Vdocuments - MX Wellcad Tutorial

The document provides instructions for downloading and using Wellcad software to import well log data, create cross plots and annotations, and save projects. It recommends downloading the Wellcad Reader and Evaluation packages, as well as documentation, then importing various log file types like CSV files to visualize and analyze borehole data. Users can import single files or multiple files, plot logs on linear or log scales, create cross plots of properties, add annotations, and save projects with the .WCL file extension for future use in Wellcad.

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WELLCAD TUTORIAL

1. Download Software

a) Go to the link http://www.alt.lu/wellcad.htm

b) Go to “Downloads” option in the WELLCAD drop down menu. Alternatively, you can select
the “Downloads” option from the SUPPORT drop down menu.
c) Download the following free packages: WELLCAD READER and WELLCAD
EVALUATION (ensure you have enough memory space on your computer).
d) Both packages will be installed in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Advanced Logic
Technology.
e) Also download a copy of the documentation to the same directory (“Wellcad Basic” V4.3 is
recommended for beginners) .

2. Importing Data

Wellcad allows you to import log data stored in various formats (e.g. *.WCL ,*TXT, *.CSV etc) and
these can be used to create other logs as well as perform some complex analysis on the data. Before
proceeding to steps required to import data, spend some time to read the following sections found in
the Wellcad basic documentation:

How to use this manual

What’s New in WellCAD v4.3
Book 1 - WellCAD Basics
1.1 WellCAD Workspace
1.1.1 Tool Bar and Title Bar
1.2 Borehole Documents
1.2.1 Loading and Saving Borehole Documents
1.2.2 Creating a new Borehole Document
1.2.3 Draft, Presentation and Print Preview Modes
1.2.4 Document Handling
1.3 Logs
1.3.1 Log Types and Their Characteristics
1.3.2 Basic Log Editing
1.3.3 Log Settings
1.4 Basic Document Editing
1.4.1 Depth Axis
1.4.2 Data Import
1.4.3 Header and Trailer
1.4.4 Templates
1.4.5 Data Export
1.4.6 Printing
a) Start Wellcad
b) Examples of WELLCAD documents *.WCL can be found in C:\Program Files\Advanced
Logic Technology\WellCAD Evaluation\Samples. Use the following steps to open and
visualize their content: File  open.
The display can give you clues on how to best plot multiple data logs in your workspace.

c) In order to import a single file use the following option: File  import  single file;
substitute multiple file in place of single file when you want to import multiple files or core
images.
NB: Wellcad software is case sensitive to the names of files used e.g. “DATA.csv” results in
an error message whereas “DATA.CSV” will be read with no problem. The illustration
below shows how you can import various well logs from “5L-38 CMR.CSV”

Click Next
Click Next

Click Next
At this stage, you have the option of importing all the logs or only a few. For this exercise, import
T12R, KTIM_TAPER and BFV_TAPER. The imported logs are shown below

In the plot above, the KTIM_TAPER log is plot on a log scale. You can do this by selecting the
log of interest and then selecting the following options from menu options: View log
settingsmain settings
3. Creating Cross plots
Tools Cross plot

Crossplots can also be tailored to include information of a third property such as depth.
The axes labels and titles can be modified by using the Plot, X, and Y settings found the View drop
down menu.
There also exist other ways of interactively analyzing your data (e.g. cluster analysis, creating
percentage logs, adding regression lines…etc, see section 1.8).
4. Including annotations in your display
See section 1.6 of Wellcad manual