modeling of the CO₂ dissolved in water. Understand and predict the transport and distribution of CO₂. This is the first commercial release in Petromod software of this workflow. - Data Courtesy of Geoscience Australia

CO₂ migration modeling using Darcy flow and precipitation of CO₂ in carbonates.
 

Precipitation of CO₂ in carbonates. Including precipitation of CO₂ in carbonates in CO₂ storage modeling enhances our understanding of natural carbon sequestration processes. This is the first commercial release in Petromod software including this workflow. - Data Courtesy of NPD

Product overview

Petromod™ basin modeling software combines seismic, well, and geological information to model the evolution of a sedimentary basin.

Classically, applied for hydrocarbon exploration, Petromod software predicts if and how a reservoir has been charged with hydrocarbons. This includes the source and timing of hydrocarbon generation, migration routes, quantities, and hydrocarbon type in the subsurface or at surface conditions.

Petromod software is equally suitable for other basin modeling usages such as carbon storage site screening, natural hydrogen modeling, and geothermal modeling. Petromod software can be used in all geological environments, regardless of their complexity. This includes compressional and extensional tectonic environments and salt provinces.

Petromod software has a standardized user interface across the entire 1D, 2D, and 3D software suite, and employs the same simulators in 1D, 2D, and 3D to ensure that all technical features and tools are available and identical in all dimensions.

Multiple simulation methods, for example, Darcy, flow path (ray tracing), invasion percolation (IP), and hybrid and combined methods (Darcy/flow path/IP) are used with the same data models. It is possible to couple water solubility including dissolution, diffusion, and advection with all migration methods.

Petromod software’s fluid migration modeling technology is the most advanced commercially available tool of its kind, and the only commercial system with fully pressure volume temperature controlled modeling of n-component/3-phase relationships during the entire migration process. The 2D and 3D migration modeling technology delivers an improved understanding and prediction of fluid properties for several basin model applications by offering flash calculations throughout the entire model and its geological history.

For further analysis and post-processing, Petromod software’s input and output data is easily integrated with Petrel™ subsurface software.

PetroMod 2024.1 is also available in the Delfi platform as part of the domain profiles.

Learn more about PetroMod software

Release Details

PetroMod 2024.1 combines a state-of-the-art user interface with high-simulation performance that enables you to perform sophisticated analyses of the dynamic temperature, pressure, and migration history of complex geological systems in a fast and intuitive, process-focused workflow.

Key features and enhancements in this release:

Carbon storage workflows
The following improvements and new features related to carbon storage workflows have been implemented:

• Connection with CarbonStorageRanking (Delfi platform only)
• Mineralization of CO2 in carbonates
• Improved advection modelling
• Time step resolution down to one week
• New age unit “a” (year)
• IP Express new features
• Influence of aquifers on water vectors
• Visualization of the results per sublayers

Multiple scenarios

The first version for multiple scenario analysis has been implemented. Now you can simulate several versions of a model varying one parameter at a time. The following tools have been adjusted to be compatible with multiple scenarios:

• Command Menu
• Simulator
• Viewers
• Overlay calculator

Command Menu

• Project Browser—new features and new arrangement
• Greatly improved performance of SEG-Y export

PetroBuilder 2D/3D

• Simulation settings kept when using Save as, Create child model, and Regrid model

PetroBuilder 3D

• Possibility to sample property cubes when using the processes Create child model and Regrid model

Simulator

• Nested Models: output ages from nested model are now considered
• Open Simulator can now be used as a standalone Python module without using the Petromod simulator

Viewer 3D

• Sublayer visualization
• Refresh of simulation results

User-experience improvements

• Improvements in project browser
• Simulation status icons shown in many apps
• Customized range of output ages
• Well performance has been improved across all applications
• Search function now implemented in PetroBuilders
• Many more!