DecisionXpress Viewer Version 2.0 Release Notes
Features, System Requirements, Installation, and Support
Release date: October 8, 2004
Overview
Copyright Schlumberger 2004. All Rights Reserved.
These release notes contain last minute product information about DecisionXpress Viewer for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Full instructions for using DecisionXpress Viewer are given in the DecisionXpress Viewer on-line Help. You can access this from the Help menu within DecisionXpress Viewer.
Please check with your Schlumberger representative for new information and updates.
What's new in version 2.0
- Supports more tools
APS/HAPS, LDS/HLDS, LDT/HLDT are supported.
- Provides logic for tool selection
If several tools with the same measurement are validated, a logic for default tool selection is provided. User can also choose the tools in the "Set Tool Priority" dialog.
- Provides preprocessing
Preprocessing for the temperature, pressure and certain channels are provided.
- Maximum clay volume
Clay volume as a new cutoff for net reservoir, and corresponding optimization plot is provided.
- Improves the neutron environmental correction
Uses mud filtrate salinity instead of FSAL for the neutron environmental correction in water based mud.
- Computes more zone parameters
Net reservoir porosity thickness, net reservoir permeability thickness, net pay porosity thickness, net pay permeability thickness and net pay hydrocarbon porosity thickness are computed.
- Saves zone parameters into LAS file
Zone parameters are saved into LAS file as channels.
- Views report in EXCEL format
The reservoir summation report and sampling report can be viewed in EXCEL format.
- Supports annotation
Basic functionalities such as adding, removing and editing for annotation are provided.
- Drag and drop
Curve and area fill can be moved or copied by dragging and dropping.
- Can process more DLIS files
As long as the DLIS file contains the minimum dataset, it can be processed by DecisionXpress Viewer 2.0, DecisionXpress processing is not necessary. The detail information of required input channels is listed in the User Manual, please refer to Algorithm Description\Data Bindings\Input Arrays.
- Add one checkbox in the Sampling Plot
One checkbox "Pick Points" is added in the Sampling Plot, which has to be checked to be able to pick sampling points. This makes the plot more flexible such as adding annotation, and so on.
System Requirements
Minimum requirements for DecisionXpress Viewer are:
- Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP.
- Pentium (R) 333MHz processor (500MHz recommended).
- 64MB (128MB recommended).
- installation of DecisionXpress Viewer requires ~50Mb of free disk space
This version of DecisionXpress Viewer runs under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It has not been tested and is not supported under Windows NT, ME,98 or earlier.
Installing DecisionXpress Viewer
This software is designed to be installed under Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
To install using the DecisionXpress Viewer Installer, follow the procedure below.
Note:
- If you have an old version of the DecisionXpress Viewer installed on your computer, the installation program will automatically remove it and install DecisionXpress Viewer 2.0.
- You must have full-control access to the computer to carry out an installation.
- Log on to the computer as a member of the [Administrators] group.
- Close any applications that are running.
- If you have a CD-ROM setup disk, load the CD-ROM into your computer's CD-ROM drive.
Alternatively, if you've downloaded the setup package from Schlumberger web site:
- Decompress (UNZIP) the downloaded file into a temporary folder.
- Open the temporary folder and double-click Setup.exe.
- The DecisionXpress Viewer Installer starts.
- On the [Welcome] screen click [Next].
- Read the [License Agreement] and if you agree, select the [I accept the items in the license agreement] checkbox. Click [Next]. Once you've installed DecisionXpress viewer, a copy of the license agreement is available in the file License.doc in your DecisionXpress Viewer directory.
Note:
If a message dialog box appears allowing you to change, repair, or remove the DecisionXpress Viewer, that means a DecisionXpress Viewer of the same version is already installed on the computer. Please refer to the "Uninstallation method" portion in this document to uninstall the software first.
- Click [Next] to start file copying.
If you're installing from a downloaded installer, file copying starts immediately.
- Input the customer information, such as user name and organization. You can select to install the application for [Anyone who uses the computer (all users)] or [Only for me(Administrator)]. Note, if you select the [Only for me (Administrator)] option, other users will not allowed to run the software after installation. You are recommended to accept the default setting. Click [Next].
- Select the setup type:[Complete] or [Custom]. Click [Next].
[Complete] allows you to install all the program features to the default folder: Program Files\Schlumberger\DecisionXpress Viewer.
[Custom] allows you to specify a folder in which to install the DecisionXpress Viewer. It also allows you to select which program features to install. If you select [custom], after clicking [next], a [Custom setup] screen appears letting you change the install destination. Select a destination and click [Next].
- Click [Next] to start the installation.
- When the [Installshield Wizard completed] screen appears click [Finish].
Note: It is recommended to reboot your computer when the installation is finished.
Uninstalling DecisionXpress Viewer
There are three ways to uninstall this software.
- Click the [Uninstall DecisionXpress Viewer] from the [Start]-[Program]-[Schlumberger]-[DecisionXpress Viewer]-[Uninstall DecisionXpress Viewer].
A warning message dialog box appears asking you if you are sure you want to uninstall this product. Click [Yes] to continue to uninstall.
or
- Click the [Start]-[Settings]-[Control Panel]-[Add/Remove Programs]. In the [Add/Remove Programs] dialog box, select the [DecisionXpress Viewer] product and click remove button to remove the software. Similar to the first method, a warning dialog box appears to confirm uninstall. Click [Yes] to continue to uninstall.
or
- From the installer. Run the setup.exe again and click [next] in the dialog box. A screen appears telling you that you can change, repair or remove the software. Select the [Remove] option and click [Next] to continue to uninstall.
Note: In the [Program Maintenance] screen, there are three options: change, repair and remove. Select [Modify] to change which program's features are installed. Select [Repair] to repair installation errors in the program. Select [Remove] to uninstall this software. The [change] and [repair] functions are seldom used.
Known Problems and Workarounds
Installation:
DecisionXpress Viewer 2.0 can be compatibly installed with WellEye 2.1, SMA 2.0, Well-ID, DVD View and BHAiM, but it will destroy Data View. Please reinstall or repair Data View after installing DecisionXpress Viewer 2.0. Sometimes the old version (1.2 for example) can not be uninstalled successfully through "Add/Remove Programs". Please run corresponding setup.exe again and select "Remove".
Sometimes DecisionXpress Viewer 1.2 can not be uninstalled thoroughly which results in a file named "Dex_Viewer.exe.local" left. If the new version is installed in the same directory, that file may prevent running the application correctly. In this case, please remove that file and try again.
Supported Language:
The fully supported language is US English. If the number format of the language is different from US English, some features may not work properly. For example, the Attribute Editor doesn't work well in Norwegian. To make sure all features can work properly, US English is recommanded. For information about how to change language settings, please refer to FAQs in the Help File.
Printing:
To generate PDF output, it is necessary for Adobe Acrobat to be installed on your computer. It is recommended to use Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or Acrobat Distiller 5.0, PDF writter is not supported.
DLIS reading: DecisionXpress Viewer 2.0 use DLIS Broker in Log Graphics 2.0 to read DLIS file. For some DLIS file (two known types of DLIS file listed below), DLIS Broker can not read the data completely. This issue has been reported to DLIS Broker maintenance team.
- a) DLIS files contain both Bottom-up depth index and Top-down depth index,
- b) DLIS files contain both Time index and Depth index.
Cutoff line displaying:
If there are several zones and one moves the cutoff line in one zone out of limits range, the cutoff lines below this zone will also disappear, this is a bug of Log Graphics and has been reported to developer team.
Sampling points depth line displaying:
If many sampling points are added very closely, the refresh can cause many trails of the depth line of the sampling points. This issue can disappear automatically very soon.
Third Party Licence Agreements
This software uses the following third party software components:
- PRO Essentials V 3.0.0.7 (free at run time)
- Sheridan Active Splitter 3.0.2.3 (free at run time)
and the following Schlumberger software components:
- Horizon Log Graphics 2.0 (Erika) package