Landmark Solutions

Well Design Webcast

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 Agenda

 Safety Moment  Surface

 Landmark, EDM , Compass

 Surface to target Targets

 Anti‐Collision

 Practical Exercises

Target Target

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 Safety Moment

COVID-19 Viruses

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 Engineer’s Desktop™
Well Trajectory Casing Design Well Planning
COMPASS™ CasingSeat™ StressCheck™ WELLPLAN™ CasingWear™

Thermodynamics and Pressure

WELLCAT™

WELLCAT™
Cost Analytics

WELLCOSTTM

Engineer’s Data Model

(EDM)

OpenWellsTM Data AnalyzerTM ProfileTM

Data Recorder and Data Analytics

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 Why Compass?

 Compass is part of the fully integrated EDM portfolio.
 Single data store for all planning and actual designs 
 Anti‐collision scans

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 Hierarchy

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 EDM Database Structure
 The Engineer’s Data Model  Database

(EDM) database has a 
Company
hierarchical data structure to 
support the different levels of  Project

data that are required by  Site
different drilling suite 
applications.  Well

 EDM uses the following  Wellbore

hierarchical data tree levels. Design

Case

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 Application Layout
 COMPASS is designed around a Microsoft Windows multiple document interface (MDI) area. 
Data entry and analysis are performed in separate windows that you view simultaneously

Menu Bar
Main Toolbar

Recent Bar
Filter Picklist

Status Window

Browser Window

Datums Reference

Associated Data Viewer

Status Bar

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 Datums

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 Datums ‐ Examples

RKB = 50 m above MSL

Ground Level = 30 m above MSL
System = MSL

RKB

Ground Level

System (MSL)

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 Datums – Project / Sites

 The unique System Datum used for a Project is defined in the Project Properties.
 Depending on your Company’s policy, it may only be a Senior Engineer who has the rights to create 
or edit these settings.

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 Datums – Well / Design

 From Well Properties several   From the Design Properties a 
datums can be specified. The  drop down gives the user the 
active datum is the datum  option to select which Depth 
checked in the Default field. Reference the design will be 
using.

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 Import / Export Concept

 Transfer files at different Hierarchical levels
– EDM Well Explorer data Export / Import
– Import / Export of Survey and Plans to / from Compass
– Import / Export of Survey Tools from Compass

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 Well Planning methods
Surface to Targets

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 Well Planning Methods

In Compass one can create:

 2D Well Designs   3D Well Designs
– Slant Well – Build & Turn
– S‐Well – Dogleg / Toolface
– Optimum 
Alignment

In addition we can
Thread Targets
•Curve Only
•Curve Hold
•Optimum Align
•Straight Line
•Least Turn

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 Targets – COMPASS
 Targets can be created at project and wellbore level
 Targets are stored at project level
 The same target can thus be used by several designs

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 2D Well Design – Slant Well 

 4 parameters

– 2 to define

– 2 to compute

 L1 Measured Depth of Kick Off

 B1 Build Rate at Start

 I1  Maximum Angle Held

 L2 Length of Hold Section

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2D Well Design – S‐Well

L1  7 parameters
– 5 to define
Kick-off – 2 to compute 

B1
 L1 Measured 
Depth of Kick Off
 B1 Build Rate at  L2
Start
 I1  Maximum 
Angle Held
I1
 L2 Length of Hold  B2
Section
 B2 2nd Drop Rate
 I2  Final Inclination
L3
 L3 Length of Final 
Hold

I2

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 3D Well Design – Dogleg / Toolface Curves

To MD To TVD To To Direction
(Calc. Location) (Calc. Location) Inclination (Calc. Location)
(Calc. Location)
Curve

Hold

Tangent to Plan to a Point On Line by TVD

Point (Calc. (Calc. Dogleg & Toolface) (Calc. Dogleg & Toolface) Align by Inclination
(Calc. Dogleg & Toolface)
Toolface)

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 3D Well Design – Build / Turn Curves

To MD To TVD To Inclination To Azimuth

Tangent to Point Align by

On Line by TVD
a to Point (Calc. Build & Turn)
(Calc. Build & Turn) Inclination
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 3D Well Design – Optimum Align

 Optimum Align Method constructs two or three sections...
 Curve ‐ Curve or Curve ‐ Hold ‐ Curve

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 3D Well Design – Thread Targets

 Use this method to thread a series of targets. Targets can be sorted by...
Displacement Increasing TVD Decreasing TVD

OR OR OR

Name Glory - A2
Glory - A1
Target List
Glory - B1 Glory - A1
Glory - A2
Glory - B1
Glory - B2 Glory - B2
Glory - C1
Glory - C2
Glory - C2 Glory - C1

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 3D Well Design – Thread Targets

 Targets can be threaded using either ...
Curve Only Curve-Hold Optimum-Align

OR OR OR

Straight Line Least Turn

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 Surveys
Survey Program / Definitive Path

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 Survey
Survey Observation
Measured Depth
Inclination
Direction
OR for Inclination
Only
MD, Inclination
OR for Inertial
TVD, N/S, E/W

 A Survey is a series of observations made in a section of wellbore with 
the same survey tool on the same tool run.
 The Survey Tool can be Traditional (MD, Inc, Azi), Inclination Only (MD, 
Inc), or Inertial (TVD, N/S, E/W).
 See On‐Line Help:
Survey Tool Program Tab ‐ Actual Design Properties Dialog

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 Survey Calculation Methods

 COMPASS provides several survey calculation methods. 
 Survey calculations determine the position of a second survey station based on the position of the first plus the 
measured depth difference and the angle of the hole at both stations as measured by the survey instrument.  
 The Minimum Curvature and Radius of Curvature methods are commonly used. Minimum Curvature is the most 
current and popular:

 Minimum Curvature ‐ The method is based on a wellbore on a constant‐radius spherical arc from the start to the end 
of survey station vectors (wellpath rep. by smooth arc generated by Inc, Az at both survey stations). DLS is used to 
calculate displacement in both planes.

 Radius of Curvature  ‐ The method is based on a wellbore on a curve on the surface of a cylinder, forming a smooth 
arc from the inclination plane on the cylinder to the azimuth plane on the cylinder’s axis. The inclination change is 
used to calculate displacement in the horizontal plane.

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 Anticollision Theory

Alpha
Echo

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 Anticollision – Concepts

 Error System
– Wellbore position uncertainty
 Scan Method
– Distance between designs
 Error Surface
– Calculating dimension of error surfaces between designs
 Warning Method
– Criteria for reporting separation

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 Error Systems
 Survey Error Model
Wellbore position uncertainty 
– Cone of error 
– Systematic Ellipse
– ISCWSA  
• (Industry Steering 
Committee For Wellbore 
Survey Accuracy)

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 Scan Methods

 Scan Method
Distance between designs
– Horizontal Plane 
– Closest approach 3D
– Travelling Cylinder

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 Scan Methods
Check Well Generic Well
Closest Approach 3D

Scan Method

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 Scan Methods
Check Well Generic Well

Horizontal Plane

Scan Method

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 Scan Methods
Check Well Generic Well

Travelling Cylinder

Scan Method

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 Warning Methods

 Warning Methods
– Criteria for reporting separation
• Error Ratio

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 Anticollision Concepts
Separation Factor
R1 R2

Center to Center

Center to Center
Separation Factor = -----------------------
R1 + R2

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Warning Criteria 
Sep Factor > 1
Separation Factor

Sep Factor = 1

Sep Factor < 1

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3D Proximity View

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 Well Anti‐Collision report

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