Having just released version 3.2 of Exploration Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, I’d like to highlight a few of my favourite new features so you can check them out after you’ve installed the new version. Also, if anyone can guess what films I watched at the weekend, I’ll give you 10% off† any new Exploration Analyst subscription!
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1 – Analyse Acreage
The return of the king! Acreage Analysis tools are back, and they have a new modern feel:
- Analyse multiple GIS datasets with respect to their spatial relationship with a base acreage layer:
- Calculate well success rate across a license and other well stats.
- Calculate hydrocarbon volumes apportioned to each license.
- Calculate average play chance across a basin or block.
The earlier versions of the tool were very popular and the perfect follow on work to play based exploration mapping. Once you have your subsurface model, you want to analyse available acreage so you can target the best resource areas, be that hydrocarbons, hydrogen, critical minerals, geothermal. So, give it a go and let us know how you get on.
2 – Filter Acreage
We wanted a more modern visual acreage analysis workflow, allowing users to really investigate sensitivities e.g. “what happens if my lateral migration routes are a little longer?”, “what happens if we’re a little more optimistic in our reservoir property modelling”? Building on some excellent R&D work we’ve added the Filter Acreage tool which allows you to interactively filter a layer, significantly enhancing sensitivity analysis:
- Sliders and checkboxes dependent on attribute type.
- Manage which attribute fields to filter on.
Watch the demo clip below to see Gulf of Mexico lease blocks being filtered on-the-fly using attributes created in the Analyse Acreage tool as well as attributes from the lease blocks themselves. Again, this means faster and more investigative analysis for you!
3 – Extract Play Chance Values
More epic film references is it? Or do you want to hear about a returning favourite that’s been improved? What say you?
Extracting the play chance value from specified locations is a tool we’ve had previously in ArcMap.. Visualising your play chance maps at specific points, e.g. prospects, is a better way to keep all your work tied together, that’s why we’ve added and improved the Extract Values tool to our ArcGIS Pro version. At specified locations this will extract not just the final play chance value but also the play elements that make up that value, allowing you to assess the weak and strong factors of your prospects or areas of interest. Symbolise them using the popular Exploration Analyst ‘donut’ symbology styles.
4 – Manage Chance Polygons
We love user enhancement suggestions, and these new tools are a direct result of users coming to us with workflow problems that we’ve built tools to solve.
In this release, we’ve added a tool suite to help you easily deal with issues like smaller features that could be interpreted as data resolution/data combination artifacts or play chance map calibration workflows. These new utilities save you time and effort, allowing you to to accomplish complex workflows more easily.
5 – Estimating Yet-to-Find over multiple areas
Finally, our Estimate Yet-to-Find tool is a great Monte Carlo simulation engine that incorporates your play based exploration maps and your split risking methodologies. Doing these calculations on multiple areas can be time consuming, in our older ArcMap versions of Exploration Analyst there was a tool that could do these calculations over multiples areas in one run, and guess what…….. It has been remade!
Now you can estimate the amount of yet-to-find hydrocarbon in multiple assessment areas at the same time, by running multiple Monte-Carlo simulations:
- Basins, plays, structural provinces or other region types.
- A feature class is created with the yet-to-find stats as attributes.
I hope you enjoy the new version – please let us know how you get on and keep those enhancement ideas coming! Contact info@exprodat.com.
To learn more about Exploration Analyst v3.2 and request a demonstration, click here.
Posted by Rich Webb, GIS Software Product Manager, Exprodat
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