9.11 - Chart Properties

The Chart Properties dialog contains all of the options available for customising the display and function of a chart. It can be opened by double left clicking on the chart. Alternatively, it can be opened by selecting the Chart Properties option in the Chartssection of the Homeribbon, or the Generalsection of the Chart Properties ribbon.

Some options from the Chart Properties dialog can also be set in the** Defaults**ribbon, allowing the user to set a default config for every chart that is opened.

Figure 233: Chart Properties

The Chart Properties dialog is divided into grids that are explained below. Some options are only available when viewing certain charts:

9.11.1 - Labels/ Symbols

Lithologies

This section allows the user to display and customise lithologies on their chart. Lithologies are defined in the Lithologies Dialog, which can be accessed by right-clicking at plan or actual well level. Lithologies cannot be displayed on plan view plots.

Display: Displays the lithology labels on the plot. These will be displayed at the TVDs entered in the Lithologies Dialog. This option must be toggled on before other options can be used.

Include TVD: Adds the lithology TVD to each label.

Labels on RHS: In section view charts, moves labels to the right-hand side of the chart.

Lines: Draws lines on the chart at the TVD of each lithology top. If a dip value has been entered in the Lithologies Dialog, the line will be angled.

Planes: Only available in 3D Plots, and the Lines option must be toggled on. Converts the displayed lines into 3D planes.

Background: Sets the background colour of the label.

Label Colour: Sets the text colour of the label.

Line Colour: Sets the colour of the lines, if the Lines option is toggled on.

Annotations

This section allows the user to display and customise annotations on their chart. Annotations are defined in the Annotations Dialog, which can be accessed by right-clicking at plan or actual well level.

Display: Toggles on annotation labels.

Details: Adds the corresponding MD, TVD, INC, AZI and VS to each annotation label.

Include offsets: Applies the selected settings to offset wells as well as the reference well.

Label Colour: Sets the text colour of the label.

Background: Sets the background colour of the label.

Tetherlines

This section allows the user to customise tether lines, which connect labels to their point of interest on the chart.

Display: Toggles tether lines on or off. The dropdown list allows the user to select the symbol, if any, that is assigned to the tether line anchor point.

Colour: Sets the colour of the tether lines.

Depth Labels

This section allows the user to annotate plots with depth labels at regular intervals.

Depths: Toggles on depth labels. This option must be toggled on before other options can be used.

Inclinations: Adds the inclination to each depth label.

Azimuths: Adds the azimuth to each depth label.

Label at survey: Displays the depth labels at each survey instead of a set interval.

Angled: Re-orientates the labels so that they are displayed perpendicular to the wellbore.

Include offsets: Applies the selected settings to offset wells as well as the reference well.

Label Colour: Sets the text colour of the label.

Background: Sets the background colour of the label.

Interval: Sets the distance between each depth label.

Type: Sets whether the interval is measured in measured depth or TVD.

Depth Range: Toggle this option on to restrict the depth labels to only display across a specified range.

Survey point symbols: Only available in 3D plots. Adds a sphere at each survey point.

Well Plans

This section is only available when the reference well is a plan.

Critical point symbols: Displays a green dot to represent each critical point (line) in the plan.

Critical point labels: Displays the associated method, MD, INC and AZI beside each critical point.

Well Names

This section allows the user to add a label displaying the well name at the end of each well.

Display: Toggles on well name labels.

Angled: Changes the angle of the label.

Include offsets: Applies the selected settings to offset wells as well as the reference well.

Label Colour: Sets the text colour of the label.

Background: Sets the background colour of the label.

Casing

This section allows the user to display casings on their chart. Casings are defined in the Casings Dialog, which can be accessed by right-clicking at plan or actual well level.

Display: Toggles on casings on the reference well.

Angled: Angles the label text so that it is perpendicular to the wellbore at the casing point.

Include offsets: Applies the selected settings to offset wells as well as the reference well.

Use dot as symbol: Changes the symbols on the chart from casing symbols to dots.

Background: Sets the background colour of the label.

Wellheads

This section is only available in the plan view and spider charts. It allows the user to display wellheads and slot templates.

Wellheads: Displays a green dot to represent the wellheads of the reference well and any offset wells.

Templates: Displays the slot template. Slot templates are defined in the Facility Properties Dialog.

Slot/ Well Names: Displays the well names beside each wellhead, or the template prefix besides each slot.

Inner/Outer Tolerance Circles: Displays the tolerance circles that can be entered in the Actual Wellbore/Plan Properties Dialog.

9.11.2 - Error Ellipses

These options control how error ellipses are displayed on charts. Error ellipses can be toggled on or off by toggling the Show Ellipsesoption in the Chart Propertiesribbon. Note that displaying error ellipses when a large number of offsets are enabled can impact performance.

Interval: Sets the display interval, in surveys, of the error ellipses on the chart. For example, an interval of 2 will display an ellipse on every other survey.

Line style: Dropdown menu to choose line style if ‘Use series line style’ is toggled off.

Draw as ellipsoid: Only available in the 3D plot. Ellipses will be displayed as 3D ellipsoids instead of 2D ellipses.

Draw as cone: Only available in the 3D plot. Ellipses will be displayed as a continuous cone instead of discrete ellipses.

Use series line style: Toggle this option to match error ellipse line styles with the line styles of their respective wellbores.

Use series colour: Toggle this option to match error ellipse colour with the line styles of their respective wellbores.

Display: Toggles on Error Ellipses.

9.11.3 - Travelling Cylinder

These options are only available when viewing a travelling cylinder plot.

North/Highside: Toggle between referencing the chart to north or highside referenced. The default reference can be selected in the Anti-Collision Settings, which is accessed via the Anti-Collision section of the Home ribbon.

Show Errors on Ref Well: If error ellipses are being displayed, this option displays the ellipses on the reference well.

If the user has opened a Travelling Cylinder plot from a plan, any offset surveys which are associated with the same Well will not display errors when the user selects to show these.

In the above image if the user opens the New Plan and offsets the current survey and the offset survey, when in the TC plot, if they select to display errors, NO errors will be displayed on the Current Survey because it is associated with the same well (Ref Well) as the plan which is being referenced. The offset survey will show errors as it is associated with a different well.

Selecting Show Errors on Ref Well allows the user to override this and display the errors on Current survey if they require.

It is worth noting here that if the user opens a TC plot from the Current survey and offsets the New Plan, even though the new plan is associated with the same well, the errors will display. The program behaves differently depending on whether a survey or plan is the reference for the TC plot.

9.11.4 - Geo Steering Data

These options are only available in the Section View or 3D Plots. They require data to be entered into the Geo-Steering Updates dialog which can be accessed by right-clicking at plan or actual well level.

Target Zone: Displays the data from the Geo-Steering Updates table on the section and 3D plots.

Interpretation: This option is used in conjunction with the ROGII StarSteer integration.

9.11.5 - TVD Slice

This option is only available when viewing a spider plot. It allows the user to define a TVD slice to dispaly on the chart.

9.11.6 - User Defined Labels

If a chart has any user defined labels displayed on it, this option can be used to toggle them on/off.

To add a custom label, the user can double-click an existing label, or right click in the chart and select ‘Add custom label’ from the context menu. Once the dialog is open, the user can adjust the available options to best suit their needs.

9.11.7 - General

SF Warnings: Only available when viewing the Separation Factor plot. This option will toggle on/off the warning level lines on the chart.

9.11.8 - Grid

This section allows the user to modify the chart axis and scale, as well as customise the grid lines and background colour.

Axis / Scale

This section is where the user can define the size and scale of the chart axis and customise the chart grid lines and ticks.

Limits: X, Y min and max: Allows the user to define the maximum and minimum values for the X and Y axis. Toggle the checkboxes besides each one to allow Well Seeker to automatically set the limits.

• If the fixed scale option is not selected, changing the min and max values will change the scale.

• If the fixed scale option has been toggled below, entering a min or max value will cause the other value for that axis to change. This is to preserve the scale value set by the user.

Grid Lines: Major and Minor: Allows the user to toggle whether major and minor grid lines are displayed on the chart. Grid lines can be toggled for individual axis. Use the dropdown boxes to the right to set the colour of the gridlines.

Ticks: Maj Tick and Min Tick: Uncheck the checkboxes to manually define the interval between each major and minor ticks on the X- and Y-axis.

Scale: The fixed scale option must be toggled on before this can be edited. Allows the user to set the axis scale sizes. The scale is the size of the axis per unit length on the physical page. It is most relevant in the Wall Plot Composer.

Thick Major Gridlines: Toggle this on to increase the width of major grid lines on the chart.

Scale / cm: Toggles between scale/in or scale/cm if the show scales option is turned on.

Banded Grid: This option is only available in the Section View Plot in the Wall Plot Composer. When selected, it removes the gridlines from the area of the chart to the right of the wellbore. This provides a cleaner space in the wall plot to add additional plots and tables.

Lock to end: This option is only available in the Section View Plot in the Wall Plot Composer. Whenever the WPC is opened, the chart will automatically zoom in on the last survey for the well. This keeps the chart up to date as the well is being drilled.

Show Scales: Toggle this option on to display the scale/in or scale/cm value on the chart axis. The scale is the size of the axis per unit length on the physical page. It is most relevant in the Wall Plot Composer.

Fixed Scales: Toggling this on allows the user to manually set the scale.

Colours

This section allows the user to set the colours of the chart background and axis.

Desktop: Sets the colour of the area around the plot, where the chart and axis titles are contained.

Background: Sets the colour of the chart background in section and plan view charts.

X Z Plane: Sets the colour of the X & Z planes in the 3D plot.

Y Plane: Sets the colour of the Y planes in the 3D plot.

Text: Sets the colour of the title and axis labels.

Graph Options

This section defines the chart border and allows the user to display a legend.

Border: Defines the style of the border around the outside of the chart.

Legend: Any option other than hide will display a legend on the chart, containing each well path currently displayed on the chart.

Font Sizes

This section allows the user to define the font size of any text in the chart.

Labels: Defines the size of any labels (casing, annotations, etc.) on the chart.

Axis numbers: Defines the size of the text in the axis titles.

Grid numbers: Defines the size of the numbers displayed on each axis.

9.119 - 3D Chart

The following settings only apply when viewing a 3D plot.

Display: Toggles on the worksight around the fly down sphere, which displays the high side direction and a circular sight representing distance from the wellbore.

Compass ring: Toggles the compass ring, which displays the direction of north/south and east/west around the fly down sphere.

Info Text: Changes the colour of the info text on the left hand side of the chart, that displays trajectory information of the wellbore at the current fly down sphere position.

Radius: Defines the radius of the worksight.

Increment: Defines the increment of the distance markers in the work sight.

Show Rig: Toggles a 3D model of a rig at the well surface location.

Lease Line (LL) Curtain: Toggling on changes lease lines from 2D shapes to 3D shapes, that extend from surface down to the deepest TVD of the displayed wells. Targets must be displayed before this option has any effect.

Bit Projection: If the reference well has a projection added to it, this option can be used to toggle the display of the projection on/off on the chart.

Survey Spheres: Sets the size of survey spheres, which can be toggled on/off in the Depth Labels section.

Fly Down Spheres: Sets the size of the fly down sphere.

Bit Projection colour: Sets the colour of the bit projection.

Depleted zone: Toggling on will display the depleted zones. This will display a non-expanding ellipse, based on the dimensions set at the actual wellbore properties dialog, and where the depleted zones intersect, they will be in red.

Depleted zone colour: Sets the colour of the depleted zone.

9.11.10 - Plan/ Section View

Only available when viewing a Plan or Section View chart.

Intersection projection: Adds a straight line projection from the last survey or plan station, that extends until it intersects all available lease lines. At each intersection point there is an annotation showing the distance (DIST) between the last station and the intersection point, as well as the Measured Depth, Noth/South, East/West and Vertical Section of the intersection point.

Perpendicular: Requires Intersection Projection to be toggled on. Changes the projection so that it now projects perpendicular to the last station instead of forwards. Each intersection is annotated as before. The forward projection is also displayed as a green line.

Show 330’ perp: Requires Intersection Projection and Perpendicular to be toggled on. This option adds perpendicular projections to the forward projection line. These projections are positioned so that they hit the lease lines at a distance of 330 feet (100.584m) from the forward projection line.

Whole well:

Step Interval:

Lookahead:

Closest approach:

Unwrapped: Only available for section view charts.

9.11.11 - Series Styles

The Series Styles section allows the user to customise how the reference wellbore, and any offsets, are displayed on the chart. The table lists the reference well and any displayed offsets.

Name: The name of the actual well or plan.

Type: Whether the well is an actual well or a planned well.

Colour: The colour of the well/plan when displayed on the chart. Double click to edit. Note that if ‘Force Colour’ has been toggled on in the Well/Actual Well Properties dialog, this will have no effect.

Line Style: The style of line used to plot the well on the chart. Double click to edit.

Visible: Toggle this on/off to show or hide the well on the chart. This option allows the user to tweak which offsets are visible without having to deselect them in the Select Offset dialog.

Force Colour: If force colour is turned on in the actual well or plan properties, this column will be checked, and the user cannot edit the colour in the chart properties.

Marker: Double click to select the marker symbol used when show markers is toggled on.

Only show principal plan: Toggling this option on will hide all offsets other than the principal plan assigned to the reference well.

Randomize well colours: Toggling this option will assign a random colour to all wells in the table.

Show markers: Adds marker symbols at regular intervals along the wells. Does not apply to 3D plots.

Check all: Toggles the ‘Visible’ checkbox for all wells & plans in the table.

9.11.12 - Targets

This section allows the user to display targets, drillers targets and lease lines on the chart. To be available for display, targets must be assigned to the reference well using the Targets dialog. This can be assigned by right clicking at actual/plan level and selecting Targets.

Assigned targets will be listed in the table in this section.

Display Targets: Displays all visible targets on the chart. Most other options in this section require this option to be toggled on before they become available.

Target Names: Adds a label to each target, showing the target name.

Lease Line Names: Adds a label to each lease line, showing the lease line name.

Drillers Targets: If any of the displayed targets have a drillers target assigned, toggling this option on will display them on the chart. Drillers targets are created in the Targets dialog.

Lease line intersections: If this option is toggled on, and one of the displayed wells crosses a lease line, an annotation will be added to the chart at the point where the lease line is intersected.

Background: Sets the background colour of the target labels.

Label Colour: Sets the text colour of the target labels.

Check all: It marks all targets as ‘Visible’.

Lease Line: If the target has been assigned as a lease line in the Targets Dialog, the checkbox here will be checked. This column is not editable.

Colour: The line colour of the target. Double click to edit.

Line Style: The style of line used to draw the target. Double click to edit.

Visible: Toggle this on/off to show or hide the target on the chart. This option allows the user to tweak which targets and lease lines are visible.

Filled: Toggling this option on will fill in the target. Set the fill colour by double clicking in the Fill Colour cell.