ResMod 2.0 is nearing an imminent release.

ResMod 2.0 is close to a complete rewrite of the algorithmic features of ResMod to address performance, stability, and consistency.

With ResMod 2.0 there will be no separate production/development versions. There may possibly be some experimental options but the key algorithmic kernel will be the same.

Faster, Better, Cleaner

There have been tremendous algorithmic speedups, up to 100 times, especially with the facies algorithms. In addition, there is full consistency in the Indicator Kriging/Probability Field and Sequential Indicator Simulation approaches to Facies simulation. The menus and panels have been redesigned to present as many of the options as possible up front. Now Property (Continuous) Log modeling and Facies(Categorical) Log modeling are selected early in the modeling processing controlling the menus items that are visible and enabled.

Cleaner Grid Definition

There is only type of grid but two types of surfaces, structural and attribute. A surface is a grid with values. Therefore, what was previously known as a random surface, which does not have a grid, is being renamed 2D data.

For example, a 40x40 cell structural surface and 40x40 cell attribute surface share the same 40x40 cell grid. If you estimate/simulate a marker (structural) surface, values will be calculated at the 41x41 corners of the grid and if you estimate/simulate an attribute surface, values will be calculated at the 40x40 cells. Irregardless it is the same underlying grid.

Control Data is Necessary Step

To estimate or simulate a 3D model, it will be necessary to construct a control data model first. The control data model is the areal grid plus the vertical grid specification including the bounding surfaces. There will be no option to krige the marker surfaces as the estimation/simulation is done.

Soft Data

Soft Data will have to match the dimensions of your 3D grid to be used and only those datasets that match the 3D grid will be displayed for selection. For instance, to use seismic as soft data it first has to be mapped to a 3D model using Control Data. The same procedure applies to using any log as soft data as well. This greatly reduces the algorithmic complexity. Integration with ResFrame

ResMod 2.0 easily incorporates grid definitions from ResFrame and populates the 3D faulted models generated by ResFrame. There are no artificial algorithmic limitations.

HyperText Documentation using Netscape Navigator

ResMod 2.0 as well as ResGram, ResCalc, and ResPrep use hypertext documentation with Netscape Navigator. When you click on a help button, if Netscape Navigator is not launched, it will be launched. If it is already running than it will determine that. Irregardless, the Netscape Browser will be pointed to the correct place in the documentation.

What's not in ResMod 2.0

In the interests of stability, we have removed some options which are little or never used but contribute enormously to the complexity of the code. There are no curvilinear grids or surfaces, no locally refined grids and surfaces. There is no link to IRAP-RMS. Links to Stratamodel will be maintained.

FlexLM licensing

FlexLM licensing, the defacto industry standard, is the only type of license available. There is no Xnet Licensing.

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