Petroleum Office MCP Server

Petroleum engineering brain for your AI agent — every Petroleum Office function, every blueprint, every theory document, callable from chat.

What it lets you do

Claude for Excel — agentic petroleum engineering

Primary harness

The main story. With the MCP server connected, Claude has the full context of Petroleum Office: every function, every blueprint. It doesn't guess function names — it pulls them from the catalog. It studies blueprint examples to learn how each function is actually used in practice.

Deliverable: a fully working Excel workbook, authored by the agent against your reservoir, your wells, your assumptions.

Try prompts like

  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Build me a PVT package for a black oil reservoir at 4,500 psia, 220 °F. API 35, gas gravity 0.78, GOR 720 scf/STB. Calibrate Bo, Rs, μo, and viscosity vs pressure. Include a tuning sheet against my measured BPP = 2,400 psia."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Set up a decline curve analysis workbook for these 12 wells [paste production history]. Fit Arps exponential, hyperbolic, and harmonic for each. Recommend the best fit per well and forecast 10 years of monthly production. Plot rate-vs-time on a log chart."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Author a VFP table generator for a 7,000 ft vertical well, 2.875" tubing, 30% water cut. Use Hagedorn-Brown. Sweep liquid rate 200–3,000 STB/d × THP 100–500 psi. Output the standard ECLIPSE-format VFP table."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Generate an Eclipse black-oil PVT input deck. Reservoir at 4,500 psia, 220 °F. Use Standing for BPP and Vasquez-Beggs for Rs. Include rock compressibility and water properties. Cross-check against my lab data table on Sheet2."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Help me material-balance these production+pressure data. Identify the drive mechanism, fit aquifer constants if needed, and lay out the workbook so I can update it monthly with new readings."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Build a gas-lift design workbook for this well. Use the unloading blueprint, size the valves, and produce both the design table and the pressure-depth plot."

Claude.ai — calculation and visualization in chat

Desktop + web

Treat the entire Petroleum Office function library as a calculator inside Claude. Run quick one-shot calls or batch calculations across multiple tool calls.

Claude's artifact system plots charts, builds tables, and generates files — all backed by real formula results, not hallucinated numbers.

Try prompts like

Quick one-shot calculations

  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Calculate bubble-point pressure with Standing's correlation: API 35, γg 0.75, GOR 600 scf/STB, 180 °F."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. What's the gas Z-factor at 4,500 psia, 220 °F, γg 0.72 using Hall-Yarborough?"
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Convert 12,500 m³/day to STB/day. Then to MMSCFD assuming an oil GOR of 800 scf/STB."

Batch + artifact generation

  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Plot Arps decline for Qi = 1,500 STB/d, Di = 0.30, b = 0.8 over 10 years. Show monthly rate. Hand me the chart as an artifact."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Compare Vogel vs Standing vs Fetkovich IPR for Pr = 3,500 psia, Pwf sweep 500 → 3,500 psia in 100-psi steps. Build a table and overlay the three curves on one chart."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Run Hagedorn-Brown for these 8 tubing-head pressures. Plot pressure traverse for each on a single depth-vs-pressure chart. Annotate the bubble-point depth."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. For this 10-well dataset [paste], compute EUR using best-fit Arps per well. Output a summary CSV with well name, Qi, Di, b, EUR, time-to-eur."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Build me a relative-permeability table from Corey parameters Swc=0.2, Sor=0.3, Krw_max=0.4, Kro_max=0.9, nw=2.5, no=2.0. Plot the three curves."

Grok — research and screening

Emerging

MCP support is newer in Grok, but the catalog browse and theory doc surfaces are ideal for high-level research and screening — find the right correlation, compare methods, scope a workflow before you commit to it.

Try prompts like

  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Which decline curve method is most appropriate for tight-gas wells with high b factors? Show the Petroleum Office blueprints that demonstrate each."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Compare Vogel, Standing, and Fetkovich IPR methods. When does each apply? What are the input requirements for each in Petroleum Office?"
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. I'm scoping a gas-lift unloading study. What blueprints exist? Walk me through the typical workflow before I commit to a tool."
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. What PVT correlations does Petroleum Office support for volatile oils? Which would you start with for an oil with API 45, GOR 1,800 scf/STB?"
  • "Use Petroleum Office MCP. Survey the available pressure-transient analysis tools. Which ones handle horizontal wells with multi-stage fractures?"

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