OPAA installation kits can be downloaded from the OpenSpirit kit download website

Yes. Separate 32-bit & 64-bit install kits made available by OpenSpirit.

Petrel 2009.2 and OpenSpirit v 3.1.4 (or newer) are the only pre-requisites for OPAA.  All other pre-requisites (like .Net, etc.) are handled by the Petrel 2009.2 installation kit.

OPAA can be uninstalled from Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.

The only requirement is that OPAA must be uninstalled before Petrel is uninstalled.  OpenSpirit installation is independent from the OPAA installation.

Yes.  OpenSpirit installation is independent from the OPAA installation.

No.  You cannot use both plug-ins simultaneously within the same Petrel instance.

The only license feature required to run OPAA is OspOceanPetrelAdapter issued by OpenSpirit. This is in addition to other OpenSpirit runtime licenses required to run OpenSpirit.

SIS will still issue licenses for running Petrel but not for OPAA.  OPAA licensing is handled entirely by OpenSpirit Corporation

Following are highlights with details available in the User Guide:

• Match and Merge for all data types on both import and export of data
• More OpenSpirit data types are supported including:
  • Import of fault and horizon pointstes
  • Import of horizon-fault boundaries
  • Import of point , polyline, and  polygon features ( e.g. from ArcSDE)
• More OpenSpirit event types are supported including Sending/receiving 3d cursor tracking events
• Extended attributes are brought in for all OpenSpirit data types
• Choices for Coordinate Reference Systems

Yes, you can send any point, polyline, or polygon feature from ArcGIS to Petrel regardless how it is stored (it could be shape file, File Geodatabase, SDE, Intergraph, etc....).

There are some minor areas where the old plug-in has some more features than the new Ocean based plug-in

• In the old plug-in, any object that was imported or exported via OpenSpirit displays a small OpenSpirit icon superimposed on the Petrel object icon in the Input tree. This feature is not available as part of the Ocean Developer kit and thereby not available in OPAA.
• In the old plug-in, there is a Synch Tool Dialog that displays all data objects that have been imported or exported via OpenSpirit in one table view and you can re-import or export based on comparison of last modified dates. Historically, this dialog has been confusing to users and is not widely used. We do not plan to offer a comparable dialog in the first release. You can however, re-import and export a series of objects at one time if they are of the same type (e.g. select a set of wells in the Input tree and right mouse click to select "Refresh from external... or "Export to external".  We intend to add, in a future release, a more fully functioning "Synchronization" capability that will transfer new data as well as updated data based on specified selection criteria.

This only applies if you are using Petrel 2009.2.1

When you uninstall OPAA, the SLB OpenSpirit Plugin is re-activated.  In doing, so, the wrong version number for the dll is inserted.  Therefore, you cannot start Petrel after uninstall of OPAA.

To fix the problem, after uninstall, edit the petrel.exe.config file and change the following line:

from:

<add moduleType="Osp_UiOpenSpirit_NS.OSMasterModule, Osp_UiOpenSpirit, Version=4.20091.50, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=14ef4a483ef6a64b" />

to:

<add moduleType="Osp_UiOpenSpirit_NS.OSMasterModule, Osp_UiOpenSpirit, Version=4.20091.60.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=14ef4a483ef6a64b" />