Everyone does pressure. It’s a well-established workflow but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done better.
The latest PressureView update is focused on removing friction from real interpretation workflows, not just adding functionality. Expanding mudweight guidelines to support up to 100 entries isn’t about volume for its own sake, it reflects the realities of working in mature fields, where depletion, compartmentalisation, and shifting pressure regimes introduce far greater complexity. Interpreters often need to represent multiple scenarios, offsets, and conditional cases at once, and having highly configurable guideline lines allows those relationships to be clearly expressed rather than simplified away.
Closely tied to this, flexibility is further improved with the ability to switch between single-well and multi-well views within the same session. Interpretation rarely happens in isolation, and workflows naturally move between detailed single-well analysis and broader comparisons. This update supports that flow, with filtering by well sets, pressure data, and mudweight data enabling faster screening and more targeted insights without needing to reset or rebuild the view each time.
Legend handling has also been reworked with usability in mind. Bulk editing, grouped movement, and consistent black text might seem like small changes, but they remove a surprising amount of day-to-day friction. Combined with the existing ability to save views and repurpose templates, it becomes much easier to produce consistent outputs, especially when generating large numbers of slides or reports.
A new Display Options tab further extends this focus on usability and control. It allows users to manage the draw order of visual elements such as annotations, gradients, and drilling events, ensuring the most important information is always presented clearly. Within each category, users can toggle visibility, reorder items, and rename or adjust types as needed. This added layer of organization makes it significantly easier to tailor visuals for different outputs while maintaining consistency across projects.
Standardizing how results are presented doesn’t just save time, it improves how clearly the work is communicated. And that’s where the real value lies: ensuring interpretations are understood quickly and consistently, without ambiguity or misinterpretation.
The rebuilt Digitise tab introduces a more intuitive way to work with data. By linking the table and plot in both directions, users can interact with whichever view suits the task, graphical or numerical, without losing context. Selecting a point in one immediately highlights it in the other, making QC faster and more reliable while reducing the chance of errors.
It’s a small shift in interaction, but it makes the whole process feel more responsive and starts to open the door to a more dynamic way of working with interpreted trends as they evolve - watch this space!
Taken together, these updates focus on usability and the consistent communication of risk. It’s a clear step beyond spreadsheets and other third-party tools.