Petrel Well Path Design

Design well paths in 3D

Design wells interactively by digitizing the path directly in the 3D window—on any type of data including raw seismic, property models, or simulation results. Edit well nodes in the 3D window or the spreadsheet editor, or copy and paste into Excel for editing.

Minimize the total cost of your drilling program

Automatically generate well trajectories and platform locations for a set of reservoir targets to minimize the total cost of your drilling program using the Petrel Well Cost Optimizer (part of the Well Path Design module). Targets defined as "must hit" data points for the optimized well paths can be locked to platforms, and target-platform sets can be constrained by closed boundaries. Automatically computed well trajectories are constrained by a user-defined dogleg severity. The output is a set of optimized trajectories based on geometrical drilling constraints extending from the reservoir back to the surface. The Drilling Difficulty Index (DDI) provides a first-pass evaluation of the relative difficulty encountered in drilling a well.

Benefits

• Automatically generate well trajectories and platform locations that minimize the total drilling program cost.
• Manually design wells quickly in 3D, directly on seismic lines, property models, STOIIP maps, and even simulation results.
• Display well path segments that exceed your specified dogleg severity.
• Create instant well reports and synthetic property logs.
• Export generated well paths for use in drilling and reservoir simulation packages.