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Latest engineering workflows and quality improvements. October entries summarize features reviewed on October 14; availability does not imply field validation.

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October 2026

8 updates
  1. Predict

    Forecast before pumping. Score after.

    Keep pre-stage predictions, actual outcomes and misses together instead of losing the forecast when the job changes.

    • Pre-stage half-length and ISIP from typed rock and fluid inputs
    • Forecast ledger with provenance and deletion
    • Pad history with pressure, rate, time and forecast-error views
    • Held-out forecast learning and automatic scoring when a stage completes
    • Scope: Not proprietary vendor physics or a field-calibrated fracture model. Missing rock/fluid values remain assumptions; scoring requires completed stages with actuals.
  2. Diagnose

    See the next stage in the context of the pad.

    Carry stage-order stress screening into the pressure table, forecast adjustment and fracture grid.

    • Shared interference settings across the planner, grid and forecasts
    • Stage-by-stage stress and pressure cells
    • v1/v2/v3 per-model scoring on the same forecast
    • Optional stress relaxation and 1-D poroelastic back-stress
    • Scope: One-way pressure-to-stress coupling and uniform rock, not a full coupled field-pressure simulation. Relaxation time and Biot/Poisson inputs are assumptions unless measured; unsupplied site properties are not measurements.
  3. Predict

    Connect core evidence to a storage-site plan.

    Take reservoir and seal entries through injection sizing, trapped tonnes, yearly plume movement and cell-level pressure.

    • Measured core-plug Land fit with source and condition caveats
    • Temperature/pressure-dependent CO₂ properties
    • Editable site plan, injection timeline, field grid and seal-pressure sweep
    • Account-synced CO₂ and reservoir inputs
    • Scope: Uniform-rock screening, not a heterogeneous compositional simulator or containment certification. Full-pad seal checks superpose every well's injection pressure and model the front through shut-in, but the Darcy front is conservative and never retreats.
  4. Predict

    Ask for a goal. Get calculated candidates.

    Rank geothermal designs against NPV or IRR goals and pump-power constraints using executed calculations, not invented answers.

    • Copilot goal parsing and a ranked feasible shortlist
    • Thermal decline, price escalation and pipe-loss-inclusive net power
    • Saved scenario comparison and live what-if controls
    • Scope: A search over the selected grid, not a guaranteed global optimum. Thermal decline and prices are planning assumptions, not measured production forecasts.
  5. Run

    Explore more cases without changing the authority.

    Use browser GPU previews for independent sensitivity cells while keeping a double-precision CPU reference and automatic fallback.

    • Geothermal NPV/design grids
    • CO₂ permeability × dip migration sweeps
    • Fracture-geometry ensembles
    • Scope: Hardware-dependent acceleration, not a claimed speedup. CPU calculations remain grading/export authority; the CO₂ field-grid map is a separate screening workflow.
  6. Validate

    Keep the evidence beside the answer.

    Review model tiers, sources, assumptions and verification evidence before using a result in an engineering decision.

    • Versioned solver capability descriptors and tier-aware receipts
    • Supported features separated from proof levels
    • Measured PVT report follows the account
    • Shut-in interpretation with explicit sample/window refusals
    • Scope: Shipped does not mean field-validated. Partial coupling, ungraded references and missing measurements stay visible; no autonomous pump control is claimed.
  7. Diagnose

    Five sourced engineering calculators

    Well test, material balance, casing design, torque & drag, and cement planning in field units.

    • Published methods with example inputs labelled
    • Horner/Earlougher, Havlena–Odeh, API 5C3, Johancsik and Nelson–Guillot
    • Screening tools; entries on these five pages are not account-saved
  8. Validate

    Economics and shut-in interpretation: clearer refusals

    Invalid forecasts and shut-in windows no longer produce reassuring but unsupported results.

    • Pad costs remain charged when production is outside the selected horizon
    • Bad forecast rows refuse the forecast; short histories retain a labelled entered decline
    • Sorted shut-in samples, window validation, nullable ISIP and Unclassified when samples are insufficient
    • Measured PVT and CO₂ inputs follow the account; Settings and Your team appear once

September 2026

7 updates
  1. Run

    Team dashboard + invites

    Who on the team is carrying which scenarios, runs and jobs — and an invite that creates the account outright.

    • Active work per member over the last 30 days, busiest first
    • Work by former members and work with no author kept in their own buckets
    • Admin shares a team invite code; teammates join with it and the admin can regenerate it
    • Whole dashboard downloads as CSV
  2. Predict

    Scenario library

    Every saved scenario on one shelf, reusable across projects, with reserves, capital and return rate worked out fresh on read.

    • Search by name, note, basin or label; filter to starting points or priced cases
    • 'Start a new scenario from this' copies entries, never figures
    • Sort by reserves, capital, return rate, basin or name
    • Shelf downloads with its caveats
  3. Predict

    Scenario comparison

    Up to six scenarios side by side on reserves, capital, cost per barrel, value today, return rate and payout.

    • Pick any scenario as the baseline
    • A delta appears only where both sides reported the figure
    • Percent change withheld when it would be meaningless
    • Caveats download alongside the table
  4. Predict

    Scenario board

    One live AFE card per saved scenario — reserves, capital, cost per barrel and return rate recomputed on every read.

    • Assumptions editable in place with a trace row behind each figure
    • Reopen a scenario with every entry restored exactly as saved
    • Reprice against today's cost lines and see which lines moved
    • Per-scenario CSV and PDF export
  5. Run

    Drilling schedule wizard

    Rigs, days per well by phase and cost per day, scheduled across the rig fleet and sent to the AFE as one drilling line.

    • Non-productive time entered as a fraction, reported separately
    • Greedy schedule across the available rigs
    • One button sends the rig line to the well budget
    • Half a well or a negative day rate refused with the value echoed
  6. Predict

    Guided AFE wizard

    Well count, drilling cost and completion cost to capital per well — with every summary figure naming the step that set it.

    • Four screens: well count, drilling, completion, summary
    • Entries validated in the draft before they reach a figure
    • Trace table ties each figure to its step
    • Feeds the pad and well budget page directly
  7. Predict

    Scenario wizard

    Depth, thickness, porosity, water saturation and permeability to a decline curve solved against a volumetric EUR.

    • OOIP from the volumetrics you typed, recovery factor clamped 2–35%
    • Arps curve solved so its 50-year integral equals the EUR target
    • Full scenario AFE on the last screen: reserves, capital, return rate
    • Assumed curves labelled as assumed, never as a history match

August 2026

11 updates
  1. Predict

    Pad study chain

    One chained run: frac design → reservoir screening → production forecast → economics, with a decision memo.

    • Plain-English case-matrix proposer with an explicit approve-and-run gate
    • Studies persist per team and re-validate against the solver version
    • Branded PDF readout with per-step hashes and fidelity caveats
    • Cross-study comparison with baseline deltas and CSV export
  2. Validate

    Metamorphic verification agent

    Physics relations (monotonicity, scaling, symmetry, conservation) checked automatically on every run.

    • Relation library with tolerance bands per family
    • Copilot-authored relations you review before they arm
    • Verdicts feed the unified promotion gate
    • Downloadable verification evidence CSV
  3. Predict

    PGD-NO high-resolution surrogate

    Separated-variable neural operator with linear memory scaling for 10M+ node scalar fields.

    • Linear (not cubic) memory growth with grid resolution
    • High-res pressure / stress fields inside /reservoir-3d
    • Gate-blocked until residuals clear tolerance
    • Deterministic seeds for reproducible fields
  4. Validate

    Physics-driven operator training

    Label-free training against the transient pressure-diffusion PDE with PDE/BC/IC residual reporting.

    • No labelled simulation corpus required
    • Per-run loss, PDE/BC/IC residuals, and gate verdict
    • Run log persists on-device across refreshes
    • One-click CSV export of every run
  5. Run

    Enterprise fleet runs

    100+ concurrent simulations with queue health, retry policy, and latency SLOs.

    • FIFO claim with SKIP LOCKED — no double-dispatch
    • Live batch progress over realtime subscriptions
    • Latency SLOs + repeat-breach escalation + maintenance windows
    • Outcome / delta CSV export per batch
  6. Predict

    Always-on engineering agent

    Suggested studies, prompt-to-batch sweep design, and agent-authored decision memos.

    • Describe a study in plain language → batch sweep design
    • Institutional memory: searchable recall of prior studies
    • Provenance digests + replay diff + agent-turn audit CSV
    • Voice-first fleet briefings and controls
  7. Validate

    Continuous auto-calibration

    Rolling recalibration against field data with a plain-language regulatory change notice.

    • Evidence table + materiality bands per accepted calibration
    • Lineage digest for auditability
    • Covers 5 regulatory-pack-v2 programmes
    • One-click notice download
  8. Diagnose

    Cinematic 3D/4D visualization

    Stress-shadow sheets, uncertainty envelopes, auto-callouts, share links, and GIF/MP4 time-lapse.

    • Δσh stress-shadow heat sheet + offset interference corridors
    • P10/P90 wing envelopes with an interpretation-confidence chip
    • Auto engineering callouts with the triggering number
    • Share links, figure mode, and time-lapse GIF/MP4 export
  9. Run

    Pad run orchestrator

    Dependency-aware wave scheduling with concurrency lanes and retry/backoff.

    • Settings-signature batching to skip duplicate work
    • Kahn dependency waves + blocked-dependent cascade
    • Per-lane concurrency control
    • Locked CSV export of the run plan
  10. Run

    Field-pace fast lane

    Five-step keyboard-driven kernel built for the pad, not the lab.

    • 1–5 / Enter shortcuts through the whole workflow
    • QC clearance carried forward across parameter tweaks
    • Glove-mode hit targets
    • Click-budget stats per run
  11. Validate

    Capability truth audit

    Every capability claim traced to the code path and test that backs it.

    • Row-level evidence with route + drift-guard reference
    • Honest '—' marks where support is unverifiable
    • CI snapshot export keeps the matrix from drifting
    • Deck export for customer reviews

July 2026

1 update
  1. Predict

    Non-planar 3D fracture solver

    Surface-mesh DDM with tip kinking, NF branching, out-of-plane tilt, and T-junction weld.

    • M1-M4 pipeline live at /non-planar-3d
    • Per-simulation Results tab with curvature scoreboard
    • Out-of-plane tilt + T-junction reconvergence weld
    • Kernel bridge feeds effective L + k·w retention back into refrac / BO / parent-child

June 2026

7 updates
  1. Predict

    Compositional 3-phase black-oil

    IMPES kernel + tracers + fluid regions + PR-EOS energized-CO₂ bridge.

    • 3rd Fluid kind in Builder → Fluid model
    • Per-region PVT (PVTNUM-style) + zero-perm cubes
    • Per-well drilling times with ramp turn-on
    • Passive-scalar tracers with mass balance ≤ 2%
  2. Predict

    Multi-well pad artificial-lift

    Gas lift / ESP / rod pump / plunger with shared-compressor allocation.

    • Composite IPR (linear PI + Vogel) + avg-density VLP
    • Method screening across 4 lift types
    • Greedy water-fill on marginal Δq_o/Δq_gi
    • Per-well caps + compressor capacity constraint
  3. Run

    Coiled-tubing & snubbing

    Lubinski + Dawson-Paslay buckling reach with lockup-MD chip.

    • Sinusoidal / helical / lockup regime classifier
    • Light-vs-heavy snubbing crossover
    • Soft-string reach table with buckling badges
    • Bookmark library for saved configurations
  4. Predict

    Geosteering optimizer

    SHmax alignment + containment + DLS feasibility ranking.

    • Minimum-curvature dogleg planner
    • sin² heading vs SHmax alignment score
    • Clamped TVD-offset containment score
    • DLS-violation + low-alignment warnings
  5. Diagnose

    Scenario branching tree

    Git-style fork tree + cell-level blame in SimDiff.

    • Lane × depth SVG forest at /branches
    • Fork / diff / open-in-Builder actions
    • Per-leaf author + relative time in SimDiff
    • Snapshot-left / snapshot-right + author filter
  6. Predict

    Refrac diversion designer

    PBD + chemical staging with multi-cycle plug survival.

    • 6-grade PBD catalog + log-normal PSD
    • Boltzmann intake split + chemical Δp boost
    • Multi-cycle survival probability
    • CSV export of full staging schedule
  7. Run

    LLM Copilot picks

    Natural-language routing on top of ⌘K Command palette.

    • ✨ Sparkles button runs Gemini 2.5 Flash
    • Copilot picks rendered above lexical matches
    • Score + reason surfaced per suggestion
    • Zero-temperature JSON-only prompt

May 2026

10 updates
  1. Predict

    New from basin template

    Prefill a 12-panel simulation from Permian / Bakken / Eagle Ford / Marcellus presets.

    • Pick basin → landing zone → review prefill diff
    • 12-panel mapper: PVT, mesh, SHmax, DS ranges, clusters
    • Seeds scenario version history as author='Template: <basin>'
  2. Validate

    Setup Assistant

    LLM-guided readiness check with prioritized actions per Builder panel.

    • Aggregates validator + impact + readiness + pressure warnings
    • Numbered action list with jump-to-panel buttons
    • Voice-first 'Speak findings' using Web Speech API
  3. Run

    Vendor channel presets

    One-click Halliburton / SLB / BJ / NOV CSV normalization on Live Pumping upload.

    • Auto-detect vendor from column headers
    • Column aliases + unit conversions + time-format handling
    • Persists last-used preset per workspace
  4. Diagnose

    Workspace analogs

    Top-3 similar past simulations with cosine match + one-click compare.

    • Vectorizes flattened Builder inputs (median-impute)
    • Cosine similarity ranking over all workspace sims
    • Click-through to builder-compare diff view
  5. Validate

    RESQML interop

    Schema-validated RESQML v2.0.1 EPC export for Petrel / RESinsight.

    • One-click EPC bundle next to GRDECL
    • 12-test drift-guard + golden fixture validator
    • 15 round-trippable properties including custom PropertyKind URIs
  6. Diagnose

    3D Viewer

    Orbit frac geometry with reservoir context + MS dots.

    • Parent & child laterals, bent frac panels, drainage discs
    • Translucent reservoir grid box (pay-zone thickness)
    • Drag-drop microseismic CSV → point cloud overlay
    • Live SHmax / stage / half-length / height knobs
  7. Run

    Live Pumping

    Plan-vs-actual overlay with auto-HM, ISIP pick, fiber.

    • Live overlay + Nolte-Smith net-pressure mode chip
    • Decline + step-down + net-pressure match
    • ISIP auto-pick + live auto history-match
    • WITSML / DAS / DTS transports
  8. Diagnose

    Parent-Child Interference

    Frac-hit + poroelastic + 3D Mindlin + bend uncertainty.

    • Volumetric frac-hit (proppant + fluid) at parents
    • Full-tensor Δσ_h/Δσ_H + SHmax rotation
    • 3D Mindlin layered poroelastic
    • Bend / tip P10·P50·P90 uncertainty
  9. Validate

    Field Validation

    Gauge + DFIT campaigns with PKN/KGD/Radial fits.

    • Upload (t,P,T) gauge or (MD,P,T) gradient surveys
    • PKN / KGD / Radial net-pressure + Carter falloff fits
    • RESQML EPC + GRDECL export to Petrel/RESinsight
  10. Predict

    RTA (Blasingame)

    Blasingame + Agarwal-Gardner + probabilistic EUR.

    • Blasingame log-log + cadence overlay
    • Agarwal-Gardner PI + HCPV + R²
    • Arps DCA fit (qi / Di / b / d_min) with EUR
    • Monte Carlo P10/P50/P90 EUR

April 2026

2 updates
  1. Predict

    Economics + DCA

    DCA fit, NPV/IRR, breakeven, tornado.

    • Arps + 4 regional type curves
    • NPV / IRR / payout cascade
    • Breakeven + tornado overlay
    • EUR uplift published to /refrac
  2. Validate

    Solver Spec / Model Card

    9-section honest-scope scoreboard + method chips.

    • Today vs Roadmap per solver capability
    • Coupling-direction + wellbore-flow contracts
    • Method chips on every quantitative panel
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