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This TIPS&TRICKS is the final installment of a three-part series intended to aid the geoscientist working
in Petrel and tasked with providing proposed well paths to a well engineering department for further
analysis as part of an exploration or development project.
Well planning in Petrel can be done interactively or automatically. Proposed well paths can be created
interactively by clicking on an object displayed in a 3D window to place design points or automatically
by using the well path optimizing program found in the Well path design process dialog window.
Proposed well paths can be either standalone or sidetracks of existing wells. Design points can be
edited either graphically or through the well trace spreadsheet. This article discusses the options
available for exporting proposed well data. All forms of well planning in Petrel can only be done in the
depth domain.
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4. Select a coordinate reference system for the output X and Y. The default is the last one used in
importing or exporting data from the project.
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5. The new file is created using Petrel default well header format. The file contains surface
locations and header information of all wells in the folder and any sub-folders.
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3. Select a file folder location to save the exported data to. Preferably a folder you created
somewhere on your workstation.
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6. A folder is created in the destination folder you specified for each sub-folder in the well folder.
The sub-folder organization of your project is retained in the export. For example, we exported
an optimizer run that had 4 realizations each with a different number of platforms that in turn
had a different number of wells. The optimizer program organizes these into folders and subfolders in the Input tab of Petrel. This organization is retained in the export folder structure.
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The Irap RMS Well format is basically an X,Y,Z format. Notice that the Z values are in SSTVD. In this
example of an onshore well, the Z values are positive and increasing.
The Well design X, Y, Z format exports only target points you digitized using the Well path design
process in Petrel. The Z values are elevation. In this onshore example, they are positive and
increasing.
The Well design trajectory transfer format is an odd format for old Drilling Office software. It is not
recommended for anything else.
The Well logs format will export an LAS 2 formatted file of any well logs that may exist in the well.
Petrel can create synthetic well logs in proposed wells from 3D model properties.
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To Create a Report:
Often, it is necessary to generate a report to send to drilling engineers or others responsible for
approving the new well. Petrel can produce such a report.
1. Right-click on a well folder in the Input pane.
2. Select Create new report in the lower region of the pop-up window.
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5. You may click on each of the items in the left-center of the window. Clicking on Cover page lets
you enter other information for the cover page besides the default page. In Petrel 2013.7, you
cannot change from the defaults.
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