Gary S. Swindell, Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum Engineering Software

October 2026


 
Petroleum Software:  Public/Government  *   Drilling / well planning / risk *   Log analysis / petrophysics  *   PVT fluids *  Pressure transient  *   Reservoir *

Production *   Economics / evaluation /reserves *  Reservoir simulation *   Mapping / GIS *  Geophysics / seismic *   Miscellaneous / other *
 

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Public / Government

Kansas Geological Survey software - Gemini simulator

U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory - Databases, Simulators, CO2, Steamflood, E&P tools, Risk, Frac, Predictive models, hydrates, etc.

New Mexico GO-TECH - free decline curve analysis software and Data Drawing Module for Excel : Curve Plotting Software

TetraSoft Small utilities for people who work with well and emissions data - NG units, BTU by state, API number decoder, API county codes, MCF-to-MMBTU etc.


Petroleum Engineering Software - Drilling / Well Planning / Risk / Casing

Schlumberger Drilling Software

Haliburton Red Book tables

Pegasus Vertex software - torque, hydraulics, mud, cementing simulator, surge pressure, centralizers, undrbalanced, casing wear, drilling toolbox

WellSight Systems logging programs for geologists, mud loggers and drilling engineers.

Osprey Risk - Rapid, iterative well planning software for critical risk and cost assessment Schlumberger

Drillbench fom SLB - Advanced drilling engineering and operation

Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro from EXPRODAT - enables enables land, drilling and subsurface teams to holistically plan field developments.

Paradigm Geolog / AspenTech- petrophysical analysis, well data management, geological interpretation, geosteeering.

RigView 3.0 - drilling scheduling software from Peloton.

Wellbore diagram software - PetroCode

StarSteer - Geosteering Software for the Oil & Gas Industry, the solution for directional drilling and well placement.

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Log Analysis /Petrophysics

SPWLA Directory of Petrophysics software

Interactive Petrophysics log analysis software from Schlumberger

Paradigm Geolog - petrophysical analysis, well data management, geological interpretation, geosteeering.

LogSleuth is a computer program that manages, displays, prints and exports Raster Image Well Logs purchased from MJ Systems.

Schlumberger used to offer excellent LAS (DataView) and TIF (BlueView) log viewers and a Log Toolbox. Not on Schl. now, but they're still out there - do a search for them

DigitalROCK - virtual core analysis lab for determining critical flow-related rock properties as an alternative to laboratory tests accelerating the process of physically testing core samples.

Kappa Emeraude - Production Log Interpretation software

CoreLog  from Plano Research - log and core analysis - petrophysical software

IrfanView - view log tif files

S&&P Energy - Acculog log viewer

BEICIP FracaFlow, the most advanced package for fractured reservoir characterization, modeling and calibration on the market. Part of the OpenFlow suite.

BEICIP EasyTrace Well log analysis - part of the OpenFlow Suite from Beicip-Franlab

Ikon Science has an extensive library of regional pressure and rock physics studies covering: Europe, Gulf of Mexico, Australia and the Niger Delta.

Ryder Scott reservoir solutions freeware - a collection of Excel tools - LogWizzard

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Petroleum Engineering Software - PVT

Pore Pressure Analysis tools from Petrospec Technologies

LSU Excel spreadsheet for PVT data

Natural gas Z-factor

Natural gas Z-factor - from Petroleum Office

Oil Formation volume factor and Rs calculator -

Petrophase  from Plano Research - PVT phase package

P-EngTools Software collection for PVT, Nodal, Pipe design, Pump Design, Frac design and optimize.

PVT Cloud  from Plano Research - Black oil PVT properties calculator

PVTsim Nova - next generation PVT sim , reservoir fluid modeling software from Calsep

Multiflash - powerful and versatile PVT and EOS modelling software package from KBC Advanced Technologies

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Pressure Transient Analysis

Transients  from Plano Research - Transient pressure analysis

WellTest - Pressure Transient Software - now SLB

Saphir - pressure transient analysis from Kappa

FastWelltest - Pressure transient analysis - now SLB

Interpret Well Test Analysis- pressure transient analysis from AspenTech

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Reservoir Engineering

SLB Global Harmony Enterprise - Reservoir management and production forecasting software.

Petroleum Office - a large collection of specialized spreadsheets for oil and gas professionals.

LSU Excel spreadsheet for Material Balance data

SmartEOR  from Plano Research - EOR screening tool

CAESAR  from Plano Research - Well and Reservoir Management / Simulation Analysis

Analytics  from Plano Research - waterflood management and optimization

GeoTrak  from Plano Research - Exploration toolkit / Resource Calculator

Visualization Sciences Group Advanced 3D Visualization Technologies for Reservoir Engineering.

Halliburton - various calculators - Halliburton has eliminated most software that used to be on their site.

U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory Simulators, E&P tools, Predictive models, hydrates, etc.

Ryder Scott reservoir solutions freeware - a collection of Excel tools - CBM, Quicklook Economics, TVD, volumetrics, Log-normal probability, flowing gas, LogWizzard, Mat Bal, Exponetial decline.

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Production

Petroleum Office - a large collection of specialized spreadsheets for oil and gas professionals.

Schlumberger production software

Halliburton Red Book tables - Halliburton has eliminated most of the software that used to be on their site.

WatOpt  from Plano Research - Waterflood management and optimization

Analytics  from Plano Research - waterflood management and optimization

P-EngTools Software collection for PVT, Nodal, Pipe design, Pump Design, Frac design and optimize.

Kappa Emeraude - Production Log Interpretation software

IPM Integrated Production Modeling - from Petroleum Experts.

DOF Digital Oil Field Management suite for integrated field studies - from Petroleum Experts.

GENNET-M - calculates flow rates, pressures, temp, velocity in a multi-phase pipeline network

Tachyus - Predictive analytics - Operators leverage our platform to cut costs, optimize and increase production in steamfloods, CO2 floods, chemical floods and waterfloods.

U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory Simulators, E&P tools, Predictive models, hydrates, etc.

Jacuna Consulting Fractional Dimension RTA (FD-RTA) - developed to analyze simple and complex networks of fractures in your well.

Xecta Digital Labs - integrate upstream connected assets to increase production and reduce costs, using domain physics, RTA, Transient IPR with AI and machine learning techniques.

Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro from EXPRODAT - enables enables land, drilling and subsurface teams to holistically plan field developments.

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Reserve Evaluation and Economics

OGRE Systems - very capable and flexible petroleum economic evaluation software

New Mexico GO-TECH - free decline curve analysis software and Data Drawing Module for Excel : Curve Plotting Software.

Schlumberger Merak evaluation and economics software

Merak Petroleum Economics, Risk & Reserves from Schlumberger

SLB (formerly IHS)Powertools  - Powertools economic  and reserve evaluation software

P2 Energy Solutions - decline curve analysis, economic analysis, gas material balance and reserve management

Aries economic reserve analysis software

TRC Consultants - PHDWin economics program

PetroVisual data analysis and visualization tool for oil and gas data. It connects to ARIES, PHDWin, OGRE and custom databases, allowing you to ask questions and plot your data.

MICA decline curve and economics program with access to free state data

QuickDecline From L337Tech LLC decline curve and petroleum economics program - open source database, links to maps, curve fitting, etc. $1,495/year

Value Navigator - Value Navigator - fully integrated, scalable evaluation system with auto-forecasting algorithm and powerful economic engine.

Entero Mosaic - robust economic engine for capital planning, reserves, budgeting, or A&D

PalantirRESERVES -reserves management application which manages the hydrocarbon maturation process.

Future -a software system for integrated asset modeling, decline analysys and reserves management, from SERAFIM.

Ryder Scott reservoir solutions freeware - a collection of Excel tools - Quicklook Economics.

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Reservoir Simulation

Open Porous Media Initiative - OPM Flow is a fully-implicit, black-oil simulator capable of running industry-standard simulation models. Runs under Linux or Windows virtual machine. Non-commercial.

MUFITS - noncommercial Windows reservoir simulator for analysis of non-isothermal multiphase multicomponent flows in porous media. Author Andrey Afanasyev.

DuMux, DUNE for MultiPhase, Component, Scale, Physics, flow and transport in porous media - a free and open-source simulator for flow and transport processes in porous media.

Eclipse Simulator from Schlumberger - now with new EOR modeling

Exodus  Reservoir Simulator for Windows with CBM modeling.

Sensor reservoir simulator

FlowSim Studio  from Plano Research - IOR/EOR 3D compositional simulator application for reservoir management.

FlowStream Studio  from Plano Research - IOR/EOR streamline simulator applicaton for reservoir management.

3DSL - 3D streamline simulator from StreamSim Technologies.  Also from same - StudioSL, FloodOPT.

OLGA - simulator for engineering the flow of oil, water and gas in wells, pipelines and receiving facilities.  (Schlumberger)  Basically vertical flow simulator.

MEPO - Fast History Matching & Uncertainty Assessment (Schlumberger).

Tempest black oil and compositional simulator from Roxar.

Baker Hughes Jewel Suite Subsurface Modeling

SKUA Reservoir Modeling - from AspenTech

Echelon - Next Generation Reservoir Simulation - Affordable, compact, high density supercomputing using GPUs for reservoir simulation - from Stone Ridge Technology and ENI.

Reveal Simulator Reservoir Modeling - from Petex

Computer Modeling Group (CMG) Simulators - IMEX (black oil), GEM (compositional) - recognized worldwide as the industry standard for advanced recovery processes.

Kansas Geological Survey software - Gemini simulator (not supported anymore and may not be available.

U.S. Department of Energy - Boast reservoir simulator.

U.S. Department of Energy - CO2-Prophet simulator.

Cegal - formerly Blueback Reservoir delivers consulting services and software solutions to the oil and gas market. 3D Reservoir modeling software and services, plug-ins for Petrel

Forecasting Pro - evaluation of uncertainty associated with prediction cases in reservoir simulation -from Nitec.

tNavigator - black oil, compositional, thermal  simulator, interactive and capable of using multi-core, multi CPU systems from Rock Flow Dynamics

S3 Reservoir Simulation suite from Sciencesoft- Reservoir simulation software solutions.  World leader in 3D reservoir visualization.

PumaFlow - All-in-one reservoir simulator.  Part of the OpenFlow suite of E&P Software. Fluid flow simulator, sensitivity analysis, history matching, field appraisal and optimization.

Matlab Reservoir Simulation Toolbox - Requires a Mathworks license.

PFLOTRAN - An open source massively Parallel Reactive Flow and Transport Model for describing Subsurface Processes. (Complex Linux or Visual Studio installation)

UTCOMPRS, UTCHEM, MPS - Univ. of Texas CPGE joint industry reservoir simulation project. Membership participation $50,000/yr.

S3D streamline simulator - Dr. Akhil Datta-Guta Texas A&M - a simple version comes with his book Streamline Simulation (SPE bookstore)

Petroleum Reservoir Simulations: A Basic Approach (+ CD Companion) - Book with CD software.

Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation - J. Fanchi - Book with downloadable software IFLO (software link not found).

ED4Sim - a spreadsheet tool designed to assess uncertainty in petroleum reservoirs using reservoir simulation.

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Petroleum Engineering Software - Geological Mapping / GIS


Petrel -Powerful seismic and geological mapping from Schlumberger

Schlumberger geology and mapping software

Petrosys - Geological mapping software package.

Halliburton DecisionSpace Geosciences A single suite, single platform E&P Lifecycle Management, mapping, seismic, petrophysics etc.

Structural Modelling and Analysis toolkit - from Petroleum Experts.

The Logic Group - Planimeter and Volumetric Software for the Oil Industry.

Tobin GIS Studio - GIS mapping software.

geoSCOUT from geoLOGIC -  geologic mapping, cross-sections, data handling and analysis.

Slicer Dicer from Pixotec - Volumetric Data Visualization software for seismic and geological models.

Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro from EXPRODAT - enables enables land, drilling and subsurface teams to holistically plan field developments.

Data Assistant for ArcGIS Pro from EXPRODAT - import into ArcGIS Pro well headers, deviation surveys, well logs, seismic navigation, seismic traces, interpretation, etc.

Intermountain Oil and Gas BMP Project - GIS for Oil and Gas, Free field static maps, shape files, and interactive mapping for many states.

US Land Grid - company provides section, township, range data, Texas survey data, PLSS, Oil & Gas Wells, free Web Mapping Services and other GIS datasets.

TemisFlow is the new generation basin modeling software, reducing the exploration risk through a quantitative evaluation of the Petroleum System.

DionisosFlow Stratigraphic modeling - from Beicip-Franlab.

PetroDE - integrates data from many sources and puts it at your finger tips. Search data from both IHS and Drilling Info in the same system, then combine that data on the same map with geology from GeoEdges, news from digital::petrodata, your internal maps, and more.

Geographix mapping software.

Golden Software - scientific graphics, mapping (Surfer), digitizing (Didger) software that transforms complex data into understandable visual maps, graphs, and models.


Petroleum Engineering Software - Geophysics / Seismic

Schlumberger geophysics software

SEGY viewer to view segy seismic data.

Sigma  from Plano Research - seismic interpretation software.

Madagascar is an open source software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments for researchers working with digital image and data processing.

Coviz 4D - quantitative visualization and analysis solutions for reservoir management. Integrate and view datasets regardless of the source.  Dynamic Graphics Inc.

Seismic Exchange - marketing seismic data.

SeismicZone - industry first 24/7 online marketplace for browsing and licensing seismic data. Source of global seismic data for purchase provided by multiple proprietary data owners. Over 2.68 million miles of 2D and 36,000 sq miles of 3D.

RokDoc from Ikon Science gives interpreters access to rock physics, forward modelling, seismic inversion, geopressure, advanced quantitative reservoir analysis and geomechanics.


Petroleum Engineering Software - Other

P2 Energy Solutions - production and land management software.

Schlumberger software.

U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory Simulators, E&P tools, Predictive models, hydrates, etc.

Rockware - a large and broad catalog of  geological, engineering, logging and seismic software.

GRASS  - an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.

Galaxy  from Plano Research - integrated reservoir management, cross-sections and mapping.

Geodex  from Plano Research - Earth material description / core analysis

GeoTrak  from Plano Research - Exploration toolkit / Resource Calculator

Blueback Reservoir delivers consulting services and software solutions to the oil and gas market. 3D Reservoir modeling software and services, plug-ins for Petrel.

Coviz 4D - quantitative visualization and analysis solutions for reservoir management. Integrate and view datasets regardless of the source.  Dynamic Graphics Inc.

Visualization Sciences Group Advanced 3D Visualization Technologies for Reservoir Engineering.

OpenFlow Suite - The E&P Software Solutions from Beicip-Franlab. Seismic, simulation, well flow, fractured reservoirs, basin modeling, sensitivity analysis.

Petroleum Office - a large collection of specialized functions for oil and gas professionals. With these functions you can build powerful, yet easy to read spreadsheets.

Ryder Scott reservoir solutions freeware - a collection of Excel tools - CBM, Quicklook Economics, TVD, volumetrics, Log-normal probability, flowing gas, LogWizzard, Mat Bal, Exponetial decline.

CGG GeoScience software - advanced geoscience technology to understand the subsurface, manage exploration and development risks, and maximize the potential of reserves - from seismic processing and imaging to velocity modeling, advanced interpretation, petrophysics, rock physics, AVO, seismic reservoir characterization, geological modeling and reservoir engineering.

TetraSoft Small utilities for people who work with well and emissions data - NG units, BTU by state, API number decoder, API county codes, MCF-to-MMBTU etc.

TetraSoft Atlas - Public oil and gas regulatory data on one map: wells, facilities, production, inspections and emissions. 8 states.


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October 2026