PetroWorks Release 2003.12.

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Appendix A: More on Data Loading

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Objectives
This short Appendix will provide some additional
details on loading data.
In this appendix, you will obtain further information
on
Assisted Format Mapping in the Curve Loader.
loading petrophysical parameters from a LAS
file.
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Loading Petrophysical Parameters
From a LAS File
The OpenWorks Curve Loader was used in Chapter
4 to load data from a file in LAS format. In the
exercises in that chapter, you edited a Binary
Format File to map additional parameters into the
OpenWorks Well Header.
You can also perform Petrophysical Parameter
Mapping with the Binary Format File.
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Assisted Format Option

From the OpenWorks Curve Loader, the Assisted
Format Mapping dialog box can be accessed by
selecting File Assisted Format Mapping.
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Using Assisted Format Mapping

When the Assisted Format Mapping window
appears, the first panel is the Well Information
Mapping panel. There are five panels, each
displaying different data file information:
Well Information Mapping
Petrophysical Parameter Mapping
Parameter Attribute Mapping
List of Tools in Input File
List of Equipment in Input File
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Petrophysical Parameter Mapping

This panel displays values of petrophysical parameters scanned from the data
file. Petrophysical Parameter Values can be viewed in the Well Data Manager
using the Petrophysical Parm Value Data Form.
The interpretive (processing) applications supplied with PetroWorks, as well
as any applications you create using ModelBuilder, read parameters from the
Petrophysical Parameters table that is populated with names loaded in this
panel. Therefore, if you wish to use a particular parameter name in other
applications, the names you enter here as Target names must match exactly
the names those applications expect.
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Petrophysical Attribute Mapping

You can create any number of petrophysical parameters by mapping
mnemonics to the PetroParm Value table, then attaching the
parameters to any of the following logging events: wells, formations,
depth range in a well, logging job, or logging toolstring descent,
logging tool within a string, logging tool pass, or single curve.
Parameters can also be recorded as being the input to, or the output
from, log analysis activities.
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Petrophysical Attribute Mapping,
cont.
The special mnemonic $<mnemonic> instructs Curve Loader to
check, for each petrophysical parameter, if there is an associated
<mnemonic> attribute. If so, Curve Loader loads the value of
<mnemonic> to the appropriate field to the appropriate Petrophysical
Parm table.
Special $ keywords are used in conjunction with the Petrophysical
Parm Data Category. To understand the function of these keywords,
you need to understand that petrophysical parameters are generally
set up in DLIS and LIS files as objects that usually have name/value
pairs. Parameter attribute keywords beginning with the $ character
are used by Curve Loader but are currently ignored by Well Data
Exporter.
When a .bcl file contains the #DOALL keyword and a mnemonic
explicitly mapped to a Target Name, all petrophysical parameters,
including all explicitly mapped mnemonics, are loaded with their
parameter names unchanged. In addition, any explicitly mapped
mnemonics are mapped to the Target Name. It does not matter where
in the sequence the #DOALL row appears.