oa The pearls and perils of interactive geomodelling tookits; the global deployment of PETREL in Shell E&P

Shell has traditionally developed its own high-end geo-modelling tools for detailed reservoir geological analysis, from the introduction of the IPGW (Interactive Production Geology Workbench) in the late 1980s, through to its GEOCAP-2 and DEPSIM packages of the mid to late 1990s.