Sidetrack Reporting
Recommendations for handling daily reporting continuity when drilling a sidetrack in Well Seeker Pro.
Sometimes while drilling a well, there is a requirement to perform a sidetrack. If daily reporting has been recorded for the motherbore, this can present a dilemma regarding how to handle continuity for the daily reporting of the sidetrack.
The motherbore and sidetrack are entered as two separate Actual Wells below the Well itself.
Since daily reporting is associated with each Actual Well, when you start drilling the sidetrack, you will need to move across to start using the reporting connected to the sidetrack. When you do this, none of the daily reporting information associated with the motherbore will be present e.g. inventory, personnel, pipe tally etc. Your sidetrack reporting section will effectively be empty.
There are two ways to handle the transition from motherbore to sidetrack from a reporting perspective. These solutions are detailed below. Which one you choose will depend primarily on company policy.
For this option, you would keep the Motherbore and sidetrack reporting separate i.e. you would treat the sidetrack in the same way as you would a new well. There is however information associated with the motherbore that you can use, without having to enter everything again manually. The below steps will guide the user through this process:
- 1.You must first create a new actual well for the sidetrack.
- 2.In the database tree, right click at actual well level for the Motherbore and select Reporting – Export Reporting Data and save this to your desktop.
- 3.In the database tree, right click at actual well level for the Sidetrack and select Reporting – Import Reporting Data and select the file you have just saved to your desktop.
- 4.You will now have copied all the reporting data from the motherbore into the sidetrack.
- 5.Open the daily reporting dialog for the sidetrack and do the following:
- 1.Go to the Drill String Editor and DELETE all the BHA’s associated with the motherbore. Note, that this will also delete the associated slide sheets.
- 2.Create a new daily report. This will include all the personnel and Well Data.
- 1.If the job number or any of the other details have changed, then go into the Well Data and Personnel dialog for this new report and make the necessary changes.
- 3.Delete all the daily reports associated with the motherbore.
- 4.You should now only have one daily report left and you can adjust the report number to 1.
- 5.Go to the inventory and change the date on location values for all the tools to the appropriate date.
- 6.Open the daily reporting dialog for the Motherbore and do the following:
- 1.In the inventory, select all the tools as off location and enter the appropriate date in the date off location column. This is important as it will ensure the tools are not showing up for both the motherbore and the sidetrack.
After following the above steps, the user can then start to populate the daily reports while drilling the sidetrack. At the end of the well you will be able to produce a separate End of Well Report for both the motherbore and the sidetrack.
For this option, you would keep the motherbore and sidetrack reporting together, so that they are included in the same report. To do this, you will need to transfer all the daily reporting data from the motherbore across to the sidetrack.
In this situation, the motherbore reports would now be referenced under the sidetrack actual well, so when you print any of these reports, they will have the sidetrack details included instead of the motherbore.
The below steps will guide the user through this process:
- 1.You must first create a new actual well for the sidetrack.
- 2.In the database tree, right click at actual well level for the Motherbore and select Reporting – Transfer Reporting Data
- 1.Select the sidetrack from the dialog. It should be the only option available.
- 3.You will now have transferred all the daily reporting data from the motherbore to the sidetrack and can now continue where you left off with the reporting.
NOTE: This transfer process moves all the reporting data from the motherbore which means that once complete, there will be NO daily reporting data associated with the motherbore i.e. it will be completely empty. This is important as it means there is no duplicate data in the database which if present would adversely affect the KPI outputs for the well analytics.