ACTI Project: Advanced Visualization and Virtual Reality for Reservoir Engineering Wes Bethel Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA Andy Austin BP Exploration, Houston TX Todd Little Western Atlas Software, Houston TX Narrative of 180-day Workplan 21 Feb 1995 Overview During the beginning of this project, our activites can be categorized along the following lines: prepare a Joint Work Statement and finalize agreements with industry partners; tool-up for the work; construction of prototypes for subsequent evaluation; transfer technology from experimental, prototype software from the laboratory into a commercial product. Discussion All project partners will contribute to defining the terms of the Joint Work Statement, including identifying and taking steps to protect the proprietary assets of each of the industrial participants. After the participants have agreed to the contents of the JWS, it is expected that a substantial amount of time will be consumed by counsel at each organization. After receipt of initial funding from DOE, LBL will acquire the requisite hardware and software with which to fulfill its obligation in this project. As part of the hardware acquisition, LBL will evaluate several new low-cost virtual reality input devices. The industrial partners will derive a suitable scalar-valued representation of multi-phase flux data for use in testing new flux visualization algorithms. We will specify and construct several prototype software modules for performing flux visualization. Specification will occur with the involvement of all parties to this project. The software modules will be constructed and tested initially in a modular visualization environment (MVE) on a graphics workstation. Initial prototyping will occur at LBL in the laboratory environment. Subsequently, the industrial partners will evaluate these modules. After the participants have evaluated and selected a prototype for use in the commercial product, we will draft a report for a technical journal describing the results of our work. This report will be submitted to appropriate technical journals for publication. Next we will begin the porting process whereby the successful prototype(s) will be included into the commercial product of one of the project participants. Porting includes optimization and quality assurance.