Prepared for: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

By: Dulce Cruz and Borja De Faria-Pereira Perez de Rada

Date: July, 2012

Interactive Petrophysics Basic User’s Guide

This guide is designed to introduce Interactive Petrophysics (IP) software to beginners, i.e.
students taking the basic petrophysics course TPG 4175 taught at NTNU. IP is a PC-based
software program used for well log property analysis. The guide is divided into chapters
which cover the basics of working with IP from starting the IP program, navigating its
interface, using the IP database organization, to covering a workflow of a basic petrophysical
evaluation. This workflow will include data loading, data editing, data correcting, and
calculation of volume of clay, porosity, and water saturation in order to compute reservoir
summation in single well and multi-well environment.

Chapter 0, Data availability and Well parameters:

Before starting to use the IP Software for performing a petrophysical evaluation, it is very
important and recommended to first spend some time in looking at the data we have available
and also at the parameters of the specific well.

The parameters and data of any well are given in the well header. The well header is a section
of the well record page that primarily contains information about the company that drilled the
well, the country where it has been drilled, the field where the well is located with its
coordinates; also contains technical information such as depth drilled, depth logged, bottom
hole temperature (BHT), Rm, Rmf, Rmc, Rm temperature, Rmf temperature, Rmc
temperature, depth, different logging runs, casing intervals, bit size, type of mud used, mud
weight, mud salinity, etc.

The data availability refers to the LAS binary files. LAS is the format that IP can open and
inside them are the curves available, the depth of the run and sometimes depending on the
data we can have some driller parameters. To open a LAS File and see its info right click on
the file and go to → Open with, and select the text editing programs Textpad or WordPad.
Once the file is open you will see at the beginning of the file description text the information
available about the curves, their logged depth, their tools, etc; while the rest is just the
numbers and symbols which complete the binary file and are the codes that IP reads. It is
recommended to have those files as reference to review their information whenever needed.
The following is an example of how a LAS looks like when opened with Textpad: