Landmark Wellbore Planner

Wellbore Planner 2003.12

Release Notes

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Installing LAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Enhancements and New Functionality . . . . . . . . . 9
Known Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Document Part Number 161889

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Introduction
Wellbore Planner is a product from Landmark Graphics Corporation that provides well planning
capabilities in an integrated geoscience environment. It is intended to improve the well planning
process, speed up cycle time, and increase the communications between geoscientists and drilling
engineers.

These Release Notes are intended for both users and system administrators. They contain
important information regarding the installation and use of Wellbore Planner R2003.12;
consequently, you should read these notes in their entirety before installing or using the software.
This document should help you troubleshoot any problems you may experience while running
Wellbore Planner.

System Requirements
Normally, Wellbore Planner is used in conjunction with one or more applications (such as
EarthCube, OpenVision, StratWorks 3D, SeisWorks, or Stratamodel), which provide it with
targets. Wellbore Planners system requirements are considerably less than any of these other
applications so you should make sure that you have a properly configured system for the Target
Server application before proceeding.

Hardware Requirements

The table below describes the minimum and recommended hardware configurations for running
Wellbore Planner.

Workstation Minimum Recommended

Sun Ultra 2 Blade 1000

2 gigabytes RAM 8 gigabytes RAM
2 gigabytes of swap 4 gigabytes of swap
2 Expert3D, 2 CPUs
SGI Octane Octane II, Onyx
2 gigabytes RAM 8+ gigabytes RAM
2 gigabytes of swap 4 gigabytes of swap
VPro w/daughter card, IR3 graphics
Linux Professional Workstation PC - Professional Workstation PC - Pentium processor,
Pentium processor 1.5 Ghz or greater
512 MB RAM 1 GB RAM
nVidia graphics card One of the following graphics cards:
nVidia Quadro4 900 XGL: GL_Version 1.4.0
NVidia 43.10

nVidia Quadro4 980 XGL: GL_Version 1.4.0

NVidia 43.63

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Operating Systems and Supporting Software

Wellbore Planner requires the following operating systems and supporting software:

Sun SGI Linux

SunOS 5.8 (Solaris 8.0 Operating
Environment 0202) plus patch
108940-52 or higher. 1
X11R6.4
OSF/Motif 2.1 window manager
Oracle 8.1.7.4
OpenWorks 2003.12
OpenGL 1.2.1 libraries2
FLEXlm 7.2e license manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x
(required)3
IRIX 6.5.11m OS
X11R6.4
OSF/Motif 2.1 window manager
Oracle 8.1.7.4
OpenWorks 2003.12
OpenGL 1.2 libraries2
FLEXlm 7.2e license manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.x
(required)3
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
(aka Advanced Workstation 2.1).
Either kernal patch level
2.4.9el2smp or 2.4.9e24smp4.
Full installation (not just
Workstation installation).
Certified on RedHat Gnome
Desktop environment5.
Oracle 8.1.7.4
OpenWorks 2003.12
FLEXlm 7.2g license manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.x
(required)3

1. Sun patches can be downloaded from www.sunsolve.sun.com. A username and password are required.
2. If you use StratWorks 3D with Wellbore Planner, see the OpenVision 2003.12 Release Notes for software
requirements.
3. The Acrobat Reader is now required for viewing PDF-format user guides and other documents included with
your Wellbore Planner R2003.12 shipment.
4. The command to show the kernal patch is uname -a. The symmetric multi-processor is smp, and the single
processor machine is 2.4.9-e.12 or 2.4.9e.24.
5. The Sawfish window manager is recommended, as described in the following topic.

Using the Sawfish Window Manager on Linux Systems

If you use the Wellbore Planner 2003.12.0 release on a Linux system, use the Gnome desktop
environment. Wellbore Planner R2003.12 has been tested with the Sawfish window manager,
which enables you to move and resize windows interactively without having the window redraw
repeatedly.
To configure the Sawfish window manager for minimal redrawing while moving or resizing
windows, follow these steps:
1. From the Linux desktop, select Programs Settings Desktop Window Manager.
The Window Manager window appears.
2. In the Window Manager window, highlight the Sawfish icon and click Run Configuration
Tool for Sawfish. The Sawfish Configuration window appears.
3. In the Sawfish Configuration window, click Move/Resize.
4. For the How windows being moved are animated option, select the box setting.
5. For the How windows being resized are animated option, select the box setting.

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6. Click OK.
Refer to the Release 2003.12 Release Notes for additional information on operating system,
Oracle, and hardware configuration issues known at the time of release. Contact Landmark
Customer Support for possible updated information.

Required Disk Space

The following table lists the disk space required for Wellbore Planner.

Platform/OS Disk Space

Sun / Solaris 85 MB
SGI / IRIX 118 MB
Linux 47 MB

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Installation
All Wellbore Planner R2003.12 software is delivered on CD-ROM. You can use the Landmark
Release Manager on the CD-ROM to install Wellbore Planner. For complete information about
installing from the CD-ROM, see the Release 2003.12 Release Notes (Global Release Notes).

Log in as root to install Wellbore Planner.

For all products, the directory being written to must allow the installer permission to write in order to have a
successful install. If you have write permissions on only some files in the directory and not others, the files to
which you do have permissions will be removed, but the other files will not. This combination of old and new files
will prevent a successful installation. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you log in as root using the su - root
command when installing Wellbore Planner.

If you install as non-root, the installation may fail due to permission problems with some files, $OWHOME/conf/
services.dat for example. To complete the installation, you need to become root or log in as the user that owns the
conf directory and the services.dat file and then run the Product Install Script.

Installation Order

If you have not previously installed OpenWorks R2003.12, complete all of the following steps to
install Wellbore Planner R2003.12. Make sure you complete the steps in order. For more
information about installing Wellbore Planner R2003.12, see the Release 2003.12 Release Notes
(Global Release Notes).
1. Follow the directions included in the OpenWorks 2003.12 Installation Procedures manual.
The PDF-format file containing this manual (InstallProcedures.pdf) can also be found on the
root level of all the OpenWorks installation CDs. This file can be examined on a system that
has Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. This manual contain information on the installation (and
order of installation) of Adobe Acrobat Reader, Oracle, OpenWorks, and the Landmark
License Application Manager. Details on how to install these items on a number of different
systems is included. You will need to determine which instructions match the system that you
are installing upon. As you work through the information and installations for your system,
make certain that:
Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed if it isnt present on system.
Oracle 8.1.7.4 is recommended. Make certain that it is installed.
FLEXlm (Landmark licence manager) is required. Make certain that it is installed.
2. Install Wellbore Planner and other Landmark applications released on CDROM.
3. Optional: To display Wellbore Planner back to a PC-compatible system, install Exceed
version 8.0.0.0 on the PC-compatible system.

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Permissions Needed to Install Release 2003.12

Install Release 2003.12 as root. Use the command su - root (as opposed to just su to get to root),
so you do not inherit permissions and environments from any other login.
To install Wellbore Planner, you must have write permission for the target directory and its
contents. (For example, you must have write permission to the $OWHOME/conf/services.dat file.)
If you have write permissions for some files, but not others, some of the old files are not removed
during installation. This combination of old and new files prevents the installation from
succeeding.
If you install OpenWorks as root, and later install other products as another user (non-root), you
must set full permissions on the following directories in the OpenWorks tree:
$OWHOME/bitmaps and its contents
$OWHOME/revisions
$OWHOME/templates and its contents
$OWHOME/lib
IMPORTANT!
Upgrading from Wellbore Planner 1998.5Error Ellipses Note

Due to changes in the manner in which Directional Survey Errors are stored in the
OpenWorks 2003 database, any Error Ellipses calculated and stored in the 1998.5
Uncertainty module will be lost during project upgrade. However, the data behind the
calculations will not be lost, so you can recalculate your error ellipses by using the Multiple
Well Calculation mode of the Uncertainty tool. Just select All and click on OK. This
operation recalculates the survey error ellipses and saves them to OpenWorks in the new
format. This is best done using a Well List that contains all your deviated wells.

After Installing Wellbore Planner

Individual users may need to add the following line to the Applications section of their
launcher.dat files:
Wellbore Planner WellborePlanner 2>
$HOME/run/WellborePlnr.err 1>&2 &

Installing Oracle, LAM, OpenWorks, Exceed, and Wellbore Planner

For instructions about installing components on Unix systems, reference the
OpenWorks Installation Procedures (part of the OpenWorks documentation). Please read the
entire section on Installing Oracle before you attempt to install Oracle.
For general information about installing a Unix OpenWorks Server, LAM, OpenWorks, and
Exceed, see the Release 2003.12 Release Notes (Global Release Notes). Please note that you must
now install Oracle before OpenWorks.

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Installing LAM
After you install Wellbore Planner, you are reminded to obtain a proper license. You must have a
proper license before you can run Wellbore Planner R2003.12.

Obtaining a license to run the software

After installing any point product, the following message will prompt you to obtain a proper
license:

Attention Landmark Customer

Please contact Landmark for your new software licenses. To receive your licenses, contact the
license administration team via email (license@lgc.com), the World Wide Web (http://
www.lgc.com), or phone (The Americas 281-560-1110, and outside the Americas at 44-1932-
832100). Please refer to the LAM 2003.0.0 Release Notes for instructions on how to retrieve
your lmhostid information.

Please have the following information in your email or available when you call:

Company name:_____________________ Location:________________________________

Server lmhostid:_________________ Client lmhostid(s):____________________________

Server Hostname:__________________ Platform:__________________________________

Model:____________________________ Operating System Version:__________________

Site#:____________________________ Reference#:_______________________________

Send the license to:

Name:_____________________________ Phone#:________________________________

Send the license via:

email - email address__________________________________________
diskette - shipping address____________________________________
fax - fax number_______________________________________________

This window is for information only. Click on OK to continue.

Wellbore Planner incorporates FLEXlm 7.2e or FLEXlm 7.2g license management software from
Globetrotter, which uses software versioning in the license file (license.dat). This feature prevents
a license file from any Wellbore Planner release previous to R2003 from working with the new
installation. If you do not have a license for R2003, you must obtain and install a new license.dat
file from your Landmark representative before you can use Wellbore Planner R2003.12.

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When you request a license, make sure you have the host ID for your system or systems (servers
and clients), as well as server host names. To obtain a hostid on any of the supported systems, enter
the following command:
$OWHOME/lam/bin/lmhostid.

Installing the Software License

When Landmark receives a license request, a representative generates and returns the license. The
license contains information such as product name, version, expiration date, number of copies, and
encrypted key, as in the following example:
FEATURE WLBRPLNR licsrv 2003.000 6-aug-2003 10 555KEY1A999
VENDOR_STRING="Ewing Oil
Once you receive the license, add it in your license.dat file (typically located in the $OWHOME/
lam directory) and restart the license manager (LAM). After the license manager is restarted, the
newly installed software is able to run.
For more information about managing the LAM, see the LAM Guide: Linux, Unix, and Windows.
Complete installation instructions are in the OpenWorks Installation Procedures manual.

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Enhancements and New Functionality

Users should be aware of several changes in Wellbore Planner R2003.12:

Wellbore Planner displays and images will now appear in True Color (24-bit color) on all
platforms, provided your system is set up to display True Color.

Existing targets can now be imported from an ASCII text file. The Import Target utility in
Wellbore Planner allows users to specify the order of information within the specified ASCII
file.

The Target Editor now allows the user to specify an Up and a Down Thickness for a target.
These values allow a target to include vertical thicknesses above or below the specified target
Z-coordinate.

For a Platform Well, a user can now specify the Rig Kelly Bushing elevation, along with Slot
X and Slot Y Offsets to account for any slot offset from the platform center.

The basic functionality provided by Wellbore Planner includes:

Pick targets in Time or Depth in other applications and immediately see and use them in
Wellbore Planner. Time targets can be converted to Depth using a pre-existing Velocity Model.

Edit Targets in Wellbore Planner with real-time updates of other applications.

Create well plans that hit the targets and conform to user-defined engineering constraints. You
can create these plans from

fixed surface locations

automatically calculated surface locations
no surface location
sidetracked from pre-existing OpenWorks or Wellbore Planner wells
extensions of in-progress wells
platform locations
extended from the end of another plan

View plans and targets in Plan View, Cross Section, and a 3D cube, as well as, in any Target
Server application (such as EarthCube, SeisWorks, StrataModel, OpenVision, and StratWorks
3D)

View the Engineering parameters in a RedLine View.

Generate a CGM file for hardcopy that contains all views, plus a special Drillers Report View.

Optimize the penetration points, the Mill-Out point or the platform location.

Export well plans into Stratamodel, VIP, ZMAP Plus, StratWorks or directly into OpenWorks.

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Import the targets and well plans directly into Compass for Windows.

Save targets and plans either to the OpenWorks database or to ASCII files.

Calculate Well Position Uncertainty for both OpenWorks wells and Wellbore Planner plans.

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Known Problems
This section addresses known problems you may encounter while operating Wellbore Planner.

Picking Targets and Well Picks in StratWorks 3D

When StratWorks 3D is used in conjunction with Wellbore Planner to select Targets, a StratWorks
3D user may be unable to enter/edit Well Picks. To enter/edit Well Picks, the user should
disconnect the StratWorks 3D application from Wellbore Planner. Do this by selecting File
Wellbore Planner Exit from the StratWorks 3D menu. It is suggested that StratWorks 3D users
use this step to exit the Wellbore Planner connection after target selection is completed (or before
any attempt to enter/edit Well Picks). The Wellbore Planner - StratWorks 3D/OpenVision
connection can be restarted (Tools Add Wellbore Planner Interface to OpenVision in
Wellbore Planner) if any later target selection is required. (Scopus # 174084)

Irregular Targets
Use of an irregular target with a target thickness may result in unexpected behaviors when using
Wellbore Planner alone, or in conjunction with other applications.

Common Desktop Environment

Working in a Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on a Solaris platform may reduce the number
of screen colors available to Wellbore Planner applications. As a result, we recommend that you:

Set the CDE Style Manager Color Number of Colors to Most Colors from
Applications. (You must restart X-windows to see the change.)

Enter the Style Manager Window and turn off the Allow Primary Windows on Top option.
Turning this functionality off prevents child windows from going behind the main application
window.

PostScript Files on SGI Platform

Because of a Carnac library problem, on the SGI platform you cannot directly plot PostScript files
from Wellbore Planner. To work around the problem, plot CGM rather than PostScript files or use
a third party product that converts CGM to PostScript before you plot. (Scopus #123491)

Wells without TD
If the OpenWorks Well Header table has no TD value for a well, the well displays from 300000 to
0 feet in Section View. To avoid this, add a TD value for the well using OpenWorks Well
Data Manager. (Scopus #120368)

Target View in Target Editor Not Visible

When Wellbore Planner is used in conjunction with other applications (such as StrataModel,
SeisWorks, and OpenVision), the Wellbore Planner Target Editor may not display the Target. All

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the target parameters specified within the Target Editor dialog box are utilized and the changes are
reflected in other views and applications, but the view within this dialog box itself may not be
visible.

Wells without Elevation

If an OpenWorks well has an Elevation Type of UN and no Elevation Value, the well plots at
100,000 in 3D View. To avoid this, add a valid Elevation Type and a corresponding Elevation
Value for the well using OpenWorks Well Data Manager. (Scopus #113523)

Targets
It is not always possible for the application to calculate a path from a given set of targets.

Miscellaneous
The Penetration Point Optimizer can be very slow if optimizing a complex plan.

Repeated use of Add Wellbore Planner Interface to OpenVision will result in multiple
Wellbore Planner interfaces on the OpenVision menu bar.

It is necessary to calculate and save Definitive Surveys with well position uncertainty ellipses
before they can be visualized.

Italic font in Plan and Section views does not work on Solaris.

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