Bryan McDowell

Calculating Well Spacing In Spotfire

8:42 Hours
Calculating Well Spacing in Spotfire is a specialized course designed for drilling and completion engineers in the oil and gas industry. It provides a comprehensive workflow to accurately measure well spacing across large areas, such as entire basins, using Spotfire’s advanced data analysis and visualization capabilities. The course addresses handling complex well orientations including diagonal and directional wells and covers integrating multiple data sources like header information, wellbore traces, and directional surveys. Learners will develop skills for spatial analysis, data preparation, and creating visualizations to improve field development planning and reservoir management. The training is suitable for intermediate to advanced professionals seeking to enhance wellbore positioning accuracy at scale.

Who Should Take This Course
• Data analysts in energy sector
• Drilling and completion engineers
• Reservoir management professionals
• Oil and gas field development planners

What You Will Learn
• Import and prepare well data in Spotfire
• Visualize wellbore data on interactive maps
• Handle complex directional and horizontal wells
• Perform spatial analysis and well spacing calculations

Why This Course Works
• Improve accuracy of wellbore positioning
• Manage large scale basin data efficiently
• Enhance decision-making in field development
• Address challenges with diagonal and vertical wells

01-01 – Overview of Well Spacing In Spotfire (1 min.)
01-02 – Start Exploring Data In Spotfire (27 min.)
01-03 – Copying, Merging, Filtering & Map Layers (18 min.)
01-04 – Calculating Northing, Easting and TVDSS (31 min.)

02-01 – Making a Wellbore Diagram and Flagging the Lateral (10 min.)
02-02 – Isolating Lateral Well Segments (9 min.)
02-03 – Adding Lateral Position Data (14 min.)
02-04 – Calculating Lateral Length and Cordinal Direction (21 min.)
02-05 – The Lateral Length Category (23 min.)

03-01 – Calculating the Midpoints (21 min.)
03-02 – Table Set-Up (13 min.)

04-01 – Well Spacing Calculations (26 min.)
04-02 – Visualizing the Rotation of Axis in Two Dimensions (14 min.)
04-03 – Longitudinal and Gunbarrel Distance (28 min.)
04-04 – Using Document Properties To Filter Data (27 min.)

05-01 – Making One-Line Tables (30 min.)
05-02 – Relative Gunbarrel Plots for N/S Wells (22 min.)
05-03 – Relative Gunbarrel Plots for E/W Wells (24 min.)
05-04 – Marking Map Charts (26 min.)
05-05 – Mapping Lateral Midpoints (21 min.)

06-01 – Horizontal Spacing with Vertical Wells (26 min.)
06-02 – Setup Before Calculations (13 min.)
06-03 – Filter and Combinations (24 min.)
06-04 – Making a Simple Map (21 min.)
06-05 – Detailed Map Charts (19 min.)

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