New! Marcellus Shale
Fracture Technology Consortium
Meyer & Associates, Inc. is proposing a consortium of energy
companies active in the Marcellus Shale to form the Marcellus Shale
Fracture Technology Consortium (MSFTC). The objective of the
consortium is to assemble, analyze and systematically summarize current
hydraulic fracturing practices in the Marcellus Shale leading to optimized
well production and economic returns for its contributors.
View the MSFTC brochure for more information.
New!
MShale—Simulation software designed
specifically for shale formations
MShale is a specialized fracturing
simulator designed to simulate multiple, cluster, and discrete type
fractures in shale and coal bed methane (CBM) formations. Discrete
fractures in naturally fractured or faulted formations can be modeled by
specifying a fracture network grid to simulate fracture propagation in
the major vertical, minor vertical, and horizontal fracture planes
(i.e., not just perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress).
The simulation boundary condition, which forces multiple fractures
to be created, assumes that once the pressure exceeds the minimum
stress in a plane perpendicular to the natural fracture, a hydraulic
fracture will initiate and start to propagate.
MShale can also be used as a diagnostic tool to compare Discrete
Fracture Network (DFN) numerical results with microseismic data. Download
our
MShale flyer or our DFN Model Presentation for more information.
Meyer 2009 (5.50.1687)—build date 2009-04-29.
Meyer 2009 represents a solid year’s
worth of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Here are just a few
of the highlights. (You can find much more detail in the Software Updates section.)
All Apps
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Unicode. The Meyer Software
now uses Unicode as the internal
representation for all text. This change has multiple
benefits:
Unicode support ends the need to configure a system in
“Russian” mode to
support the Russian version of the software (or, indeed, the need
for any system configuration changes at all for multi-language
support).
Customers in different language speaking countries can now
exchange Meyer data files without corrupting the text in these
files. Any language version of the software can now read and
write files written in any other language.
It is now possible to add Greek and mathematical symbols
to the plots and the report.
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Importing Files Between Compatible
Apps. The
screen now allows importing files between MFrac, MFrac-Lite, MPwri,
MWell, and MShale.
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Remembering Open Plots. The
apps now remember which plots were open on , and will reopen the same
plots on .
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Changes to Installer Layout.
Meyer 2009
Setup splits the installed files between the
Program Files folder and the new
Program Data folder. This change was
required to ensure future 64-bit compatibility.
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Dropping Pentium II
Support. This is the last release of the Meyer Software
that will support the Pentium II CPU. All future releases
will require a Pentium III or later, so that we can use the
advanced numerical computing features found in more recent
CPUs.
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Recirculation Stages. MFrac
now supports multi-stage treatments: for instance, it is now
possible to recirculate stages between the minifrac and the main
frac jobs.
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Show All Available Real-Time
Data. MFrac plots now show all available Real-Time data
while the simulator is catching up to MView.
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Damage Model Database.
Meyer 2009 greatly expands MPwri’s
ability to model internal and external filter cakes by adding a
new . This is
documented further under
MPwri Changes,
as well as in §J.6 of the Meyer User’s Guide.
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Per-Stage Particulate
Concentrations. MPwri can now model injecting different
concentrations of particulates in each stage (including Real-Time
support). Meyer 2008 and earlier had one particulate
concentration set for the whole job.
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Multiple Right-Axis
Derivatives. MinFrac now supports plotting more than one
right axis derivative curve (simultaneously) on Regression
plots. This makes it possible to perform multiple Regression
analyses using just one plot.
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More Slope Lines. Added two
more slope lines to the MinFrac Regression plots.
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Filtering On Missing Columns Now
Optional. MView can now replace missing columns with “0,” rather than
filtering out lines with missing columns.
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Recover Real-Time Data. The
Recover Real-Time Data command is now available “more often,” and
now shows a progress bar while recovering.
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Status Bar. MView now features
a status bar which displays the number of Real-Time data lines
received, translated (i.e., successfully interpreted according to
), and filtered
out.
Meyer Data Acquisition
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Reliability Improvements. As
part of the conversion to Unicode, the internals of the Meyer Data
Acquisition Toolbar (MACQ) were completely rewritten. Although
there were virtually no user-visible “obvious” changes to this
application, it received over 50 enhancements and bug fixes of
its own during Meyer 2009 development.
In addition to the highlights listed here, Meyer 2009 features
over 115 additional enhancements and bug fixes (not counting the
Meyer Data Acquisition changes mentioned above) and numerous internal
quality improvements.
About Meyer & Associates, Inc.
Meyer & Associates, Inc. is the worldwide leader in hydraulic
fracturing simulation software. Our flagship product, MFrac, has been available since 1985. We have a
complete suite of programs covering a wide range of stimulation and
petroleum engineering applications, including hydraulic fracturing, minifrac
analysis, well production analysis, and real-time data acquisition. Over one-hundred major
clients including oil companies, service companies, and universities use
our software products worldwide.
Our company offers a wide range of simulation tools for hydraulic
fracture engineering. MFrac, our 3D fracturing simulator, is the core of the software
suite. MView provides real-time data acquisition capabilities. MinFrac is intended for pre-
and post- fracture analysis. Production
forecasting and fracture optimizations are
provided by the MProd and MNpv simulators, respectively. Major and independent
producers, service companies and universities worldwide rely on our
products for their fracturing needs. Software is available in both English
and Russian.
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