New Features

OpenWells® software has a number of new features included in this release. The following is a short list of the major enhancements in this release and previous releases. For a more complete listing of changes, including resolved defects, please refer to Help > Release Notes.

• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) - Building on the success of the WYSIWYG forms, a number of additional data entry areas have been converted to the WYSIWYG format. These forms are intended to increase efficiency of data entry. The following reports and dialogs now support WYSIWYG layouts:
  

  Well Properties* Create Well* Wellbore Properties* Create Wellbore* Event Properties* Create Event* Rig Properties Rig Operations Rig Equipment and Operations forms Anchor BOP* Boiler Centrifuge Degasser Hydrocyclone Motor Pit Pump Riser Shaker	Daily Operations General Time Summary Costs Safety NPT Environmental Fluid Handling Weather Mud Surveys Leak Off Tests Bulk Inventory Personnel Support Craft Valve Tests Rig Deck Log Hole Sections BHA Runs Work Strings Daily Completions*	Casing Cementing General Work* Kick* Material Transfer* Perforation* Pressure Survey* Stimulation* Wellbore Equipment*
  * indicates items that are new of the 5000.1.10 release

• Create Well, Wellbore and Event in Interactive Well Site - The Well, Wellbore and Event can now be created from the Interactive Well Site interface. Additionally, new WYSIWYG forms have been configured to speed up the process of creating a Well, Wellbore and Event.

• Create a Well - The new Create Well feature can be found on the Find Well dialog when the Select Well button is selected in the ribbon. When this button is selected the user is prompted to select the Company, Project and Site where the Well is to be created. The default WYSIWYG form has been designed to allow you to enter a summary of information that will get you started quickly and easily from one location. In addition to defining the Well, Datum, and Location this form also allows you to create your Wellbore and Event with minimal data entry.

• Create a Wellbore and an Event - The new Create Wellbore and Create Event features can both be found on the Select Wellbore and Event dialog when the Select Wellbore/Event button is selected in the ribbon.  These features now each include WYSIWYG forms that are specifically designed to speed up the process of creating the Wellbore and creating the Event. This is accomplished by consolidating data entry onto a single screen.

• Today’s Well's - The Today’s Wells feature can now be launched from the Interactive Well Site’s ribbon. This feature allows engineers and rig managers to quickly determine the status of Wells they are involved with from one simplified location.

• Stimulations - A new Stimulations WYSIWYG form has been designed to simplify the workflow for entering stimulations data. This new workflow combines many of the previously separate sections of the Stimulation report. A user can now enter the Treatment and define the Fluids, Chemicals, Proppants and optionally Steps for the individual Treatment. In addition Fluids and Proppants defined in each Step, can now be manually pushed out to the Fluids and Proppants tables. To avoid duplication of data in these spreadsheets, Fluids are pushed by Fluid Name and Proppants are pushed by Proppant Type and Concentration. The Stimulations form is accessed from the Activities link on the Interactive Well Site interface.

• Tests - The following new fields have been added to the Test report. These fields can be configured in the layout manager for quick and error free data entry.
  
  The following fields are now available in the General and Test Summary sections.
  

  Table.Field	Field
  CD_TEST.total_load_to_recover	Total load to recover
  CD_TEST.previous_day_oil_cumulative	Previous day oil cumulative
  CD_TEST.percent_recovered	Percent recovered
  CD_TEST.previous_day_water_cumulative	Previous day water cumulative
  CD_TEST.current_load_to_recover	Current load to recover


The following fields are now available in the Test Spreadsheet, when the Flowing Well test type is selected. By default, these fields appear in the details area of the spreadsheet, but can be added to the spreadsheet by the EDM Administrator for easy data entry.


Table.Field	Field
CD_TEST_FLOW.load_water	Load water
CD_TEST_FLOW.load_water_cumulative	Load water cumulative
CD_TEST_FLOW.load_water_total_cumulative	Load water total cumulative
CD_TEST_FLOW.load_to_recover	Load to recover
CD_TEST_FLOW.percent_recovered	Percent recovered
CD_TEST_FLOW.total_oil_per_day	Total oil per day
CD_TEST_FLOW.oil_cumulative	Oil cumulative
CD_TEST_FLOW.total_oil_cumulative	Total oil cumulative
CD_TEST_FLOW.differential_pressure	Differential pressure
CD_TEST_FLOW.flow_line_temperature	Flow line temperature

• Stimulations to Flowback Workflow - During a stimulations job, fluids are pumped into the well. These fluids must subsequently be recovered, so an accurate reading of the formation fluids and the well's production rate can be captured. As fluids are unloaded from the well, the fluid volumes in the Test report are subtracted from the Total load to recover. Once the Total load to recover reaches zero, the readings taken downhole more accurately reflect the formation fluids and not the stimulation fluids that were pumped downhole. For more information, see the Stimulation to Flowback Workflow topic.

• Lessons Learned - A number of new fields have been added to the Lessons Learned area to improve on knowledge management gathering. These changes are outlined below.
  
  The following fields are now available in the General tab.
  

  Table.Field	Field
  CD_LESSON.drilling_supervisor	Drilling supervisor
  CD_LESSON.super1_name	Super1 name
  CD_LESSON.super2_name	Super2 name
  CD_LESSON.responsible_party	Responsible party
  CD_LESSON.vendor_name	Vendor name
  CD_LESSON.drilling_program_reference	Drilling plan/prog. ref.
  CD_LESSON.is_externally_reported	Externally reported check box
  CD_LESSON.external_reference	External reference
  CD_LESSON.is_change_management_required	Change mgmt. required check box
  CD_LESSON.change_management_reference	Change mgmt. reference
  CD_LESSON.lesson_review_date	Lesson review date
  CD_LESSON.lesson_approval_date	Lesson approval date
  CD_LESSON.event_no	Event no.
  CD_LESSON.event_type	Event type

The following fields are now available in the Lessons tab.


Table.Field	Field
CD_LESSON.lesson_purpose	Lesson purpose
CD_LESSON.step_no	Step no.
CD_LESSON.actual_value	Actual value
CD_LESSON.expected_outcome	Expected outcome
CD_LESSON.potential_value	Potential value

The Status tab has been added to support a historical record of a lesson’s status.


Table.Field	Field
CD_LESSON_STATUS_HISTORY.status	Status
CD_LESSON_STATUS_HISTORY.status_comments	Comments
CD_LESSON_STATUS_HISTORY.status_date	Date/Time
CD_LESSON_STATUS_HISTORY.update_person	Updated by

The following fields are now available in the Discussion tab.


Table.Field	Field
CD_LESSON_DISCUSSION.user_defined_date1	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_DISCUSSION.user_defined_date2	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_DISCUSSION.user_defined_text1	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_DISCUSSION.user_defined_text2	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_DISCUSSION.user_defined_text3	Configurable text field

The Actions tab has been added to support a historical record of a actions that have taken place related to a lesson.


Table.Field	Field
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.date_submitted	Date submitted
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.responsible_party	Responsible party
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.action_reference	Action reference
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.criticality_priority	Critical priority
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.percent_complete	Percent complete
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.date_due	Date due
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.action_comments	Action Comments
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.date_closed	Date closed
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.closed_by	Closed by
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.close_out_comments	Close out comments
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.user_defined_date1	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.user_defined_date2	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.user_defined_text1	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.user_defined_text2	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_ACTION_STATUS.user_defined_text3	Configurable text field

The following fields are now available in the Bibliography tab.


Table.Field	Field
CD_LESSON_BIBLIOGRAPHY.user_defined_date1	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_BIBLIOGRAPHY.user_defined_date2	Configurable date field
CD_LESSON_BIBLIOGRAPHY.user_defined_text1	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_BIBLIOGRAPHY.user_defined_text2	Configurable text field
CD_LESSON_BIBLIOGRAPHY.user_defined_text3	Configurable text field

5000.1.7.1 - 5000.1.9

• Conventional Pump Assemblies - When creating a Conventional Pump report, the application will give the option to pull or pull and rerun currently installed Rod String assemblies. For more information, New Report Command Wizard.

• Dual Currency - Dual Currency support has be improved to make it easier to identify the "alternate" currency in which data has been entered. This includes the addition of an Alternate Cost Class in the Unit System Editor and the addition of alternate currency fields. For more information on how Dual Currency works, see Dual Currency Support.

• Support Craft - The Support Craft section of the Daily Operations report has been redesigned to improve workflows and previous limitations, as well as to only show crafts that are active on a given day. Details of a craft are now managed in a dialog and data recorded in the section now represents the craft's presence onsite for that reporting day. Deleting a row in the spreadsheet no longer deletes the Craft itself; it only deletes the record of its presence at the well site on that day. For more information, see the Support Craft topic.

• Risers - Risers have been added to the Rig Equipment section to track the installation and removal of a riser. In addition, a Riser Operations section has been added to the Daily Operations report to record operations performed on the riser.  For more information see Riser Properties and Riser Data topics.

• Production Equipment Failures Inspection Details - A new section has been added to the Production Equipment Failures report to record Equipment Inspections. For more information, see the Inspection topic.

• Improved Spreadsheet Functionality - New functionality has been added to spreadsheets in OpenWells. User's can now select consecutive and non-consecutive rows for cutting and copying. In addition, rows can now be Inserted above the selected row. For more information see, the Spreadsheet Cut/Copy/Paste topic.

• Anchor and Support Craft Carryover - A carryover feature has been added to the following areas:

• Anchor operations, allowing users to automatically copy the operational data to the next day's report. For more information see, the Anchor Data topic.

• Support Craft section, allowing users to automatically copy craft's  to the next day's report.  For more information see, Support Craft Data topic.

• New Interactive Well Site Features - New features include:

• Back and Forward buttons have been added allowing users to navigate through days consecutively (Navigate Buttons)

• The Date Selector displays dates containing report data in bold (Select Date)

• Pipe Tally Attach Section - The Attach Section workflow in the Pipe Tally report has been improved to allow users to select consecutive and non-consecutive pipe to attach to a section. For more information, see the Run Tally and Off Load Tally topics.

• Daily Cost Total Cost (Cost Summary) Button - The Total Cost button's functionality has been changed to clearly identify costs based on the line item or spreadsheet cell selected. For more information, see the Daily Cost and Cost Data topics.

• Data Validation Improvements - Improvements have been made to the OpenWells Data Validation feature. These changes include:

• Data is now validated prior to being saved to the database.

• Rules can now be defined using JavaScript.

• Regular Expressions can be used in a rule to validate text formats.

• During validation, if a mandatory field fails, the user now has the option to either fix the field or close the form without saving changes.

For more information see the Data Validation application's online help.

• WITSML 1.4.1 Standards - WITSML Import of OpenWells Stimulations tables are now compatible with both the WITSML 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 standards. For more information, see the Working with WITSML Objects in SUMMIT topic.

• Cementing Output Report Schematic Change - The logic behind drawing the schematic in the Cementing Output Report has been changed to ensure the data is presented logically in the report. Previously, the schematic was drawn based on the Report’s end date and time. If a cement job ended earlier in the reporting day it would not show up in the schematic. The EDM™ Report Manager now uses the following fields when drawing the schematic components.

• Cement Job End Date/Time (CD_CEMENT_JOB.job_end_date) is used to draw the cement job

• Casing Date/Time Landed (CD_CASING.date_landed) is used to draw the casing

• Perforation Job End Date/Time (CD_PERFORATE.job_end) is used to draw perforations

If any of these dates have not been entered, the Report Manager uses the Report Journal date and time of 23:59:59 is used in their place.

• New Output Reports - A number of new output reports have been added with this release. For a complete listing of output reports see the Output Reports List topic.  

• Planned vs Actual Casing Report

• Planned vs Actual Cementing Report

• Planned vs Actual Coring Report

• Planned vs Actual Hole Section Report

• Planned vs Actual Logging Report

• Planned vs Actual Mud Report

• Planned vs Actual Perforation Report

• Planned vs Actual Stimulations Report

• Planned vs Actual Tests Report

• Planned vs Actual Wellbore Formations Report

• Project Lesson Summary Report

5000.1.7.0

• Copy Read-only and Locked data to Clipboard - OpenWells read-only and locked data can now be copied to the Windows clipboard, where is can be pasted to another application, such as Microsoft Word or Notepad.

• Update Time Summary Button - The OpenWells® application can now be configured to allow users to push data entered in specific reports directly into a new row in the Time Summary spreadsheet. This button reduces data entry time and duplication. The button is available in the following areas:

• Classic Entry Form General Section: Casing, Cementing, Perforation, Stimulations and Wellbore Equipment,

• WYSIWYG Forms: Casing, Cementing and Stimulations.

• OpenWells Interactive Well Site Data Entry Area - The OpenWells application can now be launched to an interactive data entry area called the Interactive Well Site. This new view of OpenWells has been designed to enhance and simplify data entry at the Rig site. The Interactive Well Site is an image of a Rig that depicts what a user might see around them. Daily data, reports and rig information can be entered with a click of the mouse. Users no longer need to understand the OpenWells Well Explorer tree as data is entered into WYSIWYG forms based on the day. For more information, see the Interactive Well Site topic.

• New Select Partners Button - A new Select Partners button is available in the Associated Partners tab for the Event, Wellbore and Well. This button allows users to quickly select Partners and Contacts that will appear in the spreadsheet.

• Wellbore Status Notes - A new column has been added to the Wellbore Status spreadsheet in the Wellbore Properties dialog.

• New Copy Plan Formations Button - A new Copy Plan Formations button has been added to the Wellbore Properties Formation tab, which allows users to copy formations from planned designs created in COMPASS™.

• Close Rig Event Association - When an Event is closed (its End Date is entered), the application prompts the user to close the associated Rig Operation. For more information see Event Properties General Tab.

• Final Report Check box Populates Event End Data - A new system setting (SetEndDatesToFinalReport) populates the Event End Date with the Daily Report's Date when the Final Report check box is checked in the Daily Operations General section. For more information on this system setting see the EDM Administration Utility online help.

• Personnel Data Entry Improvements - The layout of the Personnel section in the Daily Operations report and WYSIWYG has changed to improve daily workflows and previous limitations. Company and Employee information is now managed from in a separate dialog.
  
  Data recorded in the Personnel section now correctly represents the Company or Personnel's presence on site for that reporting day. Deleting a row in the Company Onsite or Personnel Onsite tabs no longer deletes the Company or Personnel; it only deletes the record of their presence at the well site on that day. For more information see the Personnel topic.

• Non Productive Time (NPT) Administration Tokens - New tokens have been added to the EDM Administration Utility to allow administrators to restrict a user's rights to add, edit, view, delete and lock NPT data. The tokens are: OpenWells.NPT.add, OpenWells.NPT.delete, OpenWells.NPT.edit, OpenWells.NPT.view and EDM.Explorer.NPT.lock.

• New Time Summary Fields - Three new fields have been added to the Time Summary spreadsheet to record descriptions of Class, Code and Subcode. The fields are Class Description, Code Description and Subcode Description.

• Calculation Change in Time Summary - The Total Time now calculates the Durations entered for the selected group in the Activity Group Filter . (See Time Summary).

• New Bit Operations Calculated Fields - Three new Calculated Fields added to Bit Operations table DM_BIT_OP: Guided Percent, Op Sum Hours and Op Sum Progress . For more information see, Bit Operations Tab.

• Bit Details Total Flow Area Calculation - The TFA (Total Flow Area) is now an editable calculated field. By default, the field is calculated, but a user can override the calculation by editing the field directly. If the user changes fields that this calculation depends on or  selects the calculated field and clicks the Calculated Current Field button icon in the toolbar, the application re-calculates the TFA. For more information see the Bit Details topic.

• Kick Tests - A new area has been added to the Daily Operations Report's Safety section. This section allows users to records Kick Tests on a daily basis.

• Flip Component Order Feature - A new button Flip Order  (Flip BHA) has been added to reverses the order of the Components in the spreadsheet as well as in the database. This button will help users quickly and easily correct a simple mistake without having to manually move each component or reenter their data. The Flip BHA button is available on the Components tab of the  Drillstrings section and the Work Strings sections in the Daily Operations, Coring , Logging, Perforation, Sidewall Coring and Stimulations reports.

• Fluid Produced Spreadsheet - A new spreadsheet has been added to the Fluid Handling tab to record fluids produced. Two new calculated fields: Mud Produced and Mud Discharge have been added to the Fluid Losses tab. These new items only appear if the FluidProduced System Setting is set to YES. For more information see the EDM Administration Utility online help.

• Job Activity Section - A new Job Activity section has been added to the Coring, Logging, Perforation, Sidewall Coring and Stimulation reports. This new section allows users to enter specific Time Summary operation details directly in the report.

• Work Strings Section - A new Work String section has been added to the Coring , Logging, Perforation, Sidewall Coring and Stimulations reports. These sections allows users to enter details of the assemblies run downhole directly in the related report.

• Select No Casing Assembly for Cement Job - A new item "None" has been added to the Casing Assembly picklist the General Section of the Cementing report. This new item allows users to create a cement job that is not associated to the Casing assembly string. See the Cementing report General Section topic.

• Cement Plug Drill Out Date - A check box and date field have been added to the Cement report to record the date a cement plug was drilled out. See the Cementing report General Section topic.

• Cement Intermediate Circulations Section - A new section has been added to the Cementing report to  record circulation operations during the cementing job. See the Intermediate Circulations topic.

• Calculate Cement Stage Top/Base MD based on the Pumping Schedule - Two new system settings have been added to the EDM Administration Utility that determines the Top and Base MD of a Cement Stage, based on the Fluids entered in the Pumping Schedule. For more information, see the Top Base Slurry System Settings topic  EDM Administration Utility online help.

• Responsible Parties Section - A new section has been added to the Fishing Report to identify those responsible for the fishing operation. These names can be carried over from one Fishing report to the next. For more information, see the Responsible Parties topic.

• Results Section - A new section has been added to the Fishing Report to record the outcome of the fishing operation. For more information, see the Results topic.

• New Hole Plan Calculations - Four new calculations have been added to the Hole Plan spreadsheet in the Well Planning report: Cum Target Duration, Cum AFE Duration, Cum AFE Cost and Cum Target Cost.

• Internal Picklist Configuration Additions - Users can now edit some areas of an Internal Picklist. For more information, see the Data Dictionary topic.

• New Auto Save Feature - A new AutoSave system setting has been added to allow Administrators to sets the number of minutes between the OpenWells Reports saving automatically. This setting is only applicable to OpenWells Classic mode. It does not apply to the Interactive Well Site. For more information see the EDM Administration Utility online help.

• Access Online Help from a Server - OpenWells Client installation now automatically calls the Online help from the Server location. For more information see Accessing Online help from a Server topic in the EDM Administration Utility.

5000.1.5 Enhancements

• Multiple MAASP Status Readings - The OpenWells® application now allows Well Engineers to record the changing state of Maximum Allowable Annular Surface Pressure (MAASP) values over the life cycle of a Well. Recording changes to MAASP on a Well creates a history that can be used in recognizing any concerning trends in changes to these pressure values. For more information see the Well Properties, Status Tab topic.

The old MAASP entry fields are still available in the Well Properties - General tab and should be hidden or made read-only by the EDM Administrator as not to confuse users.

The new spreadsheet fields use a different EDM™ table (CD_WELL_MAASP) than the old fields (CD_WELL) appearing in the General tab.

• Approval Process - The OpenWells® application now includes a feature to mark and identify Wells, Events and Reports that have gone through an approval process. The approval process preserves and locks the information recorded about the Well/Event/Report at the time of approval. The information preserved for a Well includes the Well’s data and its Events, Wellbores, Completions and Reports data. The information preserved for an Event includes the Event’s data and its Reports.

Any PDF files that are attached to an approval point are electronically signed when a Well, Event or Report is prepared for approval and when the Well, Event or Report is approved.  

For more information see the Data Approval topic.

• Approval Tokens - New tokens have been added to the EDM™ Administration Utility to support the new Approval feature. Admin.Historian.edit, EDM.Explorer.approve, EDM.Explorer.Well.prepare, EDM.Explorer.Event.prepare, EDM.Explorer.Report.prepare and EDM.Explorer.Well.viewapprovalhistory

• Approval Point Stamp Location - The location of the Approval Point PDF stamps in the OpenWells® and PROFILE™ applications can be configured using a system setting. See the PDF Approval Stamp topic in the EDM™ Administration Utility online help.

• AutoSync Well Assignment - Defined OpenWells'® users are now able to assign Wells to an AutoSync Client for bi-directional updates between Rig and Regional EDM databases. For more information see the EDM AutoSync Client topic.

• New Report Manager Version - A new Report Manager version, which will reduce memory consumption, increase report generation speed, and contains various other improvements. For more information, see the Working with EDM Report Manager topic.

5000.1.4 Enhancements

• WITSML Halliburtion SUMMIT™ Integration - OpenWells® software now supports the import of WITSML Stimulations data from the Halliburton SUMMIT™ application into the OpenWells® application. For more information on the WITSML Objects imported from SUMMIT application see, Working with WITSML Objects in SUMMIT .

• Rig to Event/Report Association Improvements - A number of changes have been made to the Rig Event/Report associations to improve the usability and flexibility of the associations. For more information see the Adding and Removing Rig-Event Associations topic.

• Only Currently Active Rigs are Available for Association

• Associate Rig Operations to an Event with existing Daily Reports

• The Wrong Rig is Associated to an Event

• Rig Operations "On Location" Date Change

• Associate a Rig Operation to an Event that already has an "active" Rig Operation

• Deleting Rig Operations

• Changing the Daily Operations Report Properties

• TVD Calculations System Setting - The System Setting "AllowProjectedTvdCalc, allows Administrators to selected how they want the application to respond when the current MD does not have an active survey available to calculate the current TVD. For more information see the  TVD Calculations topic.

5000.1.2 Enhancements

• Stimulations Report - Improvements have been made to the Stimulations Report in the following areas:

• Treatments area in the Stimulation Report - The Treatments area allows users to record multiple treatment intervals in one Stimulation Report. See Treatments Section.

• Flowback - A new section has been added to the report to record flowback data. See Flowback Section.

• WYSIWYG - The Stimulation report now comes with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) data entry form. See Creating a Stimulation Report in WYSIWYG View.

• Volume Pumped calculation - The Volume Pumped calculation has a new System Setting to allow administrator to change how this field is calculated. See the EDM Administration utility online help.

• Batch Printing - Batch printing has been improved to help to free up the users time so they can concentrate on other important aspects of their job. Output Reports can now be printed

• for multiple Wells, Wellbore and Events,

• collated into one print job,

• saved to one or multiple PDF files,

• and sections can be removed during the print job,

• once the print job has been set up, OpenWells can be set to remember it the next time the Print Wizard is opened Output Reports for multiple Wells, Wellbores and Events.

• Move a Well - The Move a Well functionality has been improved upon to allow a Well to be moved from one Site to another, while maintaining data consistency. Related data items such as Wellbores, Events, Reports, etc are also moved with the Well.

• Improved Default Security - Changes to the Administration tokens allows Companies to delegate the Administration role among a number of different users. See the EDM™ Administration Utility online help.

5000.1 Enhancements

• Wizards for common workflows - OpenWells offers a number of wizards that enable users to create, edit and view data, without having to navigate through the Well Explorer tree. For more information see the Wizards Toolbar topic.

• "Today's Wells" interactive graphic - The Today's Wells button allows users to quickly determine the accuracy and completeness of their "Morning Report" data, without having to navigate through the Well Explorer tree, Daily Operations reports, and Daily printed reports. For more information see the Today's Wells topic.

• OpenWells Rig Equipment Editor - The OpenWells Rig Equipment Editor provides a simple way to locate, edit, and enter Rig data in OpenWells using an interactive picture of a Rig. This feature ships with four captivating rig images: Land, Semi-Submersible, Jackup, and Drillship. For more information see the Wizards Toolbar topic.

• Improved Hole Sections Data Entry - The Daily Operations report, Hole Sections area has been changed to allow users to more easily enter Hole Sections. Administrators can now configure the Hole Sections area to record detailed hole section data, including annular details or to expedite the entry of hole section data, when annular details area not required.

• Integration between the Well Planning Report and Hole Sections - Hole Section data entered in PROFILE™ software planned and prototype Designs are now available from the OpenWells Well Planning report, Hole Plan section. SAM rules apply to multiple users viewing or editing the Hole Plan data in either application.

• Sub Assembly Support - Sub Assemblies created in PROFILE software are available for to be added or inserted into a Wellbore Equipment report.

• Parameter Support for Shortcut Bars - OpenWells software allows you to pass EDM™ database parameters to a program in the Shortcut Bar. For more information see Customizing Shortcuts.

This release of Engineer’s Desktop™ software suite contains major functionality improvements.

In addition to EDM database changes, a number of workflow improvements and usability enhancements were made to the Drilling & Completions applications to provide for consistent data management and user interaction with these products. Enhancement descriptions for each of the Engineer’s Desktop applications are provided in their respective release notes. This information below details new EDT™ software functionality and user interface components shared between the Drilling applications.

The EDM database now fully supports Unicode; Chinese and Latin alphabets are supported in new databases.

Other enhancements include the following.

2003.22 Release

• Mandatory Field Validation - Data Validation can now be configured to force the user to correct a field if it fails validation. When the field fails validation the validation dialog highlights it. For more information see the Basic Tab of the Data Validation tool.

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• PSA CDRS Report Generation updates - For more information see PSA CDRS Report Generation

• OpenWells/PROFILE Integration - This new  feature enhances the integrated workflows between OpenWells and PROFILE.  While in OpenWells, PROFILE may be launched in context from a Wellbore or Report.  In addition, users are able to view OpenWells reports created from PROFILE data, provided the reports belong to an ACTUAL (i.e. not planned or prototyped) Design. For more information on how to use this functionality click here.  

• OpenWells Navigation Aid - The Navigation Aid tool provides users with a way of quickly navigating to specific areas of their data entry forms.  This functionality is interactive, and users may click on a specific area of the data entry form in order to jump to the appropriate data entry area. The Navigational Aid can be customized. For more information, see your System Administrator. For more information on how to use this functionality click here.  

• OpenWells WYSIWYG  Data Entry and Reporting - This new feature provides an interface for simplified morning report data entry which mimics a typical drilling output report. Landmark also offers a well services version of the WYSIWYG form. For more information on how to use this functionality click here.  

• OpenWells Wellbore Schematic Display Enhancement - The Schematic Display Enhancement integrates a simple Wellbore schematic diagram into OpenWells data entry forms. The purpose of this is to give users:

• a basic overview of the downhole mechanical data;

• a schematic which displays the ongoing progress of the wellbore ; and

• the ability QA data as it is being entered.  

For more information on how to use this functionality, click here.  

Common Well Explorer Enhancements

The following features were added to the Engineer's Desktop common Well Explorer.

5000.1 Release

• Well Explorer added to Real-Time View with the following special features:

• New icons added for Log ( ) and Log Curves ( ) in the Well Explorer. Also, logs can now be opened from a right-click menu command on the Log icon in the Well Explorer.

• Drag and Drop individual log curves onto the log viewing area

• ASCII, LAS (Time), and LAS (Depth) log import from the Wellbore level right-click menu

• Location Tab added to Well Properties dialog, with additional information added to the Location Tab on the Site Properties dialog

• Temperature Deration, Anistropic Radial Yield, and Anistropic Hoop Yield moved from Material Properties to Grade Properties

• XML import/exports enhanced to not carryover unnecessary tubular properties that are not used by corresponding assemblies

• License Expiry option now available, configured through the LAM Environment variable.

• Password Expiry option now available for EDM users, configured through the EDM Administration Utility.

• Ability to import/export WITSML 1.2.0 and 1.3.1 files via COMPASS and OpenWells. For more information, see OpenWells and COMPASS Help.

• Catalogs were added for Well Completion components, and support for these catalogs was added to OpenWells, PROFILE, WELLPLAN, and Catalog Editor.

• Added EDM Security > Users node > Sort Users right-click menu command to the EDM Administration Utility. EDM Administrators can now sort users by User Name or Full Name. For more information, see EDM Administration Utility Help.

5000.0 Release

The major changes for this release include support for the following new platforms:

• Microsoft® Vista

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express

• Oracle® 10g

Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 (MSDE 2000) is no longer supported for the 5000.0.0 release.

2003.21 Release

Major changes for this release include:

• Added Virtual Folders to the Well Explorer tree. These folders allow users to organize data items in a customizable hierarchy.

• Integrated WITSML v. 1.2 support to allow the creation of OpenWire 2003.0.8 pipelines from the Well Explorer tree to load data into the EDM database directly from a remote WITSML server. Pipelines can be created from COMPASS Surveys or WELLPLAN Cases.

• Formations added to the Associated Data Viewer to allow formations to be copied between Designs

• OpenWire 2003.0.8 can be launched directly from the Well Explorer with a right-click menu command at the Database level (this feature was not implemented in OpenWells)

• New assemblies added to the Associated Data Viewer with copy/paste functionality to Prototype and Planned Designs only: Casing, Tubing, and Drillstrings

• Active Project Unit System added on Project Properties dialog (not available in OpenWells)

• Catalogs were added for Well Completion components, and support for these catalogs was added to OpenWells, PROFILE, WELLPLAN, and Catalog Editor