A consolidation link node is a connection from a Plan Data Set’s Version into a Project. Their usage is twofold:
- Enable management of create large consolidations, yet where the users may want to manage the data in smaller blocks or have multiple uses interact with smaller subsets simultaneously
- Manage where you may have sections of the asset for which you want to fix the results for independently of other sections e.g. PDP well’s production.
Link nodes when tied to PDSs link directly to their results, adding significant performance advantages over recalculating thousands of wells every time you need to get a business unit summary. They can be included in any project, and the flows from a linked nodes moves through the network in the same way as any other source node (well) with the exception that they cannot be constrained or altered in any way. In almost all cases this results in the solver choosing to constrain alternative options, however where these are not available the behavior from 2.14 onwards will exceed the constraint, being proportionally split similarly to how history results can flow without constraints if so configured. In terms of non-altering, they thus do not support backallocation of capital or operating costs nor changes in sales prices.
Often existing production (base production) wells are placed in a separate project, and then the existing production project can be linked to many development options projects or scenarios for streamlining the production of many scenarios with a reduced data management and calculation burden..
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On first calculation of a project you may pay some performance penalty whilst it opens the source PDS and extracts associated results, subsequently those results are cached.