ASPEN GEOLOG™ | March 2023

Using Loglans in Geolog to combine and create a complex

Remember? workflow
Geolog has an intuitive interface that allows you to chain and combine
In the previous newsletter, you Loglans for specific purposes. This enables you to create quite complex
learned how to display your workflows using different Loglans, perhaps combining custom-written ones and
drilling progress and well built-in modules.
activities through the Geolog
Timeline function.

Did you know?

Combining modules in Geolog Loglan

allows you to create a complex user-
specific workflow.

www.aspentech.com/sse In this Newsletter, a step-by-step workflow will be presented showing how to

www.aspentech.com/ssesupport combine Loglan and chain workflows to form a complex workflow.

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Open a new Well window and create a new Loglan.

1. In the top right corner of the new Loglan view, you will see a drop-down
menu "Type": Change this to ‘Combined’.

2. The interface will change slightly, with some buttons to the right. The main
window displays the modules graphically and allows you to connect them,
similar to a flow diagram.

3. Add modules using the ‘Add Modules’ button on the right.

Note: This opens a dialog to navigate to the file path where the modules
are stored.

4. This example will calculate a gamma ray, smooth it, and then calculate
porosity using the smoothed Vsh.

5. To start, add the three modules required – vsh_gr, tp_smooth, and

phi_den - from the ‘Add Modules’ button and locate them on disk.

The feature described in this newsletter is part of the Aspen Geolog basic license. More features are
presented in Geolog Help documentation. To access it, press F1 within Geolog.
6. When clicking the ‘Add Modules’ button, you’ll notice there are some useful •
shortcuts listed on the left side of the dialog to help a quick navigation. The
example uses built-in modules, which are located in the installation directory.
Use shortcut by clicking {INSTALLATION}\loglan

7. When the three modules are added, the modules with the same name will auto-
connect on Start.

9. From the graphical screen, you can drag the modules around to reposition
them.
10. Connect the points by clicking on a black ‘node’ and dragging to another. The nodes on the left are
inputs; the nodes on the right side of a module are outputs.
Note: You cannot remove lines, only reposition them by dragging to reassign the nodes.

11. In the example, click on VSH_GR in the vsh_gr module, and drag it to LOG_IN in the tp_smooth
module. Then drag LOG_OUT from tp_smooth module to VSH of phi_den module.

12. Upon completion of the workflow adjustments, save the module in the usual way by clicking on the Save
button.

13. Once saved, open the launcher for this module (no compiling is necessary).
Navigate to where you saved it and open the .info file or open the launcher from the
main menu Image.

14. The module will look like a normal Loglan. However, you will notice that we now have a tab for each
module so that we may configure each step with parameters as we normally would. When we run the
module, it will automatically process the workflow as we designed it in the module combiner – using the
inputs and outputs that we defined with the paths.

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