Earth Modeling software ensures asset teams share a consistent understanding of the subsurface, providing extensive geo-modeling capabilities within a complete geoscience work environment where they can analyse current data and rework scenarios before, during and after development.

Framework-based interpretation workflows help interpreters identify and fix problems while interpreting. Dynamically updateable frameworks and reservoir properties of the DecisionSpace® software allow inputs from new well to be immediately incorporated, which keeps the overall geologic model evergreen and ready for successive workflows. This ensures efficient, collaborative, and trustworthy models.

This key feature represents one of the horizontal well trajectories that is commonly used in unconventional developments. Often referred to as S+J shape, this trajectory profile is a directional driller friendly build for horizontal well plan. With this trajectory, the planning engineers will be able to move planned targets and the well spacing will be automatically calculated. The planning engineer can also adjust the trajectory nudge (initial kick-off depth and build/drop rate), then drop to vertical to the point for the final build that is aligned to the heel target and the horizontal direction. This directional drilling requirement for unconventional wells provides the means to simulate a more simplistic and realistic directional drilling work.

Footage Calls are a requirement in land lease based well planning. They are a way of describing surveyed positions of sites, wellhead and/or proposed target locations relative to specific boundaries. These measured locations are defined as the X and Y distances from a selected lease corner. The software automatically calculates the footage calls when at least one existing boundary is defined for the well planning scenario in the preferences section. The relevant object (site, plan, or target) must be located within such a boundary, although the boundary and footage calls can be used to initialize a specific location. The footage calls can also be directly entered and edited to match survey location that may not have Lat/Long or XY coordinates.

In our latest release, the previously used ‘Cone of Error’ model has been replaced by industry standard anti-collision recommendations. The anti-collision capability within the Well Planning software now supports the ‘Pedal Curve’ and the ‘Combined Pedal Curve’ error models. In addition, it features separation factor calculation, provides three warning levels that are graphically represented in a well path color scheme and provides a minimum separation scan summary result. This field summary anti-collision feature is based on ISCWSA standards.

Gun barrel is a special section view with a User Interface (UI) component that allows you to select well planning scenarios and set of parameters to be displayed within a gun barrel view. This UI is presented in the form of a wizard. Once the scenarios are selected, it will open each one, compute an appropriate Line of Section (LOS) for it, and open a new section view with that LOS. The drawing module of the gun barrel adds specific graphics to the view. This is a regular section view and can display all the regular data, such as surfaces, frameworks, seismic, faults, etc. The user can add the session data that they wish to display and set the display parameters appropriately.