OFM software new features

Release details

OFM 23.3 is a full-install release and supersedes all previous versions. It is available both as a 32-bit and 64-bit application. Please refer to the installation guide for installation requirements.

Note: OFM 23.3 is the last release to support both 32-bit and 64-bit installation options. Starting in 2025, only the 64-bit version will be available.

New and enhanced features

OFM 23.3 builds on the new features and upgrades provided in previous recent OFM software releases, and brings new, valuable solutions as well. This release introduces the following key enhancements:

New surface map visualization
A new surface map visualization has been added to the portfolio of dashboard analyses, bridging the gap between Classic OFM software analyses and the dashboard options. The surface map is also available as a pop-up window in the standard grid map analysis.

New export spreadsheet
A new export spreadsheet functionality is now available. This export tool provides a simple user interface for preparing and exporting CSV files and formats designed specifically for Petrel™ subsurface software for improved integration with OFM software.

Mapping and charting updates

• Multiple control points can now be added in grid maps, contour maps and in the volumetrics_oil (OOIP) layer.
• New option available for shifting a line chart curve in time (x-axis displacement).
• Send-to-Excel option added to the right-click menu for box charts.

Other updates

• Added option to select type curves in a variable selector for a report.
• Additional options for length and area units are now available in the pattern manager.
• New option in forecasting to combine Y-axes for multiple variables, including variables with different units.

Release details

OFM™ 23.2 is a full-install release and supersedes all previous versions. It is available both as a 32-bit and 64-bit application. Note OFM 23.1 was the last major release with both 32-bit and 64-bit installation options. Minor releases in 2024 will include both options, but starting in 2025, OFM well and reservoir analysis software will only be available as a 64-bit application.

New and enhanced features

Conditional highlighting in reporting
Conditional highlighting in reporting has been updated to include the functionality of OFM 22.1, in addition to the enhancements made in OFM 23.1 (refer to OFM 23.1 release notes).

Column level SQL generation option
The option to select column level SQL generation has been removed, and the default set to table level SQL generation. Further testing is required.

Performance enhancements
Various issues have been resolved (refer to OFM 23.2 Release Notes).

Release details

OFM™ 22.1 is a full-install release and supersedes all previous versions. It is available both as a 32-bit and 64-bit application.

New and enhanced features

OFM 22.1 introduces new features, together with quality upgrades and enhancements on current modules. This release also brings a key update for OFM well and reservoir analysis software plug-in development, with new visual studio extensions.

New pie, doughnut and treemap analysis
Pie, doughnut, and treemap charts available in OFM 22.1, expanding the portfolio of visualizations. Drill-down capabilities provide flexible and powerful hierarchical views of the data.

New pattern manager
New pattern manager added for more effective waterflood analyses. It brings flexibility and improved user efficiency in managing project patterns and related data in an easy-to-use template.

• Display, sort, and filter pattern parameters for customized views.
• Color code by pattern and/or completions.
• Validate and edit pattern factors.
• Calculate and display pattern area and distance between wells.

Catalog updates

• Catalog enabled for dashboard templates
• Ten new dashboard templates included in the standard catalog
• New template export manager for sharing classic and dashboard templates

Mapping updates

• New mapping layer for grid calculations: Original Oil in Place (OOIP), Pore Volume (PV), Hydrocarbon PV (HCPV), and Movable PV (MPV)

Performance update

• SQL performance options added
• New autosave feature
• Two Azure active directory (AD) methods enabled for SQL server

OFM software plug-in development—new visual studio extensions
This release provides new visual studio extensions with templates to easily create OFM software functions and analysis plug-ins.

Release details

OFM 21.2 is a full-install release and supersedes all previous versions. It is available both as a 32-bit and 64-bit application. Please refer to the installation guide for installation requirements.

OFM 21.2 builds on the features and upgrades introduced in OFM 21.1 (July 2021), with a focus on the forecast manager and mapping analysis. It also brings a new Rate-Cumulative Analysis for plotting rates vs. cumulative values. The new Rate-Cum Analysis enables better charting of a few specialized line plots.

New and enhanced features

OFM 21.2 offers new functionality and enhanced features in a few key modules.

• New Rate-Cum Analysis
   

This analysis provides an improved visualization over the standard Line Chart for datasets plotted with a running sum of both x-axis and y-axis variables for several groups of wells. For example, you can use the Rate-Cum Analysis to generate a

• rate vs. cum stacked chart, or
• WOR vs. cum chart
   

As a result, you can analyze different drilling campaigns or evaluate whether newly drilled wells accelerate production or add reserves.

• Mapping
• Added support for loading an image file as an annotation layer
• Added an option to edit min/max color range values
• Grid map statistics now updated based on the grid area
• Wells without location coordinates no longer drawn on the map to reduce rendering time
   

• Forecasts
• Updated Lasso functionality for DCA point selection
   

• Forecast manager
• Added columns for the Display Saved Forecasts and Update End Rate/Ratio tables.
   

Fitting Equation, Forecast Template, and Entity Type

• Added support for displaying completion name as Alias
• Forecasts now displayed in the table based on the current filter

Release details

OFM 21.1 is a full-install release and supersedes all previous versions. It is available both as a 32-bit and 64-bit application.

OFM 21.1 introduces a new forecast manager module with auto forecasting capabilities, as well as enhancements to core modules (decline curve analysis (DCA), cumulative distribution function analysis (CDF), mapping and reporting), for better user experience and flexibility. Performance improvements include an upgrade for saving forecasts to SQL servers and for opening projects with very large well counts.

Performance improvements

Performance improvements include:

• Upgrades for saving forecasts to SQL servers.
• Upgrades to the process of loading projects with large well counts (initial data loading and opening of the base map).

New and enhanced features

OFM 21.1 offers new functionality and enhanced features in several modules.

New forecast manager with three options for managing production forecasts:

• Display saved forecasts enables users to view a table with key information for saved forecasts, such as forecast parameters, start time, end time, reserves and EURs.
• Run auto forecast enables batch forecasting of multiple completions or entities
• Update end rate/ratio (“economic limit”) provides an option to update the forecast end rate and/or end ratio only, while all other forecast parameters are held constant. This allows the users to quickly evaluate the impact of a new “economic limit” on reserves and EURs.

Forecast module

• Added flexibility in DCA filtering and datapoint selection.
• Switch rate date “drop line” available on DCA charts and forecast tables.

CDF Module

• Display fit curves on the CDF chart.
• Display P-value location with a drop line on the CDF chart.

Reporting and mapping

• New index feature that improves plotting and reporting of non-date dependent data.
• Update of the color scale range for variables in bounded maps (for pattern-level data).