Working With Results

Open a completed run from the Auto Design tab on the well, or from the cross-well Automated Design list. The page has three tabs over one set of results.

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Summary

The default tab is the ranked table. Every row is one design, best-first. See How Designs Are Ranked for what the score columns mean.

Two controls sit above the table:

• Columns adds or removes columns.
• Filter narrows the list, which is useful when you want to see only designs under a cost ceiling or above a production floor.

Click the chevron on any row to expand it, or the eye icon to open that design in the Dynamics tab.

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Comparison

The Comparison tab puts the top designs side by side as columns: design ID, pumping unit and model, estimated cost, and then every metric as a row.

Each cell shows the average value with its minimum and maximum underneath, and a marker showing where the average sits in that range. A design whose marker sits hard against the top of its range is running close to its limit across the whole operating envelope, not just at one point.

Click any design card to open its detailed results.

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Dynamics

Scoring a design at one operating point is not enough, because wells do not sit at one operating point. The engine takes the top-ranked candidates, plus a random sample of the rest, and re-simulates each one across a grid of conditions: a sweep of pump intake pressures crossed with a sweep of pump fill levels. By default that is 10 intake pressures by 6 fill levels, so 60 sub-simulations per design.

Every Min / Avg / Max you see in the results is aggregated across that grid.

The Design Summary

At the top of the tab, Design Summary lays out the configuration and its aggregated results:

Rod String below it lists every taper section: type, manufacturer, model, diameter, length, guides, guides per rod, loading, and bottom min stress.

The Charts

A matrix shows the score at every combination of pump fill and intake pressure, so you can see at a glance where the design holds up and where it degrades. Click any cell to pull up that sub-simulation's metrics and highlight it on the charts below.

The charts plot each metric against pump intake pressure, one line per pump fill level: SPM, gearbox loading, structural loading, max rod load, max rod side load, and bottom min stress. Use the pump intake pressure and pump fill selectors to highlight the operating point you actually expect.

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Apply a Design to the Well

Once you have picked a design, apply it to create a RodSim simulation from it on this well. Click Apply on the row. If the design was already applied, the button reads Re-apply.

Apply & Run needs permission to run simulations. Without it, only Apply as draft shows.

Applied designs are marked in the table, and Open in RodSim takes you straight to the simulation. Applying the same design again creates another simulation rather than overwriting the first, so you can keep both.

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Reports

Click Create Report to build a PDF. The table switches to selection mode: tick the designs you want, up to five, then click Create Report again.

The dialog groups the content into sections you can turn on or off:

Comments are off by default and render once at report level. The report is prepared in the background and downloads when it is ready.

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Rerun, Clone, and Cancel

• Rerun resubmits the same inputs. Use it after a failure, or when the well data has been corrected.
• Clone & Modify opens the New Run form pre-filled from this run, so you can change one thing and compare.
• Cancel stops a run that is still in progress, from its row or its page.
• The history icon shows earlier versions of the run, so you can see what changed between attempts.

Runs can be renamed and tagged, which is what makes the cross-well list searchable once you have a few hundred of them.

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When a Run Returns Nothing

A completed run with no results means every candidate failed at least one hard limit. The page says so directly. The usual causes:

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Next Steps