PTTC Network News Volume 6, 3rd Quarter

New Borehole CD-ROM released by AAPG

A new American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) publication, “Atlas of Borehole Imagery,” offers geologists a two-disc CD-ROM with a catalog of borehole images to help interpret the results of service-company testing. Ultrasound and electricity produce borehole maps that help geologists interpret the rocks at depth or help the geologist understand the formation in a horizontal well.

The atlas is organized into several sections, and text hyperlinks allow the reader to jump from one section to another. Key references are reprinted on the CD, for the reader’s background learning.

The CD-ROM includes sections on:
The history of borehole imaging
Tools
Data
Geologic images
A non-geologic catalog
Quantitative analysis

Also included is a separate demo CD of interpretation software and images. The CD-ROM, Discover Series No. 4, is available from the AAPG Bookstore for $39.

For more information, contact AAPG at phone 918-584-2555 or visit http://bookstore.aapg.org.

New Drop In Drum Eliminates Respooling

Hydra Rig, a division of Tuboscobe’s coiled tubing and wireline group, has developed a drop-in drum (DID) and mounting system for steel coiled tubing that eliminates respooling from a shipping drum onto a work drum. Created with several design objectives in mind, including keeping it simple, adaptable, and covering a broad size range, the new design has created a purpose-built shipping and storage drum that also is the work drum in a reel. The drum drops in and mechanically locks to the reel stand, eliminating pivoting pedestals, translating arms, shafts or hydraulic lifts. Preliminary testing shows that the DID system will help to:

Increase the life of the coiled tubing drum by about 5%
Eliminate or minimize yard spooling
Allow quick pipe change
Reduce total pipe inventory
Allow more off-shore lift flexibility

Currently undergoing extensive testing and field application, the DID should be ready to commercialize by the end of 2000.

For more information, contact Randy Graves at Hydra Rig, phone 817-457-3825, fax 817-457-3897, email hrisales@hydrarig.com.

Excerpted from Hart’s E&P July 2000 issue.

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New CD-ROM Shows Gas Potential of New Albany Shale in Illinois Basin

Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and the Illinois Basin Consortium (IBC) are introducing a CD-ROM that profiles the gas potential of New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin. Featured on the disc are updated maps of New Albany Shale (Devonian and Mississippian) in GIS shapefile format, as well as 1991-1997 digital data for cores, references, and New Albany wells. The 1994 GTI/IBC report addressing the gas potential of the Shale and articles published since 1991 are also included as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Specifics contained in the CD-ROM include updated records in a Microsoft Access database of more than 5,000 wells. Records feature well permit numbers (identification number), and Shale elevation and thickness. Map plates, originally printed at a scale of 1:1,000,000, have been updated. These shapefiles, for the New Albany Shale, include: (1) elevation of the top; (2) thickness; (3) average initial potential (IP); (4) mean random vitrinite reflectance; and (5) locations of cores. Stratigraphic cross-sections illustrating the distribution of the New Albany Shale in the three-state area are also featured.

The ESRI software program, ArcExplorer, is included on the CD for viewing GIS information. ArcView project files are also included.

Available for $84.00, the CD-ROM (GRI-00/0068) can be ordered through: GTI Document Fulfillment Center, phone 773-399-5414, email: Fillit@compuserve.com, Illinois State Geological Survey, phone 217-333-4747, Indiana Geological Survey, phone 812-855-7636, Kentucky Geological Survey, phone 606-257-5500.

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WellBid Introduces Embeddable Software, Combines with eNersection as Wellogix

WellBid, Inc., a provider of application services for improving well-related procurement workflow, has developed an embeddable software program that allows companies to license and privately brand WellBid’s Internet-based software. Oil and gas producers and service companies can use WellBid InLine to enhance their specific exchanges, portals, or internal e-commerce initiatives, without having to spend time and money to develop their own solution for service procurement.

WellBid provides application services and software infrastructure to streamline workflow in the specification and purchase of well-related services and equipment in the upstream oil and gas industry. These requirements are sent through WellBid as requests for proposals to the producer’s selected vendors. The two parties collaborate online to refine and negotiate the producer’s requirements until a transaction is closed through WellBid’s service.

Wellbid merged with eNersection in early August to create Wellogix. The combined company, headquartered in Houston, will provide tools for expediting the inter-company exchange of enterprise data, streamlining workflow and collaboration, and transacting complex, engineered services via the internet.

For more information about Wellogix products or services, visit www.wellogix.com, e-mail info@wellogix.com, or call 877-493-5524.