Harmony 2016v2 Class Manual May 2016

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Table of Contents
Introduction to Harmony ............................................................................................................................ 6
General Application Navigation ................................................................................................................ 6
Entity Viewer - Hierarchy ...................................................................................................................... 6
GIS ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Diagnostics ........................................................................................................................................... 7
DeclinePlus Features ................................................................................................................................ 7
Decline Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 7
Material Balance ................................................................................................................................... 8
Volumetric Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 8
Additional Analysis Features .................................................................................................................... 8
Linked Analyses ................................................................................................................................... 8
Workflows ........................................................................................................................................... 10
Harmony Basic Gas Workflow – Exercise 1 ........................................................................................... 11
Purpose ................................................................................................................................................... 11
General Navigation ................................................................................................................................. 11
Diagnostics Tab ...................................................................................................................................... 14
Decline Rate/Cum Worksheet ................................................................................................................ 17
Decline Rate/Time Worksheet ................................................................................................................ 22
Material Balance Worksheet ................................................................................................................... 24
Pressure-Function vs Cumulative Gas ............................................................................................... 24
Pressure vs. Time............................................................................................................................... 25
Linking Analyses ..................................................................................................................................... 28
Volumetric Worksheet ............................................................................................................................. 29
Link Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 31
Forecast Sheet........................................................................................................................................ 32
Workflows ............................................................................................................................................... 33
Results .................................................................................................................................................... 35
Results Viewer.................................................................................................................................... 35
Reporting ............................................................................................................................................ 38
Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................ 39
Harmony Basic Oil Workflow – Exercise 2 ............................................................................................. 40
Purpose ................................................................................................................................................... 40
Navigation ............................................................................................................................................... 40
Attributes ................................................................................................................................................. 42
Custom Attributes ............................................................................................................................... 45
Custom Hierarchy Structure ................................................................................................................... 49
Search for a Well .................................................................................................................................... 51
Diagnostics Plot ...................................................................................................................................... 51
Customize Diagnostics Plot ................................................................................................................ 52
Decline .................................................................................................................................................... 54
Rate/Cum Worksheet ......................................................................................................................... 54
Rate/Time Worksheet ......................................................................................................................... 56
Annotations ......................................................................................................................................... 57
Volumetrics ............................................................................................................................................. 59
Linking Analyses ..................................................................................................................................... 60
Ratio Analysis – WOR ............................................................................................................................ 62
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Custom Worksheet ................................................................................................................................. 63

Forecast .................................................................................................................................................. 64
Workflow ................................................................................................................................................. 66
Create the Workflow ........................................................................................................................... 66
Apply the Workflow ............................................................................................................................. 67
Create a Second Workflow with Global Options ................................................................................ 68
Results Viewer ........................................................................................................................................ 70
Grid View ............................................................................................................................................ 70
Plot View ............................................................................................................................................. 72
Comparison Plot ................................................................................................................................. 73
Exporting ............................................................................................................................................ 74
Conclusions ............................................................................................................................................ 75
Harmony Typewell – Exercise 3 .............................................................................................................. 76
Purpose ................................................................................................................................................... 76
Navigation ............................................................................................................................................... 76
Querying Wells........................................................................................................................................ 76
Typewell .................................................................................................................................................. 83
P90/P50/P10 ........................................................................................................................................... 86
Decline .................................................................................................................................................... 87
Sync Selections ...................................................................................................................................... 92
Normalizing Your Typewell ..................................................................................................................... 93
Copying and Pasting a Forecast............................................................................................................. 96
Exporting Forecasts ................................................................................................................................ 98
Harmony Reserves - Exercise 4 .............................................................................................................. 99
Purpose ................................................................................................................................................... 99
Background ............................................................................................................................................. 99
Navigation ............................................................................................................................................... 99
Updating Data ....................................................................................................................................... 103
Reserves ............................................................................................................................................... 105
Updating the Analyses .......................................................................................................................... 107
Analyzing the Newly Acquired Well ...................................................................................................... 112
Add a New Well .................................................................................................................................... 114
Sinclair Typewell ................................................................................................................................... 116
Forecast Consolidation ......................................................................................................................... 117
Results and Export ............................................................................................................................... 119
Batch Printing ................................................................................................................................... 119
Results Viewer.................................................................................................................................. 119
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 119
Harmony Pool Grouping – Exercise 5 ................................................................................................... 120
Purpose ................................................................................................................................................. 120
Create Custom Group ........................................................................................................................... 120
Launch Custom Group .......................................................................................................................... 121
Material Balance Gas Pressure-Time Worksheet ................................................................................ 121
Pressure Support Diagnostics .............................................................................................................. 123
Connected Reservoir ........................................................................................................................ 124
Water Drive ....................................................................................................................................... 124
Geopressured ................................................................................................................................... 124
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................ 128
Harmony Unconventional Gas – Exercise 6 ......................................................................................... 129
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Purpose ................................................................................................................................................. 129

Importing Production ............................................................................................................................. 129
Diagnostics Plot .................................................................................................................................... 132
Casing Pressure ............................................................................................................................... 132
Rate .................................................................................................................................................. 133
Decline Analysis ............................................................................................................................... 134
Add a Segment to a Decline ............................................................................................................. 136
Stretched Exponential ...................................................................................................................... 140
Duong ............................................................................................................................................... 140
Multi-Segment Decline ..................................................................................................................... 141
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Introduction to Harmony
Introduction to Harmony
What is IHS Harmony?
• A software environment hosting well performance analysis tools
• Currently includes:
o IHS DeclinePlus
o IHS RTA
o IHS CBM
o IHS VirtuWell
• GIS Mapping Interface
• Properties, Wellbore, Production, Pressure, and Descriptive Well Data
• Custom Diagnostic / Data View Plots
• User Defined Workflows
• Summary Export and Report Printing
General Application Navigation

Entity Viewer - Hierarchy
• All wells are listed in the “Entity Viewer – Hierarchy” window.
• Wells can be sorted in a tree structure based on attribute data or placed into custom groups
based on user criteria in the “Entity Viewer – Custom” window.
• Note that wells only appear once in the “Entity Viewer – Hierarchy”, but can appear multiple
times in “Entity Viewer – Custom”.
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GIS
• The GIS window displays the geographic location of the wells, their fluid type and status.
• Select wells in “Entity Viewer – Hierarchy” window, and see them highlight green in the GIS.
• Select wells in the GIS, and see them highlighted in the “Entity Viewer – Hierarchy” window.
Diagnostics
• Investigating and understanding the data available is a primary step in analyzing a well.
• It is important to determine what opportunities for analysis exist with the available data before
analyzing a well.
• All analysis methods available might not be possible with limited data sets.
• The Diagnostics tab shows all the available data for a well (Auto Template). You can also
select from the “Data Viewer Properties” to view the data in a format of your choosing.
DeclinePlus Features
Decline Analysis
• Decline analysis is an empirical technique that extrapolates trends in production data to
generate a forecast of future production rates and determine EUR.
• Constant operating conditions and boundary dominated flow are presumed.
Decline Analysis Line Adjustments

• A decline can be manipulated by using the mouse directly on the line, or the points at
either end of the line: left point, and EUR (end point).
o In addition to above, using the mouse while holding CTRL or Shift on the line or
any of the points allows for additional ways to change the decline line
• Analysis parameters can also be directly entered in the Analysis Parameters pane to
change the decline.
o Cells that are white can be edited, and grey cells are calculated.
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o Using the “Calc Method” pull down menu you can specify two parameters to be
calculated.
• A point selection tool can be used to best fit the decline analysis to selected data points.
• For additional information on Analysis Line Manipulation, please see the help menu.
Material Balance
• Material balance analysis is an interpretation method used to determine original fluids in
place (OGIP / OOIP) using production data and static pressures.
Volumetric Analysis
• Volumetric analysis is a technique that uses geological observations and information to
estimate original fluids in place.
• With reservoir properties for a well, you can create a volumetric analysis.
Additional Analysis Features

Linked Analyses
• In IHS Harmony you can link analyses together. With this feature you can bring together
multiple analysis types for consistency. For example if:
o Decline analysis has calculated an EUR for the well, and material balance
analysis has returned an OGIP, then:
 By linking a material balance analysis with a decline analysis, the material
balance OGIP is honored and the decline’s EUR is honored.
 A recovery factor is then calculated using the linked OGIP and EUR.
• If static pressures are not available and a material balance cannot be created, a
volumetric analysis can be linked to a decline analysis to obtain similar results.
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• The volumetric analysis can be linked with the material balance and decline analysis to
estimate a drainage area for the well.
• The OGIP from material balance is honored over the volumetric OGIP since the material
balance result is more reliable (performance based method).
• The drainage area is calculated based on the reservoir properties and the material
balance OGIP.
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Workflows
• What if you want to apply the same analysis techniques to another well, or group of wells?
• For example, if you completed a decline analyses, material balance, and volumetrics for a
single well, you might want to repeat these analyses for several other wells.
• In IHS Harmony you can save the workflow completed on an individual well and apply it to
another well, or group of wells.
• The same worksheets and analyses can be automatically added to new wells once a
workflow is saved. To use the workflow feature:
o Create a workflow from the analyses completed.
o Name the workflow.
o Apply the workflow to the remaining well(s):

 Highlight them in the Hierarchy Structure.
 Right-click over the highlighted wells and apply the workflow.
 IHS Harmony creates all the worksheets and analyses that were included
in the saved workflow.
• You should review well worksheets and adjust the analyses as required to yield an
appropriate result for each.
• Using workflows helps you analyze wells quickly in a consistent and methodical way.
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Basic Gas Workflow – Exercise 1
Harmony Basic Gas Workflow – Exercise 1

Purpose
• To present a typical gas reservoir reserves and forecasting problem including the use of:
o Decline Analysis
o Conventional Material Balance
o Volumetric Calculations
• In the software you will learn:
o The concept of “Linked Analysis”
o Creation of Analysis Workflows
General Navigation
• You will look at the Arcs A gas reservoir in the Jenner Field for this exercise and:
o Generate Reserves Estimates for Company ABC
o Generate a production forecast for Company ABC
o Create and Apply workflow developed for Arcs Wells to other wells
1. Double-click on Example 1 – Basic Gas Workflow file.
• Harmony opens to the GIS tab. Note that there are other tabs: Attributes, Diagnostics, Analysis,
and Results. You will use each of these tabs as you work through the examples in class.
• To the left you will see a list of wells, and this is called the Hierarchy Window or Entity Viewer –
Hierarchy.
o The default list format is the “Flat List” which shows the names of all the wells in the
project unsorted.
o Wells can be sorted in a tree structure based on attribute data and/or placed into custom
groups based on user criteria.
o You will analyze the Arcs A wells, and need to filter for those wells. Locate them by
sorting the list by Field/Reservoir.
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2. Choose Field/Reservoir in the Hierarchy Window.
3. Expand JENNER and ARCS A in the Hierarchy Window.
• You can select multiple wells in the Hierarchy window by clicking the top well, holding down
SHIFT, and then clicking the bottom well.
• Or you can choose multiple wells by holding down the CTRL key and clicking each well.
• You can also right-click on a group name, for example ARCS A, and choose Select Constituent
Wells.
4. Select the 3 ARCS A wells using one of the methods described above.
• Note: when you select wells in the Hierarchy Window they turn a pale green in the GIS window.
They have been highlighted in the GIS view to help you locate them.
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5. Select only the 08-08-020-09W4 well in the Hierarchy Window.
• It is important to understand what opportunities for analysis are available from the included data
before starting to analyze a well. It can be helpful to look at field, reservoir, operating, well status
or other information to decide if you want to analyze a well.
6. Click on the Attributes tab.
• Attributes for the well are shown in the attribute data grid. The attributes view can be
customized: data fields can be added and removed by using the data tree in the Attributes
Properties, and / or by dragging and dropping data between the array of columns and the
data tree. You can also change the order that attributes appear in by dragging the headers
left / right in the data grid.
• Custom hierarchies to sort wells in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy can be created using any
text field available in the list of Attributes.
• Note that if you want to change how the wells are named in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy, use
the Display Name Format field in the Attributes tab to make the selection. For example you
can choose the use the well name (Entity Name) or the API number in the Entity Viewer -
Hierarchy.
• You can also sort by any column in the Attribute table by clicking on the column header. You
can also use Attributes to select wells. To do this:
o Click on the column header of any Attribute you want to select wells by (for
example formation)
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o Highlight all the rows that contain wells of interest/wells that share the attribute. In
this example, all wells in the same formation
o Right-click anywhere in the grey row number column and choose Select Subset.
The result in this example would be all the wells that share a formation.
Diagnostics Tab
• The diagnostics plot displays raw data for wells.
• Use the diagnostics tab to check what type of data is available and decide if the data quality is
sufficient for analysis.
• Data for individual wells and groups of wells can be viewed in the Diagnostics tab.
• The type of data and display properties of the diagnostic plot can be customized and saved as a
template for future use.
• A note on production data sets:
o Cal gas rate is the calendar gas rate, and does not take into account time on production.
o Op gas rate is the operating gas rate, and does take into account time on production.
1. Click on the Diagnostics Tab.
• A plot of production data for the well selected appears.

• On the Diagnostics Tab you can plot the data in several customizable ways. Harmony defaults to
the “Auto Template” view of a well. This view shows all the production data in Harmony for that
well.
2. Click on the Toggle units feature in the main tool bar (Hint: it looks like a ruler).
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• Did you notice anything about the units in the Diagnostic Plot? They have changed to metric.
You can easily convert between field and metric units using the Toggle units feature.
• For the remainder of the exercises you will work in Field units.
3. Click on the Toggle units feature to show Field units.
4. Click on Auto Template.
• There are several other Templates that you can use in the Diagnostics Tab to quickly view the
data in different ways. You can also create Custom Templates to view the data, and will you will
make one in a later the exercise.
• To the left of the plot is the Data View Properties with several data trees (expandable). Each data
type has a selection box beside it. These are called datasets. You can select datasets to
customize a plot, or deselect them to remove them from the plot.
• Before continuing to the next section your instructor will review some common plot features
including adjusting axes and zooming in to areas of interest on plots.
5. Make sure you have the Auto Template selected before going to the next step.
6. Add the Cumulative Gas Production dataset (Hint: it is listed under Production).
7. Add the WGR dataset (Hint: it is listed under Ratios).
• To remove datasets you can deselect the box next to each dataset or you can click and drag
them from the axis to remove them from the plot.
8. Deselect the WGR dataset.
9. Drag off the Cumulative Gas Production dataset. Hint: do this by clicking on the axis label and
dragging it to the Data Viewer Properties list.
• You can resize the axis or shift each data set up/down or sideways. Use the red and green lock
icons to fix the top or bottom of the axis to a set value. For example, click over the axis values,
and drag up and down. Note how the axis changes. Click the lock icon at the top of the Static
Run Depth Pressure axis to red (locked), and the lock icon at the bottom of that axis to green
(unlocked). Click on the axis values and drag up and down. How does the axis change now?
10. Compact / Expand the Op Gas Rate axis up/down.
11. Adjust the Time axis side to side.
• You can change the axis to all be Coordinate, or Log Y, or a mixture of the two.
12. Select Coordinate.
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• If at any time you want the plot to resize automatically press the “Rescale all axes” button.
• If you want plots to display in coordinate axes, you must save the plot view as a template. The
template will store the axes in coordinate scale.
• You can view data from multiple wells at the same time in the Diagnostic plot.
13. Select the remaining 2 ARCS A wells (Hint: use shift+click or control+click).
• By default Harmony will show the individual production for all wells selected. Other options
include showing aggregate data for the selected wells or both the aggregate and individual well
data.
14. Show the aggregate data for all the wells selected. Click Plot aggregate or individual entity
production and then select Plot Aggregate Data.
• The aggregate data for all three wells will be plotted. In this example, gas data is added together,
and water data is added together.
15. Show the data for individual wells. Click Plot aggregate or individual entity production and
then select Plot Individual Data.
• When you hover over the name of each well in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane the data for
that well will become bold in the plot.
16. Hover over each of the ARCS A wells in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane.
• In the next steps you will view a single well, rather than a group of wells
17. Select 08-08-020-09W4 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane.
18. Select Auto Template In the Data Viewer Properties.
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19. Select Coordinate.
• Looking at this well you can see it shows:

o High initial rates with a long period of decline
o Low water rates, and no data in later time
o Various Static Pressure readings over 18 years
o Well is still producing
o This well is a good candidate for a decline analysis and material balance because it has
both a declining gas rate and quality static pressure data. A volumetric analysis can also
be done if you have the reservoir properties. For this example, you will have the
reservoir properties from logs. Those properties will be used later in this exercise.
20. Click Rescale all axes. This feature will fit the plot to include all data, and can be found in any
plot window within Harmony.
21. Select well 05-09-020-09W4 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane.

• The data for this well shows:
o Limited production data (5 months), and this well is no longer producing
o No discernable declining gas production trend
o No discernable decline in Static Pressures
o Due to the non-declining gas rate and unusable static pressures this well would not be a
good candidate for decline analysis and material balance.
22. Select well 10-09-020-09W4 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane.
• The data for this well is:
o Similar to the data trends for the first well (08-08-020-09W4) and for the same reasons it
is a good candidate for a decline analysis and material balance.
23. Double-click on well 08-08-020-09W4 well to launch it for analysis.
• Launching a well opens a New Worksheet tab. The worksheets available are organized by
license type. Specific licenses are required to access groups of Harmony features.
o Your instructor will discuss the organization of features by license.
Decline Rate/Cum Worksheet

• A quick note on how this manual will use the word decline;
When the word decline is used in the material to follow, it will be used to mean the decline
curve that describes the production data trend, both in the past and forecasted into the future.
If any alternate meaning for decline is intended, it will be stated expressly, for example:
production decline would refer to the trend of production rates declining over time.
• As a general rule, if you want to add an analysis in Harmony, look for the plus (+) feature.
1. Create a Decline > Gas > Gas Rate vs. Cumulative Gas Worksheet.
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• A decline analysis in Rate vs. Cumulative will eliminate any gaps in time where the well may have
not produced and so eliminates any “time stretching” of the forecast.
• You may notice that the menu to add a Decline pops up automatically but disappears if you click
anywhere else. If the menu is still open you can select “Gas – Decline”. If the menu has closed
you can access it by pressing the “+” button.
2. Click the Add an Analysis button in the Analysis Manager and select Gas – Decline.
• IHS Harmony fits an analysis line to the last 50% of the data by default.
• The decline can be moved up/down by hovering over the leftmost point and click moving.
Analysis Line Manipulation

• The decline can be adjusted by using the mouse on the line itself, and on either of the two points:
left point, and end point (EUR)
• Mouse and keyboard shortcuts to adjust the decline parameters are included here:
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Decline Curve Parameter Adjustment Shortcut
Slope of decline curve click and drag

Historical match hold shift key + click left point and drag
Initial rate click and drag the left point up/down
Initial cumulative production and final cumulative
production hold control key + click and drag the left point
b value hold control key + click and drag on the curve
b value and final cumulative production hold control key + click and drag end point
Final cumulative production and decline rate click and drag end point left/right
Abandonment rate hold shift key + click and drag end point
Hold shift key + click and drag forecast start
Forecast start date date left/right
• A point selection tool can also be used to best fit the decline analysis to the chosen points.
3. Move the decline up/down by clicking and dragging on the left point.
• The end point of the decline can be moved left/right by hovering over the rightmost point and click
and drag.
4. Adjust the duration of the forecast by moving the decline end point left/right.
• There is a green triangle on the decline which is placed at the forecast start date.
The decline can be rotated around the Forecast Start Date by hovering over the line between the
left and right point and click moving. The forecast start date can also be moved by holding down
the shift key and clicking and dragging the green triangle on the decline left/right.
5. Rotate the decline line. Hint: hover your mouse over the line and when the cursor has a double
curved arrow appearance, click and drag. The decline will rotate around the forecast start date
(green triangle).
• To extend a decline further into historical data, you can hold down the SHIFT key, hover the
mouse over the left point of the decline line. Then click and drag to extend the line further into the
historical production.
6. SHIFT and click over leftmost point of the decline to change how far the decline goes back into
historical production.
• You can modify the abandonment rate by holding down the SHIFT key and hovering over the
rightmost point. Click and drag left/right to adjust it.
7. SHIFT and click over rightmost point of the decline and adjust the abandonment rate.
• Hover the mouse over the decline and press and hold the control key. Then click and drag to
change the b value.
• The decline can also be adjusted by entering values into the Analysis Parameters window. Cells
that are white can be edited. Grey cells are calculated values, and data cannot be entered.
• With the “Calc Method” dropdown menu you can specify the two parameters to be calculated.
8. Make sure the Calc Method selected is Δt | Qf. Try adjusting the b and qf values for Segment 1 in
the Analysis Parameters and observe how the decline changes.
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9. Activate the Select Points feature. Hint: this feature is above the rate/cum plot.
• With Select Points selected, click to select data to include, right-click to deselect data (exclude).
The size of the spray area can be changed by scrolling up/down on your mouse scroll wheel.
This feature is informally called the Spray Tool and is used to mean Select Points.
10. Select points for the forecast using the Select Points / Spray Tool. Try adjusting the size of the
selection. Remember you can deselect data by right-clicking.
11. Navigate to the Analysis Manager

12. Right-Click on the name Analysis 1 and select Rename Analysis. Name this decline analysis
Best Fit
13. Add another gas decline to the worksheet. Hint: click the + sign and select Gas – Decline.
14. Rename Analysis 1 to Exponential. Hint: right-click on Analysis 1.
• You are now going to make a conservative forecast by using a b value of zero.
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15. In the Analysis Parameters, set b = 0 and lock it (Hint: click the yellow lock icon next to the b
value).
• Locking the b value prevents it from changing while you try to get a good fit of the historical data.
One way to select data for historical fit is to use the Spray Tool to select data points.
16. Select points for the forecast using the Select Points / Spray Tool. Try adjusting the size of the
selection. Remember you can deselect data by right-clicking.
• Note: you can also use the calendar gas rate to fit your decline. To do this you need to add Cal
gas rate to the plot (Hint: it is found next to the Analysis Manager tab).
Then you need to change the rate type used in the Analysis Parameters pane:
17. Navigate to the Analysis Manager. Did you notice how the decline in your Best Fit analysis was
named? What about for your Exponential analysis?
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• Both declines are listed as Gas – Decline (RC). What does the RC mean? It stands for Rate
Cum, and indicates that a decline was created on a Rate vs. Cumulative production worksheet.
Decline Rate/Time Worksheet

• A rate/time worksheet can be helpful to see the timeline of your forecast, as well as when a well
will be abandoned.
• If you have planned operational changes, you can also see them easily on a rate/time plot.
• Note that analyses and worksheets are independent of each other. The declines created on the
Rate - Cumulative worksheet can be displayed on the Rate - Time worksheet by clicking the
check box in the Analysis Manager.
1. Click on New Worksheet.

2. Create a Decline > Gas > Gas Rate vs. Time Worksheet.
• In the Analysis Manager you can still see the forecast you created in the previous Rate/Cum
worksheet. Notice that Analyses and Worksheets are independent of each other. You can overlay
the Rate/Cum forecast on the Rate/Time plot.
3. Select the check box for the Best Fit and Exponential forecasts in the new worksheet (Hint: they
can be found in the Analysis Manager pane).
4. Deselect the check box for the Best Fit and Exponential forecasts.
5. Create a new decline Analysis, Gas-Decline type (Hint: use the plus (+) button).
6. Rename Analysis 1 to Rate vs. Time.
7. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool to select production data you want included in the decline
analysis.
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• Look at the EUR’s for the forecasts (analyses). Did you notice that they are quite similar?
Remember that the Rate/Cum forecast will eliminate any gaps in time where the well may have
not produced and so eliminates any “time stretching” of the forecast.
• What do you notice about the way the declines are listed under each analysis? Your Best Fit and
Exponential declines were created on a rate vs. cumulative production worksheet, and are called
Gas – Decline (RC). Your Rate-Time decline was created on a rate vs. time worksheet and is
called Gas – Decline (RT). You can quickly check what type of worksheet was used to create a
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decline by checking the naming convention used. This can be helpful when going back to adjust
declines. You cannot adjust a decline created in a rate vs cumulative production worksheet (RC)
from a rate vs time worksheet (RT). Use the RC and RT decline suffix to determine what type of
worksheet a decline was created on.
Material Balance Worksheet

Pressure-Function vs Cumulative Gas
• Material balance analysis is an interpretation method used to determine OGIP based on
production and static pressure.
• The conventional P/Z (pressure / compressibility factor) plot uses the extrapolated straight line
trend of measured shut-in pressures to predict OGIP.
• If you have static pressures, you can do a material balance. Keep in mind this is unlikely for
unconventional wells.
• You will create a Material Balance worksheet in this exercise.

1. Create a new worksheet: Material Balance > Gas/CBM > Pressure-Function vs. Cumulative
Gas.
2. Add a Gas – Material Balance analysis (Hint: add it in the Analysis Manager).
• Note that the static pressures follow a linear trend. This suggests that there are no additional
drive mechanisms beyond gas compressibility.
• If there was also a water drive, you would see a non-linear trend with pressure support for the
points at the end of the data. You will learn more about this in a later exercise.
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• You can adjust this line back and forth to get the results that you want. These adjustments can
be made with your mouse in a similar way to how you changed declines.
• After adjusting the line, do you notice anything strange? Some of the letters change from upper
to lower case. Why might that be?
• If a data point is included in the best fit line, it will be upper case. If a data point is excluded from
the best fit line, it will be lower case.
Pressure vs. Time

• A Pressure – Time material balance plot is generally more intuitive to understand than a P/Z plot.
For example, pressure does not change before a well comes on production, and that is easily
visible on a pressure – time plot.
1. Create a new worksheet: Material Balance > Gas/CBM > Pressure vs. Time worksheet.
• Static pressures and gas rates are plotted against time in this worksheet.
2. Activate Analysis 1 (the Gas-Material balance).
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• Unlike the P/Z plot the line in this worksheet cannot be adjusted by clicking and dragging. It can
be adjusted by use the ‘spray tool’ to select some data points, or to select all data points.
• If you change the line in the P/Z plot it will update the line appearance on the pressure/time plot.
• The material balance analysis previously completed can be shown on this worksheet by clicking
the checkbox for the Material Balance analysis in the Analysis Manager.
• The analysis line shows the reservoir pressure through time. There is no pressure decline prior to
production, and then the trend follows the rate decline.
• The analysis line extends to the end of production, giving us an estimate of the reservoir pressure
at that time.
• Material balance gives a performance based result for OGIP.
3. Navigate to the Gas/CMB MB (material balance) worksheet you already created. Modify the line
in the Gas/CBM MB worksheet. Try adjusting the left and right endpoints, as well as the slope of
the line using your mouse.
• Notice that the pressure-time plot now shows a poor fit to the data. If the analysis shows a poor
match in the P/Z plot it will also show a poor match in the Pressure/Time plot.
4. Go back to the Press Time worksheet. Use the Spray Tool to select data to get a better fit.
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5. Navigate to the Gas/CBM MB worksheet.

• Do you notice anything strange in the material balance analysis? The Remaining Recoverable of
the gas is a negative value and therefore shown in red.
• This is because the default Recovery Factor for gas in Harmony is 91.5%. You can correct this by
Linking the Analyses, which you will learn more about later.
6. If you still do not have a good line fit, select all data points to fix the line fit. Hint, if the Select
Points tool is greyed out, make sure you have selected Analysis 1 Gas-Material Balance in the
Analysis Manager.
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7. Navigate to the Press Time Worksheet.

• You can see pressures and rates over time. This pressure based Diagnostic view of the data is
more intuitive than P/Z. For example before production begins it makes sense that the initial
pressure is unchanged.
• Remember that the material balance gives us a performance based result for OGIP.
Linking Analyses
• Before proceeding to linking analyses, remember that so far you have:
o Used decline analysis to get an EUR for the well
o Have a material balance analysis that gives an OGIP for the well
• In IHS Harmony you can link these two analyses together so that both the material balance OGIP
and decline EUR are honored for consistency.
• A recovery factor is then calculated using the linked OGIP and EUR.
1. Write down the following information from the Analysis Manager:
a. Best Fit decline EUR ______________________________
b. Gas – Material Balance EUR ______________________________
c. Gas-Material Balance OGIP ______________________________
d. Gas – Material Balance RRg ______________________________
2. Right-click on the Gas – Material Balance analysis in the Analysis Manager and select Move
into Analysis > Best Fit.
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• Now what is the EUR for the Best Fit decline? What about the OGIP for the Best Fit decline?
How do they compare with the values you recorded earlier? What can you infer from this? The
OGIP from the material balance analysis has been used, while honoring the EURg for the Best Fit
decline.
• Also, did you notice that the calculated Recovery Factor makes more sense now since it is being
calculated using the Decline EUR and Material Balance OGIP?
• What if the Recovery Factor was 100%? Does that seem likely? What if the Recovery Factor
was greater than 100%? In either case, you should probably adjust your declines so that a more
likely recovery factor is reached.
Volumetric Worksheet
• Volumetric analysis is a technique that uses geological observations and data to estimate original
fluids in place.
• Given the reservoir properties for a well, you can create a volumetric analysis.
• The volumetric analysis can be linked with the Material Balance and Decline analyses to estimate
a drainage area for the well.
• You can also link a volumetric analysis with a decline on occasions where you do not have a
material balance (or cannot do material balance because you do not have static pressure data).
This can be used to calculate a recovery factor without a material balance.
1. Create a new worksheet: Volumetrics > Gas Volumetrics worksheet.
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2. Create a Gas – Volumetrics Analysis (Hint: use the plus (+) button).
• Fields that need data to complete the analysis are indicated with a red “Required” in the Gas Vol
worksheet.
• Notice that the Gas Properties are automatically filled in. This data was populated from the
Properties Editor.
3. For Reservoir Properties, enter the following data:
a. Porosity, Ф = 20%
b. Height = 37 ft
c. Sgi = 90%
d. Soi = 0%
e. Swi = 10%
f. Initial reservoir pressure – you will add this value at a later step
g. Area = 640 Acres
h. Recovery Factor (RF) = 95%
• Drainage area is needed to complete a volumetric calculation. Since we do not know the actual
drainage area, you are using an estimate of 640 acres (1 Section) - the standard drill spacing unit
for gas wells. This value may change with more information or analyses.
• For pi, use the value calculated from the Material Balance analysis.
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4. Navigate to the Press Time worksheet and copy the value for reservoir pressure: pi = 1554.2
psi(a) calculated from the material balance analysis.
5. Navigate to the Gas Vol worksheet and paste the value for pi into the pi field.
• You have now completed a volumetric analysis for well 08-08-020-09W4.
Link Analysis
• IHS Harmony includes the feature of linking analyses so you can combine multiple analysis types
for consistency.
o Have a material balance analysis that gives an OGIP for the well
o A volumetric analysis that gives a drainage area
• By linking a material balance analysis with a decline analysis, the material balance OGIP is
honored and the decline’s EUR is honored.
• A recovery factor is then determined using the linked OGIP and EUR.
1. Right-click on the Volumetrics analysis and select Move to Analysis > Best Fit.
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• Linking the Volumetric analysis with the existing decline and material balance changes the
drainage area.
• Did you notice that the drainage area changed? It was 640 Acres in the volumetric analysis, and
is now 550 Acres.
o The OGIP from material balance is honored over the volumetric OGIP since the material
balance result is more reliable (performance based method).
o The drainage area is calculated based on the reservoir properties and the material
balance OGIP.
o The volumetric analysis can be linked with the material balance and decline analysis to
estimate a drainage area for the well.
• What if you had high confidence in the drainage area, and your analysis results did not agree with
that area? Your instructor will discuss data considerations when you have conflicting information.
• If static pressures are not available and a material balance cannot be created, a volumetric
analysis can be linked to a decline analysis to obtain similar results.
Forecast Sheet
• The forecasts generated from the decline analysis for 08-08-020-09W4 can be viewed in a table
by creating a Forecast Worksheet and selecting the forecast from the Analysis Manager.
• From this worksheet, the forecasts can be exported from IHS Harmony via the “export to Excel”
button, or by copying and pasting directly from the displayed table.
1. Create a new worksheet: Forecast.
2. Select the Best Fit - Gas – Decline (RC) analysis.
• You can modify the forecast resolution to be in Day, Month, or Year.

3. Click on D, M, Y and observe how the data table changes.
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• From here you can also export your data to Excel or copy and paste it into another program.
4. Click the Excel button.
• This will save the data as an ***.csv file.
6. Click Cancel to close the Save As dialog box.
• Copying the data and pasting into Excel, or any other compatible program, also easy:
7. Right-click in the top empty grey box and select Copy Grid + Headers.
8. Open Excel and Paste the data.

9. Navigate back to the Harmony application.
Workflows
• Using the available data for this well, you have completed a Decline analysis, Material Balance,
Volumetrics and Forecast worksheet.
• Well 102/10-09-020-09W/400 also has enough data to support the same type of analyses.
• In IHS Harmony you can save the workflow you just completed and apply it to other wells.
• The same worksheets and analyses can be automatically created in the new wells after a
workflow is applied.
1. Click on Create Workflow.
2. Click New.
3. Enter the Name Arcs Workflow.
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• Note that you can select all, some or none of the worksheets. Only selected worksheets will be
created when a workflow is applied to other wells.
• You can also select all, some, or none of the analyses. Only selected analyses will be created
when a workflow is applied to other wells.
• Note that the name of each worksheet and analysis is stored in the workflow. As a result, when
the workflow adds an analysis to a well, it will give that analysis the same name listed in the
Create Workflow dialog box.
• Selecting Lock Scaling will preserve the axes extent you have set in the corresponding
worksheet.
• Using the features included in workflows helps you analyze wells in a consistent way, while
saving time and reducing necessary clicking.
• After applying a workflow you should review the analyses for each well to make sure they are
reasonable.
4. Save the new Workflow.
5. Right-click on well 102/10-09-020-09W/400, and select Apply Workflow to Selected entities >
Arcs Workflow. When prompted to confirm that you have applied a workflow, click OK.
6. Launch well 102/10-09-020-09W/400 by double-clicking on it.
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7. Go to the Gas Cum worksheet.

• Harmony has auto-fit a decline using the last 50% of the data points by default. None of the
modifications you made in the previous well will apply here. After you apply a workflow to a set of
wells you should go through each worksheet to ensure the analyses make sense
• Notice that the previously linked analyses are linked here as well and that the names of the
Analyses are the same as for the previous well.
8. Navigate through Gas Time, Gas/CBM MB, and Press Time worksheets noting that an auto-fit
has been applied to the data.
• Did you notice anything unusual about your exponential decline? The b value is not locked to a
value of zero – even though it was in the worksheet for 100/08-08-020-09W4.To correct this, you
need to go to each exponential decline for each well, set b=0 and lock it.
• Why? The default decline analysis parameters are set in the global Harmony settings. Those
global sets are in effect for any decline analyses created.
• If you want to have multiple decline types applied to a group of wells using a workflow, you should
consider the order of operations. The best way to apply all the analyses you completed for well
100/08-08-020-09W4 would be to:
o Save the workflow excluding the exponential decline analysis
o Apply the workflow to all the wells of interest
o Change the global decline settings to a b value of 0 (zero)
o Save a second workflow:
 excluding all worksheets and
 excluding all analyses except the exponential decline analysis
o Apply the second workflow to all the wells of interest
o Change your global decline analysis settings back (if necessary)
• This suggested dual workflow process would eliminate the need to change the b value for the
exponential analysis in every well one at a time.
o When you apply the first workflow, it will create all the worksheets and every analysis
except the exponential decline.
o When you apply the second workflow, it will create only the exponential decline with a b
value locked to 0 (zero).
9. Navigate to the Gas Vol worksheet.

• You can see that some values are still “Required”. Each well is normally unique, so a workflow
does not store reservoir properties values. If there are values in the Properties Editor they will be
automatically entered here. You can see that the value for pi was automatically pulled from the
Material Balance worksheet, which is why it is greyed out here.
Results
Results Viewer
• When your analyses are complete, you might want to use that data outside of IHS Harmony. The
following section will review how to report results.
• Note: wells must be selected in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy in order to see any data in the
Results Viewer. If there are no wells selected, no data will be displayed.
• You have now created decline analyses, material balance, and volumetrics for the ARCS A wells
and have linked the analyses for consistency.
• The Results Viewer can be used to see a summary of the analyses.
• Forecasts can also be batch exported using the Export Forecasts feature.
1. Select the two wells you have analyzed from the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy.
2. Click on the Results tab > Results Viewer and make sure you select the Grid View.
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• The Results Viewer can be used to see a summary of the analyses.

3. Select Summary Parameters > Gas > OGIP, EURg.
4. Select Analysis Type > Gas Decline > From Start of Forecast > Forecast Start Date, qi, ai.
• There are many types of data you can view from different analyses for multiple wells all in one
location.
• If you create a customized view that you want to use again, you can save it as a Custom
Template.
5. In the Results Viewer, from the drop list select Save/Delete Template.
6. Name the template Gas Decline and click Save.
• In the future, you can select the custom template named Gas Decline from the Results Viewer
drop list to update the view.
7. Click the Advanced Filtering feature.
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• A dialog box opens where you can select a subset of available analyses for data export. For
example, you currently have three analyses (Best Fit, Exponential and Rate vs Time). If you only
want to view or export the Best Fit analysis, you could filter the others out using Advanced Filter
8. Click Cancel to close the Advanced Filtering selection.
9. Click Export Tables.
• Note that you can export the data array to several different formats, including some compatible
with commonly used economics applications. PHDWin, ARIES, Energy Navigator and Mosaic
compatible formats are included.
10. Click Export Forecasts.
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• Using this feature you can export the forecasts to a **.csv file for use in other applications.
• Note that you can select which datasets you want to include, and create custom view templates
to save time if you are frequently exporting a specific set of attributes.
11. Click Cancel to close the Export Forecasts dialog box.
Reporting
• Every analysis worksheet is automatically created in the print queue – you do not need to capture
screen shots of worksheets. You can get digital copies of your analyses using the reporting
feature.
• Within a worksheet you can set your preferred printing settings (for example page orientation).
• You may want to make your preferred print settings before you save any workflows – the
worksheet print settings are saved with a workflow.
• You can also globally set how reports are printed from the Global Settings dialog box.
• The Reporting tab allows you to manage the print queue.
Items in the print queue are linked to their source worksheet, so printing from the queue will
always print the current plot or table.
1. Navigate to the Reporting tab.

2. Click the Report Name drop list.
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• Note that using this drop list you can select only reports of a particular type. In the example
above, only Decline reports would be listed. Using the Reports Name drop list can help you
quickly limit the reports listed for printing.
3. Highlight the Decline report. Click Preview the Selected Report. A preview dialog box opens
showing you what the report will look like.
4. Close the report preview.
Conclusions
• During this basic gas example, you have learned how to use the following:
o Hierarchy & GIS
o Diagnostics
o Analyzed a gas well using multiple decline analyses
o Determined the original fluids in place using a material balance
o Confirmed the original fluids in place using volumetric calculations
o Used all three analysis methods together in a linked analysis
o Created and applied a workflow to the remaining wells
o Reviewed the results of the analyses
o Generated a report of all the worksheets and analyses
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Basic Oil Workflow – Exercise 2
Harmony Basic Oil Workflow – Exercise 2

Purpose
• To present a typical oil reservoir and forecasting workflow including:
o Decline Analysis
o Water-Oil Ratio Analysis
• In the software you will learn about:
o Importing a file
o Custom diagnostic worksheets
o Ratio Analysis
o Attributes Tab
o Custom attributes
o Custom hierarchy structure
• This example is similar to Harmony Basic Gas Workflow - Exercise 1 but you will work with oil
wells and will be using additional Harmony features.
Navigation
1. Open a new instance of Harmony.
2. Click New Project.
• A blank Harmony project opens. You need to import data into Harmony to create wells.
• IHS Harmony supports defined text files such as **.axp, **.98c, Meraks, DP2’s, Aries and custom
text files such as excel, or csv’s.
3. Click on the Import File button.
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• The Import dialogue box appears.

4. Click on the Supported File dropdown box.
• You can see all the file types that can be imported into Harmony. You can also import data
directly from a database, or from another Harmony project.
5. Select Example 2 – Basic Oil Example.axp. Click Open.
6. The Set Datum dialog box opens. Select NAD 83 as the datum and click OK.
• Notice that wells have been placed on the GIS map view, and are also listed in the Entity Viewer -
Hierarchy. All the associated data was imported from the file you imported.
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• You can also add shapefiles and images to the GIS view (map) for visualization. This feature will
be reviewed by your instructor.
Attributes
• Attributes are fields of data associated with a well. They can include numbers or text, and usually
include well information such as name, status, on stream date and so on.
• Attributes can be displayed for individual wells or multiple wells.
• Cells with a white background can be changed. Cells with a grey background are read only.
1. Select all the wells in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy by clicking on any well and pressing CTRL+A.
2. Click on the Attributes tab.
• The Attributes tab and Diagnostics tab manage data similarly - you can select and deselect
datasets in the Attribute Properties pane.
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• Attributes have a one-to-one ratio to each well. For example each well has only one Primary
Fluid, one Country, and so on.
• You can select or deselect datasets using the Attributes Properties tree, or by clicking and
dragging between the Attribute Properties pane and the table to add or remove attributes from the
table.
3. Uncheck API Number and Entity No.
4. Click and drag Current Status Date, Country, Province/State, and Property from the table to
the Attributes Properties pane. Those data sets are removed from the table of attributes.
• You can sort the wells in ascending or descending order based on each attribute by clicking on
the header of the column.
• Remember that cells with white backgrounds are editable. Cells with grey backgrounds are read-
only.
• Also remember that you can customize the templates by removing or adding different attributes
from the “Attributes Properties” window.
• You can also change the order of the columns to best suit your needs.
5. Move some of the column locations by clicking and dragging the column headers left or right.
• The original table layout was set by the Auto Template. You can save the custom attribute layout
you have made, and use it again later.
6. Click on Custom and select Save/Delete Template.
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7. Enter the Name <Your Name> View and click Save.
• Now when you use the Attributes tab you can use this custom template, the Auto Template, or
any other Custom Templates you may have created.
• Users frequently create specific views for different purposes, including geological data views,
completions views, header views and so on, to streamline their work.
8. Select Auto Template then <Your Name> View Template again to see how the table changes.
• There are multiple ways to select wells. If you had a large group of wells in an area and wanted
to select a subset, you could use attributes. You can select wells based on shared or similar
attributes using the Attributes pane. For example, you might want to select all the wells that
came online during the 1980’s.
9. Click on the column header On Stream to sort the wells by On Stream date.
10. Select the well rows that have an on stream date in the 1980’s.
11. Right-click on the grey row numbers and choose Select Subset.
12. In the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy, click on one of the purple highlighted wells and drag the selected
wells into the Entity Viewer - Custom.
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13. Right-click on Custom Group 1 and Rename the group to 1980s wells.
Custom Attributes
• There are many different Attributes that are included in Harmony. You can also create Custom
Attributes if you need them.
• Custom Attributes can be entered manually and / or imported from a database or excel
spreadsheet.
• Custom Attributes can also be created by running calculations on attributes and production data.
1. Click on the Add Custom Attribute/Category button and select Add Attribute. Hint: if you
cannot click on Add Attribute, you need to select at least one well). Select all the wells in the Flat
List.
• Note: the option to Add Category was also available in the drop list. A Category is a group of
attributes organized as a Dataset. In the following image the category indicated is the Entity
Header:
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• In the Create Custom Attribute dialog box you can name your Attribute, set its Style, Unit Type,
Units, and Location.
• An Input attribute type means you will add the information. Selecting a Calculated attribute type
is used if you want Harmony to calculate a value based on other datasets or attributes.
• Create a new Attribute for which Engineer is analyzing which well.
2. Set up the following in the Create Custom Attribute dialog box:
a. Attribute Name = Engineer
b. Attribute Style = Text
c. Unit Type = Null
d. Default Field Unit = Null
e. Default Metric Unit = Null
f. Location = Custom Attributes
g. Type of Attribute = Input
h. Click OK
• You will now have a new column with white cells. You can add values directly into this Attribute
• Information can be added by copying/pasting from Excel, or typing the values in manually
• Add some names in the Engineer attribute column you created. Please feel free to use any
names you would like.
3. Type Kirk into row 1.
• Now you can use CTRL+C and CTRL+V to copy and paste this value to one or multiple cells. You
can also hover over the bottom right hand corner of the cell until you get a crosshair - click and
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drag the values into lower cells.
4. Click and drag values down a few rows.
5. Enter Picard in the next row.

6. Copy and Paste into multiple highlighted cells for a few rows.
7. Enter Janeway into the next row and click drag this to the end of the table.
• Remember that you can sort the table by any column. Click on the Engineer column header to
sort the table by that attribute.
• You can also change the Precision and Units for any unit shown in Harmony that is in green text.
For example, the units for Cumulative Oil Production are shown in green, and can be changed.
8. Right-click on a unit shown in green and change Precision and Units For example, try right
clicking on Cumulative Oil Production Mstb.
9. Click on the headers for a few columns to see the data sorting. Sort by the attribute Engineer
before proceeding.
• Now you will create a Calculated attribute for Peak Rate.
10. Click on the Add Custom Attribute/Category button and select Add Attribute.
11. Use the following settings in the Create Custom Attribute dialog box (also shown in image that
follows):
a. Attribute Name = Peak Rate
b. Attribute Style = Number
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c. Unit Type = Fluid Rate

d. Default Field Unit = Use Default
e. Default Metric Unit = Use Default
f. Location = Custom Attributes
g. Type of Attribute = Calculated
12. Click OK.

• The Equation Editor dialog box opens. You can use the Equation Editor to calculate attributes.
Hover your mouse over the functions listed in the Equation Editor. Tool Tips give you a lot of
information that will help to build functions that calculate custom attributes.
13. Create a peak rate Equation with the following steps:
a. Click MaxCol
b. Select Production Datasets > Production > Oil > Cal Oil Rate
c. Enter: , start, end)
14. Click Update Grid:
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• You can see a preview of the formula in the lower pane of the Equation Editor. The grid in the
upper right will show what data will be used, and what type of data will be returned by your
equation. If the results are not as you expect you can make revisions.
• In the example above, the unit is shown as months. This is correct since the production data is
monthly. But you should confirm that the correct units are selected for a calculated value before
moving on.
• Note that you can make calculated attributes on narrower ranges of data as well. For example,
you could choose to have the peak rate during the last three months of production calculated.
That formula would look like:
(MaxCol([P:Cal Oil Rate],end-3,end)
where “end -3” would look at the end of production less three months – in other words the last
three months of production.
15. Click OK.

• A new column called Peak Rate is added to the Attribute table.
• The cells are grey because it is a value Harmony is calculating for you, and you cannot change
the value directly.
Custom Hierarchy Structure

Harmony includes several hierarchy views in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy by default, but you can
also make custom hierarchy views based on any attribute(s).
1. Navigate to the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy pane (Hint: it is in the left-most pane). Select
Add/Modify Hierarchy Structure.
2. In the Options dialog box, click Add.
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3. Right-Click where it says User Defined 1 and select Rename.
4. Type in Engineer.
5. Click and drag Engineer from the Available Fields list to the Current Hierarchy pane.
6. Click and drag Reservoir from the Available Fields list to the Current Hierarchy pane.
7. Click Apply.
8. Click OK.
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• The wells are now sorted by Engineer – the custom attribute you created. Expand each Engineer
listed in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy and note that there is currently only one Reservoir under
each. If there were multiple Reservoirs being worked on they would show as additional sub-
groups, because you listed them beneath Engineer in the new Entity Viewer – Hierarchy view you
created.
9. Click on the GIS tab.

10. Right-click on Janeway, Kirk, Picard and select Constituent Wells for each one.
• Now you can easily see the wells on the map sorted by Engineer. Note: this would also show the
wells in the diagnostic plot by Engineer if you select constituent wells.
Search for a Well

• You will search for a specific well to analyze.
1. Click the Search button and enter 14-20.
2. Click on the well that appears under the Search field.
• Note that the well is also highlighted in the GIS. Using the search feature you can quickly find
specific wells of interest.
• Also note that the search feature works for any part of a name. Your search term does not need
to include the start of the well name, nor the entire well name. Any well containing your search
term will be returned.
Diagnostics Plot
You should check the quality and availability of your data before starting an analysis. This will help
you determine which analyses are possible with the data you have, and if you want to exclude any
wells. Consider the density and quality of your data.
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Customize Diagnostics Plot

1. Select well 100/14-20-051-10W5 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy (use the search feature) and
navigate to the Diagnostic Plot.
• You can create a custom diagnostic plot of Op Oil Rate and Op Liquid Rate
2. Unselect Op Water Rate and Op Gas Rate (Hint: look in the Data Viewer Properties list of
datasets).
3. Select Liquid (o+w+c) > Op Liquid (o+w+c) Rate from the Data Viewer Properties List.
4. Link the axes for Op Oil Rate and Op Liquid Rate. This is possible because they share the
same units. To link the axes, hover your mouse over Op Liquid Rate on the y axis and click then
drag it on top of the Op Oil Rate y axis. Release the button click to ‘drop’ the axis on top.
• Now when you adjust the axes scale both the oil and liquid rate data sets will change together.
• You will use this plot to get an initial total fluid rate which can be used later when analyzing this
well.
5. Save this new plot as a template for use on other wells. To do this, click on Custom on the Data
Viewer Properties and select Save/Delete Template. Name the template Oil and Total Fluid
Rates and click Save.
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• You may want to use the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy to review the diagnostic plot for several wells
using this template to look for data trends and anomalies before you begin your analysis.
6. Use the Fluid/Status view in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy.
7. Select all the Oil > Pumping wells in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy (Hint: right-click on Oil >
Pumping and Select Constituent Wells).
8. Navigate to the Diagnostics tab and select the Auto Template.
• Harmony shows the individual values for all the selected wells in the diagnostic plot by default.
• You can select to plot individual well data, aggregate data or both using the Plot aggregate or
individual entity production feature
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• Depending upon how many wells are selected, it can be difficult to identify any groupings or
trends. You can also sort the data, and in this example you can sort by each of the different
Engineers you entered as a Custom Attribute.
• Reducing the number of axes can also help with identifying trends in the data
9. Unselect Op Water Rate and Op Gas Rate (Hint: look in the Data Viewer Properties list of
datasets).
10. Select Ratios > GOR from the Data Viewer Properties List.
11. Hover your mouse over the wells in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy and see if you can identify any
well groupings or outlier wells from the diagnostic plot.
12. Use Control+click to remove any wells that do not fit the general data trend from the group of
selected wells in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy.
Decline
Rate/Cum Worksheet
1. Launch well 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 (Hint: double click on it. Use the Search feature if you
cannot find the well).
2. Create a new worksheet and select Decline > Oil > Oil Rate vs. Cumulative Oil.
3. Add an Oil – Decline Analysis in the Analysis Manager.
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• The default in Harmony is to auto-fit the decline using the last 50% of the data points. This default
can be modified in the Global Options.
4. Click Options in the main menu bar. The Options dialog box opens. Select Analysis > Decline.
• Here you can change the defaults for various Decline parameters. By default, the last 50% of
data points are used, shown in the upper pane and the Abandonment Rate default for oil is 3
stb/d. You can change these globally, and the settings will apply to all future declines. For this
example you will not make any changes.
5. Click Cancel to exit the Global Options.
6. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool to get a good decline fit.
7. Rename Analysis 1 to Best Fit (Hint: right-click).
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Rate/Time Worksheet
• Note that analyses and worksheets are independent of each other. Declines created on a
Rate vs. Cumulative worksheet can be displayed on a Rate vs. Time worksheet by clicking
the check box for each decline in the Analysis Manager.
1. Create a new worksheet: Decline > Oil > Oil Rate vs. Time. Hint: use the new worksheet
button.
2. Select the check box for the Best Fit forecast in the new worksheet
3. Unselect the check box for the Best Fit forecast
4. Create a new Oil – Decline.
• This time you will make an Exponential Decline (b=0).

5. Set b = 0 and Lock the value.
• You may want to rescale your plot so you can more easily view the data and decline.
6. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool to get a best fit. (Hint: if the tool is greyed out, highlight the
Oil-Decline (RT) in the Analysis Manager).
7. Rename Analysis 1 to Exponential and click OK.
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Annotations
• Annotations can be a useful tool for documenting points of interest in the data such as operational
changes or questionable data points
1. Click Create Annotation to add an annotation to the plot.
2. Type Questionable Data Point as the annotation

3. Click Advanced>>
• In the Advanced settings of the Create Annotation dialog box you can customize your annotation
in several ways. Annotations can be attached to the screen, the plot or the data. In this example
you will attach the plot to an outlier data point. When an annotation is attached to a dataset, you
can select which data set to label.
• You can also show or hide the data value and / or units at the attached annotation location.
4. Change the Attach to drop down to Data
5. Deselect Show Y Value. Deselect Show Units. Then click OK.
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6. You can click on the annotation arrow and drag it along the Op Oil Rate dataset. As you do, the
Op Oil Rate annotation will update. Hint: if you cannot select the annotation arrow, click the
selection arrow Set Mouse to Default.
7. Place the annotation on a representative value.
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Volumetrics
• In the previous exercise you completed a gas volumetric analysis. In this exercise you will
complete an oil volumetric analysis.
• If you have reservoir properties you can create a volumetric analysis.
• Data fields in the volumetrics worksheet that must be completed will have the word ‘Required’ in
red font.
1. Create a new worksheet: Volumetrics > Oil Volumetrics.
2. In the Analysis Manager, add an Oil – Volumetrics analysis.
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3. You have received the following data from your colleagues in Geoscience. Enter the following
values into Harmony:
a. Porosity = 20%
b. Height = 20 ft
c. Sgi = 0%
d. Soi = 80%
e. Swi = 20%
f. 1/Boi (shrinkage) = 0.8
g. A = 500 acres
h. Recovery Factor (RFo) = 15%
• You do not need initial reservoir pressure (pi) or reservoir temperature (Tr) for an oil volumetric
analysis. Remember that these values were required in the gas volumetric example.
Linking Analyses
o A volumetric analysis that gives an original fluid in place
• When a volumetric analysis is used with a decline analysis, the EUR is used from decline, and
the OOIP used is from the volumetrics. The process of using these analyses together is called
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Linking Analyses.
1. Duplicate the Volumetric analysis into the Best Fit analysis (Hint: right-click on the Oil –
Volumetrics).
2. Duplicate the Volumetric analysis into the Exponential analysis.
• The EUR is taken from the Decline and the OOIP from the Volumetrics.
• What would you do if the results indicated a recovery factor different from what you expect?
You will discuss this as a group with your instructor before going to the next steps.
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Ratio Analysis – WOR

• An oil forecast can be created using a WOR analysis.
• IHS Harmony uses a default final water cut of 98%, which can be changed under the
Analysis Parameters. You can also change the default final water cut in the Global
Options.
• The WOR analysis line can be adjusted manually with the mouse and / or using the Select
Points / Spray Tool in the same way as a decline analysis line.
1. Create a new worksheet: Ratio Analysis > WOR vs. Cumulative Oil.
2. Add a WOR Analysis.
• Remember - Harmony defaults to a final water cut of 98%.
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Custom Worksheet
• Any template saved in the Diagnostic plot can be used as a worksheet in the analysis of a well.
• You previously saved an “Oil and Total Fluid Rates” plot in the Diagnostics, and will use it now to
create a custom worksheet.
1. Navigate to tab 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 (the well you are analyzing).

2. Create a new worksheet using the template you created earlier: Custom > Oil and Total Fluid
Rates.
3. Click Add a diagnostic line to the Total Fluids plot. Use the Op Liquid (o+w+c) Rate data for
the line.
4. Hover your mouse over the middle of the diagnostic line. The mouse turns into a cross hair. You
can click and drag the line on the plot. Drag the line to a representative location on the plot.
5. Right click on the diagnostic line and Show All Annotations
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• The diagnostic line is at about 400 stb/d (Op Liquid), and this is a reasonable value to use later
for ratio forecasts using WOR analysis.
Forecast
• Using forecast worksheets you can export forecasts using the ‘Export to Excel’ feature, or by
copying the tabular data in Harmony and pasting into another compatible application (for
example Excel).
1. Create a new Forecast worksheet.
2. Activate Best Fit and Exponential (the decline analyses).

3. Activate the WOR Analysis.
• The WOR Analysis requires a Total Fluid Initial Value.
4. Set the Initial Value to 400 bbl/day and click OK. (Hint: this is the value you got from your custom
worksheet).
• You need to set the initial value because the ratio is already known, but the starting fluid rate to
use is not. Without that value you cannot do a ratio forecast.
5. Compare the forecasts between the declines you made and the Oil-WOR.
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• How do these results compare? The forecasts are similar, but you do not know what the b
value and other analysis parameters are for the Oil-WOR forecast. The WOR forecast method
generates a line that isn’t bounded by the Arps equation.
• You will need to add a decline to your analysis and overlap the decline with the Oil-WOR
forecast to get the analysis parameters.
6. Navigate to the Oil Time worksheet. Deselect all the Analyses. Hint: there is a short-cut to
deselect all analyses at once.
7. Select only the Oil-WOR Forecast (Hint: use the check box).
• To get the decline parameters for the Oil-WOR forecast, you must add another decline
analysis to the worksheet and match it to the WOR forecast.
8. Add an Oil-Decline analysis (Hint: use the + sign).
9. Click Fit Decline to Forecast in the Analysis Parameters pane.
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10. Select Fit to Forecast > Oil-WOR Forecast: Analysis 2.
• This new decline analysis is now based on your Oil-WOR forecast.

• You can use the Fit to Forecast feature to match declines to other analyses, including
analytical models.
11. Rename the new decline Oil-WOR decline.
Workflow
• Remember that you can save a workflow and apply it to other wells.
• The same worksheets and analyses can be automatically applied to new wells, saving time and
creating analysis consistency.
• In the Create Workflow dialog box, remember to select only the worksheets you want to be
created for a well.
• Also in the Create Workflow dialog box, remember to only select the analyses you want created
for a well.
Create the Workflow

1. Click Create Workflow.
2. Click New and Name the workflow Basic Oil.

3. Click OK.
4. Under Analyses deselect the Exponential decline analysis and Exponential volumetric you
created.
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• Why are you not including the exponential analysis? Your instructor will discuss this in detail with
you following the workflow exercise.
• The reason relates to how decline analyses are created using the default settings in Harmony.
5. Make sure that none of the exponential analyses are selected before continuing to the next step.
6. Click Save.
Apply the Workflow

• You will apply the Basic Oil workflow to all the current Pumping oil wells.
• It will create all the worksheets listed in the Create Workflow dialog box, and all the analyses you
created with the exception of the exponential analysis you excluded when saving the Basic Oil
workflow.
• Then you will change the global decline settings in Harmony, create an Exponential Decline
workflow and apply the Exponential Decline workflow.
• It will create only the Exponential Decline analysis on selected wells.
1. Sort the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy by Fluid/Status.
2. Expand the wells under Oil > Pumping.
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3. Right-click on Pumping in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy and choose Select Constituent Wells.
4. Hold down the Control key and click on 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy
to deselect it.
• Why did you deselect well 100/14-20-051-10W5/00? This well already has all the worksheets
and analyses you want.
• If you applied the Basic Oil workflow to well 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 it would create duplicate
worksheets and duplicate analyses – all the items that were selected as part of the workflow.
5. Right-click anywhere on the block of selected wells (in the purple highlighted area) in the Entity
Viewer - Hierarchy and select Apply Workflow to Selected Entities > Basic Oil workflow.
6. A dialog box opens indicating that the workflow has been applied, and how many wells it was
applied to. Click OK to close this dialog box.
7. Search for well 100/16-20-051-10W5/00 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy.
8. Double-click well 100/16-20-051-10W5/00 to launch it. Navigate through the worksheets for this
well (click on each worksheet).
• Did you notice that all the worksheets and analyses you completed for well 14-20 are also
included in well 16-20 now?
• You should review each analysis for any well a workflow is applied to confirm that the analyses
are reasonable. If analyses do not represent the data, you should make adjustments as
necessary.
• In some cases, for example the volumetrics worksheet, required data will be missing. You will
need to add the required data before the analysis for each well will be complete.
Create a Second Workflow with Global Options

• Now all the worksheets have been created for each well, and all of the analyses except the
exponential decline and exponential volumetrics. You will make a second workflow with a b value
fixed at 0 (zero), and to do this you must first change the global options.
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1. Click on Options in the main toolbar (Hint: it looks like a blue gear icon).
2. Select Analysis > Decline and set the Fixed b value to 0 (zero).
• Any new decline analysis created will set b to 0 (zero) from now going forward – unless you
change this global setting.
3. Click OK.
• Now you can create a second workflow to add an exponential decline to a well.
4. Double-click well 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 to launch it again
5. Click Create Workflow.
6. Click New and Name the workflow Exponential Decline.
7. Click OK.
8. Under Worksheets deselect all the worksheets.
9. Under Analyses deselect all the analyses.
10. Under Analyses, select only the exponential decline and exponential volumetric analyses.
• Why are you creating a workflow without any new worksheets? Why will it only contain the
Exponential analyses? Your instructor will discuss this in detail with you following the workflow
exercise.
11. Make sure that the exponential analyses are the only items selected before continuing to the next
step.
12. Click Save.
14. Hold down the Control key and click on 100/14-20-051-10W5/00 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy
to deselect it.
15. Right-click anywhere on the block of selected wells (in the purple highlighted area) in the Entity
Viewer - Hierarchy and select Apply Workflow to Selected Entities > Exponential Decline
workflow.
16. Navigate to the Oil Time worksheet for well 100/16-20-051-10W5/00.
• What is the b value for the exponential analysis on this worksheet? The b value = zero.
17. Navigate to the Oil and Total Fluids Rates worksheet and determine what the total fluid rate
should be (Hint: the diagnostic line is on the plot with annotations. You will need to adjust it to
match the data.).
18. Navigate to the Forecast worksheet and activate the WOR Analysis.
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19. Enter the initial fluid rate value you selected from the custom worksheet (Oil and Total Fluids
Rates) for 100/16-20-051-10W5/00.
• You would normally review each well that had a workflow applied to it. But during the rest of this
exercise you will pretend that you already completed this quality check and analysis review on all
remaining wells.
Results Viewer
• The Workflow has been applied to all of the selected wells.
• For due diligence the next step should be to go through each well and verify the analyses make
sense. You should adjust any analyses as required during this quality control step.
• For this example you will pretend that you have verified the analyses for all wells, and will look at
the results.
Grid View
• In the Grid View you can see the summary parameters for any of your well analyses.
1. Navigate to the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy and make sure you are still viewing wells by
Fluid/Status.
2. Expand the wells under Oil > Pumping.
4. Navigate to the Results tab.
5. Select the Results Viewer tab.
6. Select the Summary Parameters > Oil > EURo, NpNet, RRo datasets.
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• If you only want to see the results for the Best Fit analysis you can filter out the other analyses
from view.
• You can sort the results by clicking on column headers.
4. Click on the Advanced Filtering button (Hint: it looks like a blue filter).
5. Click on (Select All) to deselect all the analyses.
6. Click on Best Fit.
7. Click OK.
• Results can be exported for use in economics applications and forecasts can also be exported to
a **.csv file.
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Plot View
• In addition to a table format, you can also see the results as a Cross Plot, Cumulative Distribution
Function, or Histogram. You will navigate to the plot view to review these features.
1. Click on the Plot View button.
2. Choose Cumulative Distribution Function from the dropdown box above the plot area
3. Choose Summary Parameters > Oil > EURo.
4. Click on Advanced Filtering.

5. Uncheck Best Fit.
6. Check Exponential.
7. Click OK.
• The plot updates to show data for the Exponential decline analysis.
• If you prefer you can also display data as a histogram instead of cumulative distribution by using
the drop list above the plot.
• You can compare two data sets in a cross plot in the Results viewer.
8. Choose Cross Plot from the dropdown box above the plot area.
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• In this example try EURo cross plotted with Peak Rate (our Custom Calculated Attribute).
9. Select EURo and Peak Rate from the list of available data in the Results Viewer. EURo is found
under the Summary Parameters > Oil, and Peak Rate is found under Attributes > Custom
Attributes > Peak Rate.
• You can also add a diagnostic line to help find trends in the data.
7. Click on Add diagnostic line.
• You can adjust where the line is placed on the plot by clicking and dragging the slope and clicking
on the midpoint and dragging the line up/down and left/right.
Comparison Plot
• You can use the comparison plot to layer individual plots from within Harmony. Comparison plots
are static, so the plot will not change even if the original data set is changed. This can be useful
for comparing plots of slightly modified data sets and / or analyses.
1. Right-click on the plot area and select Send Plot to Comparison Plot > New Plot.
2. Deselect EURo and select NpNet.
3. Add a diagnostic trend line and adjust its location on the plot.
4. Right-click on the line, select Customize Line. Change the line color to grey and click OK.
5. Right-click on the plot area and select Send Plot to Comparison Plot > Plot 1 (Hint: this is the
comparison plot you created earlier).
6. Navigate to the Comparison Plot tab (Hint: appears beside the Results Viewer tab).
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• You now have a comparison plot with both NpNet and EURo versus Peak Rate.
• If you want to create additional comparison plots, simply right-click on a plot in the Results Viewer
and select Send Plot to Comparison Plot > New Plot. You can choose to send data to existing
comparison plots or new plots in this way.
Exporting
• An important step once the analyses are complete is exporting the results to other programs such
as economics packages.
1. Navigate to Results Viewer tab.

2. Click on the Grid View button.
3. Click Export Tables.
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• Note that you have several options for table formatting. You can make selections that best
display results that are of interest.
4. Click outside the drop menu.
• Wait for the exercise review with your instructor. After the review you can close the Harmony
project without saving it.
Conclusions
• In this exercise you have learned to use:
o Hierarchy & GIS
o Attributes
o Diagnostics
o Decline
o WOR Analysis
o Linked Analysis
o Workflow Creation
o Results Viewer
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Typewell – Exercise 3
Harmony Typewell – Exercise 3

Purpose
• In this exercise you will learn about:
o Querying Wells
o Creating a Custom Group
o Typewell Analysis on a Custom Group
o Copying/Pasting an Analysis
o Exporting a Forecast through the Forecast Worksheet
• What is a Typewell Analysis?

o It is a decline analysis method where a traditional decline is created for the average of a
group of wells.
o It can be applied to Hierarchy or Custom Groups but not on a single well level.
Navigation
1. Open Example 3 – Typewell.
Querying Wells
You can use the query wells feature to create complex searches and select a subset of wells from
your project. Any attribute can be used, alone or in combination, to create a search.
• Before you make a Typewell forecast on a group of wells you need to create a group of similar
wells to focus on for the analysis.
• Any combination of attribute data can be used as a search parameter.
• For this exercise you will create a typewell that includes only wells which are producing oil, are
horizontal and are currently producing.
1. Navigate to the Attributes tab.
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• The Attributes table does not display because no wells are selected in the Entity Viewer -
Hierarchy.
2. Click on any well in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy and press CTRL+A.
• This will select all the wells in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy.
3. Click Query Wells in the Attributes toolbar.
• A new Query Entities dialog box opens. A query can be built step by step in this dialog box.
• First you need to select an Attribute of interest.
4. Select Entity Status > Primary Fluid.
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• In the query feature, you can use Operations to create complex searches. The type of operations
available varies depending upon the attribute type. For Primary Fluid, two operations are
available: equals (=) and does not equal (!=).
5. Select = (select the ‘equals’ operation).
• You will need to select an Operand to apply the operation to. In this example, your operand will
be oil.
6. Select Oil.
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• As built, this query will select wells with a primary fluid type of oil.
• A Constraint is made up of an attribute with an operation applied to an operand.
• When an attribute to query, an operation, and the operand, are selected, you need to add this
Constraint to complete the query.
7. Click Add.
• In this example, look at the Constraints pane. Currently all wells where the Primary Fluid is “Oil”
will be included in the search.
• Now add some more Constraints.
8. Select Current Status, !=, Abandoned, click Add.
• In layman’s terms, wells that have any current status other than abandoned will be included in the
search results.
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9. Change Abandoned to Injecting, click Add.
• This constraint will return wells that are not injecting.

• You now have three constraints built into this query. Add another based on well type.
10. Select Well Properties > Well Type, =, Horizontal, Click Add.
This constraint will find all wells that are horizontal.
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• You now have four constraints in your query that will result in a search which includes wells that:
a. Have a primary fluid equal to ‘oil’
b. Have a current status that does not equal ‘abandoned’
c. Have a current status that does not equal ‘injection’
d. Are horizontal
11. Click Save, name the query Oil Hz Wells and then click Save. Do not close the Query Entities
dialog box.
• You can always go back and modify Queries after you have saved them, instead of building from
scratch with a correction.
• You will revise your search to include injection wells, and exclude suspended wells. This is also
called Modification of a Query:
12. Click on Current Status != Injecting.
13. Change to Current Status != Suspended.
14. Click Modify.
15. Click Save. Select Oil Hz Wells and click Save. (Hint: you are overwriting the previous version
of this query). Do not close the Query Entities dialog box.
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• After a Query has been created (as above), you must run the query before any results will be
returned.
• If you have a very large number of wells, you may want to reduce the number of wells a query will
be applied to. To help with this you can run a Query on Selected Entities or on All Entities. For
example, you could select a group of wells on the GIS (highlight them), and then run your query
with those wells selected. You can also select a group of wells from the Entity Viewer –
Hierarchy, or the Attributes tab, and then run your query on selected wells.
16. In the Query Entities dialog box, choose All Entities.
17. Click Query.
• Note that 58 wells match the query you created. The number of wells that match is indicated
above the list of well names in the Query Entities dialog box.
18. Click OK.
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• Note that all the wells that meet the query are now highlighted in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy.
You will create a Custom Group containing just these wells.
19. From any highlighted well in the Entity Hierarchy, click and drag to the wells to the Custom
Group area.
• A Group of Entities acts like a single Entity - you can double-click on a group to launch a Group
Analyses. Adding wells that meet the query constraints to a Custom Group does not remove
them from the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy. A Custom Group is a reference list of wells from the
complete dataset that you have grouped (by clicking and dragging, filtering or running a query). It
is a way to group wells for faster group analyses since you do not have to go back and re-run
your query to select the wells in the future.
• Note: you can rename custom groups by right-clicking on the custom group name and selecting
Rename to help keep your custom groups organized in a meaningful way.
Typewell
• You will now create a new Typewell Analysis on the group of wells resulting from your custom
query. Typewell work is a Group based analysis so you need to first activate a group of wells. If
you activate only a single well the Typewell worksheet option will be grayed out (unavailable).
• Why might you make a typewell decline? If you are planning to drill a new well, you might use a
typewell decline to predict the type of production you expect. You might also want to check if an
existing well is producing as you expect when compared to the typewell decline.
1. Right-click on Custom Group 01 and Rename it Oil Wells.
2. Double-click on the Oil Wells custom group to activate it.
3. Create a Typewell > Oil Typewell.
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• Notice that all the Single Well Worksheet types are now grayed out. Any modules that are in
color can be used at the Group level, if a group of wells is activated.
• A new plot appears with many thin lines, and a thicker line.
The thick line on the plot is the Average Rate for all wells selected in the Wells pane. What is
meant by average rate? All the rates summed and divided by the total number of wells on
production at that time give the Average Rate.
4. Did you notice that a new Wells pane and Dataset pane appear with the Analysis Manager when
you create a Typewell worksheet? Click on the Wells tab (Hint: the tab is listed near the Analysis
Manager tab).
• By default, all the wells in the group will show on the typewell plot. From the Wells tab you can
select/deselect outlier wells. When wells are not selected they will not appear on the typewell
plot.
• You can also slide the well(s) position on the typewell plot left or right on the x axis so that they
start at peak rate.
• You can hover over each well in the Wells pane to see the curve for that well bolded on the plot.
5. Hover your mouse over several wells and observe how each one turns bold in the typewell plot.
• Remember, you can remove outliers wells that you want to exclude from a typewell analysis.
6. Hover over an outlier well to confirm it is a data set you want to remove. Deselect the well in the
Wells pane to remove the well from the typewell plot.
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• The average rate for the typewell will re-calculated based upon the wells that are still selected
(still included).
• You can also identify a well from the plot (instead of from the list of wells in the Well pane).
7. In the Typewell plot, right-click an outlier well, choose Select Entity, and deselect the well in the
Wells pane.
• Now you can move each well dataset left and right manually using the right/left arrows in the
Wells pane:
8. Shift the production data for some wells to the left or right using the corresponding arrows.
• Harmony can also automatically shift all the individual well production rates at once on the
Normalized Time axis by Peak Rate.
• Why might you want to shift the time for a well? One reason is if a well is cleaning up, the
production rates will incline (be increasing) when the well first comes online. After the clean-up
period, production rates will start to decline. Including the inclining part of well production may
skew your decline analyses.
9. Select Set Start Date Offsets to Peak Rate from the button in the top of the Wells pane.
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• This feature is very quick and easy to use. But, you should also look at negative time to make
sure it has been applied correctly. In some cases you could have an errant production data point
that is very high. Harmony will set that extraneous high value as the peak rate and shift your data
when really that value should be excluded.
10. Shift the plot to the right to see Negative Time. Are you satisfied with the result? Hint: use the
axes locks and adjust the time scale as you learned in an earlier exercise.
• Are there any wells that you might change? When you reach this point, please let your instructor
know. You will discuss this as a group.
P90/P50/P10
• Average rate is one way to characterize a dataset. Sometimes you want to consider a range of
statistical datasets. Using the P90/P50/P10 rates can help you do that.
1. Click on the Datasets tab.
• There are five features in the toolbar of the Datasets pane; one to show/hide the Average Rate,
show/hide P90, P50, P10, and one to show/hide all wells.
2. Click through each rate in the Datasets pane and take note of how they affect the plot (average
rate, P90, P50 and P10).
• You will review the use of each feature in the steps that follow.
3. Select the P90 rate.
• P90 means that there is a 90% probability that actual production will equal or exceed the
estimate.
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4. Select the P50, P10 and Average rate by selecting them.

• P50 denotes that there is a 50% probability that actual production will equal or exceed the
estimate, typically considered the sum of Proved plus Probable (PP).
• P10 denotes that there is a 10% probability that actual production will equal or exceed the
estimate, typically considered Proved plus Probable plus Possible (PPP).
• You can change how wells are displayed on the plot to make it easier to look at by changing the
individual well colors to Greyscale.
5. In the Datasets pane, click on Color Management > Greyscale.
Decline
• Next you will add an Oil Decline analysis to the group of wells. The best fit for this analysis is
based on all points of the average rate line.
1. Navigate to the Analysis Manager.
• You might remember in the previous exercise that you set the b value for all new decline
analyses to be exponential (b=0). You must go adjust this default setting in Harmony before
continuing with your typewell analysis for this exercise.
2. Click Options in the main tool bar (Hint: it looks like a blue gear icon in the main toolbar).
3. Select Analysis > Decline. Delete the value (zero) in the fixed b value field.
• It is important that this value b null / empty. This way all decline analyses created will auto-fit
without a forced exponential decline (recall the previous discussion with your instructor).
4. Click OK to close the settings dialog box.
5. Click Add Analysis > Oil – Decline.
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• While the default in Harmony is to fit this decline curve to the average rate line, you can also
change it to Best Fit Using All Wells, P90 Rate, P50 Rate, or P10 Rate.
• Note: you must have the rate selected in the Datasets view before you can select a dataset to re-
initialize the decline best fit.
6. Navigate to the Analysis Parameters pane. Hint: it is below the Analysis Manager pane.
7. Click the Re-Initialize Best Fit feature shown in following image. Select Best Fit Using All
Wells.
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• Note: if the option to select Best Fit Using All Wells is not available, you have not selected that
view in the Datasets tab. Navigate to the Datasets tab, and select Show wells.
8. Click the Re-Initialize Best Fit feature shown in following image. Select Best Fit Using
Average Rate.
• Note: if the option to select Best Fit Using Average Rate is not available, you have not selected
that view in the Datasets tab. Navigate to the Datasets tab, and select Show Average Rate
.
• Did you notice that the Decline fit to All Wells is slightly different to the Decline fit to the Average
Rate? Why might this be? The difference is in how the Best Fit algorithm is applied. The
Average Rate can be impacted by outlier wells, but the All Wells option is less affected by outliers
due to sampling frequency, so you expect some variation between the two.
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• You may want to focus your decline on a certain data range that you believe is more
representative of the system.
• Knowing how many wells are producing over time can help you get a better decline fit to your
data.
9. Go to the Datasets Tab and select Number of Producing Wells.
• Notice that the number of wells producing falls rapidly about half way through this dataset. For
this reason, you will base the Typewell on the earlier part of the data in this exercise.
10. Navigate to the Analysis Parameters pane.
11. Click Select Data Range for Best Fit > Best Fit Using Average Rate.
12. In the Set Axis Ranges dialog box, select data from 0 to 44 months and click OK.
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• This adjusts the decline to the range of time where most wells are still online – giving you a better
fit during earlier production time.
• You can turn off the Average Rate so you can focus on the P90, P50, and P10 curves.
13. Hide the Average Rate (Hint: deselect it from the Datasets pane).
14. Select the Analysis Manager Tab.

15. Rename Analysis 1 to Average.
16. Deselect Average in the Analysis Manager.
• Now you will create Decline Analyses for each data set rate (P10/50/90).
17. Create a new Oil – Decline Analysis.
18. Rename decline Analysis 1 to P90.

19. Click Select Data Range for Best Fit > Best Fit Using P90 Rate.
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20. In the Set Axis Ranges dialog box, select data from 0 to 44 months and click OK.
21. Repeat steps 17 through 19 for P50 and P10 (do not forget to make the appropriate best fit
selection and name each accordingly).
22. Navigate to the Datasets Tab.
23. Do not show P90, P50, P10, Hide All Wells, and Number of Producing Wells.
• You now have a P90, P50, and P10 forecast.

• This Worksheet has a lot of analyses available. You will make a copy of the worksheet to do
more analyses.
Sync Selections
1. Create a new worksheet: Typewell > Oil Typewell.
• Notice that your new typewell does not look like the previous one. Why might that be?
Remember that you excluded some wells from your analysis, and shifted the rates for some
wells. In the new typewell all the wells in the custom group are currently included, and their
production rates have not been normalized.
• The Sync Selections feature will automatically apply your well selections and rate shift to all other
existing Typewell worksheets in that group.
• It is very important that you only select this button from the Typewell you want to copy over! The
Typewell worksheet you are on determines which well and data selections will be copied over into
all other Typewell worksheets.
2. Go back to the first Oil Typewell worksheet from this exercise.
3. Click the Wells tab.
4. Click Sync Selections.
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5. Click on the Oil Typewell 1 tab.

6. Click on the Wells tab.
• Notice that the well selections from the previous Worksheet are now reflected here, as are the
axes shifts for the wells.
Normalizing Your Typewell

• Production trends can be disguised by variable well attributes. A good example of this might be
lateral length. Normalizing production data by attribute can uncover data trends that would
otherwise be obscured by variability between wells.
1. Navigate to the Datasets tab.
• The X-axis can be adjusted to Normalized Time, Normalized Flowing Time, and Cumulative
Production.
• The Y-axis is also customizable, and it can be normalized based on numeric attributes. There are
several built in options available to normalize the Y-axis. If you want to normalize the data using
an attribute not listed, you can use a Custom Attribute.
• There is a Custom Attribute of Lateral Length data for the wells in this file. You will use lateral
length to normalize the data in this example.
2. Select Y-Axis > Rate per Attribute > Custom Attributes > Lateral Length > ft.
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• The plot updates with the new Normalized Y-Axis.

• Remember that you can rescale the plot axes by clicking on the Rescale all axes feature:
• You can also Group wells by Color – this is useful as a visual analysis tool. Any text attribute,
including custom text attributes, can be used with the Color Management feature.
• The Rate per Attribute and Color by Attribute features are independent, so both can be applied to
the plot at the same time.
3. Select Color Management > By Attribute > Operations > Operator.
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4. Hide Average Rate (Hint: feature is in the top of the Datasets pane).
5. Adjust the plot to show the color trends (Hint: adjust the axes on the plot).
6. Right-click on the plot and select Show Legend.
• Operator C and Operator T appear to be getting better initial production from wells. The Operator
C is consistently getting a lower rate per lateral length foot.
• You can see that depending on the information available, such as attributes related to completion
effectiveness, you can quickly identify data trends amongst the wells.
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Copying and Pasting a Forecast

• You will now use data in the P90/P50/P10 forecasts you created in the first Typewell worksheet.
• When you are planning a new well, you may want to use a typewell forecast to predict how that
well may perform when brought on stream.
1. Navigate to your original Oil Typewell worksheet.
2. Click on the Analysis Manager tab.
• You will copy these forecasts so that you can apply them to a new theoretical (planned) well.
3. Right-click on the forecast Oil – Decline (RT) under the P90 analysis.
4. Select Copy to Clipboard.
• Notice that a new pane appears on the right called the Clipboard. The Clipboard temporarily
stores information for so you can use it elsewhere in Harmony.
5. Copy the P50 and P10 forecasts to the Clipboard (Hint: right-click on the declines).
• You will now plan a new well and apply the copied typewell forecasts to it.
6. Navigate to the GIS view.
7. Right-click on OIL WELLS (Hint: this is the custom group you created with a Query). Then
choose Select Constituent Wells.
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• With the group of wells selected in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy, they are highlighted on the GIS.
The wells are in a few clusters on the map. You will create a new well in a reasonable location
based upon the location of wells included in your typewell analysis.
8. Zoom in to an area with highlighted wells to get a better view.
9. Click on Location in the design toolbar. Hint: you might find it helpful to first zoom in to the
selected wells.
10. Click on the GIS map on the location where you want to place a well. Take care to click only
once.
11. Select the Set Mouse to default feature (the selection arrow).
12. Double-click on the New Well in the GIS view to activate it.
13. Create a new Decline > Oil > Oil Rate vs. Time worksheet.
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14. Click and drag each Forecast in the Clipboard over to the Analysis Manager. Activate each
forecast:
• You have now used a typewell to generate a forecast production trend for your new well. If you
wanted, you could also apply a PUD classification to this well.
Exporting Forecasts
• You have used a typewell to forecast what a planned well might produce. You can export the
forecast data to determine if that well is economic.
1. Navigate to the Results tab.

2. Click on the Results Viewer tab.
In this exercise you have learned how to:

• Query wells to select a subset of wells that meet specific requirements
• Used that query to select wells appropriate for a typewell analysis
• Created typewell forecasts and applied those forecasts to a planned well
• Exported forecast results to be used to decline if a well is economically variable
Your instructor will review this exercise with the group before moving on.
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Reserves - Exercise 4
Harmony Reserves - Exercise 4

Purpose
• In this example you will learn about:
o Reserve Hierarchy Groups
o Importing current well data
o Changing Reference dates on Reserve Evaluations
o Performing Decline Analyses
o Classifying declines
o Using typewell declines
o Forecast consolidations
o Batch printing
o Exporting data
Background
• You will look at the Sinclair field in this example.
• Reserve evaluations have been done on the Sinclair wells in the past but new production data is
now available, so you will need to update the evaluations.
• Your company has also acquired a new well in the Sinclair property and you will to evaluate it.
• You will use a typewell to predict the production of a proposed well nearby.
• You will consolidate the individual evaluations into a forecast for the entire Sinclair property.
Navigation
1. Open the Example 4 – Reserves file.
• The wells are listed in a Flat List in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy. Create a custom Hierarchy so
that you can sort the wells appropriately.
2. Click on Flat List and select Add/Modify Hierarchy Structure.
3. Click Add.
4. Right-click and Rename User Defined 1 to Reserves.
5. With Reserves selected drag over Country, Province/State, and Property.
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6. Click Apply then click OK.
• You can see that the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy has now been updated with the new Reserves
Hierarchy.
7. Expand Canada, Alberta, Sinclair in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy.
• You will focus on these Sinclair wells in this example.

8. Right-click on Sinclair and choose Select Constituent Wells.
• The wells are highlighted on the GIS screen, in the lower left part of the map.
9. Launch well 100/05-32-073-12W6/00 (Hint: double-click on the well).
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10. Navigate to the Gas Cum worksheet.

11. Navigate to the Analysis Manager and click on Collapse entire tree.
• Multiple Reserves analyses have been done for this well from 2011, 2012, 2013and 2014.
12. Click on Uncheck All Analyses.
• First you will check the Minimum and Maximum Decline curves.
13. Expand the list of analyses (Hint: you can use the Expand entire tree feature next to the Collapse
entire tree feature you used previously). Then select the Minimum forecast (in other words,
show this forecast on the plot).
14. Select the Maximum forecast.
• Setting a Minimum and Maximum forecast is a strategy that can be used to better estimate
reserves forecasts. The Minimum forecast focuses on the lower rate data and the Maximum
forecast focuses on the higher rate data. The only reason the minimum and maximum decline
are included is to limit (or bound) any declines you make.
• Reserves acronyms used here include:
o PPDP - Proved plus Probable Developed Producing which is equivalent to a 2P
o PDP - Proved Developed Producing which is equivalent to a 1P
15. Deselect the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
16. Select the PDP – 2011/01/31 forecast.
17. Select the PPDP – 2011/01/31 forecast.
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• Here you can see all the earlier forecasts. They show up as Grey lines on the plot. The Grey
forecasts are those that were done on an earlier Reference Date. They are greyed out to prevent
them from being changed accidentally because they are historical forecasts.
• A Reference Date is the effective date of a reserves evaluation. Net present value or remaining
recoverable volumes are referenced to this point in time.
22. Do not adjust / change the 2014 forecasts. They will be changed to historical forecasts and you
do not want to accidentally change previous reserves work.
• Notice how the 2014 forecasts are brown lines on the plot. When a line is brown it can still be
adjusted and updated. You must update the Reference date for these forecasts to become
historical records.
• The green triangles reference the Forecast Start Date for each forecast and the green dotted line
at the bottom reflects the Abandonment Rate.
• In the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy, there is a green check mark next to this well showing that it has
been analyzed. There are three wells with checkmarks and one that is blank. The blank well is a
newly acquired well that you will need to analyze.
25. Launch the 100/13-33-073-12W6/00 well (hint: double-click on a well two activated).
• This well has also had Reserves analysis done with a Reference Date of January 31 2014.
26. Activate the 100/15-09-074-12W6/00 well.
• Reserves have also been completed for this well with the same Reference Date.
27. Activate the 100/16-05-074-12W6/00 well.
• Here you can see there are no analyses done for this well. This makes sense if the has been
newly acquired.
• Did you notice that in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy pane well 100/16-05-074-12W6/00 has a
yellow explanation point next to it? Harmony uses icons to indicate the work status of wells or
entities. There are three icons:
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Icon Indicates
a green check mark Work status is complete
a yellow explanation point Work status is in progress
a red question mark Work status is invalid.
The most likely reason is that the data has changed. In that
case any analyses should be checked for validity.
Updating Data
• Newer data is now available for all the wells in Sinclair. You need to import the new data, update
the Reserves for the three existing wells, and conduct a new Reserves analysis for the newly
acquired well.
• Before you import data it is best to look at the import options available.
1. Click Options in the main tool bar (Hint: it looks like a gear).
2. Select Importing > Updating Data.
• There are three options when updating Production Data:
o Do not overwrite existing data – does not overwrite data, but imports new production data
o Overwrite/Merge existing data – imports all new production data and overwrites data with
the same dates as those being imported
o Append from last production date – imports only the production data from the last
production end date
• ‘Do not overwrite’ and ‘Append’ are very similar except that Append can be a time saving option
when importing data for hundreds of wells. The Do not overwrite option will check the existing
production data line by line against the production data being imported. The Append option will
just copy from the end of existing production. As a result, the Append option can be a lot faster
for bulk imports.
3. Ensure Production Data is set to Do not overwrite existing data.
4. Click Apply then click OK.
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5. Click Import File in the main toolbar.

6. Navigate to the Sinclair Production Data.axp file.
7. Select this file and click Open.
8. Set Datum to NAD 83 and click OK. Do not proceed to the next step until directed to by your
instructor.
• Please let your instructor know when you have reached this point. They will demonstrate the
Link Imported Wells to Existing Wells feature and review its use with the class.
• Your own instance of Harmony may or may not open this dialog box depending upon the Options
selected for the application.
• In the Link Imported Wells to Existing Wells feature you can:

• Display which incoming entities were mapped, and which were not
• Link an incoming entity to a database entity manually
• Compare the production data for any two entities (one from the import, and the other from
the database, or from a pair of linked wells)
• Compare the well attributes of two or more entities (one from the import, and another or
more from the database)
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• When you import data into a Harmony project, the import module will try to match incoming data
with existing entities / wells already in the project. Well or entities are matched by using
attributes, beginning with the most unique, for example Display name, DLS, UWI or API.
• There is a global import option where you can set the Display Link Imported to Existing Wells
dialog box to open whenever you import data. If this feature is no selected by default, it will only
open when one or more non-unique matches are found.
• For additional information on this feature, see the Help File > Procedures > Importing Well Data >
Mapping Incoming Entities.
• Notice how in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy all of the green checkmarks have turned into question
marks. This reflects that the analyses conducted on these wells may be outdated. A question
mark indicates that new data has been added to a well, and you should reevaluate any analyses.
9. Navigate to the Diagnostics tab.
• Remember, no data will show in the Diagnostics tab if no well(s) are selected.
10. Navigate through each of the four Sinclair wells and observe the diagnostics plot for each.
• Looking at the plots, it appears that you have production data up to about November 2014.
Reserves
• Since you are going to update the Reserves today you need to update the Reference Date for the
Reserves analysis.
1. Click Reserves Settings in the main toolbar.
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• The data you imported into this file was for 2014 so you are going to set the new Reference Date
for January 2015.
2. Click Add.
3. A dialog box indicating that the process may take time will appear. Click OK.
• The Reference Date defaults to the last day of the current month. With the data you recently
imported brings us up to January 2014.
4. Change the Reference Date to January 31, 2015.
5. Name this Reference Date January 2015 Evaluations. Do not click OK.
• If you select the Duplicate box, Harmony will create duplicates of the last Evaluations with the
new updated Reference Date. The original evaluations are left alone. Using this feature will save
you time.
• The Re-initialize best fit would allow Harmony to use its rule of the last 50% of the data to attempt
an auto-fit forecast. Since most of the wells already have analyses, you will want to base your
updated forecasts off the historical forecasts, so do not check this box.
6. Click the Duplicate box and then click OK.
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7. To streamline the Analysis Manager, you can adjust your view to exclude older forecasts. Deselect
the 2011, 2012, and 2013 Evaluations from the view.
8. Click Close.
Updating the Analyses

1. Double-click on well 100/05-32-073-12W6/00 to launch it.
• Notice that there are two new forecasts in the Analysis Manager (both for 2015). This is because
you checked Duplicate in the Add Reference Date dialog box. The PDP and PPDP forecasts
from 2014 were duplicated with an updated Reference Date of January 31, 2015.
• The 2014 forecast line was brown and moveable before you updated the Reference Date. Now
that you have updated the Reference Date this forecast has turned grey and cannot be modified.
2. Activate the PDP – 2015/01/31 forecast.
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• Currently the duplicated forecast (2015) is an exact copy of the 2014 forecast.
• The blue arrows at the bottom of the graph indicate each Reference Date. Depending upon the
status of your well, and the dates for historical production, this reference date may be different
than your forecast start date.
• Now you should revise your forecasts accounting for the new production history.
3. Uncheck All Analyses.
4. Select the Minimum forecast.

5. Select the Maximum forecast.
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• Now that there is more production history data you may need to update the Minimum and
Maximum forecasts.
6. Slightly adjust the decline fit for the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
• Theoretically the PPDP should sit in the middle between the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
8. Slightly adjust the PPDP – 2015/01/31 forecast to get a good decline fit, and make sure it sits
between the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
• Theoretically the PDP should sit in the middle between the Minimum and the PPDP forecasts.
10. Slightly adjust the PDP – 2015/01/31 forecast to get a good data fit that also sits between the
Minimum and PPDP forecasts.
• Now you can see a comparison between the 2014 and 2015 forecasts.
11. Deselect the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
12. Select the 2014 Analyses so that both the 2014 and 2015 forecasts are showing.
13. Right-click on 100/05-32-073-12W6/00 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy and select Set Entity
Work Status > Complete. A green check mark appears indicating the analysis in complete.
• You can also set the status by clicking Set Entity Work Status in the Analysis Manager.
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14. Launch well 100/13-33-073-12W6/00.
15. Repeat the Reserves update steps for this well (steps 3 through 13).
• Note: compare the 2014 forecasts (grey lines) with the 2015 forecasts (brown lines).
16. Right-click on 100/13-33-073-12W6/00 and select Set Entity Work Status > Complete.
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17. Launch well 100/15-09-074-12W6/00.
18. Repeat the Reserves update steps for this well (steps 3 through 13).
• Compare the 2014 and 2015 forecasts. Do they look like you expect?
19. In the Analysis Manager select Set Entity Work Status > Complete.
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Analyzing the Newly Acquired Well

• Now a Reserves analysis on the newly acquired well will be completed.
1. Launch well 100/16-05-074-12W6/00.
2. Create a new worksheet: Decline > Gas > Gas Rate vs. Cumulative Gas.
3. Adjust the X-axis so that you can easily see the recent production trend.
• Before including the new well in your reserves you need to create a Minimum and Maximum
analysis.
4. Create a Gas – Decline forecast in the Analysis Manager.
5. Rename Analysis 1 to Minimum (Hint: right-click on the analysis to rename).
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6. Select the Gas – Decline, and in the Analysis Parameters, Lock b = 0. You are creating a
minimum case.
7. Use Select Points / Spray Tool and fit to data (click to select data, right-click to deselect data).
You can also use the mouse to make adjustments to the decline if you prefer.
8. Create another Gas – Decline forecast in the Analysis Manager.
9. Rename Analysis 1 to Maximum.
10. Use Select Points / Spray Tool and fit to data.
11. Create a third Gas – Decline forecast in the Analysis Manager.

12. Place the decline line halfway between the Minimum and Maximum forecasts.
13. Create another Gas – Decline forecast in the Analysis Manager.
14. Place this forecast between the Minimum and the Analysis 1 forecasts.
• What does Harmony do when there is a gap between the end of production and the reference
date?
• In the current example you have data up to November 2014 but the Reference Date begins
January 31, 2015. There are two months of blank data between the historical production and the
forecasts. Filling in this gap for the EUR estimates is referred to as a Reference Volume.
• It is important to note that the Reference Volume for a classified well is based on the first decline
to be classified.
• By classifying the PDP decline first, the reference volume for all other declines will be determined
by the PDP decline. This would mean that the gap in volume between November and January
2015 is based on the numbers from the PDP forecast.
Whichever decline is classified first, Harmony will use that volume for the missing months of data.
Said another way, Harmony will respect the cumulative production, and will use that value to
calculate a reference volume. Because of this it is important that you classify the PDP first. If
you make an error, you can correct it using the Reference Volume feature in the Analysis
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Manager pane.
15. Change the Classification of Analysis 2 to PDP.
16. Change the Classification of Analysis 1 to PPDP.

17. Right-click on well 100/16-05-074-12W6/00 and select Set Entity Work Status > Complete.
• You have now updated the reserves for all original wells and generated reserves for the
newly acquired well.
Add a New Well

• Now you will consider adding an additional well to the Sinclair property.
• This well will be classified as PUD (Proved Undeveloped) since it will be right next to the currently
producing wells.
1. Navigate to the GIS tab.
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2. Right-click on Sinclair in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy and select constituent wells to highlight
them.
3. On the GIS View, zoom into the Sinclair wells.
4. Click on Location in the Design Toolbar.
5. Place a new well on the GIS near the other Sinclair wells. Take care to only click once.
6. Click Set Mouse to Default (Hint: it is above the GIS View).
• The new well has blank Production and Attribute data, so it shows up in the Entity Viewer -
Hierarchy under: Unknown > Unknown > Unknown but the location identifier of the well is
generated from the map.
7. In the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy, click and drag the new well onto the Sinclair group name.
8. Select the new well (100/10-04-074-12W6/00, your well name may vary depending upon the
location you selected).
9. Navigate to the Attributes tab.
• When you move this well to the Sinclair group some basic location data is automatically
populated.
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Sinclair Typewell
• A typewell for the Sinclair field has already been created in the example file.
1. Launch the Sinclair Typewell (Hint: it is a custom group).

• A typewell decline analysis has already been completed for the Sinclair wells. You will use that
typewell forecast to describe production in your new well.
2. Navigate to the Analysis Manager.

3. Right-click on Gas – Decline (RT) and select Copy to Clipboard.
4. Launch the new well you created (100/10-04-074-12W6/00) from the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy.
5. Create a new worksheet: Decline > Gas > Rate/Cum.
• This well has no production and we are using our typewell forecast to estimate future production.
6. Click and drag the Typewell Forecast from the clipboard into the Analysis Manager.
• Did you notice that your previous declines are still in the clipboard? This can be used to transfer
declines between projections.
• You have now used the Sinclair typewell to represent expected production for a planned well.
• Look at the forecast start date. Is it in the future? It should be in the future because the well has
not been drilled yet.
7. Activate the Copy of Sinclair Typewell forecast.
8. Check the forecast start date (Hint: look in the Analysis Parameters).
• What is the forecast start date? It should be a future date, since the well has no production.
9. Set Classification to PUD.
10. Mark this well with an analysis classification of Complete (green check mark).
• You now have an estimate of what this this well could potentially produce.
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Forecast Consolidation
• Now you will learn how to consolidate forecasts.
1. Launch the Sinclair group in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy.
2. Create a new worksheet: Decline > Gas > Rate vs. Time.
• A plot of the cumulative production of the individual wells shows. When you have forecasts for a
group of wells, you might want to see them on an aggregate plot. To do that, you need to make a
Forecast Consolidation.
3. Create a Forecast Consolidation analysis using the ‘+’ in the Analysis Manager.
• Harmony has options in how you can consolidate forecasts. You can do so based on Reserve
Classification, using a forecast naming convention, or using a Custom option.
• Note: with the Custom option you can manually pick and choose which forecasts to consolidate.
For this example you will consolidate based on Reserve Classification.
4. Select Reserve Classification.
5. Set Classification to PDP.
6. Click OK.
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7. Create a second Forecast Consolidation analysis in the Analysis Manager.

9. Set Classification to PPDP.
10. Click OK.
• The PDP and PPDP consolidations are a combination of the EUR, Gp, and RRg values found in
each of the respective PDP and PPDP analyses.
11. Create a third Forecast Consolidation analysis in the Analysis Manager.
13. Set Classification to TP.
• A TP classification stands for Total Proved. This consolidation is adding together your PDP and
the PUD analysis you did on the proposed well.
14. Click OK.
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Results and Export

Batch Printing
1. In the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy, right-click on Sinclair and Select Constituent Wells.
2. Navigate to the Results tab and then the Reporting tab.
3. Select one of the reports from the list and click Preview the Selected Report.
• Any reports selected here will print and/or be converted to a PDF depending upon your output
selection.
Results Viewer
1. Navigate to the Results Viewer tab. All the analyses created on the selected wells show in the
Results Viewer.
• Use the list of parameters to select what data you want in the Grid View.
2. Click the Filter button (Hint: it looks like a blue funnel). You can limit which analyses are shown
using this feature. In this case, select only the January 2015 Evaluations from the list of
analyses.
3. Click Export Tables > ARIES. The data is converted to a file format that can be read by
economics applications.
4. Click Export Forecasts. The data is exported to Excel. Note that only data columns that are
selected in the Export Results Forecast list will be exported.
5. Click Cancel to close the Export Result Forecasts dialog box.
6. Close the project without saving it.
Conclusion
• An updated reserves evaluation is now complete for the Sinclair wells. You have created a
decline on a typewell and applied that decline to the proposed well. Individual well evaluations
are consolidated into a forecast for the entire Sinclair property. Your forecast results have been
exported for use in economic applications.
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Pool Grouping – Exercise 5
Harmony Pool Grouping – Exercise 5

Purpose
• To group wells into different pools based on their static pressure trends versus time.
• Why? Material balance results can be very misleading if wells are not properly grouped
• Verifying previously defined pool groupings often results in a better understanding of
depletion status, drive mechanism and can highlight new opportunities.
Create Custom Group

• Create a custom group for all wells in the Slave Point A reservoir. You will use well attributes to
select all the wells in the Slave Point A reservoir to create your custom group.
1. Open the Harmony file Example 5 – Pool Grouping.
2. In the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy view, select Field/Reservoir.
3. Select all the wells on the GIS using your mouse.

4. Navigate to the Attributes tab. Find the Reservoir column and sort by reservoir (Hint: click on
the column header).
5. Select all the rows that contain wells in the Slave Point A reservoir.
6. Right-click in the left-most column. Hint: it contains the row numbers and the cells are grey.
7. Click Select Subset.
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8. From the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy, click and drag all the selected wells in from Slave Point A
reservoir into a new Custom Group.
Launch Custom Group

1. Double-click on the newly made Custom Group 1 to launch it for analysis.
• Did you notice that there are several other custom groups already in the Entity Viewer – Custom
pane? You will work with them later in this exercise.
2. Create a new worksheet: Material Balance > Gas > Pressure-Function vs Cumulative Gas.
3. Do not click on the wells in the custom group. Instead, hover your mouse cursor over each well
in Custom Group 1.
• Notice in the Pressure-Function vs Cumulative gas plot that the pressure data for each well
highlights in red when you hover your mouse over the well in Custom Group 1.
• What else do you notice? This material balance does not look as good as the previous material
balance you created. The distribution of the data in the plot is indicating that there are probably
multiple pools in the well grouping.
Material Balance Gas Pressure-Time Worksheet

1. Create a new worksheet: Material Balance > Gas > Pressure-Time.
• Focus on well pressure data that forms the densest number of data points first. You can see a
defined data trend running nearly flat along the lower part of the data. Other wells do not fit that
general trend.
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• First you will remove wells that do not fit the trend running in horizontally along the pressure –
time plot. The wells that do not fit the data trend are likely in a different pool.
• Removing outlier wells will simplify the analysis to include only wells that do share a pool. Any
wells that are removed can be used to create a new custom group for a new pool grouping
analysis. If necessary this process could be repeated several times until you are confident that
your wells are grouped within distinct pools based upon their pressure response over time.
• Did you notice other custom groups in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy? We will revisit these groups
later in this exercise.
2. Using Control + click or Shift + click, select one or many wells with similar pressure history trends.
3. Right-click on the selected wells. Select Move Selected into Custom Group > (new custom
group).
4. Continue removing wells from Custom Group 1 until you have a clean data trend for the
remaining wells.
• In your own work, you might prefer to move those wells to an existing group with similar trending
data. You do not need to do that for this exercise.
• For this exercise, the wells have already been grouped into pools for you. Those pool groupings
are included under the Entity Viewer – Custom.
5. Minimize Custom Group 01 in the Entity Viewer – Custom pane.
• You will notice that there are four additional custom groups, and each represents a distinct pool
grouping of wells.
You will use these pool groupings for the remainder of the Pool Grouping exercise.
6. Navigate to the GIS pane.
7. Select Slave Point A -1 custom group. Right-click on this group and Select Constituent Wells.
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• Based on the selected wells spacing on the map, does it seem likely that they belong to a shared
pool?
• The spatial clustering of these wells on the GIS is reasonable if you expect these wells to belong
to the same pool.
8. Repeat step 7 for the remaining custom groups in the Entity Viewer – Custom.
9. Launch Slave Point A – 1, A – 2, A – 3 and A – 4. How do the pressure time plots look for each
group?
Pressure Support Diagnostics

Reviewing the pressure trends of wells in a pool grouping can help you determine what type of
pressure support your reservoir has. In the steps that follow you will use pressure support
diagnostics to determine the likely pressure support type for pool Slave Point A – 1.
1. Launch the custom group Slave Point A – 1 for analysis.
2. Create new worksheet: Material Balance > Gas > Pressure-Function vs Cumulative Gas.
3. Add a Gas - Material Balance analysis (Hint: use the plus (+) button in the Analysis Manager
pane).
4. Match the initial reservoir pressure to the data.
• Remember you can use the Select Points / Spray Tool to select or deselect data to get a better
match.
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Connected Reservoir
Connected reservoir demonstrates:
• The extrapolated OGIP < Gp
• Data is distributed in a ‘hockey stick’ shape
Water Drive
Water drive demonstrates:
• Gp (gas produced) ≤ 50% of extrapolated OGIP
• Data points ‘clump’ at the end of the data trend
Geopressured
Geopressured reservoirs demonstrate:
• Gp (gas produced) ≤ 50% of extrapolated OGIP
• Data trend falls below P/Z versus Gp plot
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Based on the pressure support diagnostic trends shown here, what type of pressure support do you
think Slave Point A -1 pool has?
Hint: you should look at a Pressure-Function vs Cumulative Gas plot.
• Comparing with the pressure diagnostic trends provided, Slave Point – 1 looks like a water drive
reservoir.
• To analyze a water drive reservoir it is generally recommended you use a Pressure-Time
worksheet.
5. Navigate to the Pressure Time worksheet.
6. Select the Gas - Material Balance analysis to show on the Pressure – Time plot.
7. Navigate to the Analysis Parameters and Lock pi (initial reservoir pressure).

8. Click on the Advanced Material Balance feature (Hint: it is found in Analysis Parameters).
9. Select the Water Drive Model.
• You will be using three parameters in the Advanced Material Balance Options Water Drive Model:
o Producing Reservoir > Original Gas-In-Place
o Water Drive > Transfer Coefficient
o Water Drive > Aquifer Volume
10. Match the initial pressure decline using the Producing Reservoir OGIP slide bar, or typing
values into the Original Gas-In-Place cell.
• Adjust Original Gas-In-Place (OGIP) using the slider, or typing in a value to match the early
pressure data.
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• Note that the double arrow icons will change the slider limits (increasing or reducing the limits).
11. Make the Transfer Coefficient Large – just below the level that the cell turns red.
12. Begin moving the Aquifer Volume value upward until the calculated pressure line reasonably
matches the last measured pressure data. Hint: The line should be going through the flatter part
of the pressure data in the more recent production (newer data).
13. Re-adjust the Producing Reservoir OGIP to match the early data.
14. Re-adjust the Aquifer Volume upward so that it matches the flatter data trend.
15. Adjust the Transfer Coefficient downward to match the data trend.
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• Focus on adjusting the Transfer Coefficient and the Aquifer volume to get a match. Add more
gas to the Producing Pool if necessary.
• It is very important that all three variables:
1. Transfer coefficient
2. Aquifer Volume
3. Producing Reservoir OGIP
Remain sensitive to adjustments for the model to be valid.
• If you have a good match, your Advanced Material Balance Options should have values similar
to:
o OGIP – 1,350,000
o Transfer Coefficient – 370
e-11
o Aquifer Volume – 3.1
• Were you able to get similar results? We will review this analysis as a group following the
exercise.
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16. Close the Advanced Material Balance Options dialog box.

17. Navigate to your Cum/CBM MB worksheet.
• How does your match look now? It should be a better fit to the data.
• We will review the results as a group following the exercise.
Conclusion
In this exercise you have learned how to group wells into pools using production data and material
balance analysis. This particular data set demonstrated a water drive reservoir.
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IHS Harmony Training Manual Harmony Unconventional Gas – Exercise 6
Harmony Unconventional Gas – Exercise 6
Purpose
• In this example you will learn about:
o Evaluating pressure data discrepancies
o Validating data
o Create a wellbore
o Add directional survey
o Create wellbore configuration
o Calculating sandface pressures
o Liquid loading diagnostics
o Stretched exponential decline
o Duong decline
o Multi-segment decline
Importing Production
1. Start the IHS Harmony application.
2. Create a New Project.
3. Click Import file.
4. Navigate to Production Data.xls and click Open.
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• Note that both production data and attribute data (existing and custom type) can be imported from
a spreadsheet. In this example you will import production data from an Excel file, but other tab
delimited file types are also supported.
5. Select Production and click OK.
6. Use the drop down lists above each column to indicate which columns contain which data.
• What units are indicated in the table for the Time column? The file indicates that dates are stored
as YYYY/MM/DD (row two, first cell).
• How does it appear the date data formatted? The data appears to be MM/DD/YYYY.
7. For the first column, Time > Date Time, choose Auto-Identify.
• What units are listed in the column header? MM/DD/YYYY.

• Note the Date Time auto-identify feature identified the correct date format, even though the Excel
file header was incorrect.
8. Your selections should match those in the following image.
9. Right-click on the first row that contains data. In this example that is Row 3. Select Set Start
Row.
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• Note the double downward pointing arrows next to the start row. They indicate which row
importing will start at.
10. Right-click on the first last that contains data. In this example that is Row 258. Select Set End
Row.
• Note again there is a double headed arrow, this time pointing upward. That icon indicates which
row importing will end at. Using this feature you can select a subset of the data in a spreadsheet
used to import data.
Did you notice the Options, Separate and Apply To features in the Import File dialog box? What
about the Open and Reset icons? Please let your instructor know you have reached this point.
You will review these features as a group.
For additional information, see the Help File Procedures > Importing Well Data >Importing a File.
11. Click OK.
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Diagnostics Plot
• Once a well has been imported into Harmony it is a good idea to use the Diagnostics plot to look
at the quality of the data.
1. Click on the Marcellus Example well in the Entity Viewer – Hierarchy and then navigate to the
Diagnostics tab.
• Notice how the Casing Pressure makes a step change, but the tubing pressure, water rate, and
gas rate do not change.
• There is also a very high gas rate near the end of the data.
Casing Pressure
• The step change in casing pressure could be an error in measurement. Harmony can be used to
linearly interpolate pressure between two points in the event of poor or missing data.
1. Double-click on the well to launch it.
2. Navigate to the Editors tab, and then the Production Editor.
• The Editors tab displays data and contains several features for entering or modifying data in order
to create quality analyses. The Editors pane contains several specific editors, but for this exercise
you will focus on the Production Editor.
• In the Production Editor you can adjust imported production and flowing pressure data, and
create new production records.
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• You will make changes to production data for this well to account for measurement error.
3. Delete the casing pressure data from April 23, 2010 to May 25, 2010 (Hint: delete beginning with
514.00).
• Note that deleting the casing pressure data is not the only way to manage poor quality data. You
can instead choose to use the tubing pressure for sandface calculations when you do not have
quality casing pressure.
• Notice that as soon as you press delete, new values are automatically populated. The default in
Harmony is to Linearly Interpolate data, but you can change it to use a Step Interpolation if you
want. To change the interpolation method, change the selection for Pressure Interpolation.
4. Navigate to the Diagnostics tab.
• You can see that the step change in casing pressure has been removed by looking at the
diagnostic plot.
• Take a closer look at production rates.
Rate
• Did you notice a really high rate near the end of production? This is likely an error in
measurement and might cause issues when creating a best fit decline.
1. Navigate to the Editors tab, and then the Production Editor.
2. Select Op Gas Rate from the list of available datasets (Hint: look under Production > Gas).
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• Note that there is a sharp increase in Op Gas Rate in the data grid that corresponds to the rate
spike you saw in the diagnostic plot.
• Normally you should consider speaking with the operator or field personnel to determine why the
rate data has changed suddenly. For this example we are simply going to remove this
unexpected data to simplify our decline analysis.
3. Scroll down and delete the Op Gas rate for July 29 through July 31, 2010.
• Notice that when you delete these values Harmony does not interpolate between the values. In
this case you need to fill in the blanks.
4. To add an Op Gas Rate into the blank cells, you have two choices. You can either copy a valid Op
Gas Rate data point and pasted it into the empty cells. Or you can enter a value of 1649 Mscfd
for these three deleted rates.
Decline Analysis
1. Click Options in the main toolbar (Hint: the blue gear icon.
2. Navigate to Analysis > Declines and set a Maximum b value of 2.
3. Click Apply and then click OK.
4. Create a new worksheet: Decline > Gas > Gas Rate vs. Cumulative Gas (Hint: there is a new
worksheet icon next to the Editors tab).
5. Add a Gas – Decline analysis in the Analysis Manager.

6. Set b = 0 and lock it.
7. Re-fit the forecast to the data. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool, or adjust the line using your
mouse as shown in earlier exercises.
• Setting the b value equal to 0 (zero) will result in an exponential decline, and we will use that to
create a minimum case decline.
8. Rename Analysis 1 to Exponential (Hint: right-click on the analysis name).
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9. Select the Gas – Decline (RC) in the Analysis Manager.
• Navigate to the Analysis Parameters. What is the abandonment rate for this well?
• The default abandonment rate in Harmony is 20Mscfd. Where would you go to change this
default value? You would use the Options feature in the main tool bar.
• Is it reasonable to assume that this well is in Boundary Dominated Flow? This is an
unconventional well, so probably not. In fact the well is more likely still in Transient Linear flow
given how long some unconventional wells can produce before hitting all the boundaries.
10. In the Analysis Parameters, change the abandonment rate (qf) to 100 Mscfd.
11. Duplicate the Exponential Forecast into a New Analysis (Hint: right-click on the Gas – Decline
(RC) analysis).
• Transient Linear flow has a theoretical b value of 2.

• The Arps equation was designed for conventional wells with a maximum b value of 1. If b values
for an unconventional well approach a b=2, the result is an unbounded forecast with infinite
reserves. Harmony will stop the forecast at 500 years duration. Recall this is the default
maximum forecast duration, and cannot be changed.
12. Set b = 2 and lock it.
13. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool to match the forecast to the historical data.
14. Rename Analysis 1 to Very Hyperbolic.
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• This can give us an overly optimistic EUR of almost 15000 MMscf.

• The reason you get such an unreasonable number for EUR is because you are assuming
Transient Linear flow will continue indefinitely which it would not.
• You need to have tools that take into account the longer Transients of an unconventional well but
also account for Boundary Dominated Flow to limit the forecasts at some point.
• What is the delta t for the Very Hyperbolic forecast? It is much longer than the Exponential
forecast.
• The maximum forecast duration in Harmony is 6000 months, or 500 years. The abandonment
rate may be higher because the forecast duration limit has been reached.
Add a Segment to a Decline

1. Duplicate the Very Hyperbolic forecast into a New Analysis. Take care to select the correct
analysis for duplication, send to <New Analysis>.
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2. Rename Analysis 1 to 2 Segment Hyperbolic. Take care to make sure you are adjusting the
correct decline. To prevent errors you can unselect the Very Hyperbolic and Exponential declines
in the Analysis Manager.
3. On the 2 Segment Hyperbolic forecast hold down SHIFT key and drag the forecast end point
horizontally back to 2000 MMscf (Hint: hold down the shift key and click and drag on the end point
of the forecast line).
• The first part of the decline represents / describes transient flow. You can now add a new
segment to the decline to describe boundary dominated flow.
4. Click the Add a segment button in the Analysis Parameters pane.
• In the Analysis Parameters pane you now have values for the Forecast Start Date at the top, as
well as Segment 1, and Segment 2 parameters listed.
5. On Segment 2:
i. Change Calc Method to Δt | Qf.
ii. Set b = 0.5
iii. Set qf = 100 Mscfd
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• The EUR generated by the 2 segment method is more conservative than the EUR from the Very
Hyperbolic decline.
6. Duplicate the Very Hyperbolic Analysis into a New Analysis.
7. Rename this new analysis from Analysis 1 to Modified Hyperbolic.
• Another way to limit the decline to a reasonable EUR would be to use the Modified Hyperbolic
method (also known as modified decline, modified Arps, dlim and dmin). Modified hyperbolic
decline type and is commonly used for unconventional wells.
• A Modified Hyperbolic decline is one that begins with a hyperbolic decline, and as the forecast
progresses, the effective decline rate decreases until it reaches a specified limit (dlim value).
When that limit is reached, the forecast transitions to an exponential decline and remains at a
constant effective decline rate (dlim value).In this example dlim is the 6% effective decline rate
you set in the Analysis Parameters.
8. Expand the Calc Method dropdown box in the Analysis Parameters.
• You can see that there are many options available in the Calc Method dropdown list. The variables
listed in the calculation method are those that will be calculated and they will be greyed out in the
Analysis Parameters. You can enter data for other non-calculated variables.
• For example, you have been using Δt | Qf which means that these two cells are greyed out and
being calculated based on the inputs such as the Decline rate, b value, and abandonment rate.
9. For the Modified Hyperbolic analysis, change the Calc Method to dlim – Δt /Qf.
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• In this case Harmony will calculate Δt and Qf again, but this method is also using a limiting decline
rate.
10. For dlim exp enter 6 %/year.
• The EUR is now less optimistic than the Very Hyperbolic case. Also, this decline type is easier to
create than the segmented type and yields similar results.
• Did you notice the dashed green vertical line? This indicates the point where your decline
transitions from hyperbolic to exponential.
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Stretched Exponential
• Next you will create a Stretched Exponential decline, which is unconventional specific, and so is
better suited to unconventional reservoirs due to their bounded nature.
• Uses n, τ (tau), and q0 (initial rate at start of production) instead of traditional decline parameters.
• The advantage of the Stretched Exponential is that the forecast will predict bounded reserves.
1. Create a Gas - Stretched Exponential forecast in the Analysis Manager.
2. Rename Analysis 1 to Stretched Exponential (Hint: right click on the analysis to rename it).
3. Set the abandonment rate (qf) to 100 Mscfd (Hint: in Analysis Parameters).
4. Use the Select Points / Spray Tool to select data for decline fit.
Duong
• Next you will create a Duong decline. The Duong forecast was developed specifically for
unconventional reservoirs with very low permeability.
• The shape of the curve is suited for wells that exhibit long periods of transient flow
• The forecast will reach a finite EUR and tends to be more conservative than traditional Arps
declines with b values over 1.
• Uses a, m, q1, and q-infinity instead of traditional decline parameters.
1. Create a Gas – Duong forecast in the Analysis Manager. Rename this analysis Duong.
2. Use Select Points / Spray Tool to get a good match.
• Next you will adjust the abandonment rate of the forecast to a reasonable value.
3. Change the qf to 100 Mscfd in the Analysis Parameters.
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Multi-Segment Decline
• The Multi-Segment approach is a 3-segment decline approach that models production as follows:
o Segment 1: Transient Flow Segment – hyperbolic decline with a b value greater than 1
o Segment 2: Transitional Flow Segment – hyperbolic decline with a b value between 0 and
1, or equal to 1
o Segment 3: Boundary Dominated Flow Segment – exponential decline with a b value of 0
• Before creating a Multi-Segment decline you need to look at the settings in the Options menu
1. Open Options > Analysis > Multi Segment Decline (Hint: options feature is found in main
toolbar).
• You can customize Multi Segment declines in the Options dialog box.
• The b value for each segment can be selected as Best Fit, Input or Custom. When you select
Input you must enter a b value between 0 (zero) and 5. If you select Custom, you must select a
custom attribute to use as the b value. If you select Best Fit Harmony will determine a b value
based on the data.
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• If you set multiple constraints (Δtmax qmin, dmin, ΔQmax), the decline will transition from Segment 1 to
Segment 2 when the first constraint is reached. In other words, whichever constraint is met first
will cause the decline to transition to Segment 2.
2. Update the parameters for segment one and segment two as follows:
3. Segment #1
a. Change b Type to Input
b. Enter b = 1.8
c. Change Δtmax to 48 months
4. Segment #2
a. Change b Type to Input
b. Enter b = 0.8
c. Enter dlim Exp = 6 %/year
5. Click Apply and then OK.

6. Create a Gas – Multi Segment forecast in the Analysis Manager. Rename this analysis Multi
Segment.
• Did you notice the dashed green vertical line on the plot? You might need to adjust the x axis to
see it. This indicates the point where your decline transitions from hyperbolic to exponential
• The multi-segment decline initially best fits use all the data points and the start of the first
segment is at the peak rate. The end of the first segment is defined by the constraints you set in
the Options. The end of the second segment is defined by the limiting effective decline rate (dlim).
• All the decline adjustments you learned earlier can also be applied to a multi-segment decline.
• You can also manually adjust the transition point from segment one to segment two (the transition
point between the two declines). To do this, hover over the blue rectangle on the decline. This
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marks the transition from segment one to segment two. Then click and drag right/left to change
where the transition occurs.
7. For Segment 2, change the qf to 100 Mscfd in the Analysis Parameters.
You have diagnosed data quality and removed invalid data from a well using the Diagnostic Plot and
Production Editor. You have used multiple tools for unconventional decline analysis including:
• Modified Hyperbolic or dlim calculation method
• Adding a segment to a hyperbolic decline
• Stretched exponential
• Duong
• Multi-Segment
Which decline method do you think best describes how this unconventional well will produce in the
future? Why would you select one forecast type over another? Write your ideas here in the space
provided. Your will review your answers with the instructor as a group.
An Exponential and Very Hyperbolic decline will show the range of production that is possible with an
unconventional well. Other decline types (Stretched Exponential, Duong, and Multi-Segment) can help
narrow down production expectations. Another way to understand unconventional reservoirs is to use
Rate transient analysis (RTA). RTA can help to identify flow regimes, determine flow properties, and
model the physics of the reservoir. Forecasts generated by Harmony RTA can be viewed in DeclinePlus.
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General Application Navigation

Decline Analysis Line Adjustments

Additional Analysis Features

o Name the workflow.

o Apply the workflow to the remaining well(s):

Harmony Basic Gas Workflow – Exercise 1

1. Double-click on Example 1 – Basic Gas Workflow file.

2. Choose Field/Reservoir in the Hierarchy Window.

3. Expand JENNER and ARCS A in the Hierarchy Window.

5. Select only the 08-08-020-09W4 well in the Hierarchy Window.

1. Click on the Diagnostics Tab.

• A plot of production data for the well selected appears.

19. Select Coordinate.

• Looking at this well you can see it shows:

21. Select well 05-09-020-09W4 in the Entity Viewer - Hierarchy pane.

Decline Rate/Cum Worksheet

Analysis Line Manipulation

Decline Curve Parameter Adjustment Shortcut

Slope of decline curve click and drag

11. Navigate to the Analysis Manager

Decline Rate/Time Worksheet

1. Click on New Worksheet.

Material Balance Worksheet

• You will create a Material Balance worksheet in this exercise.

Pressure vs. Time

5. Navigate to the Gas/CBM MB worksheet.

7. Navigate to the Press Time Worksheet.

• You have now completed a volumetric analysis for well 08-08-020-09W4.

2. Select the Best Fit - Gas – Decline (RC) analysis.

• You can modify the forecast resolution to be in Day, Month, or Year.

• This will save the data as an ***.csv file.

6. Click Cancel to close the Save As dialog box.

8. Open Excel and Paste the data.

1. Click on Create Workflow.

6. Launch well 102/10-09-020-09W/400 by double-clicking on it.

7. Go to the Gas Cum worksheet.

9. Navigate to the Gas Vol worksheet.

• The Results Viewer can be used to see a summary of the analyses.

10. Click Export Forecasts.

11. Click Cancel to close the Export Forecasts dialog box.

1. Navigate to the Reporting tab.

Harmony Basic Oil Workflow – Exercise 2

• The Import dialogue box appears.

2. Click on the Attributes tab.

3. Uncheck API Number and Entity No.

7. Enter the Name <Your Name> View and click Save.

drag the values into lower cells.

4. Click and drag values down a few rows.

5. Enter Picard in the next row.

c. Unit Type = Fluid Rate

12. Click OK.

15. Click OK.

Custom Hierarchy Structure

2. In the Options dialog box, click Add.

3. Right-Click where it says User Defined 1 and select Rename.

9. Click on the GIS tab.

Search for a Well

Customize Diagnostics Plot