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Guide to Data Loading

Introduction

Geoview is the Hampson-Russell program through which you load all input data for a project.

A typical workflow for loading data into Geoview includes the following items:

(1) Well locations

(2) Culture data
(3) Well curves and details (e.g., Tops)
(4) Seismic
(5) Horizons

In this tutorial, we will go through each of these items using a demonstration data set.

Starting Geoview

Geoview contains all loading options in the Hampson-Russell software suite.

To start this tutorial, first start the Geoview program. On a Unix workstation, do this by going to
a command window and typing geoview.

On a PC, start Geoview by clicking the Start button and selecting the Geoview option on the
Programs > HampsonRussell menu, or by clicking the Geoview icon on your desktop if one
has been set up.

When you open Geoview, the first window that you see contains a list of projects previously
opened in Geoview. Your list will be blank if this is the first time you have ever run Geoview,
like the example below.

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For this tutorial, we will start a new project. First, set all the data paths to point to the location
where you have stored the tutorial data. To do that, click the Settings and Path tabs:

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Now you can see the default locations for the Data Directory, Project Directory, and
Database Directory. We would like to change all of these to point to the directory with the
tutorial data.

To change a directory, click the button to the right of the name:

Then, in the File Selection Dialog, select the folder which contains the tutorial data:

After setting all four paths, the Geoview window will now show the selected directories (note
that yours may be different from what we show below):

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When you have finished setting all the paths, click Apply to store these paths:

Now open the Projects tab and create a new project by clicking New Project:

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A dialog opens to set the project name. Call the project data_loading, as shown below. Enter the
project name and click OK:

Now a dialog opens asking you for the name of the database to use for this project:

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The database stores all of the wells used in this project. By default, Geoview creates a new
database, with the same name as the project and located in the same directory. For example, this
project is called data_loading.prj, so the default database will be called data_loading.wdb.

This is desirable because when we start a new project, often we intend to read in well logs from
external files. If we already had a well database, we would click Specify database and select
the location where that database is located.

For this tutorial, use the default option and create a new database by clicking OK.

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The Geoview Start window now looks like this:

The Project Manager The Workspace

One part of the Geoview window (called the Project Manager) shows all of the project data,
processes, workflows, and scenes available.

We will begin loading data by clicking the Processes tab:

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The Geoview window now looks like this:

Under the Processes tab we can see many different operations. Double-click Data Loading to
expand its menu:

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The Geoview window now looks like this:

We will begin by loading well data. Double-click Well Locations to expand the menu:

The Geoview window now looks like this:

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Loading Well Locations

We will load well locations now. Double-click Import well locations from file:

This window now lets you navigate to the directory with the well locations data:

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Highlight the file that contains your well location data, click Select and then Next:

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Now click View File Contents (your file structure may be different than this example). Another
screen will appear that displays the file you are importing:

After looking at the file, enter 1 for the Number of lines to skip and 3 for the Number of
columns. Click Next.

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Now we must specify what type of data is in each column:

Once you have specified all of the columns, click OK:

Open the Project Manager’s Project Data tab, and open the Workspace’s Data Explorer tab (if
not already open). The Geoview window now looks like this:

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Loading Culture Data

Next we will load the culture data. Click the Processes tab to begin:

Click the Culture option and then double-click Import culture from file:

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Navigate to where your culture data is located. Select the File Format for your data using the
drop-down arrow list. The tutorial culture data is AutoCAD DXF:

Highlight the data file in the Available table and click Select All.

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Click Start Read:

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If a file cannot be read, a warning dialog will open. In that case, click OK:

In the Specify drawing units dialog, set the units for all culture files to Meters and click Ok:

Now click OK on the Reader dialog.

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Loading Well Curves and Details

We will now load the well curves and associated details (e.g., tops) next.
In the Project Manager, click Well Curves and Details and then double-click Import logs, etc.
from file:

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In the Import Logs dialog, navigate to your LAS file. Highlight it and click Select. Then click
View File Contents to examine the file and click OK.

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A Confirmation Required dialog will open if some log points are found above the surface
elevation. If so, click Yes to All to remove these values:

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On the Wells tab, use the Double Zoom Out button to display more of the imported log tracks.
The Geoview window now looks similar to this:

To load well tops, we once again double-click Import logs, etc. from file:

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Navigate to where your well tops file is located, highlight it and click Select. Click View File
Contents to examine the file. Then ensure that Tops is selected as the type of data and click
Next:

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After examining the format of the well tops file, fill in the parameters below. Then click OK:

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Loading Seismic
We are now ready to load the seismic data. Begin by clicking Seismic in the Process menu and
double-clicking Import from SEG-Y file:

Navigate to your SEG-Y file, highlight it and click Select. Then click Next:

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Select the Geometry Type for the survey and click Next:

Fill in these parameters based on your seismic volume. Click Header Editor. Check the format
and click Next.

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Examine the header of your seismic file, fill in the parameters on this page and look at the
various plots (tabs on the SEG-Y Loading dialog) to determine if these values are filled in
properly. Then click Next.

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Line plot tab:

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Cross plot tab:

Trace plot tab:

Now, to scan the input data of the reference volume, click Yes on the dialog that opens
(Confirmation Required or Segy File Open). If the other dialog also opens, also click Yes.

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Once the scan has completed, the survey geometry is displayed. Click OK to load the file.

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Now the Well Map Table will appear. It can also be opened from the Project menu.

You can edit information loaded from the well database and plot the wells within the seismic
volume. After you are done checking and editing, click OK.

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Loading Horizons
Finally we will load the horizons. Click Horizons and double-click the Import from file
option:

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Navigate to your horizon file, highlight it in the Available list and click Select. Click View Files
to examine the file and then click Next.

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Fill in the parameters based on the format of your horizon file:

The names of the horizons can also be changed. You can highlight the horizon name text in the
Horizon Name column, and enter a new name. Click OK:

In the Seismic tab, use the scroll bar to move the display. The seismic data and horizons will
look similar to this:

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We are now ready to begin work on the project.

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