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Dear Alison, Thank you so much for your reply. The system is fully saturated with water and I am injecting Hydrogen using E0S5. Is the pressure column in the flof excel file referring to which phase? Is the value of Pc of -2.83E6 can be realistic? Kind Regards, Abdelrazik Elfar 2D Hydrogen.sim

Abdelrazik, I would turn on the print options for cell Z61, and then rerun the model. You can then view a cell history plot of parameters at this cell at each time step. If you continue to have problems, please send me your SIM file and I'll take a look at it (tech@rockware.com). Best Regards, Alison

Abdelrizik, For 2 phase models, TOUGH outputs gas pressure. Liquid pressure can be determined based on the capillary pressure: Pl = Pg + Pc (Pc is defined negative in TOUGH2). You will probably need to calculate liquid pressure in Excel and create your plot there. Best Regards, Alison

Hi all, Please I am new user of PetraSim and would like to know how to show the gas pressure and liquid pressure versus time for the results. I know how to print specific grid. But, the flof excel file shows only a pressure without specifying the phase. Can you please help with that. Kind Regards, Abdelrazik Elfar

Hi Alison, I have tried to increase the initial time step as advised but the simulation gives me an error. I am not sure why. If I increase the injection rate by magnitude of on or two, it works. but if I decreased more than power -12 it shows this error. Kind Regards, Abdelrazik Elfar

Abdelrazik, You can probably avoid the model hitting state very quickly by increasing your initial time step (DELTEN) under the Analysis | Solution Controls window. If you are trying to inject at a constant temperature, then you can assign a very high material density to the injection cells. This gives the cells a very large heat capacity, and any gas that leaves those cells will have the temperature of the cells (set as the initial temperature). Best Regards, Alison

Hi, I am trying to input the injection rate of hydrogen very low such as 10E-14 since my model is small. But the model gets the steady state after two seconds of starting and gives no results. Is the system valid for range of values only. Also, I insert the value of enthalpy of 4E-6 at 25c for the temperature, but I am not sure that this value is valid or not. I get it from a table on google. Kind Regards, Abdelrazik Elfar

A new version of RockWorks was uploaded to the RockWare website, with bug fixes, improvements, and new features. The RockWorks Revision History includes complete lists, by date, of all changes in the program. New Features: Added the ability to copy “enabled” boreholes into another project understanding that the database structure would have to match for all the data to transfer. A warning message is displayed when an optional field in the target 'Location' table is missing. ESRI Shape Exports of Stratigraphic Fence diagrams now include the formation name as an attribute. This included reworking the appearance of the fence panels in the scene. Scales for RockPlot2D file in ReportWorks can now be specified with an engineering scale. Improvements: The Save settings in Peripherals now include user settings for each saved item as well as the layout for the pieces. Look for a new Add Margin button on the toolbar on the left side of 2D diagrams that adds a 5% margin to the edges around your diagram. This option was also added to the Utilities menu in RockPlot2D. Rewrote the Aquifer export. It now resembles the Stratigraphy export. ModOps | Grid | Export | RockWorks Datasheet - unused columns for Color, Thickness, Line Style were removed from the export. On editing a Playlist item as text: the text editor File | Exit and the Exit button behave the same. The File | Save behaves like a Save As and will now set the file extension to RWPlaylist with an option for txt. The File | Save As will still prompt to write back to the current Playlist (if modified). RockPlot2D Property dialogs are now displayed relative to the position of the mouse. Added the ability to copy “enabled” boreholes into another project understanding that the database structure would have to match for all the data to transfer. A warning message is displayed when an optional field in the target 'Location' table is missing. Bug Fixes: Grid silhouettes that are added to multiple parallel profiles will be plotted on the their individual profiles instead of projecting all of the grids onto the first diagram. Vertically exaggerated multi-profile diagrams are now displayed correctly. Previous versions would be plotted at a vertical exaggeration of 1.0 thereby requiring that the user manually specify the vertical exaggeration after the diagram was displayed. In the example shown below, the diagram containing four profiles is now initially plotted at the specified vertical exaggeration of 50X. The "Override Automatic Titles" option within the Parallel Profile menus (used by a variety of programs) now accepts user settings. The Load Layout option in the 2D Log Designer will now update the settings displayed in the dialog when you load a previously saved layout. The title height for RockPlot2D Color Legends is now adjusted when the Vertical Exaggeration is set from the main options to greater than one. The ESRI Stratigraphic Fence programs use the updated fence locations from the user specified table when the location tab is opened. We recommend that Network license users install the RockWare Network License Administrator v. 1.18. Contact support at rockware.com for a link to the latest version. To download this build, use the Help | Updates | Check for Updates menu inside RockWorks. RockWorks Link, click on the free trial tab: https://www.rockware.com/product/rockworks/ where you can download the installation program and install the new build right over the top of the existing program. (DO NOT uninstall first.) Note that you will not be able to use this new build of the program if your maintenance has expired before March 2023. Contact RockWare Sales or visit our Customer Portal (https://www.rockware.com/customer/) if you would like to update your maintenance. Katy Duncan RockWare Inc

An updated version of LogPlot was loaded to the RockWare website! New Feature: A footer to the bottom of each page margin has been added for logs compiled with page breaks. By default, this will be set to 0 for backward compatibility. Improvements: Log Designer property dialogs are now placed to minimize the overlap with their associated item. Depth grids in curves, cross plots, and bar graphs can now be plotted in relation to elevation. Horizontal lines plotted with automatic intervals can also be plotted in relation to elevation. Bug Fixes: Well Construction patterns with a non-zero inner diameter now always plot the pattern. The Unlocking code override works again. The inherited ancestor constructor was not being called. You can refer to the complete LogPlot revision list: https://www.rockware.com/rockworks/revisions/current_logplot_revisions.htm To download this build visit the LogPlot Free Trial tab (https://www.rockware.com/product/logplot/) where you can download the installation program and install the new build. Note that the software will not be automatically licensed if your maintenance has expired before March 2023, and the software will be installed in trial mode. If you would like to renew your maintenance, contact RockWare Sales. Katy Duncan RockWare Inc

Jasmin, Unfortunately, "tubes" are displayed in 2D sections as circles. So, this type of display is really only meant to show the location of the objects in sections that cross-cut the tube. If you need to show the tube in a longitudinal section that follows the trace of the tube, you may be able to convert your stratigraphic model and tube to a block model. This approach could get tricky depending on the size of your tube and the size of the blocks in the model. If you'd like to explore this option further, feel free to reach out to tech@rockware.com with an example project and description of what you are trying to do. Best Regards, Alison

I have a layered stratigraphic model with a tube running between the layers. I have exported a projected section based on the layered model along the tube. The tube is not shown in the 2d section. If I arrange the cross-section perpendicular to the tube, the cut surface of the tube is shown. Is there a possibility to see the tube also longitudinally or only when it is cut perpendicularly? Thank you

Hi Alison, thanks! Yes, this was the problem. The error message distracted me to a wrong direction. I had copied the data from a GIS-System which had the thousandths separator in the data but I didn't notice.

Peter, I believe the problem has to do with the ' character in the elevation column (used as the thousandths separator). If you remove this, I believe that the program will work as intended. Could you please give this a try and let me know how it goes? Best Regards, Alison

Hi, I'm trying to grid a datasheet (XYZ -> GRID) with a few points (more than 3), but keep getting above error. I have adjusted the dimensions according to input data. Can you have a look at the input and the menu settings? Files below. thanks, Peter Supplemental_Stratigraphy_Bachschutt.rwDat Menu.RwMnu

An updated version of LogPlot was loaded to the RockWare website! You can refer to the complete LogPlot revision list: https://www.rockware.com/rockworks/revisions/current_logplot_revisions.htm To download this build visit the LogPlot Free Trial tab (https://www.rockware.com/product/logplot/) where you can download the installation program and install the new build. LogPlot is a separate installation from LogPlot 8. Note that the software will not be automatically licensed if your maintenance has expired before January 2023, and the software will be installed in trial mode. If you would like to renew your maintenance, contact RockWare Sales. Katy Duncan RockWare Inc

A new version of RockWorks was uploaded to the RockWare website, with bug fixes, improvements, and new features. The RockWorks Revision History includes complete lists, by date, of all changes in the program. New Features: An ESRI Shape file containing polygons can now be turned into a RockWorks grid file. The Playlist output tabs have been revamped. Double clicking ona playlist output tab will detach the page into a separate dialogue that fills the main monitor. A new item titled "View This List As An HTML File" has been added to the base of the How-To "tree". Clicking on this item and selecting the Copy option will copy the URL to the Windows clipboard so that it can be sent to other who may not be able to access the RockWorks How-To option (e.g., RockWorks is not installed on their machine). The new program to add boreholes to the database interactively through RockPlot2D now adds the Elevation and Collar Elevation fields if the map contains a color contour layer. The Project Settings file and Playlists now reference I/P/T data names rather than index number. Improvements: The Automatic perimeter annotation dimensions are now based on the extents of the diagram, including text blocks. It is no longer possible to launch two or more instances of the How-To dialog. This prevents problems with multiple-clicks on the How-To button. Model tilting and warping control now better followw user commands and selections. A video-help button has been added to the 2D Striplog / Projection sub-menu. The Striplogs / Log Profile tab has been renamed to "Projection" within the 2D Striplog Profile, Section, and Projected-Section programs to be consistent with the re-design of the 2D Striplog menu. Note: Striplogs within profiles do not have a Projection tab because they are always plotted using the Normal Projection (i.e., the logs are projected into the panel as-is). The Stratigraphy Picker was displaying the location incorrectly when the Vertical Exaggeration was not equal to 1, now user can set VE to what they want to view. Bug Fixes: If a GeoTIFF is an a geographic coordinate system (Lat/Long), the program was not converting the Z values. It will now retrieve the units from the GeoTIFF and convert if needed. The Add New Borehole function in RockPlot2D now offers a dialog where the user can select a surface grid, fixed elevation or no elevation for the borehole elevation. Additionally a a Total Depth is added. The Shape Polygon to grid program now offers replacement options based on polygon order, highest vale or lowest value. A suite of new tools has been added to a new tab labeled "Options" within the Utilities / 3-D / Tubes program. These options include the ability to wrap images around the tubes. When exporting I-Data, P-Data, T-Data, I-Text and P-Text and sorting by "Order Field" was causing an error when using SQLServer as the database engine. This was due to differences in SQL dialects, it worked with SQLite but not SQLServer. It now works with both engines. Borehole Manager: View | Change Sorting - now shows the current sorting of the boreholes. When the Data Dictionary is missing and is copied in from the default, we update it for any optional fields found in the database tables. The borehole location map options now include an option that determines if stratigraphic information labels will be plotted adjacent to the borehole symbol or at the plan view downhole locations. All boreholes are now included when interpolating a polygon-clipped lithology model via the Lateral Extrusion algorithm. The RockPlot2D Color Legend using the Min-Mid-Max scheme requires an odd number of intervals. If the number of intervals is not odd then the program decreases the minimum value by the contour interval. We recommend that Network license users install the RockWare Network License Administrator v. 1.18. Contact support at rockware.com for a link to the latest version. To download this build, use the Help | Updates | Check for Updates menu inside RockWorks. RockWorks Link, click on free trial tab: https://www.rockware.com/product/rockworks/ where you can download the installation program and install the new build right over the top of the existing program. (DO NOT uninstall first.) Note that you will not be able to use this new build of the program if your maintenance has expired before January 2023. Contact RockWare Sales or visit our Customer Portal (https://www.rockware.com/customer/) if you would like to update your maintenance. Katy Duncan RockWare Inc

I have sent a download link to some files causing trouble. cheers, Peter

Hi Peter, We will start looking into this now, but may need some additional information from you to diagnose the problem. What kind of fence diagram are you working with (I/P/T-Data, Lithology, Stratigraphy, etc.). If you are able to contact us at tech@rockware.com with some examples of problematic RW3D files, it will probably help us determine what is going on more quickly). Best Regards, Alison

This is the error-message we get.

Newest update is installed and computer has been restarted since.

When opening a 3d Fence project or combining 3d Fence objects to save under a new project I get an error that refers to access violations and lists memory addresses.

Any new installation of LogPlot8 completed after December 31, 2022 will generate a catastrophic error message initially when opening LogPlot8. To resolve this issue, after installing LogPlot8 you will need to run the LP8LicensePatch program below (i.e. first install LogPlot8 and then run the LP8LicensePatch program). Upon running the LP8LicensePatch program you should be able to open LogPlot8 without any issues. https://www.rockware.com/support/files/Permanent/LP8LicensePatch.exe

Under the Stratigraphy menus, you can find this option (called "Include Additional Contacts Defined Within RwDat file") under the Strat Rules tab. You can also find an example RwDat file called "Supplemental Stratigraphy" in the Samples project installed with the program. You may also want to review this recently created video, which introduces the concept of creation "PJ" boreholes in the database to help with interpolation. This video recommends that you add PJ boreholes to the database by digitizing them in Google Earth and then transferring them to a Utilities datasheet. You could also digitize points in RockPlot2D using the Digitize | Points tool, and then the Option | Export tool on the left side of the window where the digitized points are listed. Feel free to reach out with additional questions, either through the forum or through tech@rockware.com.

May I ask where to find the Supplemental Points option in the Stratigraphy Modeling program. I am sorry I could not find it and I have version 2022.9.3 of Rockworks. Thank you.

Hi Jackson I have two suggestions: 1) For visually nice results I have done the following in the past: - plot the shape in a GIS (e.g. together with a backgroundmap) - export a geotiff - drape the geotiff in RW over your DTM or solid model 2) you could try (I haven't done that) to convert your shape to a infrastructure file and plot your polygons as "walls" or "buildings". The big advantage of this would be that you can put all the geometries in one single file. But you couldn't color them differently... but maybe in combination with the above... the syntax in a simple text file is: ELEVATION: (elevation value) WALL: Storage Facility Fence 482027.1 4399841.4 481972.6 4399924.7 482079.3 4399999.1 482089.3 4399993.8 482130.3 4399917.0 482027.1 4399841.4 END: more info: https://help.rockware.com/rockworks/WebHelp/introduction.htm > Infrastructure Data Format