MFrac Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation Software

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

• 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.

• Importing Files Between Compatible Apps. The File | Open screen now allows importing files between MFrac, MFrac-Lite, MPwri, MWell, and MShale.

• Remembering Open Plots. The apps now remember which plots were open on File | Save, and will reopen the same plots on File | Open.

• 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.

• 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.

MFrac

• 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.

• Show All Available Real-Time Data. MFrac plots now show all available Real-Time data while the simulator is catching up to MView.

MPwri

• Damage Model Database. Meyer 2009 greatly expands MPwri’s ability to model internal and external filter cakes by adding a new Damage Model Database. This is documented further under MPwri Changes, as well as in §J.6 of the Meyer User’s Guide.

• 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.

MinFrac

• 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.

• More Slope Lines. Added two more slope lines to the MinFrac Regression plots.

MView

• Filtering On Missing Columns Now Optional. MView can now replace missing columns with “0,” rather than filtering out lines with missing columns.

• Recover Real-Time Data. The Recover Real-Time Data command is now available “more often,” and now shows a progress bar while recovering.

• 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 Data Sets | Setup), and filtered out.

Meyer Data Acquisition

• 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.