Creating Well Production Billboards for Google Earth

RockWorks | Borehole Manager | Production | Google Earth Billboards

This program is used to read date-based oil and gas production data from the borehole database, create requested production graphs for each enabled well, and output the graphs as vertical "billboards" in Google Earth.

This program requires that Google Earth is installed on your computer. It is installed separately from RockWorks.

Feature Level: RockWorks Advanced

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary

Menu Options

• Graph Type: Click on the Options button to choose the type of graph you wish to generate for the map.
  • Type of graph: This drop-down list includes a long list of diagram types, for display of single measurements or multiple measurements. (More.)
  • Adjust Parameters: Use this button to customize the type of graphs to be displayed as well as the features of each graph. (More.)
  • Normalize graph(s) to same range as other wells: Check this box if the graphs for all of the wells are to be plotted at the same scale, to accomodate the highest value in the population.
  • Date Labeling Frequency: Choose the labeling frequency for the lower horizontal (time) axis for each graph.
  • Plot Master Title: Check this box to include a title at the top of each mini-graph.
    • Use Borehole Name: Choose this option to plot each well's name in its graph title.
    • Other: Choose this option to plot a different title. Enter the text for the title in the prompt. This will be used on all graphs
    • Font size: This is defined as a percent of the extent of the diagram. The greater the value, the larger the text. (Default = 3%)
    
    
• Date Filter: Check this box to restrict the graph to a specific date range. Click the Options button to define the range.
  • Starting Date: Type in the starting date for the graphs using a mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy format as is consistent with how your data is displayed in the database (per Windows date/number format).
  • Ending Date: Type in the ending date for the graphs using the same date format.
    
    
• Stratigraphy Filter: Check this box to plot the data listed for a specific formation. Expand this heading to select the formation name. (If left unchecked, all measurements will be included, given the date filter, above).
  
  • Filtering Formation: Select the name of the formation whose data is to be plotted. The formations will be listed from the Stratigraphy Types Table.
    
    
• Billboards: Click the Options button to view/adjust the Billboard settings.
  • Units: Choose Feet or Meters by clicking in the appropriate radio button.
  • Width: Type in the width, in the above units, for the billboards. For example, if you set the width to 50 meters, the billboards will plot that wide in relation to the ground in Google Earth.
  • Elevation: Enter the offset above ground in the above units.
  • Direction: Enter the left-to-right reading direction of the billboards, in a 0 to 360 azimuth format.
  • Group clustered wells: Check this box if the billboards for proximal wells are to be combined into a single, stacked diagram.
    
    
• Miscellaneous
  • BOE Conversion Factor: Click to the right to type in the Barrel of Oil Equivalent conversion factor. Gas production values will be mulitplied by this value and added to the Oil production numbers to generate a total production value.
    
     

Step-by-Step Summary

1. Access the Borehole Manager program tab.
2. Enter/import your well production data into the database.
   

3. Select the Production | Google Earth Billboards menu option. 
4. Establish the diagram settings, discussed above. 
5. Click the Process button to continue.
   
   

   The program will generate the requested graph(s) for the enabled boreholes, storing them in a KML file inside a KMZ (zip) file. The Google Earth KML and KMZ file names will be assigned automatically.

6. If RockWorks displays the KMZ name in a popup window for your reference, you can confirm:
   • Automatically load file into Google Earth: Be sure this is checked if you want to display the output at this time.
   • Show this message every time a KMZ File is Created: If checked, this window will be displayed each time a Google Earth output is created. Uncheck this if you prefer not to see this window in the future.
     (Both of these settings are also available via the Preferences menu.)
     
   • Click OK to continue or Cancel to cancel the operation.

The billboards will be displayed in Google Earth, if requested. 

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