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Exploiting the Web to Deliver Petrotechnical Reference Data

 

Hatleberg, Eric1, Gretchen M. Gillis2 (1) Schlumberger Information Solutions, Houston, TX (2) Schlumberger, Sugar Land, TX

 

Obtaining, managing, and interpreting detailed petrotechnical data is an enormous challenge for geoscientists. The volume, complexity, and specialization of petrotechnical data are growing at a staggering rate. Nowhere is this more evident than in well log datasets, which currently include more than 50,000 specific curves, with approximately one thousand new curves being added every year.

 

Individual logs may comprise several hundred curves. Although petrophysicists may be satisfied with logs they use on a regular basis, new measurements greatly improve subsurface characterization. A drawback, however, to using these new logging capabilities is obtaining and understanding the associated log-curve mnemonics.

 

Traditional hard-copy sources for log mnemonics and vital related information are difficult to maintain and deliver. The Web provides a delivery mechanism that is fast, accurate, and readily updated. A new Web database of log mnemonics enhances understanding of well log data by also delivering log-curve descriptions, log-property-measurement definitions, mineral properties, and relevant units of measure used by the service company. An interactive demonstration reveals how this real-time delivery mechanism improves the acquisition, processing, and interpretation workflows.

 

Web delivery of petrotechnical data and other information offers distinct advantages over other delivery methods: worldwide, unlimited access on demand; evergreen content; robust query mechanisms to deliver specifically desired information; and the potential to obtain additional information by judicious inclusion of hyperlinks.

 

AAPG Search and Discover Article #90063©2007 AAPG Annual Convention, Long Beach, California