Managing and analyzing petrophysical data

In the early days of navigation, a ship’s pilot preserved part of his knowledge about the physical world in a log book. In the hands of an expert who could interpret the notes and safely guide a voyage, the pilot logs were priceless. A captain might control the ship, but the pilot knew the direction it had to take.

In the hands of experts, field data is just as valuable to oil and gas producers. It is the key to understanding the nature and extent of an asset. Managers and data analysts support the crucial and expensive process of deciding what direction to take in developing the resource. 

Geoscientists require complete access to a broad range of well bore data – including petrophysical logs, dip meter and core data - to make informed decisions. PetrisWINDS Recall, the world-standard for well bore data management, is the fastest and easiest way to quality control, store and provide access to that well bore data. It is estimated that more than 70 percent of the world’s log data is stored in Recall systems.

Recall’s petrophysical interpretation and visualization applications are sophisticated tools for imaging and understanding the subsurface on the basis of well bore data. This understanding is a keystone for building the earth models used to plan drilling and production programs.

Earth models are built up from combinations of data from many measurement sources. Central among these are seismic and well bore data. The geoscientists who ‘interpret’ this data and build the models fuse data of different types, from different vendors and of different vintages. PetrisWINDS Enterprise helps with this synthesis - it lets the interpreter look for, access and use data through a Web-based text and map-based interface (think Google and Google map).  While the data is available for search and comparison through the PetrisWINDS Enterprise interface, it remains available for use in the applications for which it was intended – or it can be moved using PWE to another application’s database.