The 2012 release of the deepwater knowledge base, ReservoirKB, has been announced by global energy consulting firm Knowledge Reservoir. Hailed as ‘the most comprehensive knowledge base for exploration and appraisal geoscientists and engineers in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico region’, it covers all deepwater productive reservoir sands discovered, in production, sanctioned for development, or bypassed, and provides reservoir engineering data, geological description, production data analysis, reservoir performance metrics, analogs, lessons learned and regional knowledge.
The new release comes with a Microsoft Silverlight version, providing useful features such as an auto update legend, a heat map feature with filters, tables with an Excel-like feel and a map measure tool. Upgrades have been made both in application design and content, which now covers 300 fields, 900 reservoirs and 1277 wells.
The web portal service is also augmented this year by the addition of an upgraded North Sea module, brought up to date in the GIS format and including pertinent data needed for users to benchmark North Sea reservoirs.