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Predict and Lithofluids
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PPP: Module Summary
Topics
Introduction
2
About Insight
How to Use this Manual
Release Notes
5
What's new in 2023?
What’s new in 2022?
What’s new in DUG Insight 5.1
What’s new in DUG Insight 4.9
What’s new in DUG Insight 4.8
Installation and Requirements
8
System Requirements
System Requirements (Processing & Imaging)
Video Card Requirements
Downloading Insight and Installing on Windows
Running Insight on macOS
Installing on Linux
Upgrading
Operating Systems and Storage Drive Format
IT / Data Manager Guide
7
Introduction to the IT / Data Manager Guide
Overview of an Insight Project
Filesystem
Network/Multi-User
Backup and Restore
Manually closing Insight in Microsoft Windows
How DUG access data: random, concurrent, or STREAM (large data)
Licensing
8
Licencing Overview
Obtaining a Trial Licence
Online Activation
Email Activation
Free Academic Licence
Viewing Licences
Configuring Proxy Settings
Firewall Configuration
Modules and Features
12
Modules in Insight
Insight (features)
Explorationist (features)
Gather Attributes (features)
Pore Pressure Prediction (features)
P&I Time (features)
P&I Depth (features)
P&I Advanced (features)
MP-FWI Imaging (features)
Rock (features)
Lithofluids (features)
Link to Kingdom and Petrel
Getting Started
9
Launching Insight
Allocating Memory
Creating a Project
Opening an Existing Project
Configure a Project
How it Works (Units)
Using Sample Data
Viewing and Sending Diagnostic Logs
Configuring 4k Monitors in Insight
Project Database
8
Project Database Overview
Project vs Session
Autosave in Insight
Multi-user Considerations
Loading Items Already in the Project
Deleting an Item
Importing Items into the Project
Using the Text Importer
Sessions
3
Using and Managing Sessions
Missing Files
Importing a Session
Control Panel
9
About the Control Panel
Control Panel Shortcuts
Working with Control Panel folders
Creating/Importing an Item
Moving an Item
Sorting Items
Activating/Deactivating Items
Displaying the Details Panel
Switching between horizontal and vertical panel
Menus and Settings
16
File Menu
Hotkeys
Tool Menu
Preferences
View Menu and Displays
Window Menu
Available Help Resources
Insight User Manual (Help)
Online Video Tutorials (Help)
Sending Feedback (Help)
Licence Manager (Help)
Viewing Software Information (Help)
Viewing System Information (Help)
Checking for Updates (Help)
Disabling Automatic Update Check
Sending Logs (Help)
Surveys
10
Survey Overview
Creating a Survey
Loading a Survey
Importing a Survey
Defining Survey Details
Exporting a Survey
Repositioning and Redefining Surveys
Replacing 2D Survey Geometry
Defining and Configuring 3D Surveys
Survey File Examples
Importing 3D SEG-Y Data
11
SEG-Y Loader Overview
Launching SEG-Y Loader
Basic Settings (3D SEG-Y)
Selecting Files (3D SEG-Y)
Specifying Header Locations (3D SEG-Y)
Investigating Headers (3D SEG-Y)
Filtering (3D SEG-Y)
Analysing (3D SEG-Y)
Defining a Survey (3D SEG-Y)
Output and Writing Options (3D SEG-Y)
Writing (3D SEG-Y)
Importing 2D SEG-Y Data
11
Launching SEG-Y Loader
Basic Settings (2D SEG-Y)
Selecting Files (2D SEG-Y)
Specifying Header Locations (2D SEG-Y)
Investigating Headers (2D SEG-Y)
Filtering (2D SEG-Y)
Analysing (2D SEG-Y)
Loading Navigation Data Files
Defining a Survey (2D SEG-Y)
Output and Writing Options (2D SEG-Y)
Writing (2D SEG-Y)
Importing ASCII Volume
7
Importing ASCII Volume
Selecting Files (ASCII Volume)
Specifying Keywords and Data Locations (ASCII Volume)
Analysing (ASCII Volume)
Defining a Survey (ASCII Volume)
Output and Writing Options (ASCII Volume)
Writing (ASCII Volume)
Managing 2D Data
8
Working with 2D Surveys
Managing a 2D Line Set
Displaying in Map View (2D Data)
Viewing Selected 2D Lines in 3D View
Viewing Lines in Multiple 2D Line Views
Exporting 2D Line Sets
Viewing Multiple 2D Volumes
Refreshing 2D Volumes
Coordinate Reference System (CRS)
11
Coordinate Reference System Overview
Converting CRS When Importing a Survey
Converting CRS When Importing an XY Horizon
Converting CRS When Importing a Fault
Converting CRS When Importing a Well
Converting CRS When Importing an Arbline
Converting CRS When Importing a Map Polygon
Converting CRS When Importing a Mute
Converting CRS When Importing a Wavelet Field
Converting the CRS when importing culture
How do I create a custom coordinate reference system (CRS)?
Views
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Views Overview
Navigation Bar in Views
Information Bar
Zooming (Section Views)
Settings for Section Views
Taking Screen Captures
Using Snapshots
Bulk Exporting Snapshots
Displaying Images as Map Slices
Displaying Header Graphs (on sections)
Displaying Horizontal Grid Lines (on sections)
Displaying Shotpoint Data for 2D Lines
Displaying Scanned Seismic (on sections)
Using the Headers View
Displaying Header Ranges
Using the Comparison Slider
Using the Measuring Tool
Using the Gather Picking Panel
Using XHair Values
Product Extents Table
Linking Multiple Views
Opening Multiple Views
Using the Arbline View
Using the Arbline SD View
Using the IL/CL View
Opening a Gather View
Using the IL/Gather/CL View
Using the 2D Line View
Using the 2D Gather View
Using the 2D Line SD View
Custom Annotations (Section Views)
Map View
14
Using the Map View
Viewing Surveys (Map View)
Volumes and Horizons (Map View)
Customising the Map View
Contouring (Map View)
Creating Polygons from Contours
Creating Polygons from Horizons
Custom Map Annotations
Measuring (Map View)
Defining Map View Display Settings
Horizon Operations
Adding data intersections in Map View
Exporting Georeferenced Images from Map View
Posting Well Information in the Map View
3D View
7
Using the 3D View
Defining 3D View Settings
3D Volume Visualisation
Contours in 3D Viewer
Horizon Options in 3D View
Displaying 2D Lines (3D View)
Using the Animation Timeline Editor
Classes and Colourbars
19
Classes and Colourbars Overview
Assigning Class (Overview)
Creating a Class
Editing a Class
Creating a New Colourbar
Editing a Colourbar
Importing a Colourbar
Exporting a Colourbar
Modifying a Colourbar .ducolbar File
Modifying a Colourbar .ducb File
Configuring Colour Bar Annotations
Cycling through colourbars
Volume and Display Interpolation Methods
Opacity
Adjusting the Clip
Defining Line Settings
Defining Wiggle Settings
Defining Track View Settings
Colourbar naming convention
Volumes
9
Volumes Overview
Adding Volumes (to session)
Importing Volumes
Optimising Volumes for Performance
Changing a Volume's Class
Volume Display Settings
Copying Volumes
Deleting Volumes
Redefining Volume's Survey
Exporting Volumes
8
Exporting to DUGIO
Exporting to Text
Exporting to SEG-Y
Exporting Compressed Gathers
Editing SEG-Y headers
Setting SEG-Y binary headers (export)
Setting SEG-Y trace headers (export)
Setting the SEG-Y text (EBCDIC) header (export)
Horizons
11
Horizon Overview
Creating a Horizon
Horizon Undo and Redo
Loading Horizons
Context Menu (Horizon)
Horizon Details and Configuration
Multi-survey Horizons
Copying a Horizon
Redefining Horizon Survey
Redefining Horizon Display Settings
Updating Class Settings of Multiple Horizons
Interpreting Horizons
6
Manual Picking (Horizon)
Propagating a Horizon
Configuring Gather Horizons
Erasing a Horizon
Displaying Adjacent Horizon Picks
Surface Groups
Horizon Attributes
7
Using Custom Properties
Custom Horizon Properties
Using Horizon Properties
Horizon Display and Amplitude Extraction
Structural Curvature for Horizons
Displaying Horizon Histograms
Working with Horizon Colourbars
Horizons (Import/Export)
6
Importing a Horizon
Using the Horizon Text Importer
Import Formats (Horizon)
Exporting a Horizon
Export Formats (Horizon)
Exporting Multiple Horizons
Horizon Operations
18
Horizon Operations in Map View
Horizon Amplitude Extraction
Derivative Filter (Horizon)
Erase (Horizon)
Extract (Horizon)
Gather Amplitude Operation
Ghost (Horizon)
Header Extraction
Horizon Maths
Common Horizon Tasks (Horizon Maths)
Interpolate/Extrapolate (Horizon)
How Interpolation Settings Work
Regrid (Horizon)
Smooth (Horizon)
Snap (Horizon)
Create Horizon from Well Markers
Create Constant Horizon
Create Gather Horizon from Non-Gather Horizon
Groups
9
Creating Groups
Copying Groups
Viewing a Volume Group
Enabling/Disabling with Groups
Display Groups
RGB and CMY Groups
Selection Groups
Co-rendering Multiple Volumes
Panel Groups
Faults
9
Faults Overview
Viewing Faults
Context Menu (Fault)
Picking Faults
Working with Unassigned Fault Sticks
Assigning/Unassigning Fault Sticks
Bulk Operations on Fault Sticks
Importing a Fault
Exporting a Fault
Wells
27
Wells Overview
Creating a New Well
Well Settings and Display
Defining Well Path
Defining Markers (Wells)
Defining Time/Depth Pairs (Wells)
Defining Log Curves
Selecting Default Components (Wells)
Using Multiple Log Curve Files (Wells)
Managing Well Components
Editing Well Components
Assigning Classes and Units to Well Curve
Importing a Legacy Well
Import Formats (Wells)
Importing Bulk Well Data
Adding Wells (to session)
Picking Well Markers
Exporting Basic Well Information
Exporting Bulk Well Data
Exporting Traces Along Well Path
Exporting Well Checkshots
Exporting Well Deviations
Exporting Well Markers
Exporting Log Curves
Exporting Well to Shapefile and Kml/Kmz files
Working with Well Markers and Tops
Taking Ownership of Wells
Well Displays
21
Well Display in Sections and 3D
Well Correlation and Single Well View
Using the Well Correlation View
Using the Single Well View
Working with Templates
Well View Settings
Markers and Horizons in Well Displays
Tracks Overview
Adding Seismic or Gather Tracks
Using the Well Connection Track
Curve Tracks
Curve Display Settings
Well Log Curves
Volumes as Curves
Crossover Fill Curves
Stacked Fill Curves
Overlaying wells on Seismic/Gather Tracks
Editing Markers (Well Correlation View)
Selecting Well Curves
Time-Depth Conversion with Wells
Crossplot highlights in Well Views
Well Manager
5
About the Well Manager
Using the Well Info Summary Table
Using the Well Components Table
Editing Labels in Well Manager
Searching for Wells
Probes
1
Creating a Probe
Arblines
7
Creating an Arbline
2D Arbline Picking
Editing an Arbline
Moving an Arbline
Viewing Data Along Arbline
Importing an Arbline
Exporting an Arbline
Polygons
12
Polygon Overview
Creating a Polygon
Editing a Polygon
Picking in Map View (Polygon)
Picking in IL/CL View (Polygon)
Picking in 3D View (Polygon)
Picking in Arbline View (Polygon)
Using Fault Polygons
Using Correlation Polygons
Polygon Operations
Exporting a Polygon
Importing Polygons
Tables
6
Using Tables
Create New Table
Using Table Maths
Exporting Table
Using Table to Overlay Views
Using the Points of Interest Table
Crossplots
8
Crossplots (Overview)
Configuring Crossplots
Highlighting crossplot points (from sections)
Using Litho-Fluid Models
Highlighting geobodies (from crossplots)
Crossplot polygon points (example export)
Using Multiple Well Crossplots
Display Trends and Regression in Crossplots
Mutes
4
Manual Picking (Mute)
Creating an Angle Mute
Exporting Mute
Creating a Mute Table
Cultures
6
Working with Culture
Importing Culture Files
Importing Non-Georeferenced Image Files
Importing Bubble Map
Configuring Bubble Map
Draping Culture on Horizon
QI
3
Create a Prior Model
Importing a LithoFluid Model/PDF
Using Rock-Physics Trends
QI Stochastic Model
11
QI Stochastic Model Overview
Using the QI Stochastic Model Window
Loading a Trend File
Creating Fluid Composite
Creating Lithologies Composite
Creating Litho-Fluids
Creating Interfaces
Using the Probabilities Tab
Reflectivity and Separability
Generating a Litho-fluid Model
Generating an Interface Model
Wavelets
6
Wavelet Overview
Creating a Wavelet Field
Importing a Wavelet
Location/Time-Specific Wavelet
Configuring the Wavelet Preview Window
Statistical Wavelet Extraction
Window Models
1
Creating a Windowing Model
Time/Depth Conversion
3
Converting Time-Depth
How it Works (Time-Depth Conversion)
Interval velocity posting convention
Processes
117
Processes Overview
Processes in Insight
Anisotropic Model Conversion
Angle Gathers
Angle Stacks
Assign Header Values
Attribute Maps
Attribute Maps Stack
Autocorrelation
Automatic Gain (AGC)
AVA Stack Rotation
AVO Polynomial Fit
Band-Pass Filter
Body Detection
Cadzow Filter
Composite QC
Convolution
Create Gathers
Constrained Simultaneous Inversion (Absolute)
Constrained Simultaneous Inversion (Relative)
Correlation (Similarity)
Cross Correlation 2D
Cross Correlation
Curvature (Process)
Deconvolution
Delta Model
Despike
Detect Mute
Directional Correlation (Similarity)
Dip Azimuth
Dip Field
Dip Filter
Edges
Enhance Flat
F-K Transform
F-X Transform
Flattener
Frequency-Domain Radon
Frequency Split
FX Deconvolution
Gain
Header and Trace Interpolation
Header Maths
Header Sequence Builder
Hi-Res Radon Transform
Incoherence
Instantaneous Attributes
Intercept and Gradient
K Filter
LF Model (End Member Trends)
LF Model (Ghost Horizon)
LF Model (Simple Kriging)
Linear Moveout Correction (LMO)
Linear Noise Removal (LNR)
LithoFluid Probability
Local Trace Alignment
Match
Minimum Phase
Mute Gathers
NaN Removal
Normal Moveout Correction
Partial Binning/Stacking
Phase Rotation
Pick Multiple Horizons
Picked Function Model
Plane Wave Dip Filter
Polygon Mute
Pore Pressure: Density Volume
Pore Pressure: Eaton Pressure Volume
Pore Pressure: Miller (No Unloading) Pressure Volume
Posting Convention Conversion
Q Filter
Q Estimation
Q Conversion
Reassign Geometry Headers
Reassign SCALCO/SCALEL Headers
Restore Mute
RMO Correction
Semblance (Similarity)
Semblance (Velocity)
Simple Mute
Simple Structured Model
Spectral Decomposition
Spectral Shaping
Trace Chooser
Stacking
Structurally-Oriented Filter
Tau-P Mute
Time-Frequency Denoise (TFDN)
Trace Header Variables for Math Expressions
Trace Mix
Trace Padding
Trace Shift
Trim Statics
True-Amplitude Frequency Equalisation (TAFE)
V0 from Delta and Isotropic Depth Mig Velocities
Velocity Conversion
Velocity Model (From Well Checkshots)
Volume No-Decrease
Velocity Re-Datum
Volume Combine
Volume CRS Conversion
Volume Derivative
Volume Integration
Volume Interpolation/Extrapolation
Volume Maths
Volume Maths (Simple)
Functions and Variables for Math Expressions
Using Math Template
Volume Merge
Volume Resampling
Volume Sculpting
Volume Smoothing
Volume Sort (Records)
Volume Swap
Wavelet Transform
Zero Phase
Workflows
5
Using Workflows
Submitting Workflows to the Local Job Scheduler for Windows
Managing Submitted Workflows
Managing Jobs via the Cluster Monitor
Troubleshooting Workflow Submission Issues
Well Processes
11
Using Well Processes
Curve Extrapolator
Curve Filter
Curve Maths
Curve Maths (Simple)
Elastic Properties (Isotropic)
Fluid Property Calculator
Reflectivity (Stack & Gather)
Vs or Density (from Vp)
Synthetics (Stack & Gather)
Thickness Calculator
Residual Moveout (RMO)
5
Create Episode for RMO picking
Parabolic RMO Picking
Non-Parabolic RMO Picking
Effective Eta Picking
Configuring Display Settings (RMO)
Volumetrics
2
Using the Volumetrics Wizard
Defining Volumetrics Parameters
Mistie Correction
7
Manual Mistie Corrections
Manual Mistie Corrections (Overview)
Manual Mistie Corrections (2D)
Manual Mistie Corrections (3D)
Automatic Mistie Corrections
How it Works (Automatic Mistie)
Viewing Mistie Summary
Velocity Picking
10
Velocity Picking Overview
Create a Velocity Picking
Using the Velocity Picking Window
Configuring the Velocity Picker
Configuring the Semblance
Interpolation/Extrapolation (Velocity Picking)
Stacking (Velocity Picking)
Configuring Display Settings (Velocity Picking)
Picking the Velocity
Exporting/Importing Velocity Picks
Synthetics
23
Synthetics Overview
Using the Synthetics Window
Creating Synthetic Cases
Defining Log Curves (Synthetics)
Applying Sequential Backus Averaging
Overriding Wavelets
Overriding the Display Window
Overriding the Window of Interest
Editing Time/Depth Pairs (Synthetics)
Working with Time-Depth Sets and Checkshots
Manually Create T-D Pairs
Resampling Time-Depth Pairs
Generating T-D Pairs from another well
Displaying the Velocity Model Curve
Generating T-D Pairs from Sonic Log
Generating T-D Pairs from Velocity Model
Defining View Settings (Synthetics)
Displaying the Delta Curve
Displaying the Drift Curve
Displaying the Correlation Curve
Statistical Analysis of Synthetics
Exporting Synthetics/Seismic Traces
Displaying Synthetics Well Curves
Anisotropy
3
Using the Anisotropy Tool
Displaying the Delta Curve
Displaying the Velocity Model Curve
Predict and Lithofluids
9
Using the Predict Window
Configuring Volumes (Predict)
Configuring Wells (Predict)
Applying Filters and Including Result Curves
Arbitrary Locations (Predict)
Spike (Predict)
Configuring Lithofluid Probability Tracks
Defining View Settings (Predict)
Legend
Pore Pressure Prediction
18
PPP: Module Summary
Operation Modes and Applications
Pore Pressure Calculation Methods
Module Startup and Well Settings
Well Settings
Well Configuration for the PPP Module
Overburden Pressure (OBP)
Normal Compaction Trend Lines (NCTL)
Eaton's Method
Miller's Method
Calibration Points
Centroid Method — Pore Pressure in a Hydraulically-Connected Formation
3D Model Building - Volume Preparation and 1D Well Verification
3D Model Building - 3D volume generation
View Options
Track Options
Export Options
PPP: Hints and Troubleshooting
Spectra Analysis
5
Spectra Analysis Overview
Adding data to Spectral Analysis
Spectral Analysis Settings
Spectra Chart Settings
How it Works (Spectral Analysis)
Insight and Petrel
6
Insight and Petrel Overview
Installing the Petrel Link
Linking Insight and Petrel
Synchronise Data (Petrel Link)
Troubleshooting: Verifying Petrel Link
How to manually install Petrel Link?
Insight and Kingdom
10
Insight and Kingdom Overview
Configuring the Kingdom Link
Using the Kingdom Link
Downloading and Installing SQL Server 2014
Downloading and Installing SQL Server Management Studio Express
Manually Attaching Kingdom SQL Database
Troubleshooting: Enabling TCP/IP in the SQL Server
Troubleshooting: Windows services SQL Server (SMTKINGDOM) and SQL Server Browser Are Running
Troubleshooting: File System Permissions
Troubleshooting: Setting More Controls On The Port Used by SQL Server
Data Manager
11
Launching the Data Manager
Backup a Project
Restore a Project
Repair a Project Database
Compact a Project Database
Clone a Project Database
Synchronising Projects
Copy Objects Tool
Command Line Control
Reports
Well Manager
References
2
Formats accepted by Insight for import and export
Insight's Automatic Well Curve Class Assignment
Acknowledgements
1
Acknowledgements