Geovisual's 3D visualisation product for viewing, analysing
and manipulating reservoir simulation datasets

Update

Latest shipping release is REVIEW 2008-02 for Windows and SGI

Supported Platforms

REVIEW 2008-02 is currently available for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista and SGI IRIX workstations and reality/visualization centers.

A graphics card and system software that support OpenGL are required. See SGI's web site www.sgi.com for information about SGI workstations.

On the Windows platform, graphics cards based on the following chipsets are recommended :-

Graphics Chipsets

  • nVidia GeForce
  • nVidia Quadro
  • ATI X...
  • ATI Mobile Radeon
  • ATI Radeon
  • ATI FireGL
  • 3DLabs Wildcat & Oxygen

Data/File Interfaces

REVIEW supports all the leading simulators including:

  • ECLIPSE
  • VIP
  • WorkBench
  • SimBest II
  • Comp III
  • Comp IV
  • CHEARS
  • User created ASCII files

New Features 2007/2008

  • Support for Windows binary VIP output files
  • Subset by Property Range in 2D window
  • Contouring in 2D window
  • Improved Linegraphs
  • Improved Data Export
  • Improved script/command support
  • Direct output to image files

Features Introduced in 2005/2006

  • Support for multiple ECLIPSE restart files (i.e. more than one dataset)
  • Initial release of expression handler enabling manipulation of simulation grid arrays
  • Support for display of non-neighbour connections
  • Updated Model Information window
  • Updated Grid Block Information window
  • Improved support for radial LGRs in ECLIPSE datasets
  • Optional creation of grid geometry properties (XCENTRE YCENTRE, ZCENTRE, VOLUME, ...)
  • BOWTIE geometry property for display of grid blocks with incorrect corner points
  • support for ECLIPSE .EGRID file (including LGR and coarsening
  • Support for lower case file types in ECLIPSE files
  • Support for non-unified restart and summary files in ECLIPSE datasets
  • Subset grid by selecting wells
  • Slice grid by selecting wells

Features

  • Interactive rotation, zooming, translation and scaling of the model.
  • Animation over time of scalar properties (Pressure, water saturation etc.).
  • Support for corner point, block centred, regular, radial and cartesian grid geometries.
  • Interactive rotation, zooming, translation and scaling of the model.
  • Animation over time of scalar properties (Pressure, water saturation etc.).
  • Lighting of the 3D grid.
  • Subsetting of the grid by cell range or by property range.
  • Exploding of the grid into separately viewable layers.
  • Display of vertical cross-sections through the grid.
  • Display of 2D slices in the I, J and K directions.
  • Support for well names and locations (including changes over time).
  • Support for the display of field, group, region, well data in line graphs.
  • Multiple user defined colour tables/ranges.

Example Images

The following image shows a 3D visualization window in REVIEW displaying a ternary view of the oil, water and gas saturations at time 0.

The following image shows a 2D visualization window in REVIEW displaying PRESSURE at time 0 for layer K=1.

The following image shows the model information window with the locations or completions for a specific well at a given timestep.

The following image shows the 2D spreadsheet/table window showing ternary oil/water/gas saturation.

The following image shows the linegraph displaying FIELD properties

The following image shows a cross section through a 3D reservoir grid.

The following image shows vertical slices through a grid with ternary oil/water/gas saturations displayed.
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