Virtual Geosteering

Abstract In the context of current oil price volatility, every operator is trying to apply technologies to reduce the cost of the drilling phase of their horizontal operations, whereas the interpretation application holds a vast portion of success rate in geosteering.Making geosteering functions more important to achieve the optimum production target. The advancement on the utilization of real time data and modeling data in various systems are introducing more critical operationaldecisions based on these systems. The new virtual geosteering system allows moving from complex multiple systems to a real time data solution with advance geological interpretation that supports a highly available collaborative virtual working environment for geoscientist and engineers during operations. A virtual geosteering system makes data available in a customized cross-section visualization, where it can be paired with real-time measurements while drilling and logging while drilling (LWD) information. This paper will explain the advantages of this process, with a focus on the flow of data to and from the earth model. It will also focus on additional add-on tools, required to effectively run the remote geosteering process on a single system, through integrated workflows. Virtual geosteering improved collaboration between geologists and drillerswhere critical formation information can be made easily available to be prepared for wellbore condition changes. Furthermore, advance interpretation tools that allows the data integration between different data sources making it possible to have a unified visualization system to support complete a suite for geosteering and modeling in the same time.