Here we endeavour to:
- Share which technical software packages PAETORO possesses in house for geotechnical analysis
- Share some specific tools, mainly excel templates, that are for use at your own risk, but which we have developed and found useful
- Share some other tools which - if you are a fellow start-up - you might find useful in the context of general company framework
Key in house geotechnical packages:
Seismic Interpretation: OpendTect (DUG can be licensed where larger projects demand, and familiarity also for Petrel and Kingdom)
Digital well log analysis: Zetalog
Image log review: Blueview
LIS-DLIS-ASCII-LAS conversions: Schlumberger freeware
Log Digitising: Digitize it
GIS work: ArcGIS & ArcGIS Pro
Volumetrics: Crystal Ball & various in-house excel templates
PVT Analysis: REToolkit
Basin Modelling: Petromod 1D Express
Fault Seal: FaultRisk and in-house excel templates for fault juxtaposition SGR analysis
Digital well log analysis: Zetalog
Image log review: Blueview
LIS-DLIS-ASCII-LAS conversions: Schlumberger freeware
Log Digitising: Digitize it
GIS work: ArcGIS & ArcGIS Pro
Volumetrics: Crystal Ball & various in-house excel templates
PVT Analysis: REToolkit
Basin Modelling: Petromod 1D Express
Fault Seal: FaultRisk and in-house excel templates for fault juxtaposition SGR analysis
Excel Templates
A few useful templates are given below, please be clear, again, that these are used at your own risk, but hopefully they can be of assistance:
- Deterministic and probabilistic Monte-Carlo simulation for oil & gas volumetrics in Excel
- see below
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- Fault seal juxtaposition and SGR analysis
- available shortly
- available shortly
Some nice bits of kit we've found useful & reasonably priced as a start-up
We're open to suggestions if you have some, but so far we've used:
Graphics: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2018
Internet security: Malwarebytes
Large File relay: Mailbigfile
Screen Capture: SnagIt
Website construction: Weebly
Website domain: GoDaddy
Email: Microsoft Office Business o365
Graphics: CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2018
Internet security: Malwarebytes
Large File relay: Mailbigfile
Screen Capture: SnagIt
Website construction: Weebly
Website domain: GoDaddy
Email: Microsoft Office Business o365
Other useful services
QDOS: Indemnity Insurance
Petrophysics: We work with David Sendra
Poster Production: We use Bob Phillips at Maple Graphics