Chapter 5: Well and Formation Information

General Tab (Design Properties Dialog Box)

Use the General tab to specify a unique design name that identifies the
design, and to provide additional information related to the design. This
tab is also used to lock the design and/or associated data to protect
against undesired changes to the data associated with the Design. A
Design name is required. Additional information in this dialog box is
used for informational and reporting purposes and is not required.

The following fields are present:

In the Details section:

• Design - Type the name that will be used to identify the Design.
The name must be unique.

Note

If the Design is locked check box is selected, you cannot edit any of the fields.

• Version - Type the version of the Design.

• Phase - Select the phase of the Design from the pull-down list
(Prototype, Planned, or Actual). The list of phases that appears in
the combo box is filtered; you can only have one Design marked as
“Planned” and one marked as “Actual.” The Planned or Actual
option is removed from the pull-down list if another Design for the
same Wellbore already has it set. You can have as many Prototype
(the default) Designs as desired.

• Effective Date - Select the date from the pull-down list. A calendar
dialog box will open. Use the arrow buttons in the calendar dialog
box to move to the desired month, and then click the day. The date
you select populates the field.

Click arrows to
change to
desired month.

Click on the
desired day.

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In the Depth Reference section:

Select the Depth Reference datum you want to use for this Design from
the pull-down list of Depth Reference datums that were defined at the
Well level. All other fields are display-only or calculated:

• Datum Elevation - This shows a read-only display of the elevation

entered for the selected Depth Reference datum (set in the Well
Properties dialog box).

• Air Gap (MSL) or (Ground) - Air Gap is calculated from MSL

and displayed. Air Gap is the distance from ground level/sea level
to the rig floor. It is used in some calculations for hydrostatic head.
The application calculates Air Gap as follows:

— (Air Gap, Offshore Wells) = Datum Elevation – Elevation (of

the System Datum relative to Mean Sea Level).

— (Air Gap, Land Wells) = Datum Elevation – Ground Level

(relative to MSL).

Elevation and Ground Level are set on the Depth Reference tab in
the Well Properties dialog box.

Datum Elevation is the elevation for the Depth Reference Datum.

Datum Elevation is always positive. If you change the datum
selection, the Air Gap updates automatically.

Note

If you change the datum and it causes a negative air gap to be calculated, a
warning message appears to inform you that you cannot select this datum.

• [System Datum] - This is the current System Datum.

• Mudline Depth (MSL) - (Offshore only) This is the distance from

MSL to the sea bed, which is Water Depth – Elevation (System
Datum offset from MSL), which is set in the Project Properties
dialog box.

• Mudline TVD - (Offshore only) This is the distance from the

Depth Reference Datum to the sea bed (datum Elevation +
Water Depth).

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