Today's Wells

OpenWell's Features

The Today's Wells feature allows users to quickly determine the status of a Well, without navigating through the Well Explorer tree, Daily Reports and printed Morning Reports. This feature displays a pictorial representation of a Well along with pertinent data on the operation state of the Well for a given day. From this dialog the user can:

Today's Wells displays a picture of a Land Rig or an Offshore Rig, based on the configuration of the Reference Datum Level of the Well.

Land

Offshore

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Special Features and Functionality

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The Well picklist allows users to select a Well to view its operations status. This picklist is made up from a listing of "Favorite" Wells created by the user.

When the Today's Wells dialog is opened the Well currently selected in the Well Explorer tree, appears in this list.

Note: If no Well is selected at the time the Today's Wells dialog is opened, then you must select a Well from the list of Favorites or add a Well to the list of Favorites.

    1. To select a Well and view its current status, click the todays_wells5.gif button. The Select Well dialog appears.

    2. Select the Company, Project, Site and then the Well to viewed.

    3. If you are not sure where the Well is located, click the Find_Well_btn.gif button.

    4. Enter the name (or partial name) of the Well in the Well name field and click the Find button.

    5. A listing of Wells matching your search criteria is displayed. Select the Well you are looking for and click OK.

      For information on Finding a Well, see the Find Well Dialog topic.

    1. Click OK.

    2. To add Wells to the Favorites list, click the todays_wells15.gif button. The Manage Favorite Wells dialog appears.

    3. Click the todays_wells16.gif button, to add the Well to the Favorites list. This Well is now available from the list each time Today's Wells is opened.

    4. To add another Well to the Favorites list, click the todays_wells17.gif button.

    5. Select the Company, Project, Site and Well to be added to the Favorites list.

    6. If you are not sure where the Well is located, click the Find_Well_btn.gif button.

    7. Enter the name (or partial name) of the Well in the Well name field and click the Find button.

    8. A listing of Wells matching your search criteria is displayed. Select the Well you are looking for and click OK.

    1. Click OK.

The Well is added to the Favorites list and available for selection each time the Today's Wells dialog is opened.

Use the previous.gif and next.gif buttons to navigate through the list of Favorite Wells.

 

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The Date picklist allows the user select a date for which they want to view the Well's operation status.

Use the previous.gif and next.gif buttons to navigate through the report dates chronologically across the life cycle of the Well.

Graphs

The todays_wells1.gif button displays a Depth vs. Days Graph across the Event. This graph displays the planned and actual Measured Depth vs Days from Spud or Measured Depth vs Days on Location. The following fields are used to draw these graphs:

Actual: MD, Days on Location and Days from Spud are taken from the Daily Operations report, General section: MD, DOL and DFS fields.

Planned: MD and Duration is taken from the Well Planning report, Planned Operations section, MD To and Target Duration (converted to days) fields.

The todays_wells2.gifbutton displays a Cost vs. Days Graph across the Event. This graph can display Cumulative Cost  vs Days from Spud or Cumulative Cost vs Days on Location. The following fields are used to draw these graphs:

Actual: Cumulative Total, Days on Location and Days from Spud are taken from the Daily Operations report, General section: Cumulative Total, DOL and DFS fields.

Planned: MD and Duration is taken from the Well Planning report, Hole Plan section, Target Duration (converted to days) and Target Cost fields.

Output Reports

The todays_wells3.gif button allows users to view a number of Well related Output Reports, such as, the Daily Drilling Report or the Daily Cost Report.

Linked Data

Click on one of the Blue underlined links to navigate to the area where the data was entered. For example, click on the Pumps link opens the Pump Operations section of the Daily Operations report where the pump operations were entered.

A link is available for each type of Rig Equipment, the Bit and Survey data.

Actual exceeds Planned data

The Cumulative Cost appears in red, if it exceeds the AFE Total.

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The Daily MD appears in red if the MD for that day is below the planned MD for that day. OpenWells® software compares the MD current and Days on Location in the Daily report with the MD To and Target Duration in the Well Planning report, Planned Operations section, MD To and Target Duration.

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Non-productive Time (NPT) and Safety Incidents

If a NPT incident has been recorded the todays_wells4.gif icon appears on the Today's Wells dialog, click the Non-Productive Time link to view the NPT. A pie chart representing downtime is also displayed.

Likewise, if a Safety incident has been recorded the todays_wells6.gif icon  appears on the Today's Wells dialog, click the Safety Incident link to view the Safety incident.

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Wellbore Schematic

The area to the right of the picture displays a schematic of the Wellbore associated with the selected Report date. To generate a schematic click anywhere in the white area.

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