To:		Norm Goldstein
From:		Wes Bethel
Subject:	Progress Report on ACTI project:
			Advanced Flux Visualization ....
Date:		1 March 1996

Progress: Technical

Most of the activity during this period has occured in the industrial
sector.  BP has been beta testing the commercial implementation of 3D flux
visualization techniques developed at LBNL.  According to reservoir
engineers at BP, the "cones" and "arrows" used to indicate the oil, gas, 
and water phases of the reservoir simulation output has enough flexibility 
to handle the majority of reservoir engineering problems.  Also, they
state that the user interface is sufficiently streamlined to promote ease 
of use for a  novice user of flux visualizations. The beta production code 
has been stable enough for BP to install it in limited production 
environments in Houston and Anchorage.

Western Atlas plans a commercial release of the cones and arrows 
software on or before March 31. 

Technical progress at LBNL has been temporarily interrupted by the move of the
NERSC facility from Livermore to Berkeley.  



Progress: Administrative

Tech Transfer at LBNL stated that they were going to modify the
Memorandum of Understanding to remove a particular pargraph which 
the industrial partners found to be inappropriate for this
agreement.



Plans for Next Month

High on Western's priority list (commercialization activities) are the 
implementation of "layer lumping" (for aggregating like simulation layers, 
hence reducing the amount of data) and other user controls.

LBNL will study a modified algorithm for solving the streamlines equation
using a cell-based model rather than the existing lattice model.  Texture-
mapped representation of flow data is still an area of interest.



Problem Areas
	None.