To create a vertical well in Insight go to the well tab and select new well
The well configuration dialog opens up and allows you to enter well header information such as
The well name
The well status
The Unique Well Identifier (UWI)
Whether its a land or marine well
The kelly bushing height
And the water depth
The UWI is the most important value and should follow government or corporate defined values whenever possible in order to match with records in other databases
American Petroleum Institute (API) values can be used if this is provided instead of a UWI
There are other parameters in here such as well number and custom display name but they are optional and do not need to be completed
Click on create well, to generate the well
Notice that the well does not appear on either section or map view
in order to display the well you need to have a well path
Click on the path tab of the configure well dialog and select new well path
Its possible to import a deviated well here, but I'm going to create a straight path as selected by default
Give the path a name such as “vertical’
and type in the projected surface X and Y coordinates or the geographic longitude and latitude values
If the incoming data has a different CRS to the project
you can select the incoming CRS and have the coordinates converted to the project CRS
Finally specify the max measured depth Kelly Bushing, the total depth of the well, and click on OK
The well appears on the map view and I can now close the well configuration dialogue
The well has not yet appeared on the section view, and if I zoom in on the map view we can see why
Adding a measurement of perpendicular distance to the 2D line, the well is over 450m away from the seismic
I have to change the projection distance in the control panel to be larger than this distance
The well still does not appear on the time section
but changing to depth the well makes an appearance because its stored in depth and not in time
Now the well is visible I can change some of the display parameters such as the colour and the path thickness
Thats better!
Notice the really useful option to show the exact projection distance on the section
Lets see if we can get this well displayed in time
To do this I need a time depth table
Ideally I should load some checkshots, but I dont have any so I will create a simple table using the synthetics tool instead
Select the new well from the drop down menu
Instantly you are prompted to create a time depth conversion for the new well
Select the manual mode and type in a simple time depth pair
If you are not sure what values to use simply put the total depth and a matching two way time
but remember that this will only give an indicator and not the correct position in time
Click OK to create the time depth table
The well now appears on the time section and i can close the synthetic tool
The curve being displayed is the time depth function you have just created
and you can turn it off using the control panel options
Your well is now visible on the map view and section view in both time and depth
You are ready to start loading checkshots, log curves and interpreting markers