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Procedures to Change DLIS Well Parameters Values using HexEdit 4.0

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Download HexEdit 4.0 (free) software from the HexEdit website http://www.hexedit.com/download.htm
To install HexEdit start hexed4_0.msi and follow the instructions
Launch HexEdit app, from File>Open menu
Navigate to the folder contains DLIS files you want to update its well header parameter. Make sure you
already have back-up your DLIS files prior to do this task.
5. Once DLIS file is displayed in HexEdit, as can be seen left column --Hex column, shows the raw numbers
and the right column shows a textual representation.
6. If you want to change Well Name, use Edit>Find menu or Ctl-F then select Text tab to search, put WN% in
Text find field and click Find Next button. (WN is the parameter mnemonic code for Well name)

7. Text find/search result will give you looks like below:

8. Right after WN% character is existing Well name value, in this sample is AAA-1. Note that when you
highlight AAA-1 characters, in the same time in left column its corresponding HexaDecimal values (41 41
41 2D 31) is highlighted.

9. For instance if you want to add 'ST' character (HexaDecimal values: 5354) after AAA-1, go to left column
and highlight hexadecimal number after the last hexadecimal number of Well Name, which is 20

10. Put cursor in hexadecimal number 20, right click and clicking on 'Allow Changes'. This needed to change
Well name characters using allocated/existing internal storage. Please Do NOT choose Insert or Alt-I
option, otherwise it will corrupt your DLIS file.

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11. Type 53 54, you will see immediately in right column new characters 'ST' is added

12. Clicking on Save toolbar or File>Save menu to apply the changes

13. Validate the changes by opening updated DLIS file in any DLIS viewer app (in this example using
Schlumberger DLIS InfoView a freeware Log data utility), you should see now Well Name changed to
AAA-1ST