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How do I make a heat map?

You can generate many different kinds of heat maps from the Analysis box. Click on Map Display to expand it, then click on Heat Maps. Click on the dropdown arrow to the right of the listed types to define the grid and the attribute to be mapped. You can also define custom heat maps here. Watch the Video

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How Do I Do a Quick Search?

Be sure a layer is chosen in the topmost box under the search tab. Then type a term in the search box and either hit enter or click the magnifying glass icon. Super search looks through all of the columns in the chosen layer and displays the one with the most matches. Other possibilities are displayed in the Results box. Watch the Video

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Where can I Find Charts?

After searching a layer, Charts are found in the bottom of the Analysis box. Watch the Video

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How do I Search More Than One Layer at a Time?

Click on the layer bar just under the search-display-create tabs. Start typing in the “Filter Layers” box and layers that match will be listed just below it. Choose a layer to add to the search by checking the box. Remove a layer from the search by clicking the red x on that layer’s name. Watch the Video

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How Do I Delete A Layer?

Go to the display tab. Click on the dropdown arrow to the right of the layer name. Choose delete. You will be asked to confirm your choice. Watch the Video

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How do I see a layer?

The new Emperor Tamarin release lets you interact with layers in two different ways: To see a layer, go to the display tab and find it by typing all or part of the name in the Filter Layers box. Turn on the layer by ticking the check box to the left of the layer name. You can also search or analyze the layer now. Either choose “Analyze Layer” from the dropdown arrow to the right of the layer name, or go to the search tab and open the bar at the very top. Here you can choose the layer in the Filter Layers box and add it to the layers to be searched by checking the box to the left. The entire layer will display if you leave the search box empty and just press the magnifying glass icon to the right. Watch the Video

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What does the ‘L’ button do?

Lots of things! You can toggle the layers on and off with the checkbox on the left of each layer name, you can locate the results by clicking the tiny target icon on the right, and remove layers from current memory by clicking the red x on the right. But one of the most useful things is the ability to change the display order. By dragging a layer name up in the list, you can ensure it is drawn above all the other layers. Watch the Video

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What does the ‘B’ button do?

You can change the basemap layer by clicking the radio button to the left of each layer name. Or choose to have no basemap layer at all by clicking “None”.

How do I draw an AOI?

Once you have chosen a layer to search, the search box appears and you can choose which type of AOI to draw from there. Once your AOI is drawn, click the magnifying glass to start the search. Watch the Video

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How do I annotate my maps?

Click over to the create tab. Then click Create Annotation. This brings up a movable window with all the annotation tools. Watch the Video

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Where do I find My saved custom chart or heat map templates?

After you have saved a template, it can be found under Heat Maps or Charts, then Saved. Watch the Video

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How do I add a folder to a workbook?

Go to the Display tab. Click on the workbook that you would like to add a folder to. Then click Create folder, in blue just under the workbook name. Rename the new folder by clicking on the dropdown arrow just to the right. Watch the Video

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How do I find a saved view?

Views can be quickly accessed from the gray bar at the bottom of the screen, by clicking on the View icon. They can also be toggled on from the display tab, where they may be filed in a workbook or folder. Watch the Video

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This tutorial explains how to view, search, analyze, delete, rename, copy and move layers. It also explains how to use the Active Layers (L) window. Let’s choose a layer to view. We can do this two ways.

Either from the Search tab or from the Display tab. From the Display tab, enter all or part of the name you are looking for in the Filter Layers search box. For example, we want to look at data from Rig Data. Matches will begin appearing as soon as you start typing. Tick the box next to the layer you wish to add.

Since we are selecting this layer from the Display tab the layer is not yet searchable. To make it searchable, click the drop-down menu and select Analyze Layer. This brings us to the Search tab. I am also interested in searching a couple more layers. I will go ahead and enter them here in the Search tab. I am interested in Basin Intel Lease Activity and Primary Vision.

Notice the layer selection box now lists 3 active layers. Click on the search icon to search all layers. The active data layers can be viewed and re-arranged by clicking the Active Layers ‘L’ icon next to the zoom scroll bar. This opens the Active Layers window. Clicking on the pin leaves this window open, and clicking the X in the corner closes the window. You can change the order in which the layers are displayed by clicking and dragging the layers. You can toggle a layer on and off by ticking the box to the left.

A layer is removed from memory by clicking the red X on the right. The green boxes indicate that all the data is loaded for that layer (vs. an orange box for a partial load). The target icon is used to locate the layer. You can further refine any of these searches by going to the Analysis panel, selecting the desired layer from the drop-down list, and selecting Refine. Let’s refine the Rig Data layer to look at Permit Dates. Let’s look at the last 2 months. Next, let’s refine the Primary Vision layer to look at a particular Operator. We will select Apache.

Now let’s go to the Display tab and look at the options available on the layer drop-down menu. We can delete, rename, copy , edit styles, select styles, set layer as the default search layer, get an upload manifest (to set up an automatic update for a layer that you own), download a layer as a shapefile or csv, analyze the layer, look at the layer properties, or locate the layer.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to create a custom bar chart template to compare the average IP Boevd21 for each field and how many wells are used to calculate the average. Let’s look at the Bakken in the IHS Wells data layer. Type Bakken in the search box. Click locate to zoom into the search result. Scroll down to the Analysis Panel and select Charts, then Bar Charts. Select Custom and fill in the options, starting with number of desired bars.

We will limit the number of bars to 10.

Choose the column for the X-Axis. Available fields from the searched data will appear in the drop-down list in alphabetical order. Select Field. Choose the column for the Y-Axis. You may have two y-axes (Y and Y2). If both Y and Y2 are used, two bars will appear for each x-axis point. Select IP Boevd21.

Choose how to summarize the data:

None—doesn’t summarize by a group, gives results for individual data.
Average—the average of the Y-axis data sorted by the result of the aggregate.
Sum—the sum of the Y-axis data sorted by the result of the aggregate.
Count—the number of wells used in the aggregate.
Min—Minimum Y-axis data sorted by the result of the aggregate.
Max—Maximum Y-axis data sorted by the result of the aggregate.

We want to see which fields have the highest average ratio so we will select Average. Choose the column for the Y2 Axis, if desired. If only one bar per x-axis point is desired, select None. We will select IP Boevd21 and summarize by Count so we can see how many wells were used in the calculation. Notice that the scales are different for the two Y axes. If you click on any bar, a subsearch is created with only those wells displayed on the map. You can see the full search again by clicking Undo Subsearch. Hover over the red bar to see the exact average value and hover over the corresponding blue bar to see how many wells were used in the calculation.

To save a custom bar chart as a template, click the Save button. Name it AVG IP Boevd21 by Field.

Close the chart. Now let’s do another search on the Denver basin. Go to Bar Charts again and select Saved. Click on the AVG IP Boevd21 by Field template that we just saved. Nice and easy to do the same comparison without having to re-enter the criteria.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to use the annotation tools to draw a pad plan. First zoom into the area of the map where you wish to create a pad plan. We will want to be able to see the satellite imagery, so set the base map to Esri World Imagery by clicking the B above the slider bar on the right side of the map. Zoom in far enough to see the existing structures. Go to the Create tab and select Create Annotation. Enter the name for the annotation layer and select the workbook where you wish to save it. Click the Save as New File button. Our plan requires a buffer distance of 500 feet from any existing structure. We can easily show this restriction by using the circle tool with a specific dimension. Scroll down to dimensions and enter 500 for the radius and leave the units in feet. Select the desired colors and opacity. Click on any buildings in the pad plan area to place the circle.

Now we are ready to draw a pad. We want our pad to be 500 by 600 feet with an angle of 20 degrees. Select the Rect. tool with specific dimensions. Scroll down to dimensions and enter 500 for the width, 600 for the height, and 20 degrees for the angle. Leave the units in feet. Select the desired colors and opacity. Click on the map where you want the pad centered. If you want your pad at a specific latitude and longitude, enter them in the latitude and longitude boxes and click the Add Rectangle button. This centers the rectangle on that axis point.

To add a road to our pad plan, select the Line tool. Select the desired color and line width for your road. If you have a desired length, you can specify it under Specify Dimensions. Click the mouse once at the starting point for your road and double-click the mouse at the endpoint. To add a label to the annotation, select the Text tool. Enter the name of the pad in the text field. Select the desired text color and size and click the location where you want to center the label. Click Save to save changes.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to create teams and workbooks in PetroDE. The Emperor Tamarin version of PetroDE organizes your data using workbooks, which are listed under the Display tab. Access to workbooks is controlled by an administrator, who can place users on teams and then give teams access to workbooks. If a user or a team does not have access to a workbook, it will not show up on their screen.

Workbooks can be set up in whatever way best meets your company’s needs. For example, the New Ventures team can have a New Ventures workbook that holds all their data and interpretations, as well as a workbook for Land and Operations. Layers such as the nationwide IHS wells and production can be shared in various workbooks, while the layer that holds current leaseholds can be set up to be visible only in the Land and Operations workbook.

To create a new team, click the Admin icon located on the bottom toolbar, then select Teams and click the Create Team button. Let’s call our new team Acquisitions. To add users, simply click on the new team name and select uses from the list available on the right. To create a new workbook, select Workbooks from the Manage panel. Click the Create Workbook button in the pop-up window. Let’s add one called Boundaries. If folders are desired, click Add Folder. Folders can be added at any time.

To add layers already loaded into PetroDE to the workbook, click the Add Layer drop-down list to see the available layers. Select Federal and Indian Lands. Note that updates to shared layers are instantly visible in any workbook that contains the layer.

To give access to teams, select them from the list on the right side of the window under Teams without Access. Let’s select the Acquisitions team we just created.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to use Advanced Search to find wells in a specific area of interest with a perforated length between 5000 and 7000 feet. It also explains how to search for wells with an IP greater than 100 barrels of oil equivalent on a value basis with a ratio of 21 (BOEVD21). In this example, the data layer being searched is IHS Well Data.

Create an Area of Interest by selecting the rectangle tool in the Area of Interest toolbox and click and drag to select the desired area. We want to look at an area on the Utah Colorado border. Select Advanced under the Search tab. Click the drop-down list for the available fields and select Perforation Length. Select the operator to be > and enter 5000 in the search box. Click Add Term and ensure Perforation Length is still selected. Select the operator to be < and enter 7000 in the search box. In the date range selector box, change Past Year to Past 5 years. Click the Search button. This returns wells with a perforated length between 5000 and 7000 for the desired area of interest over that past 5 years. Now let's look at wells with significant IP. Click Add Term and select IP Boevd21 from the dropdown list. Select > for the operator and 100 for the value. Click the Search button. This returns wells that match the search criteria. To see only the results for IP Boevd21 > 100, remove the two Perforation Length terms by clicking the red x next to those terms. Click the search button to view the result.

This concludes this tutorial.

This tutorial explains how to save a search or view in PetroDE. In this example, the data layer being searched is IHS Well Data. Note that a search can be saved in two places, either the Recent Searches folder or in a Workbook. Searches saved in the Recent Searches folder located under the Open tab can only be viewed by you. Searches saved in a Workbook via the Views icon can be seen by anyone with access to the Workbook. A view including an Analysis such as a heat map and/or Refined results may only be saved to a workbook or folder using the Views icon. Let’s do a complex search. Enter Bakken in the search box, then select the Advanced tab. Click the drop-down list for the available fields and select Operator. Keep starts and ends with (s/e) as the operator and enter Continental in the search box. Click Add Term and select County from the list of fields. Keep the starts and ends with and enter Williams in the search box. Click the Search button. To save a search result to your recent searches folder, click the Open drop-down arrow in the Search Panel and select Save. Enter a name, Bakken Continental in Williams Cty. This will save to your Saved folder under the Open tab and can only be viewed by you. You can also save this search in a workbook, which we will illustrate after a few more steps.

Let’s do some analysis. Remove Williams County from the search criteria so that we have more wells to work with. Scroll down to the Analysis Panel and select Map Display then Heat Maps. Click the drop-down arrow next to IP and select 6-mile grid and Boevd21. Click Display. To save this view to a workbook, click the Views icon on the bottom toolbar. Click Save View. Select the desired destination or add a new folder. We will select the Bakken workbook. Enter the name of your view, Continental Heat Map and click the Save button. Now clear the display by clicking the Clear icon so we can illustrate the retrieval of saved views and searches. Click the Display tab. Select the workbook where you saved the heat map view, i.e., Bakken. Click on Continental Heat Map. Now let’s see our view from Williams County in the first example. Clear the display again. Go back to the Search tab. Click the Open drop-down and select Bakken Continental in Williams Cty to see the saved search from the first example.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to use the bar chart and histogram tools in PetroDE. Let’s look at the Permian basin in the IHS Wells data layer. We have the Demo IHS Wells layer selected to search. Type Permian in the search box. Click locate to zoom into the search result. Scroll down to the Analysis Panel and select Charts, then Bar Charts. The options available are IP, Treatment, Peak 30, 60 and 90, Saved and Custom.

Custom charts are useful for creating templates for repeated use. These templates can be saved and later found under Saved. This is further explained in the custom charts video. Select IP. Select the type to be Top Operator. Select the desired attribute, which come from the columns in the search layer. We will look at Gas. Next select the sorting method to be either performance or well count. Let’s look at performance. Notice that as we make changes, the chart updates immediately. If you don’t want the chart to update until you are finished entering all the criteria, do not click the radio button to select the type of chart, select the down arrow instead and then click on Display once the criteria is entered.

We also have Chart Options. For bar charts, you can opt to hide the grid lines. The bar chart appears in a split screen with the map. To see a larger view of the bar chart, select the + symbol at the top right of the window. Select the minus symbol to return to a split screen. If you click on any bar, a subsearch is created with only those wells displayed on the map. You can see the full search again by clicking Undo Subsearch. You can hide the chart criteria window by clicking the double back arrows. Click the gear symbol to get it back again. Now let’s look at histograms. Minimize Bar Charts and select Histograms. Let’s look at Peak 30. Set the type to Liquid and the Hole Direction to Vertical Wells. Now click on Chart Options. This allows you to hide the grid lines, set the number of bins and the minimum and maximum values. These changes will appear when you click Save Changes. You can also toggle the histogram between log and linear scale by clicking either Log or Linear at the top of the window. You can move the statistics window within the histogram. You can also turn it off and on by toggling Statistics at the top of the window.

We can move the entire chart around on the screen and if you move it all the way to the right, it will append it to the right side of your screen. This is a handy feature if you are working with two screens. I can only show one screen here, but you get the idea. This concludes this tutorial. boxes indicate that all the data is loaded for that layer (vs. an orange box for a partial load). The target icon is used to locate the layer. If we go back to the results panel, we can look at the secondary results for Anadarko. Click Operator to see its results. It returned results from IHS Well Data, RigData US Permits, GeoNews, and RigData US Drilling. These layers can each be toggled on and off and located either from the results panel or in the active layers window. If you want to rearrange the order of the layers or remove a layer from current memory, you need to open the Active Layers window.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to search multiple data layers. Begin by choosing the layers you would like to search. Open the Layer Selection drop-down and enter all or part of the name you are looking for in the Filter Layers search box. For example, we want to look at data relating to basins.

Matches will begin appearing as soon as you start typing. Tick the box next to the layer you wish to add. Let’s select US Basins. We also want to see geo news so type that next. Now, let’s add Rig Data. Select US Drilling and US Permits. Layers can be removed from the list by unchecking the box or by clicking on the red x at the right. Notice that the layer selection box now lists the number of active layers. We can now minimize the Layer Selection box.

Let’s do a search.

Type Anadarko followed by the Enter key in the search box. In the results panel, we see that Basin returns the greatest number of matches for the word Anadarko. The results for the word Anadarko are listed in descending order by number of results found. Basin returned the most results, followed by Operator, Current Operator, etc. Click on Show More to see more results.

Let’s go back to the primary result, Basin. IHS Well Data layer has the greatest number of matches for Basin. The GeoNews layer and the US basins layer also returned results. The default automatically displays the IHS Well Data layer since it has the most results.

Select GeoNews and US Basins to display those results and notice the different icons. If we click on to locate, the map zooms in or out to show that data layer. Click on locate for GeoNews. We see a result for London. Click on locate for IHS Well Data.

We have a high density of wells here when all three layers are turned on. Click on a well to see the Description Bubble. The layer of the well bubble currently shown is in parentheses. Click the drop-down to see information from all the layers. The data is differentiated by their unique icons as well as the layer name in parenthesis. Click on a well to see its bubble details. The active data layers can be organized by clicking the Active Layers “L” icon next to the zoom scroll bar. This opens the Active Layers window.

Clicking on the pin leaves this window open, and clicking the X in the corner closes the window. You can change the order in which the layers are displayed by clicking and dragging the layers. Let’s move the US Basins layer to the back by dragging it to the bottom of the list. You can toggle a layer on and off by ticking the box to the left. A layer is removed from memory by clicking the red X on the right. Let’s remove GeoNews. The green boxes indicate that all the data is loaded for that layer (vs. an orange box for a partial load). The target icon is used to locate the layer.

If we go back to the results panel, we can look at the secondary results for Anadarko. Click Operator to see its results. It returned results from IHS Well Data, RigData US Permits, GeoNews, and RigData US Drilling. These layers can each be toggled on and off and located either from the results panel or in the active layers window. If you want to rearrange the order of the layers or remove a layer from current memory, you need to open the Active Layers window.

This concludes this tutorial.

This video explains how to use Super Search to quickly search the default data layer. In this example, the default data layer is IHS Well Data Latest. First, type a search term in the box; for example, weld. Press the enter key or click the search icon.

In the results panel, we see that County returns the greatest number of matches for the word Weld. The results for the word Weld are listed in descending order by number of results found. County returned the most results, followed by Current Operator and Operator. Click on Show more to see more results.

Select Current Operator. Click locate to find the wells. The wells are white and difficult to see against the white map so let’s change the base map. Click on the B above the scroll bar at the right of the map and select Esri World Imagery. Now select a well marker to see that weld is indeed a part of the Current Operator name.

Clear the Display by clicking the Clear icon at the bottom of the User Interface window. Now let’s do a search for con. The result with the greatest number of matches is County with more than 1500 wells with con in the county name (for example, Converse, Conway, etc). Click Show More to the see all the results. The result with the fewest matches is Formation. Select this result and click locate. Select any well marker to see that con is part of a formation name. Note that all columns with the word formation in them are joined together for the purposes of the results panel. For example in Texas, this well has Conglomerate Lower listed for projected formation and up here in Kansas, this well has Conglomerate listed for IP Production Formation Name.

This concludes this tutorial.

This tutorial explains how to use the Heat Map tool in PetroDE. Let’s load all the wells in the IHS dataset. Simply click the search icon leaving the search box blank. This returns all the wells in the data layer selected for the time span listed here in the date range selector box. The default well symbols are color-coded by formation.

To view as a heat map, scroll down to the Analysis Panel. Select Map Display, then Heat Maps. The various options for heat maps are listed here. Let’s look at an IP heat map. Set the grid to counties and the parameter to Upper Perf Depth. Click the Display button. Now you can see the average IP heat maps for the Upper Perforation Depths by county.

We can easily create a custom Heat Map by selecting the Custom option. First, choose the grid size. We will choose a 6-mile grid. Then choose the data type to be either text String or Number. Let’s illustrate the String data type first. Select Formation for the Column. Next, select the color bar by clicking the drop-down menu next to the color bar. Select from the preset color bars and then select Custom to further customize your color bar. You can add colors by clicking on the + symbol and remove colors by clicking and dragging them off the pallet. Click the Display button. Notice that Nyobraira is the top formation for this map. Let’s limit our area of interest to a section in Texas. Note that the legend has updated to reflect the top 7 formations in this smaller area of interest. To view these 7 formations through time, click Lock Legend and then change the time period to say 2013 to compare the heat maps for the same 7 formations.

Now, let’s change the data type to Number and set the column to TVD. Under Summarize by, choose how to aggregate the data in each block. For this example, choose Max (which in this case means areas of deepest drilling). Next, select the color bar. Then select the scale to be either log or linear. We will choose log scale. Choose the bounds as either Percentile or Value. We will choose Percentile between 10 and 90 percent. Click the Display button.

Let’s save this heat map as a template for Max TVD for all of the IHS Data. Remove the area of interest by clicking on the eraser in the AOI tools. Go back to the custom panel and click the Save button. Type in a name (Max TVD Template). It will be available to view later in the Saved section under Heat Maps. The saved “template” can be used with other search criteria if desired. To illustrate, clear the display by clicking the clear display button in the lower toolbar. Then type Bakken in the search box. Click on locate to zoom into this data layer. Now go down to Map Display and select Heat Maps. Select Saved and select Max TVD Template. This illustrates the application of a saved heat map template to a different search criteria—the Bakken.

This concludes this tutorial.