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BUILDER PRODUCT OVERVIEW

WHY CMG?CMG is devoted to providing the ultimate customer experience with our commitments to:

• R&D investment• Superior software

technology• Unparalleled user

support

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Let Builder™ save time, money and frustration throughout the reservoir simulation process. Through the use of 2D and 3D visualization or keyword input, users are able to easily preparereservoir simulation models. Reservoir Engineers will realize immediate time savings fromeffectively navigating the often complex process of preparing reservoir simulation models.

As a result, Builder – in conjunction with CMG reservoir simulators – makes simulation technolo-gies more accessible to all organizations, even those with little previous experience in modelling.

DESCRIPTION & APPLICATIONSBuilder, a Windows† based application, is a menu-driven reservoir simulation model creation, editing and visualization program for generating input data for all CMG software products – STARS™, GEM™, IMEX™, CMOST™ and WinProp™. The Builder interface is designed to enhance userproductivity. New users will benefi t from the easeof use for model creation and editing, whileadvanced users will appreciate the “simulatorKEYWORD format”.

To enhance compatibility between simulators, DataImporter will convert IMEX black-oil models to GEM or STARS for advanced process projects, and will convert ECLIPSE† black oil models into IMEX format. Builder can also import production/injection history fi les to automatically generate recurrent data for history-matching purposes.

Builder, combined with Results™, providesa framework for data integration and workfl owmanagement between CMG’s reservoir simulators and the “outside world”. Optimize the reservoirsimulation model through accurate data importa-tion from third-party geological modelling programs, such as Petrel†, GOCAD†, RMS† & EarthVision†.Geological data accepted by Builder includessimulation grids, reservoir properties, fault surfaces and well trajectories, including support for theindustry standard RESCUE static model dataexchange format.

Builder also allows the user to quickly generate PVT tables, from various correlations, for input to the CMG simulators using a series of simple templatepanels. The menu system provides the userwith many choices, while providing appropriate defaults for convenience. Standard correlationsfor oil properties and viscosity are also available.

Builder’s Hydraulic Fracture wizard can be used to easily create different complexities, from simple bi-wings (as shown) to complex networks.

BENEFITS• Save time by

interactively modifying simulation data

• Faster and more effi cient design and preparation of reservoir simulation models

• Stay focused on recovery process rather than keyword syntax

• Enhance user productivity through an interactive and easy-to-use interface

• Increase data integration and workfl ow management using Builder and Results

• Automatically quality checks data as it’s entered and converts data in different units

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Microseismic data from a hydraulic fracturing treatment is imported into Builder and used to create a stimulated reservoir volume.

ADVANCED PROCESSESBuilder includes workfl ow wizards to assist users in creating advanced processes simulations. The wizards are designed for creating well locations for single-pattern or multiple repeated pattern fl ooding models, locally refi ned grids (LGR) surrounding wells to model transient, non-Darcy fl ow through propped fractures, and reactions for modelling in situ com-bustion, Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) fl ooding, foamy heavy oil production, and fi nes migration.

Builder can import well trajectories from a variety of sources, and almost any kind of tabular data can be imported in ASCII or MS Excel† format (e.g. for PVT, relative permeability, capillary pressure, vertical lift performance, and production/injection histories).

MICROSEISMICUsers are able to import microseismic data into Builder and to use as a guide, directly and indirectly, to the size and extent of the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV). The SRV can be modeled in IMEX or GEM with locally refi ned, logarithmically spaced, dual permeability grids that accurately match both early time and late time production data.

HYDRAULIC FRACTURINGBuilder provides more accurate modellingof hydraulically fractured wells in tight single porosity and naturally fractured (e.g. shale gas) reservoirs using the ‘fractured well LGR wizard’. This wizard will automatically and correctly adjust valuesof fracture permeability and the non-Darcy fl owcoeffi cient to match transient, non-Darcy fl ow, as if the model had actual propped fractureddimensions.

2012 NEWFEATURES• Trajectory smoothing

technique allows users to intersect the reservoir more realistically

• For STARS simulations, FlexWells supports the REPLACE keyword. Users now only need to create one FlexWell rather than two.

• Import multiple PVT regions with averages into IMEX

• Improved performance on model initialization

• Geomechanics visualization now available in 2D and 3D for GEM and STARS models

• Save time for sensitivity analysis in CMOST using the Formula Manager

WHY CMG?Computer Modelling Group Ltd. (CMG) is the leading supplier of advanced reservoir simulation software for conventional and unconventional reservoirs. CMG offers black oil, compositional, thermal and chemicalreservoir simulators, assisted history matching and optimization, sensitivity and uncertainty tools, allaugmented with visualization to interpret and understand simulation results. Experienced engineering teams in offi ces around the world provide the best software user support, training and technical assistance.

CMG is devoted to providing the ultimate customer experience through our commitments to R&D invest-ment, superior software technology, and unparalleled user support.

COMMITTED TO R&D INVESTMENT: CMG reinvests approximately 20% of its annual revenue into product research and development (R&D). With more than half of our employees devoted to these tasks, CMGroutinely exceeds our customers’ expectations. CMG is proud of our academic strength with 50% of our employees holding a Master’s degree or higher qualifi cation.

COMMITTED TO DELIVERING SUPERIOR SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY: CMG, the leader in enhanced oil recovery simulation, delivers software that is easier to use and provides the most accurate results forcompositional, conventional, unconventional and advanced IOR/EOR processes. CMG software is theindustry standard for usability, physics, robustness and performance.

COMMITTED TO UNPARALLELED USER SUPPORT: CMG provides experienced technical sales and support personnel around the world, priding itself on a standard “one-day response rate” for technical supportquestions. In addition, CMG offers industry leading software training courses in our Calgary,Caracas, Dubai, Houston and London offi ces.