HYDROCARBON SIMULATOR TUTORIAL SERIES IN WINDOWS
Download Azure Storage Explorer and connect to Volve Database — Part II
Continuing with the process of accessing the reservoir model data from the Volve field, in this post we will focus on downloading and installing Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, and then use the URL link generated by the system (Part I) and be able to access the download the data in our machine.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a free tool (available for Windows, macOS, and Linux) that allows us to access databases found in Azure Storage (Blobs, Files, Tables, and Queues) in a simple and fast way.
To download it you can go to the link https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/features/storage-explorer/, or write Azure Storage Explorer in your Microsoft Store.
After selecting your operating system (in my case Windows) we press the download button.
After downloading the file, we proceed to install it, accepting the terms and conditions and pressing the Install button.
Later, when opening the program, select the connector icon on the left.
A window will then open in which we must select the “Blob container” option.
And then, in the next window, select the option “Shared access signature (SAS) and click on the Next button.
In the next section it is necessary to paste the URL link generated by the Equinor system (see Part I), and click on the Next button. Note that when pasting said link in the corresponding section, the “Display Name” is automatically updated to “return”. This name will be the one that we will identify this data set in our file system later.
Before connecting to the database we verify that we do not have any errors, and we click on the Connect button.
After waiting a few seconds we can see the 11 folders that contain all the information corresponding to the Volve field. Because in this tutorial we focus on reservoir simulation information, we click on the “Reservoir_Model-Eclipe_Model” folder.
Inside this folder we select the folder “Volve_sim_model_PPA-Eclipse Res Model”, and we click on the Download button at the top.
Depending on your internet connection this process may vary because this information contains 1.58 Gb of information.
One suggestion is to create a folder on your system (or an external hard drive) and store the data in that folder.
Summary
I n this post we continue with the process of downloading the reservoir data of the Volve field, for which it was necessary to download Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, and access the database of the Volve field (managed by Equinor) using the URL link generated in the Part I of this series.
In the next section, we will download the reservoir simulation viewer, ResInsight, and proceed to view the data that we download in this section.
