RODSTAR 2020 Rel 1:
- New and updated pumping units
- New and updated rod grades
- Improvements made to minimum and maximum axial loads calculations to help some problem deviated cases
- Improvements made to automatic-batch option with better logging to help with running more than 100 cases.
- Improvements made to program launch logging
- Improvements made to top minimum stress calculations for some problem deviated cases
- Improvements made to help some problem Unico LRP cases, running XROD versus RODSTAR
- Improvements made to help problem Lufkin LowProfile deviated case running higher SPM
RODSTAR 2019 Rel 2:
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- Improvements in program launch speeds related to license and sentinel checks
- Continued improvements in execution speed for deviated well
- Improvements made for different regional settings
- Improvements made to XDIAG Expert Analysis
- Improvements made related to custom\measured pumping units
- (improved functionality and custom32.pud retired. Now all user data is stored in UserData.sdf).
- Improvements made related to customized pumping unit lists
- (customrgpu.mdb retired).
- Upgraded XDIAG to use database instead of using the registry.
- New pumping unit manufacturers and units
- New and updated rod grades (USRods, ELS)
- Improvements automatic batch in RODSTAR
- Improvements number of rod guide data entry validation
- New “How-to” screens.
RODSTAR 2019 Rel 1:
- For RODSTAR and XDIAG:
- New pumping unit addtions
- New sucker rod additions
- Additions to improve execution speed of deviated cases
- New Setup\General option “Optimize deviated survey (recommended)”
- New Setup\Defaults option “Stress Methods for D or KD Grades: Use Default Stress Method or Use MG T/2.9”
- New Setup\Output Options option to “Disable System Score Penalty for Over Designed Pumping Units”
- For XDIAG:
- New Surface Card analysis for detecting pump tagging, when not detected in downhole card
- New Surface Card analysis to help detect bad surface card data
- New Surface Card analysis to help detect top and bottom shallow friction
- Improvements made to logic that helps correct detected phase shifts, using measured surface card positions
- Improvements to Expert Analysis