Advanced Multi-Well Formation Evaluation

PGE 385K, Fall 2018

Introduction to Techlog

Introduction to Techlog: Importing, Exporting, and Plotting Data

1. Open Techlog: Click the Techlog icon on your desktop or choose Start >> All Programs >>
Schlumberger >> Techlog. Select all the modules unless specifically instructed not to.

2. Create a new Techlog project: Click on “Create” in the window that appears when Techlog starts
up, or go to the “Project” menu in the upper-left hand corner then select “New”. The New Project
Wizard dialog box will appear, in the “Project name” box, type the name of the project. In the
“Description” box, enter a brief description of the project. Click on the “Next” button. Choose a
destination folder for your project (Make sure it is on your Utexas network drive, so you can open
it in different computers). The project status will be “in progress”. The opening default mode will
be “single user” and the unit system will be “undefined”. Click on the “Next” button then leave
the “Connect to Studio repository” unchecked. Click next again, review the project information,
and then click “Finish” if everything seems right.

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3. Download the data: Look in the Canvas class website for the “Techlog Workshop” folder,
download the data for Well 1 and save it on your UTexas network drive. Unzip the downloaded
folder. The folder should contain 3 files: ‘Example_Well1_Logs1.las’, ‘Example_Well1_Logs2.las’
and ‘Core Data.csv’.

4. Import data: Click on the “Home” tab, and then click the “Import” icon.

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Then, on the “Project bowser” window click on the yellow folder button, find the Well 1 data you just
downloaded from Canvas.

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Now you will see the well name and the data set ‘Example_Well1_Logs1.las’ in the project browser,
select ‘Nix #1-3’ and then click on the blue arrow to import it. It should appear under datasets on the
left hand side. When finished, you can clear the Import/Export table as by clicking the trashcan icon
in the Project browser.

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5. Import the data set ‘Example_Well1_Logs2.las’ and rename the well in the data with the same
name as the before. i.e. ‘Nix #1-3’ (Please be careful of the spaces in the name). The data should
import in the same well.

6. Close import window: Click on the black X in the project browser.

7. Open the Data Tab and go the ‘Toolbox’. Select ‘Combine or resize datasets’. Drag the well to the
Dataset editor and hit apply. The datasets should combine into one dataset with a default name
of “LQC”. Rename the well to be ‘NIX’.

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8. Plot well log data: Go to the “Plot” tab, and choose LogView (first option).

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From the project browser select the variable you want to plot and drag it to the blank LogView window
as shown in the following example.

Drag and drop the

variable

9. Now you should have all the logs from the data set displayed in the LogView window. You can do
individual changes to any of these by clicking on them and looking at the Properties window. You
can zoom in and out on the log view by holding down your middle mouse button and moving the
mouse.

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10. Well-log names: The names are in mnemonics, to find out what each of these means go to
http://www.spwlaworld.org/mnemonics/curve-mnemonics/. Identify all the logs.

11. Assign the correct family and correct units to each log: If a variable is grey, then it means the
Family and/or Unit is not identified. Right click on the name, then choose “Reassign Family…”
Select the button “By manually reassigning”. The units can be assigned by selecting the variable,
then in the Properties tab, under Main parameters, select the correct Unit.

12. Save the layout: First, make the LogView window active by clicking on it. Then, go to “Multi well
layout” tab. Click on “Save…” and give it a name, for example “NIX_LQC”. You can see if it was
saved properly on the “Project browser” under “Layouts”.

13. Create a cross-plot: Click the “Plot” tab, and choose “Cross-Plot”.

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You now have a whole lot of windows open and it’s probably pretty hard to see what’s going on. Click
on your Cross-Plot window, then click on the “Home” tab, then Click on the “Window” button and
select floating mode. This mode allows you to focus on the window you are working on. To see all
your windows, click the “Window” button again and select dashboard mode.

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Then, drag and drop the variables you want to plot into the X-axis, Y-axis, and Color boxes in the plot
area.

14. Save the entire project: The project saves automatically, however, you can export it if you want
to have it saved somewhere else. Click on the “project” tab and click on export, then select the
format to be “Techlog project format” from the drop down menu and choose the destination of
where you want to export it.

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Export the data to Excel

1. Select “Data editor” in the “Data” menu options.

2. A spreadsheet opens up. Drag and drop the MD, CALI, and ILD variables to the data editor
window. The example is shown below.

3. Click on the Data editor window to be sure it is active. Then select the “Data editor” tab. Click on
“Export to Excel”. This will open an excel sheet with the selected variables.

Import the data from Excel

There are two options for importing data from Excel.

Option 1: Work on the same excel page that you exported. In Techlog, click on the “Data editor”, and
choose the “Import from Excel” option. This will import the excel worksheet to the Techlog data editor.

Option 2: When saving any Excel worksheet, save it as a .csv file. Then, it can be imported to Techlog as
a regular data set.

1. Core data obtained from core analysis of the well is available in the file “Core Data.csv”. Once
you have downloaded the data, use “Option 2” from “Import data from Excel”. Before you save
this data as a .csv file, you may need to make some modifications. If needed, convert the
numbers in the Excel sheet to “Number” format.

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2. After these modifications are done, save your file, preferably in the same folder with all of your
project data.

3. Go to Techlog, and import the data. Once you have selected the file on the import pane in
Techlog, a window like the one below will appear.

4. In the lower area of this window, you will find the data. This is where you can name, edit, delete,
etc. the different variables that you want to import. For this case, we need the depth, water
saturation, porosity, and permeability. If needed, you can delete a column, by selecting
“Remove column” from the “Type” dropdown menu. First, we need to define the reference
column. This is usually the depth. To do this, select the Depth column, and under the “Type”
dropdown menu, select “Reference”. The other data sets can be assigned the Type “Variable.”
All of these data types need units. You can select the units from the “Units” dropdown menu. To
name each variable, double click in the “Name field”, and type the name.

5. Select the well which we want to import the data to. On the right hand side of the same
window, you will find the data properties. Under the “General” option, change the “Well name”
to the same name as the previously imported well. In the “Dataset name”, write a name that is
related to the data being imported. Finally for this case, the “Dataset type” is “Point data”. You
should end with a similar window as the one on the next page.

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6. Click “Load to the import buffer”, and the data will be available to be imported into the project.
Once this data is imported to the project, it can be plotted like any other variable.

7. We need to be sure these are “Point Data” by reassigning the family so that they are loaded in
the Family of core measurements. First, right click on the variable name. Then, select “Reassign
Family.” Next, select “By manually reassigning” and search for the correct Family and Main
Families descriptions.

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Assessment of Volumetric Concentration of Shale

1. Define a shale baseline. To input a baseline, select the GR trace, right click, and then select the
“Insert vertical baseline” option. The shale baseline should touch the maximum values
observed in your gamma ray trace, excluding any obvious outliers. Write down the value of the
shale baseline

2. Follow the same steps to create a sand baseline. The sand baseline should be touch the
minimum values observed in your gamma ray trace, excluding any obvious outliers. Write down
the value of the sand baseline.

3. Once you have created these baselines, delete the green and yellow bar marked “unknown”
near the top of the log. You may need to do this more than once.

Shale Baseline

Sand Baseline

4. Go to the “Petrophysics” tab, and click “Quanti” button then click the “Shale volume” icon. From
the dropdown list, select “Gamma ray…”

5. A new window will open. In this window, select “wells.datasets” under the Select
Wells/Datasets menu. Select the dataset “NIX”. Glick on “GR” under Select input, then click on
the “Gamma Ray” button under Data type assignment. Hit the “Create” button.

6. Drag and drop the ‘NIX LQC’ dataset into the Workflow manager.

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7. Click on the “Parameters” tab, then enter your sandstone baseline value under GR_matrix and
enter your shale baseline value under GR_Shale.

8. Select the correct method for your formation under GR method.

9. Make sure the “Vsh gamma ray” is enabled in the workflow overview and that the enabled box

is not checked for any other workflows. Hit the button. A new window will appear. You will
get something similar to the image below.

10. Right click on the volumetric concentration of shale (VSH_GR) name and save as a variable.

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Creating Zones
1. Create different zones: Go to the Logview window, and click the “Quick zone creation” tool
from the tool menu located at the left side of the window. Then, in order to choose the top and
bottom of the zones you want to create, click on a track at a desired depth for each. Red lines
will appear in the depth you selected. For this project, we want to select our zones based on the
concentration of shale. Three different zone types are needed: sandstone, shaly sand and shale.
Plot your shale concentration next to the other variables in the plot we created earlier, and start
the zone selection over the shale track. Since many of these zones might look like shale due to
the damage in the formation, be careful, and look at the caliper.

Finally, right click on one of the red lines, and select “Save the zones”. This will create the zones.

2. If necessary, you may adjust the zones by clicking on the “graphical zone editing” button
and dragging the zone boundaries up or down.

3. To change the color of a zone, go to the “Zonation” tab in the project browser window and
select the desired zone. Make sure it is the only one selected, right click the zone, and select
“Define zone color”. Zones of the same type (i.e. all sandstone zones), should be made the
same color.

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4. To change the name of a zone, go to the “Zonation” window and double click the desired zone
to type the new name.

5. An example of the final plotted results is shown below.

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Matrix Conversion for Apparent Neutron Porosity

1. To convert neutron porosity from limestone to sandstone units or vice versa, go to

Petrophysics > Neutron matrix conversion.

2. A new window for matrix conversion will appear. Select the neutron porosity curve in the ‘Data
type filter’ and import it in ‘Data type assignment’ option.

3. A new workflow will be created for Neutron matrix conversion. In the work flow select the
Current and New matrix variables. Select the tool type. Uncheck any other workflows that are

selected and hit the button.

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Variable Management

1. Select each variable from well ‘NIX’, and edit its name as shown in the “Curve Aliases” file. To
edit the plotted variable name, select a variable from LogView, and go to the properties
window. Under the “Limits” tab, you will see that the first option is “Title”. Write the desired
variable name in the space provided.

2. Inside the project browser, click on well, dataset or variable. You can see all the information for
each one in the properties window.

3. Changing the plot limits of a variable: Go to the “Properties” window. Under the “Limits” tab is
the “Horizontal axis” option, change the “Type” from “Family” or “Variable” to “User”. The next
two options allow you to specify an upper and a lower limit for the range on which the variable
will be plotted.

4. You can change the variable display properties by selecting the variable from the LogView and
then under “Display options” you can the color, the type of line, line style, and line thickness.

5. Change the family of the variable: Select the variable from the project browser, and in the
“Properties” window, you will find the “Family” and the “Main family”. For instance, RHOCN
belongs to the Main family- ‘Density’ and the Family- ‘Bulk density’.

User-Defined Equations

1. Select any track on LogView, right-click in the track, and select the “Equation” option.

2. After entering a name for your equation in the “Name” field, input an equation with the desired
variables in the “Equation” field. The operators are limited to +, -, *, and /. Then, select a family
and a unit for the new variable. Note that you can save this equation to be opened later.

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