DENVER, CO, Aug 26, 2014 – Dynamic Graphics (DGI) announces a new version of its well planning / directional drilling software, WellArchitect 4.1. In addition to numerous upgrades for the WellArchitect client-base, WellArchitect 4.1 offers a new tool to the industry: interactive 3D collision-avoidance / clearance-scan visualization available during planning and while projecting ahead during drilling. The new tools display collision-avoidance symbols and 3D MASD (minimum allowable separation distance) tubes in the Well Path Designer’s Viewer. The collision-avoidance symbols can be used to highlight areas of concern in the 3D Viewer that would not be readily visible by reviewing traditional reports. In addition, the new collision-avoidance symbols can remain displayed in the Viewer while the user modifies a plan, allowing revisions to be visualized against the clearance-scan information.
Planning and monitoring of drilling can be done in an integrated visualization environment, especially when run with Dynamic Graphics′ CoViz 4D. On the right, wellpaths can be juxtaposed to earth models, reservoir models, and more (picture from Dynamic Graphics website)
Demonstrations of the new features of WellArchitect 4.1, along with other DGI software products, will be available at the Dynamic Graphics booth, #1925, at Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC), August 25-27, 2014.
Tubes displayed around each offset well show the minimum allowable separation distance (MASD) from the reference wellpath, and are colored by the pass (green) ⁄ fail (red; not shown) criteria of an ACR (anti-collision rule). Collision-avoidance symbols indicate the space available for steering away from nearby wells; each symbol can be queried as to its length (the amount of available space) and direction (picture from Dynamic Graphics website)
“WellArchitect greatly improves the well planning and directional drilling workflows. Traditional 1D reports and 2D traveling-cylinder plots are great. But seeing clearance scans in 3D with our new collision avoidance tools allows users to focus quickly on danger areas – areas of near misses – and easily investigate how to fix problems. These interactive tools make revising well plans much quicker, reducing iterations between running scans and changing the plan.” said Dynamic Graphics president, Art Paradis.
About WellArchitect
WellArchitect, developed in conjunction with Baker Hughes, is an advanced well planning and survey management system for integrated planning and drilling of directional wellpaths with or without earth models. Devised to seamlessly accommodate the needs of sidetracking, multi-lateral wellpaths, and re-entry drilling, WellArchitect is used at both the office and wellsite, by all personnel levels in the industry. Trajectory calculations, target erosion by positional uncertainty, reporting, plotting, and 3D visualization are all included in this package. For more information about WellArchitect, visit http://www.dgi.com/wellarchitect/wamain.html.
About Dynamic Graphics, Inc.
Dynamic Graphics, Inc., partners with clients to solve spatial analysis problems in the petroleum, environmental, and earth-related sciences. Over the past four decades, DGI has been the premier provider of geospatial solutions with our innovative, easy-to-use software and outstanding support services. DGI offers three software packages: CoViz 4D, WellArchitect, and EarthVision.
For more information about Dynamic Graphics, Inc., visit http://www.dgi.com/.