Amtec Announces Tecplot RS; Amtec's Consulting Work With ChevronTexaco Results in New Integrated Plotting Environment for Reservoir Engineers.Business Editors/High-Tech & Energy Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003 Amtec Engineering, Inc., a developer of data visualization See information visualization. software, today announced the release of Tecplot(R) RS (Reservoir Simulation Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids (typically, oil, water, and gas) through porous media. ), a new integrated plotting environment designed specifically for oil reservoir An oil reservoir, petroleum system or petroleum reservoir is often thought of as being an underground "lake" of oil, but it is actually composed of hydrocarbons contained in porous rock formations. modeling. The original inspiration for Tecplot RS was the work done by ChevronTexaco in 2001 in evaluating a variety of post-processing visualization software tools to replace Geoquest's aging GRAF and other proprietary visualization applications. After consulting with ChevronTexaco on the use of Tecplot, Amtec Engineering extended the functionality of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. to create Tecplot RS, which is focused on the needs of the reservoir engineer. Tecplot RS allows data from multiple sources to be loaded and displayed in anything from XY graphs to complex 3-D renderings. The software manages data from multiple reservoir simulators, as well as measured data like field rates and formation tests. It also allows for quick comparisons of simulated and historical data when matching multiple wells. Users may analyze several reservoir simulator runs in one set of plots, control the number of plots per page, or define customized sets of plots for repeated use. The software's extensive macro language (1) A special-purpose command language used to automate sequences within an application such as a spreadsheet or word processor. Macro languages often include programming controls (IF THEN, GOTO, WHILE, etc.), but rarely have the capabilities of a full-blown programming language. allows automation of plotting operations. These may be accessed interactively or in a batch mode. Animation of time sequences, another key feature, lets users view and record properties such as saturation fronts in 2- or 3-D grid views This article is about a graphical user interface element. For a grid computing system that deals with data, see data grid. A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical user interface element (widget) that presents a tabular view of data. . Data may be interactively zoomed, rotated, blanked, probed, and sliced to provide complete freedom in exploring reservoirs. Streamline data can be imported and displayed with standard grid-based simulator solutions. Currently, Tecplot RS supports Schlumberger's Eclipse and FrontSim reservoir simulators and the Chears reservoir simulator from ChevronTexaco. Data loaders for other reservoir simulators are being developed and will be released as they become available. The price of Tecplot RS begins at $3,500 for a perpetual single-user license on Windows or UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Multi-platform network licenses are also available. About Amtec Engineering Co-founded in 1981 by Mike Peery and Don Roberts, Amtec delivers visualization software for engineers and scientists to analyze, discover, and communicate results. In 1988 Amtec launched Tecplot, the company's first software product for the visualization market. Since then, Amtec has applied and influenced the latest advances in plotting capabilities, making Tecplot the visualization tool of choice for some 30,000 engineers and scientists around the world. Editor's Notes Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Copies of Tecplot RS are available upon request for editorial review. A digital copy of this press release along with additional supporting information about Amtec and Tecplot RS can be found at http://www.amtec.com/media_rs. Amtec and Tecplot RS are trademarks of Amtec Engineering, Inc., registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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