Defining Time/Depth Pairs (Wells)

Once you have defined the general information for a well (see Creating a New Well), you can add the checkshots. Insight now supports horizontal and ascending wells.

For more information on the format of a checkshot survey file, see Well Import File Formats.

Note: To view and edit the Time/Depth Pairs in Synthetics, see Editing Time/Depth Pairs.

Open the T/D Pairs tab

Open the T/D Pairs tab
  1. Open the T/D Pairs tab in the Configure Well window. This window is displayed once you have saved the general well information.
  2. In addition, you can also open this window by going to the Well tab in the Control Panel, double-click the well item and open the T/D Pairs tab.
  3. Click New Time/Depth Chart to add a new time/depth (checkshots) chart for the well. The Add New Time/Depth Chart window will be displayed.

Import a checkshot file

Import a checkshot file
  1. At Data Source, select Import File to import a checkshot file, Copy Existing to copy from an existing checkshot file you have imported previously or New (Empty) if the well does not have checkshots. In this example, a checkshot file will be imported.
  2. At Name, type a name for the checkshots. If you do not type a name, Insight will enter the name of the checkshot file you import.
  3. Type any additional information about the checkshots in Notes.
  4. At Checkshot survey, click the Select File folder icon.
  5. Select the checkshot survey file for the well and click Open. By default, information of the selected file will be displayed in Notes.
  6. Click the Preview the file eye icon to view the file content.
  7. As you enter the information of the well path, you will be notified if there is any error or warning. Click the exclamation icon to see the details of the errors/warnings. Icon will turn green if there are no errors/warnings. In this example, an error is detected and you need to configure the text importer.
  8. Click the Configure import parameters spanner icon. See the following section.

Configure import parameters for checkshots file

Configure import parameters for checkshots file

See if there is any error/warning indication at the bottom of the window. Adjust the text importer accordingly by defining the column headers. Once it is error-free, click OK.

Add checkshots to well

Add checkshots to well
  1. Once you have added a checkshot survey file and configured the import parameters, check if there is any more error or warning. Click the exclamation icon to see the details of the errors/warnings. Icon will turn green if there are no errors/warnings.
  2. Click OK. The checkshots added for the new well will be displayed in the T/D Pairs tab. See the following example:

To view and edit the Time/Depth Pairs in Synthetics, see Editing Time/Depth Pairs.