System and method for visualizing multi-scale data alongside a 3D trajectory

• US 6,862,530 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2003
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV)
• Original Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Schlumberger NV)
• Inventors: Fleury, Simon, Terentyev, Igor
• Primary Examiner(s): MCELHENY JR, DONALD E
• Application Number:
  US10/250,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20040210392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 702/16, 702/6, 702/9, 702/13, 382/109
• US Class Current: 702/9
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 11/00 Prospecting or detecting by methods combining techniques covered by two or more of main groups G01V1/00 - G01V9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 11/002 Details, e.g. power supply systems for logging instruments, transmitting or recording data, specially adapted for well logging, also if the prospecting method is irrelevant means for transmitting well survey signals E21B47/12; signal transmission systems in general G08C; transmission in general H04B

Abstract

A method for displaying a borehole trajectory includes displaying the borehole trajectory and an indicator of a working interval in a big view window; and displaying a section of the borehole trajectory in a small view window, wherein the section corresponds to the working interval. The method may further includes displaying well log data in a log view window. A system for displaying a borehole trajectory includes a display; and a computer operatively coupled to the display, the computer having a program to display the borehole trajectory on the display, the program comprising instructions to enable: displaying the borehole trajectory and an indicator of a working interval in a big view window; and displaying a section of the borehole trajectory in a small view window, wherein the section corresponds to the working interval.

Claims

1. A method for displaying on a computer graphical user interface a borehole trajectory, comprising:

displaying the borehole trajectory and an indicator of a working interval in a first window; and

displaying a section of the borehole trajectory in a second window, wherein the section corresponds to the working interval, and wherein the first window and the second window are displayed concurrently within the same graphical user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the indicator in the first window is sychronized with the displaying the section in the second window, such that a change made to a display in the first window is reflected in a display of the second window or such that a change made to a display in the second window is reflected in a display of the first window.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying well log data in a third window.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the log data displayed in the third window correspond to the section displayed in the second window.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the displaying the section in the second window and the displaying the data in the third window are synchronized.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a line on a surface of the borehole trajectory, the line indicating a top-of-hole.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed borehole trajectory has diameters related to borehole diameters or a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a measurement value in response to a user action.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the measurement value represents a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a graphical representation of data associated with the borehole trajectory on a surface of the borehole trajectory.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a compass in the second window, the compass provides directional information.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a cross section of the section of the borehole trajectory in the second window.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a grid in the second window.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the grid includes information related to a physical dimension of the borehole trajectory or a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the section displayed in the second window is in a vertical orientation such that a top of the section aligns with a beginning of the borehole trajectory.

16. A system for displaying a borehole trajectory in a computer graphical user interface, comprising:

a display; and

a computer operatively coupled to the display, the computer having a program to display the borehole trajectory on the display, the program comprising instructions to enable;

displaying the borehole trajectory and an indicator of a working interval in a first window; and

displaying a section of the borehole trajectory in a second window, wherein the section corresponds to the working interval, and wherein the first window and the second window are displayed concurrently within the same graphical user interface.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the displaying the indicator in the first window is synchronized with the displaying the section in the second window, such that a change made to a display in the first window is reflected in a display of the second window or such that a change made to a display in the second window is reflected in a display of the first window.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying well log data in a third window.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the log data displayed in the third window correspond to the section displayed in the second window.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the displaying the section in the second window and the displaying the data in the third window are synchronized.

21. The system of claim 16, further comprising displaying a line on a surface of the borehole trajectory, the line indicating a top-of-hole.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the displayed borehole trajectory has diameters related to borehole diameters or a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying a measurement value in response to a user action.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the measurement value represents a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

25. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying a graphical representation of data associated with the borehole trajectory on a surface of the borehole trajectory.

26. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying a compass in the second window, the compass provides directional information.

27. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying a cross section of the section of the borehole trajectory in the second window.

28. The system of claim 16, wherein the program further comprising an instruction to enable displaying a grid in the second window.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the grid includes information related to a physical dimension of the borehole trajectory or a formation property determined along the borehole trajectory.

30. The system of claim 16, wherein the section displayed in the second window is in a vertical orientation such that a top of the section aligns with a beginning of the borehole trajectory.

31. A method for displaying on a graphical user interface_a borehole trajectory, comprising:

displaying well log data associated with the borehole trajectory and an indicator of a working interval in a first window; and

displaying a section of the borehole trajectory in a second window, wherein the section corresponds to the working interval, and wherein the first window and the second window are displayed concurrently within the same graphical user interface.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the displaying the indicator in the first window is synchronized with the displaying the section in the second window, such that a change made to a display in the first window is reflected in a display of the second window or such that a change made to a display in the second window is reflected in a display of the first window.