Automated Calculation of Average

Flow Capacity using Workflow Editor

Petrel 2014.5
This short document describes a workflow built in Petrel’s Workflow Editor upon a client’s request. The objective
is to automate calculation of the average flow capacity (kh) of each production zone, at each well, using the
permeability logs.
The workflow executes the following operations:
1. A perforation log is generated for each well.
2. Separate permeability logs are created for each production zone, at each well.
3. An average permeability log is derived using the Well Log calculator.
4. Thickness of the perforation intervals is calculated.
5. An average flow capacity log is derived by multiplying the average permeability by the thickness of the
corresponding perforation interval.
6. Statistics are written to an Output sheet.
7. The average permeability and flow capacity are read from the Output sheet.
8. Well name, perforation number, thickness, average permeability and flow capacity are written to the Output
sheet, in tabular format.
 The thickness of each
production zone is calculated.

The outer loop is used to Statistics of the permeability logs are written The inner loop is used to generate
generate the required logs to an Output sheet: Toggle on List 1 to output separate permeability and flow
for each well. the min/max and List 2 to output the mean. capacity logs of each perforation.
Thickness of a production zone is calculated by subtracting the Top MD from the Bottom MD of the corresponding
perforation.
The average permeability-
thickness logs of all perforations
in a well are combined into one
log, called AvPermH.
Well name, perforation
number, thickness, average
permeability and flow capacity
are written to an Output
sheet, in tabular format.
The variable “counter” is used to count
the perforations in each well and to
label the generated logs accordingly
(e.g. Perm_1, AvPermH_2 etc.)
A sub-folder called “Workflow Logs” is generated under the Global well logs and the perforation’s permeability and
average flow capacity logs (e.g. Perm_1, AvPermH_2 etc.) are moved into this folder. This is achieved by identifying
the logs starting with “Perm_” or “AvPermH_”.
Please note that Petrel does not allow to open the Well Log calculator with a variable as Well input.
Therefore, to set the template of the log you are generating and to
resample it from a given log (e.g. MD), you need to drop the
“Wells” folder as Well input and double-click on the Well Log
calculator in the workflow.
After defining the template and the log from which to sample, set the Well input back to “Variable A”.
 To be deleted
before running
the workflow

Input pane - Generated logs

Perforation and average flow capacity logs

Output sheet - Average Kh values

per perforation