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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Neuralog of Houston has developed a system to help people manage their well log data and well files

Neuralog, a company based in Houston, Texas, has developed a system which oil companies can use to manage their well log data.

The database can serve as the company's Well Data Master, Well Log Repository, and Well File Management System, and for managing documents associated with wells, fields, stratigraphy and seismic data.

As well as standard well log files, it can support unstructured data such as raster well logs, maps, reports, and cross sections to name a few.

The data architecture is based on the PPDM [Public Petroleum Data Model], using Oracle or SQL Server for its database engine.

All data can be viewed geographically, using ESRi's ArcMAP system using the ArcGIS extension. Or, data can be browsed through and explorer-like interface.

To help people use the system, "we have unique routines for finding the data, capturing it in the system, organising it, managing it, making it available for administrators and users," says Javan Meinwald, VP business development with Neuralog.

"When a log comes in it has to be processed in a particular way - so we have a system to implement those kinds of business rules - so the log data is captured properly, quality controlled properly and accessible properly."

"It's about providing the tools that the geologist, IT managers and technicians need to solve their own problems - rather than become dependent on others to provide it for them," he says.

"Certain people are entitled to look at certain types of data and not other types. The geologist that's working in the North Sea has access to North Sea data - but maybe not data from the former Soviet Union," he says.

There is a dashboard application and messaging system to inform those involved with the data of its current status.

The company's core products were a portable scanning device and automated digitizing software which would convert paper log files to data, with special computer algorithms designed to help the computer understand what was happening.

The scanner and software can capture logs for a database and the software can understand the sometimes complex systems used on log, when scales are changed, the graph moves off a chart, and converts a dashed, dotted or other line types into digital data.

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