Just a quick sanity check though - most decent universities have access to commercial software, as do most oil & gas companies. As far as I can make out, the main target for such a custom package would be consultants who cant pass on costs to their clients? Am I wrong? As cool as the project sounds, I'd be unlikely to use it when I have Petrel & Eclipse easily to hand.... I say this not be sound mean, rather once you better understand the target 'market' likely to want to use it, then you will be better paced to decide what sort of workflows it should support.