QAB 3023

ROCK PHYSICS & AVO ANALYSIS

ROKDOC (LAB 2 REPORT)
LECTURER : MR LULUAN

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NAME

: RENUGA DEVI A/P SUBRAMANIAM

MATRIC

: 16327

COURSE

: PETROLEUM GEOSCIENCE

YEAR

: YEAR 3 SEMESTER 2

LAB 2.0 : PROJECT MANAGEMENT, IMPORTING DATA AND WELL VIEWER

OBJECTIVES
1. To understand global project setting.
2. To load and displaying data in the track.
3. To setup working interval
INTRODUCTION TO ROCK PHYSICS AND ROKDOC
Rock Physics is a key component in oil and gas explopration, development and
production. It provides the empirical relationships, understanding and theory to connect
petrophysical, geomechanical and seismic data to the intrinsic properties of rocks, such
as mineralogy, porosity, pore shapes, pore fluids, pore pressures, stresses and overall
architecture, such as laminations and fractures. Rock physics is needed to optimize all
imaging and reservoir characterization solutions based on geophysical data and to build
mechanical earth models for solving geomechanical problems.
RokDoc is defined as Quantitative Exploration and Development. It is a
comprehensive Quantitative Interpretation (QI) platform. It is designed to be powerful
and easy to use and is the number one QI platform of choice at oil companies worldwide
(Survey Aupec, 2012). RokDoc gives interpreters access to rock physics, forward
modelling, seismic inversion, geopressure, advanced quantitative reservoir analysis and
geomechanics. Besides, it enables asset teams to maximise the value of available data
and regional knowledge.
RokDoc has all the tools for forward modelling and rock physics analysis to link
well data to seismic data and relate rock properties to exploration data. Forward
modelling is a powerful what if? tool to predict the change in seismic signature related
to bed thickening or thinning, changes in rock properties such as porosity or
permeability, fluid changes and tuning effects that can interfere with direct rock and
fluid property identification. Rock physics drives a scientific understanding of a rocks
elastic property variations due to rock type changes, fluids, depth, temperature and
pressure.

METHODOLOGY
Workflow 1 Project Management

Working intervals: Zone of in interest in a well where the calculation is executed.

It is bordered by markers or well start or stop.

Averages: Place to store average and standard deviation for Vp, Vs and Rho etc.

Minerals Sets: It is defined matrix properties of rocks constituent

Fluids Sets: Fluid properties and mixing models used in various RokDoc
functions.

Procedure
1. The units from Data Lab are checked before starting the project. In this case, the
depth is set in feet (ft).
2. Click on File menu>RokDoc setting>Change global setting
3. Click Log ID setting and display units tab. Set the Show Log Types to All
4. Find E13 log type and set to 100 to 12000 for Elmpplot min and max respectively.
5. Select pressure log types (Pres_Form; Pres_hydro; Pres_Lith) and change display
unit to PSI.
6. Set the Depth log type unit to ft.
Workflow 2 Importing Well Data

LAS loading

Log Data

Markers

Position Sets

Deviation surveys

Checkshots

Procedure
1. Click Well management >Read LAS file.
2. Browse LAS data for the project, locate the file and open RPlab.las.
3. Select RHOB, CALI,SGR and DTLN (P wave slowness in unit of s/ft) by holding
<Ctrl>.

4. Confirm the value for Well KB(Kelly Bushing)=25.0, Well X Pos=300000 and Well Y
Pos=6 000 000
5. Click Select Z-stick of Logs and choose MD then click coordinate unit and
select feet (ft) as the unit.
6. Click Create new well button.
7. Click Well management>Edit wells.
8. Change the colour of your choice by clicking colour block and define gas well in
Show Type column. Select Completed as Completion status and click OK.
9. To load markers, right click Markers under demo wall in the project tree and
click Edit markers.
10. Click Import ASCII.. button and locate Test_Well_Tops.txt. Select appropriate
parameters and click Read button. Activate all.
11. Repeat the same process to load Position set.
12. Create new position set, rename it as you wish, highlight and Read ASCII file..
13. Select MD-Dip-Azimuth for position. Browse Deviation.txt(make sure the initial
value in the txt is 0 for both Depth and Deviation) and fill parameter
appropriately. (Use ft for unit and click Read when ready. Click active
checkbox. Specify that X,Y coordinate in the file are Relative and click No for
MD-TVD conversion.

Question 1. Base-map before and after deviation well loaded. Print-out table of well
deviation converted from Dip-Azimuth to X-Y.

Figure 1: Well before deviation

Figure 2: Table of well deviation converted from Dip-Azimuth to X-Y and

Well after deviation

DISCUSSION
Global project setting allows the user to specify RokDoc display options such as default
plot ranges, log identifier strings and default colours. Any changes made here are
honoured each time a user creates a new project. Position sets are used to transform
Measured Depth (MD) to True Vertical Depth subsea (TVDss). While check shots are
used to transform from TVDss to Two Way Time (TWT). Figure 3 above indicate that our
well is a deviated well based on position and check shots data received.
Workflow 3 Well Viewer

Launching the Well Viewer

General right-click options

Colours Fills

Working Intervals

Creating and using well Views

Procedure
1. Launching well viewer by double clicking Demo_well symbol on the map or right
click Demo_well in the project viewer and select Display Demo_well. Select
default tracks of GR, Vol_Set, Sat_Set, Vp, Vs and Rho.
2. Reset depth range under Z-stick menu.
3. Click Well data>Fills.. and change name into GR-Sand, double click on NONE
in the left log and select GR from the list. Change the line value to 70(set cutoff)
and colour to Yellow then click OK.
4. Set working intervals (WI) by placing your mouse in between Top Sand A and
Base Sand A marker in the map and right click to select Create W.I. Between
Nearest Markers.
5. Change the name of working interval by selecting Project Data>Working
Interval, rename it.
6. Set new markers from top-bottom data border and repeat the same procedure for
W.I.

Setting Up Of Porosity Log by Density

1. In the well viewer, select Well Ops > Petrophysics > Porosity by Density
Generator.
2. Select GR as the source log and calculate.
3. Overlay the porosity log onto the GR log.
Question 2. Display of Tops and Bottoms sand-shale packages and display working
area.

Figure 3: Display of Tops and Bottoms sand-shale packages and display working area

Question 3. Display of porosity log overlying with gamma ray and fill-sands area
then give your name on the track.

Shale

Clean Sand

Figure 4: Display of porosity log overlying with gamma ray and fill-sands area

DISCUSSION
It is important to set cutoff in order to differentiate between sand and shale in GR track.
Based on figure 4, it is concluded that the green portion is clean sand where the GR is
less than 70 API while the purple portion is shale where the GR is more than 70 API. The
markers indicate the interval between the formations.

CONCLUSION
As mentioned earlier, RokDoc allows users to improve the quality and productivity of
subsurface analysis, accelerate value and reduce risk, save interpretation time by having
available tools needed to make right choices and achieve swift answers.
In summary, Lab 2 has 3 main work flows which are project management,
importing data and well viewer. In project management, there are four important data,
which are working intervals, averages, minerals sets and fluids sets. These data are
project level data. Moving on from that, Workflow 2 explains the procedures for
importing well data. It consists of six steps; LAS loading, log data, markers, position sets,
deviation surveys and checkshots. Lastly, we have seen Workflow 3 Well Viewer based
on these five steps; launching the well viewer, general right-click options, color fills,
working intervals and creating and using well views.
The results obtained are the base map of well before and after deviation is
generated. The table of well deviation converted from Dip-Azimuth to X-Y is also
obtained from the workflow. Next, display of tops and bottoms sand-shale packages and
working area are created. Lastly, the porosity log overlying with gamma ray and fillsands area is displayed. In the log, shale and clean zone is identified.

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EREX, 2011. RokDoc. Earth Resources Exploration
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