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How to add a well or outcrop section

Choose the Wells & Outcrops module icon on the StrataBugs control panel to open the Wells Main Window.

To add the new well to an existing project, select one from the drop down list. Alternatively you can add the well to a project later (see below).

Press Add... to open the Wells: Add dialog.

Enter information about the well in each of the three tabs. Fields highlighted in red are mandatory; other fields can be ignored or filled in at a later date if required.

When you have finished press OK. If you have previously selected a project you will be asked it you want to add the well to it. If not the well name will remain on the list for this session only.

If you want to add other information about the well, such as cored intervals or casing points (shoes) and Seismic markers, or have TVD or TWT ASCII files which you wish to use with StrataBugs, press the appropriate button on the Wells Main Window.

Note: The terminology used in StrataBugs is principally directed at users dealing with well samples. However, you can use it just as easily for outcrop sections; just select the type of section as Outcrop instead of Well.

Projects

A project is a group of wells. Wells can belong one or more project, but they do not have to belong to any project. You can delete a project without deleting its wells. Several parts of StrataBugs allow you to view data grouped by project; for example the Schemes & Interpretations module allows you to compare one data type for all the wells in a project, and in the Wells module you can create a map of one project.

Other items are also placed in projects. Taxon groups & sets can belong to projects, as well as all chart templates (panels, blocks, correlations and charts). Items which do not belong to a specific project are designated as global. Around the system you will see the symbols (open circle) for global and (closed circle) for a specific project.

To create a project, use the Wells & Outcrops module. Press the "..." button next to the project selector. You see the Project : Select dialog listing the projects already in the database:

Press Add... to create a new project. You will be prompted to enter a name; it must be no more than 60 characters long.

In some situations the Add... button is disabled. If you need to add a project, do so through the Wells & Outcrops module. Pressing Edit... lets you change the name of a project.

You can always Delete a project, unless it is referenced by blocks in charts (project blocks or scheme blocks). If the project contains groups, sets or chart templates, you will be given the choice of setting these to 'global' or deleting them.

 

To add an existing well to a project, use the Wells & Outcrops module. Select the project from the drop-down list at the top (or add a new project as above). Use the Select button to select the well(s) you want to add, and you will be asked if you wish to add them to the project.

Note that the legacy Charts module uses the concept of "Chart Projects", which are entirely separate from projects discussed here.

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