Petrel_Fundamentals_An_Overview_Geology

1. Petrel Fundamentals: An Overview
Monye Vivian Amalaonye
Industrial Trainee-Geology

2. Agenda:
Overview of Petrel Fundamentals
• Introduction
• Petrel Basics
• Data Import
• Interface-Visualization
• Make/Edit Surfaces
• Make Simple Grid
• Geometrical Modeling
• Plotting
• Conclusion
• Q&A

3. What is Petrel?
• A Windows PC software application
intended to aggregate oil reservoir
data from multiple sources.
• In summary, it addresses the need
for a single application to support the
‘Seismic-to-Simulation’ workflow,
reducing the need or a multitude of
highly specialized tools.
Uses
• To interpret seismic data
• Perform well correlation
• Build reservoir models
• Calculate volumes
• Produce maps
• Etc. simulate
A Geological model?
• A computerized representation of portions of the Earth’s crust(reality).

4. Hardware and Application Needed:
• A PC with a minimum of: For Petrel 64-bit:4GB of RAM; however
16GB of RAM is recommended for optimum performance.(6GB)
• For Petrel 64-bit:Microsoft Windows 7,Vista 64 or XP 64
• A graphic card compatible with Petrel
• A Petrel license and license key
• Petrel Seismic to Simulation Software with the latest updates(Petrel
2012.5)
• Training datasets

5. Data
Sets

6. Setting Units and
Coordinates for a new
project

7. User Interface

8. The Favourites pane:
New
Studio Functionality
– Favourites pane
has been introduced.

9. Petrel Interface: Help Manual:
Search tab simplifies the use of the online
manual

10. Data importation- Formats, Import(on selection), Import.

11. Reference project tool:
Filter icons signify the
objects age or presence
in comparison to its
counterpart
QC of imported data is
important

12. Well section window
• Knowledge sharing made
easier.
• Enables interactive view of
different windows
simultaneously

13. Well Top Spreadsheet
• a collection of all info
associated with each well
bore.
Well Tops; intersection
points between well
trajectories and stratigraphic
surfaces.

14. Visualization from a 2D Window vs. a 3D Window

15. Visualization of the simple grid with edges and horizons toggled
on.

16. Geometrical Modeling
Use of pre-defined functions to
generate properties.
Geometrical Properties are
• 3D properties
• Created using predefined system
variables.
• Important in volume calculations
and in math operations between
petrophysical properties.

17.  Montage Plot-
viewed from a
Plot window,
showing
histogram, two
intersection
and a map
window.
Plotting

18. Conclusion
Petrel Fundamentals:
• Essential for beginners of the Petrel courses
• Teaches the elementary usage of Petrel
• Wide range of functionality was not introduced,
hence
• Basic courses should be taken in order to have in-
depth understanding of the software.

19. Thank you for listening…