Petrel Workflow Tools

5 Day Introduction Course

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Plotting
Objectives

Learn How to Set Up Different Window Types

– Map Window
– Intersection Window
– Empty Plot Window
Use saved Windows
– Using the Windows pane
– Output results
Learn how to Create and Manipulate
p Annotations
– Insert text
– Edit text styles etc.
Screen
S Captures
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How to Print Scaled Plots
Map Window
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1. Insert a ”New
New map window
window” from the 1
Windows menu in the menu bar.
2
22. Select items to be displayed by clicking
on the objects.
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3 Filter
3. Filt outt to
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display
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4. Display
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5. The Map settings are stored in the

Windows pane and controlled from there.

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 Map Window – Property Display

1. Follow same steps as in previous slide,

but select a property instead.
instead

2. If nothing is displayed, go to Settings for

Properties folder.
1
3. In the Style tab, make sure As property
(A) is selected, and jump the K-layer
selection (B) up or down.
down

2 3A

3B
4
4. Post K-layer in the Info box: Display info
box; go to its Settings; in Settings tab,
append a new row and select Layer from
the Code column
Montage
g plots
p – Using
g Plot Window
1 2
1. Insert a New plot window from the
Wi d menu.
Window

2. Insert new viewports in the plot window. 3

3. Select items to display in each plot window

by clicking on the objects

44. Wh
When a viewport
i t iis active,
ti it iis bold
b ld (A) in
i
Windows pane and has a red frame (B) in 4A 4B
the plot window.
 Empty Plot Window – Viewport Settings

1. Go to the settings for Plot window in Windows pane.

2. Specify the number of viewports.

3. Specify
p y layout
y of columns/rows. 1

4. Apply by pressing the Setup viewports button (see

results in the Plot window).

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3

4
 Empty Plot Window – Well Section Viewport

1. Insert a New Empty plot window from Window

1 2
menu

2. Insert a New Well Section Viewport.

3. Go to settings for the Well Section viewport in

Windows pane.

4. In the Viewport tab, select a well section, and click

the blue arrow to insert. Press Update (A) and see
the changes in the Plot window (B).

4B
3
4A
 Intersection Window
1 5

1. Insert a New intersection window from

the
h menu bbar.
3
2. Display a General Intersection.

2
3. Select items to display by clicking on the
objects.

4. Adjust the zone filter to display specific 4

zones. 6

5. Insert legend, scale, title,...

6. Capture an index image of intersection

through the 3D Grid in a 3D window.
Intersection Window – Display Seismic

It is possible to display seismic in

Intersection Windows:

To view seismic, have an intersection

viewport active (Intersection Window or
Empty Plot Window),
Window) then click on in
in-line
line,
cross-line or random line.

Note: Viewports are

the sub-windows
displayed in all the
window types. To
change general
viewport settings, go
to viewport icon in
Function bar.
 Saved Windows

1. All display windows will automatically be saved

under the Windows pane.
pane

2. The display windows can be clicked on and off.

2 4
3. The window settings, like axis, compass needle
etc., can be turned on and off for each window.

3
4. Even when exited, a window will exist in the
Windows pane until it is physically deleted from there.

Note: Windows can be copied from a Reference

project, and can serve as Master templates for all
projects.
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Annotations – Insert Text Example

1.Insert New Annotations from the Insert menu.

1
The Annotations must be selected in
the Input pane.
3A 3B
2. Double-click on the Annotations (stored in
Input pane) and go to the Settings tab.
3C 4
3. Append a row (A), select multiple drop (B)
and drop in for example segments from
Segment Filter in the row (C), using the blue
arrow.

4. Orientation (Angles) can be specified, but

annotations
t ti can easily
il be
b manipulated
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interactively in the Map Window (see next slide)
 Annotations – Result
1. Display an object (e.g. horizon) and make sure As
Segment is selected as Color fill.
2. Click on the Annotations box.
4. View the new Text style and rotate them
directly in the Map window (Select/pick mode
active + Shift)

3. If the Text style is inappropriate, go to Style 1 2

settings
tti ffor A
Annotations
t ti andd create
t a custom
t style
t l
(A), click Apply and select new text style in Settings 4
tab (B).

3A

3B
Screen Capture Options

Use the Copy Bitmap icon within Petrel to copy the

display window. The bitmap can be displayed in
Petrel by selecting Paste Bitmap, and afterwards
be exported.

Note: It is possible to paste the copied

image directly into another program like
Word or Excel.
Plotting

The Enhanced Window Metafile (EMF) format The Copy Bitmap icon will copy the display
iss used for
o copy
copyingg aandd sa
savingg thee view
e in a window. The bitmapp can be displayed
p y in
file. The file can then be imported in other Petrel by selecting Paste Bitmap. It can be
applications for reporting or editing/printing used in Petrel or exported as BMP, JPG.
purposes. You can copy the view using
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Copy Metafile.
M t fil

Export Graphics can be used to export the view

Note: it is possible to paste copied
directly as an EMF file.
images directly into another program like
Word or Excel

Note: Export Graphics as EMF files can

run in the Process Manager.
 Printing
Each plot window may have an independent printer defined

1 – Open page setup from the tool bar 1

2
2 – Set up a plot size, independently of
the currently selected or available
printers.
i t

When a printer is selected, the system will

try to match the plot size with the available
paper sizes and warns the user if this is
not possible.

3 – Click Apply to add the

settings. Each plot owns its
own size and pprinter with
associated paper.

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 Print scale - Well section
When setting up the scale and printer in Page Setup, a gray area indicates
which part of the Well section window will be printed
 Extra: CGM format and PDF format
Create CMG plots from Petrel using JustCMG software
Just CMG for Windows, a product by Justcroft International,
is a package for viewing, converting and plotting CMG image
files. It consists of an Image viewer, FIile format converters
and optimizers, and best quality Plotter drivers

First: Export Graphics in CGM format

1. Open JustCGM

2. Open file .cgm

3. File>Print, adjust the settings

It is also possible to generate CMG and PDF in

batch usingg the Process Manager.
g Users need to
have JustCMG 4.2 for Windows.
EXERCISE
Set Up Plot Windows
Map Window
Intersection Window
Empty Plot Window
Annotations