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Objectives for the day

Bring up the computers
Log on
Navigate to class web site
Text Term report guidelines
Reference reading materials (Tearpock & Bischke; Harding &
Lowell)
Questions about contour problem? (hand in Monday)
Bring up Petrel
Create a project
Import log data
Save
Make use of G:/Drive. Consider saving locally and on
G:\Drive. Dont save over projects unless everything went well
otherwise you will be stuck with your mistakes.
Questions?
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Start up Petrel (let me know if you find 2012.3)
Visit the class web site at
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~wilson/geol510.htm
First, lets check to see if your accounts and software are working properly.
See class common
files >
Stratton_4_Petrel
Get class
data
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Getting into Petrel today (& next Monday)
To do list
Intro to Petrel
Setting up a project
Importing well data
Basic view manipulation
Importing formation tops
More on data display and formatting
Make-edit surface
Edit map display color
Bringing seismic data into your project (Monday)
Crop and realize your volume
Viewing your seismic data
Odds-n-ends
Bring up Petrel
The entry window
should come up with
the number of
packages currently
available for use>
click OK
Basic Petrel project window layout
Inputs
Models
Results
Templates
Processes
Cases
Workflows
Windows
Starting a new project
Project > Project Settings
Under Units and Coordinates > Select Field for your units system
Looking into the heart of the Stratton field
We have to import data and
build the project database.
Go to Insert > New Well Folder
Your input tree should now
include a wells drop down list.
RC > Import on Selection
The ascii import file has a simple structure. Note that the column
titles are listed following the BEGIN HEADER line
Familiar well
numbers from
Stratton
Undefined value
KB & TD
View Petrel Import File Structure
Petrel reads the header list and should
follow the format of your input ascii file
Display window manipulation basics
Ctrl + shift > mouse up-down, left right to zoom in and out
Ctrl or shift > mouse up-down, left right to move the entire view up or down
Change vertical scale
Wells > Settings > Style >
experiment with path and symbols parameters
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Drop down the wells in the list and RC > Well
Manager to see Petrels version of the well input file
You can QC to cross check posted
values with your import data set
The Stratton data set also comes with pre-picked formation
tops. Follow below to import
RC>
Petrel well tops (ASCII)(*.*)
MD Type Surface
Basic format of formation top input file
Check the well tops drop-down check box.
Ctrl +shift > then
move mouse to
zoom in
Ctrl (or shift) +
mouse movement
up and down to
position the window
vertically
RC> Well Tops folder > Spreadsheet
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RC>
RC > Settings > Color as Horizon and change fonts
Provides some color contrast in your display
Change label attribute
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Well come back to this next Monday for a review
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Processes > Utilities > Make Edit Surface
& more
Utilities > Make/Edit Surface > structure contour map
Not yet?
Make/edit surface selections &
activate the map in your input tree
Fine tune the color mapping
You should have map similar to the one below. Adjust the
vertical exaggeration to see structural features in 3D relief.
Under the style tab > Adjust contour labels
& explore other function tabs
Back to basin structures
Harding and Lowell Figure 23 (top)
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Typical structural interpretation for a down-to-basin, growth, detached normal
Harding and Lowell Figure 23 (bottom)
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Typical structural interpretation from deeper in the section reveals increased
landward dip or rotation of normal fault blocks into the master normal fault..
Harding and Lowell Figure 24
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Interpretation along AA (Figure 23) reveals increased syndepositional
movement (fault offset during deposition) with depth . Note thickening into the
deeper faults to the southeast (toward A). Growth was much more significant in
the late Oligocene and very limited during the miocene.
Missed
opportunity?
Take a closer look at the section and log
interpretations
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Complete the 2
nd
contouring exercise and hand
in Monday
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Page 1
Isopach (isochore) map
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Dont forget to answer the questions on page 3
Isopach vs. isochore
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http://www.structuralgeology.org/2012/11/isopach-maps-vs-isochore-maps.html
The vertical isochore view
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http://www.structuralgeology.org/2012/11/isopach-maps-vs-isochore-maps.html
Constant bed-
normal thickness
of 500 m
Exercise 3 Petrel intro
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Take some time to review
procedures and bring
questions about this to
class next Monday.
Exercise 3 will be due next
Wednesday.
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1. Turn in contouring exercise (exercise 1) Next
Monday
2. Do the second contouring exercise handed
out today and bring in for discussion on
Monday
3. Get started on the Petrel intro exercises and
bring questions to class on Monday
4. Continue looking over the review papers on
contouring and structural styles.
5. Its not too early to start thinking about the
semester project and what youd like to do for
that. Nail something down early in the
semester.