Petrel Fundamentals: An Overview

Monye Vivian Amalaonye

Industrial Trainee-Geology
Agenda:
Overview of Petrel Fundamentals
• Introduction
• Petrel Basics
• Data Import
• Interface-Visualization
• Make/Edit Surfaces
• Make Simple Grid
• Geometrical Modeling
• Plotting
• Conclusion
• Q&A
 What is Petrel? Uses
• A Windows PC software application • To interpret seismic data
intended to aggregate oil reservoir • Perform well correlation
data from multiple sources. • Build reservoir models
• In summary, it addresses the need • Calculate volumes
for a single application to support the • Produce maps
‘Seismic-to-Simulation’ workflow, • Etc. simulate
reducing the need or a multitude of
highly specialized tools.

A Geological model?
• A computerized representation of portions of the Earth’s crust(reality).
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
Data
Sets
Setting Units and
Coordinates for a new
project
User Interface
The Favourites pane:

New
Studio Functionality
– Favourites pane
has been introduced.
Petrel Interface: Help Manual:

Search tab simplifies the use of the online

manual
Data importation- Formats, Import(on selection), Import.
Reference project tool:
Filter icons signify the
objects age or presence
in comparison to its
counterpart

QC of imported data is
important
Well section window
• Knowledge sharing made
easier.

• Enables interactive view of

different windows
simultaneously
Well Tops; intersection
points between well
trajectories and stratigraphic
surfaces.

Well Top Spreadsheet

• a collection of all info

associated with each well
bore.
Visualization from a 2D Window vs. a 3D Window
Visualization of the simple grid with edges and horizons toggled
on.
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.
Plotting  Montage Plot-
viewed from a
Plot window,
showing
histogram, two
intersection
and a map
window.
 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.
Thank you for listening…