Petrel: Workflow for exporting and relinking

2D Seismic
Introduction
A way of organizing 2D seismic data in Petrel 2008 is
as realized 2D lines (internal raw format) in reference
projects. The users may then copy the seismic to
their personal projects using the Reference Project
Tool.
The advantage of realizing the data is that the data
can be saved in 8 bit rather than 32 bit and the ability
to crop lines. The disadvantage is that the data is
duplicated in every project. In large multiuser
environment the amount of 2D data can be huge and
the duplication may cause unnecessary stress on
disk space. Also the transfer between Petrel projects
takes time.
The new seismic slice renderer that was presented in
Petrel 2009 offered a new and more efficient
rendering of 2D data. The new method have
improved the stability and performance of this
operation, as the number of individual voxels that
needs to be drawn gets less as the users zooms out
and higher as the user zooms in, making it possible
to display large amount of 2D seismic data in a 3D
window. A consequence of this is that it can be more
suitable to store the 2D as segy and share these
between the multiple users. There is potentially much
time and disc space that can be saved.
The presented workflow will ease the job of cleaning
up old projects by presenting a way of extracting and
relinking all 2D seismic lines using the Process
Manager.
The Workflow

The workflow extracts the line names and exports the internal 2D seismic lines as segy to a shared folder. It
then reimports the lines and deletes the original. Since the lines are reimported into the same folders, the survey
remains the same and the interpretation will be connected to the new line.

1. Insert the survey

2. Define the path to place the seismic
3. Define the file extension

If you still have the original seismic it might be better to import the original rather than exporting the 8 bit data.
You then use the same principle creating the file name, skip the export process and import the original lines.