In the document below the author describes how plug-in developer productivity was improved for Ocean for Petrel plug-ins through changes to the development environment in Visual Studio. The document describes how to refactor Visual Studio project files to improve project maintenance and simplify set up of the development environment.

Improving Plug-in Developer Productivity

An Ocean Plug-in for Petrel competition was held as part of the 7th Petroleum Engineering Design Competition in Beijing, China, on May 13, 2017. The Ocean competition started in late 2016 with a solicitation of abstracts for plug-in ideas. The contest committee received nearly 50 abstracts from over 20 universities, including the national Taiwan University. From those abstracts 13 teams finished plug-ins and from those 6 were selected for the final event.   An extensive article will be posted here soon.

Ocean Store Plug-ins - New, Updated Plug-ins Jan 1 - Mar 31 2017

To view all new and updated plug-ins this year, visit plug-in summary page.

New (3) and Updated (16) Ocean Plug-ins for Petrel
	Blueback Rocks Velocity by Cegal **New Petrel Plug-in** Control and display your velocity data before building a velocity model. .... Request your evaluation license.
	EasyWellPattern by Schlumberger **New Petrel Plug-in** Create common well location patterns with further scheduling .... Request your evaluation license.
	Kinetix Shale by Schlumberger **New Petrel Plug-in** Employs a seamless, comprehensive seismic-to-simulation workflow .. Request your evaluation license.
	A-Star™ Geosteering Connector by ROGII**Updated to Petrel 2016*** Import data from StarSteer® geosteering software (www.rogii.com) to Petrel®. .... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback Rocks Physics by Cegal **Newer Petrel 2016 update*** Your streamlined and integrated Rock Physics .... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback System Center by Cegal **Updated to Petrel 2016*** Optimize the performance of your Petrel environments..... Request your evaluation license.
	Bridge Electro-magnetics, 2.5D EM Forward Modeling by Cegal **Updated to Petrel 2016*** Model the EM response using 1D and 2.5D forward modeling algorithms .... Request your evaluation license.
	Bridge Electro-magnetics, 3D EM Forward Modeling by Cegal **Updated to Petrel 2016*** Model the EM response using a fast and accurate 3D forward modeling algorithm .... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback Geology Toolbox by Cegal **Newer Petrel 2016 update*** A series of plug-ins enhancing functionality in the geomodeling workflow ... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback Geophysics Toolbox by Cegal **Newer Petrel 2016 update*** More than 50 plug-ins enhancing the functionality in Petrel geophysics ... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback Reservoir Engineering Toolbox by Cegal **Newer Petrel 2016 update*** A set of plug-ins to complement and enhance reservoir engineering workflows ... Request your evaluation license.
	Blueback Project Management Toolbox by Cegal **Newer Petrel 2016 update*** Control your Petrel projects and content with the Project Management Toolbox ... Request your evaluation license
	EasyFrac by Schlumberger **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Hydraulic fracture modeling... Request your evaluation license.
	Formation Testing Data Analysis by Schlumberger **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Quickly load Formation test data and incorporate the results into your model.... Request your evaluation license.
	Geofacets Connector for Petrel & Studio by Elsevier **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Integrate trusted georeferenced maps into Petrel platform projects... Learn more.
	Hydraulic Fracture Modeler by Schlumberger **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Representative modeling of hydraulic fractures using local grid refinements ....Learn more.
	Interpretation Merger by Schlumberger **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Merges and transfer 2D seismic interpretation between 2D Seismic lines ....Request your evaluation license.
	UDOMORE Depth by Seisquare **Updated to Petrel 2016**** Stochastic velocity and depth modeling in Petrel.... Request your evaluation license.
	WesternGeco Prestack Seismic Interpretation (PSI) by Schlumberger**Updated to Petrel 2016*** This plug-in brings the gap between the poststack and prestack worlds..... Learn more.
New (0) and Updated (6) Ocean Plug-ins for Techlog
	Completion Advisor View by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Plan the stages and perforations to complete a horizontal well. .... Request your evaluation license.
	Formation Testing Suite by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Incorporating all the functionality of InSitu Pro into the Techlog platform .... Request your evaluation license.
	Formation Testing View by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Formation Testing View is the viewer version of Formation Testing Suite..... Request your evaluation license.
	NMR Tool Processing by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Vendor neutral NMR tool processing for the inversion of NMR data .... Request your evaluation license.
	Quanta Geo Inversion by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Advanced Quanta Geo borehole image processing..... Request your evaluation license.
	Quanta Geo with DepthMatcher by Schlumberger **Updated to Techlog 2016** Processing and depth-matching for Quanta Geo borehole image data .... Request your evaluation license.
New (1) and Updated (0) Ocean Plug-ins for Studio
	Well Spreadsheet loader (for Studio) by Schlumberger **New Studio Plug-in** Create and update wells, trajectories, tops directly from Microsoft Excel®.... Request your evaluation license.

Kinetix Planner completion management software is the industry’s only tool that integrates all aspects of job data collection and of job data storage and analysis in the same application. As a component of the Kinetix stimulation software suite, Kinetix Planner software both increases user productivity for current work while increasing foresight for future jobs based on the analysis of past job data. A stand-alone mobile-friendly Windows application, Kinetix Planner software enables collaboration by multiple completion engineers on the same dataset.

The Ocean for Petrel Framework 2017 Beta 1 is now available on the Ocean Store. This release contains some of the features planned for 2017 and fixes. Be sure to read the release notes for details, and see if there are any interesting features for you to try out and test. This is a good time to give us input on the developments delivered for the Ocean for Petrel Framework 2017.

If you are a licensed Ocean developer and do not have an access to Beta 1 download and would like to sign-up to be a tester, contact our Product Champion Petrel - Ocean.

If you have any problems regarding the download of the Alpha release installers for either Petrel or Ocean please contact us.

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Larry