Working with Petrel data in ArcGIS

Owned by Erlend Kvinnesland
Last updated: Jun 19, 2023
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Viewing in ArcGIS Pro

All feature classes can be viewed in 3D ArcGIS as is without any further manipulation except for the well logs which require correlation with the trajectories and will therefore not appear in a meaningful way in the 3D display.

Publishing for ArcGIS Server

The output from the Geocap Petrel plugin can be viewed in 3D in a web browser by publishing the features classes as a map service and then using the seismic server web app to visualize. Note that Seismic Server SOE is not required. 

To have the output from the Geocap Petrel plugin available in web 3D:

  1. Create a map containing all feature classes

  2. Publish the map as a map service. This will give you a URL for the well head feature layer. 

  3. In the Geocap seismic web app add the well head feature layer URL to the 3D viewer. The wells will then appear in the table of contents.

  4. Surfaces may also be published as a map service. Please run the "Batch Calculate Statistics" geoprocessor tool on the surfaces before publishing.