WellCAD SOFTWARE

WellCAD is one of the most powerful and interactive PC based well data management tools available on the open market.

WellCAD is a single well-oriented system that operates under Win32, the 32 bits application-programming interface (API) from Microsoft.

WellCAD runs on Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, Windows NT and DEC Alpha AXP running Windows NT. WellCAD is OLE2 compliant and supports OLE object linking and embedding, OLE automation and drag and drop between WellCAD documents and other OLE compliant software.

Windows compatibility

Compatibility with Windows means that WellCAD printing and plotting is virtually hardware independent. Data exchange between WellCAD

and other data sources and repositories is extremely flexible using industry standard file formats and using the Windows clipboard and OLE functionality

WellCAD data types

WellCAD is capable of handling a diverse range of borehole information all on one document. These data types include:

Conventional single curve well logs e.g natural gamma and density curves
Full waveform sonic logs with wiggle, black and white and full colour VDL presentation
Image logs (FMS, televiewer, multi-am caplier)
Structure logs(sine wave and arrow plots)
Lithological logs with and without bed boundaries
Comment full text logs. Mud logs (uneven depth sampled or time based data)
Well construction and down-hole equipment logs
OLE logs (containing embedded or linked objects from other applications)

WellCAD Features

Windows 95 graphical user interface
Multiple document interface
Fully mouse driven
Windows clipboard data exchange facilities
Multiple log file import and export facilities
Full log editing facilities
WYSIWYG display and print preview
OLE automation
OLE drag and drop
Global depth shift function
Document templates
Worksheet customization

WellCAD tools:

Header Editor - with independent zoom and rotation
Formula Parser - with dynamic data link and formula browser
Depth Matcher -for differentially squeezing and stretching logs
Image and Structure Log Processing Module -for image log processing and interactive structure interpretation
Tabular Editor - with dynamic data link

Application in L & TD – VSP.

WellCAD is powerful software and has been used for multi-purpose in L & TD. Since 1996 it has often been used for casing inspection quick look analysis plots.

This picture presents a casing inspecting result in White Tiger oil field .