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Validated by major 0&G companies, the Techlog © Suite maximises the value of your log data and core
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Techlog© is a geoscience tool that
provides core and log interpreta-
tion in a different way: it is an
expert enabling tool, especially
designed for interpretation of
wellbore data.

Techlog© increases the accuracy Techlog© is a complete process-
of your geological model, quanti- ing and modelling toolbox
fies your results and manages dedicated to reservoir character-
uncertainties. It also provides the ization.
reservoir engineer, geophysicist
and geologist with an optimised
and relevant static model.
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The trend-setting petrophysical software

 All over the world, we stay close to you

7/24/365 on-site and on-line support

Techsia operates a seven-day-a-week, 24 hour a Emails
day ("7/24/365"), customer and technical support techlog-support@techsia.com
service in various languages. coredb-support@techsia.com
malcom-support@techsia.com

On-site support Phone Support Techlog

The support team delivers not only phone or web-
based support but also on-site support. To be
closer to our clients, Techsia SA has launched
Techsia Inc, its North American subsidiary located
in Houston and Techsia Middle East LLC located
in Muscat (Oman).
+33 (0)4 67 60 99 11 (Europe support)
+1 713 260 9686 (North America support)
+968 9541 5891 (Middle East support)
WebEx™
Conferences have been organized
through WebEx.
It is an efficient and reliable tool for users
to express their questions and for Techsia
support team to make presentations.

World wide cover

North American Subsidiary Headquarters Middle East Subsidiary
Techsia Inc Techsia SA Techsia Middle East LLC

10777 Weistheimer suite 1100 Cap Alpha Knowledge Oasis Muscat

Houston, TX 77042
USA
Tel +1 713 260 9686
Fax +1 713 260 9687
Avenue de l’Europe, Clapiers PO Box 200 Rusyal 124
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FRANCE
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Fax +33 4 67 60 20 92

Training
Training sessions are provided by our team to help you become expert with the software. Training
sessions are adaptable in length and content to suit the audience. They can be held in Montpellier, our
subsidiaries or on-site in client offices. Please contact us at contact@techsia.com if you need more
information about this service.
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 Multi Well and Multi Sampling Rate
Data Handling and Editing

Simple and efficient database

Data families, aliases and units of measurements can be accessed and controlled through a friendly
interface allowing users to organise and harmonise their data.
Customers can create their own families,
aliases and units on user, project or
company levels with the possibility to assign
properties for automatic displays.
Project Browser maintains access to all
data types stored in the project: log, core
(RCAL, SCAL, descriptions), arrays,
borehole images, tops/zones, perforations,
checkshots, text/annotations, core
photos,…
The users can organise the views in the
Project Browser of groups of these different
data types to suit the purposes of their on- Custom ASCII Families, Aliases and Units of measurements database

going analysis.

Data Import / Export

Data can be selectively loaded via a buffer wizard from a variety of binary or ASCII file formats, e.g. LAS
versions 1.2 2.0 and 3.0, CSV, plain text, and DLIS/LIS files.
Techlog © provides an ASCII Wizard, a unique interface to help users manipulate and convert Custom
ASCII files into internal formats. Single and multi-well, automatic detection of format parameters to
speed up import of core, log, top, array data,...
Techlog © provides an Image Wizard to efficiently load images such as core photos.
OpenSpirit ® link to transfer log, tops and checkshots data from corporate datastores.

Data Editing, Zone Editor, Reference Management

Techlog’s powerful data editing tools form an integrated interactive tool kit
that allows users to enhance their data quality in reduced time.
Well-data merging and splicing, depth-shifting, re-sampling, interpolating,
smoothing, data clipping and splitting are some of the variety of functions
included within the graphical data handling tools.
Users Manage their data in
Measured Depth, True Vertical
Depth, OWT, TWT or other refer-
ence data.
Depth shifting window showing log data superimposed
on images for ultimate control
Zone Editor is a dedicated tool to
handle zones and contacts on a
Zone editor
multi well basis.

With Python®, go further with your data

Python ® is an interpreted programming language with an “on the fly”
compilator almost similar to C++/FORTRAN ®.
Due to its open source community, Python ® popularity is growing fast.
Huge quantity of advanced libraries and documentation are available on
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the net.
Archie equation test in Python script editor and
player

Efficient, fast and interactive data manager

 Full interactivity between all viewers

Single & multi well log plotting

Drag and drop data to create or
extend plots.
Graphical Edits of curves: depth &
block shifting, smoothing, interpo-
lation, data clipping, integration,
curve drawing...
Multiple curves from one or more
wells can be edited at the same
time.
All aspects of layout designs are at
user control.

Instantly, spread 2D cross section on every well.

An interval selection on a log plot automatically interacts with
the other corresponding plots.

Interactivity
Techlog’s large set of viewers
Whenever viewers involve datasets in common (with or without
the same variables on display) users may select data in one
viewer and see those depths highlighted and selected in all
other viewers.
Selections may be saved for later retrieval and/or process Full interactivity among all viewers and user control (color
control. mode, selection mode, multiple wells, filters and zones...) make
Techlog’s viewers an easy-to-use and powerfull analysis tool.
Other plotting tools include array-histograms and array-array
crossplots for viewing and managing multi-sampled array data.
2D/3D Cross Plots linear and non-linear, freely calculated,
fixed-point or fully customizable regression tools are available
on all 2D crossplots; fully interactive rotation and zoom
2D Crossplot
Spectrum analyser functions, together with filtering and zone control make the 3D
crossplot a highly effective data viewing tool.
3D Crossplot Spectrum analysers allow the users to display n dimensions
simultaneously on 2D panel.

Histograms & Box-Plots give two different

views of statistical or distribution of univariable.
Matrix/Scatter Plots are a combined display of
the above plots in a matrix panel as a function of
variables and wells.
Quanti Plots: specialised but customisable plots Multi-well Histogram
for the management of parameter selection Multi-well Tukey Box plot
interact with the parameter tables and the results
plots; users modify parameter values graphically
and see the results update automatically. Plots
include the Pickett Plot, Thomas-Stieber Plots,
plus one-click access to Gamma Ray, Neutron
and Density plots. Control of parameters on
Pickett Plots can be managed through point
picking, free and fixed regression, custom line
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construction, scroll wheels or by typing values

Matrix Plot Vsh-! plots with Thomas-Stieber overlay.
when exactness is required..

With Techlog’s innovative design, visualizing your data has never been so easy.
 Process and make sense of large
amounts of data very quickly

Quick data mining

Instantly collate available data across all wells (inventories are available for variables, families, aliases,
well properties, wells, datasets, sampling rates, zones...)
Identify variation in curve names, curve units, depth coverage
Quantify instances of erroneous curve labels, units, etc.
Automatic creation of harmonised datasets accross all wells
Excel export facilities for quality print and easy report insert
Project data synthesis

Harmonization
Efficient Query Tool to rename, convert, delete, list
Accurately ascribe mnemonics, curve labels, units
Ensure simplification of data access for subsequent processing
Rapidly apply consistent data
conventions

Edits
Rapid view of all instances of a curve to
identify problem intervals Automatic multi-well
data triming

Automatic removal of first readings

Despike, trim, detrend, smooth, cut, merge
Multi well automatic removal of first
readings

Well Editor & Normalisation

Well Editor summarizes several key log values (mean,
Well Editor standart deviation, min, max, …) by zone

Normalisation can be performed using:

Normalisation
• Min-Max & Standardisation
characterisation • Normalisation by modal threshold
processing
(based on Multi-Gaussian analysis)

Analysis
Geospatial consistency checks to assess wells for leverage: 2D Kriging plot of
GR_Mean for one
1D and 2D kriging. specific zone

Instantly create zonal characterising statistics for each curve

PQC, Project Quality Control: min, max, mean, std dev, quantiles etc.

Numerous interactive multi-well viewers

Density Cross-plots, Box-Plots, Matrix-Plots, Maps, Layouts,…

2D & 3D tools for Cross-Sections

Automatic cross-section in a 3D view
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Quantitative data analyser module held by sophisticated statistical processing

 The smart alternative to conventional
log interpretation

Workflow design
Design your own petrophysical workflow
Save and easily re-apply workflows to new data
Easy transfer of workflows to other Projects

Log quality control

Detection of pure minerals (coal, halite etc.)
Detection of borehole geometry effects (bad hole,
oval hole, rugosity, etc…)
Flag and/or treat environmental effects (tension
pulls, barite, KCl, washouts)
Workflow design and parameterisation

Graphical & interactive parameter selection

Multi-well control of petrophysical parameters can be achieved by setting defaults for well/dataset/zone
combinations
Neutron Pickett Multi-well and multi-zone graphical and tabular
densityPlot Plot
parameter management gives the users control at all
times

Interactivity between all Plots are dynamically linked to parameter tables for
views for parameter
picking graphical and interactive selection of equation param-
eter values

Edit parameter values and monitor effects on conse-

quent results through cascade function

Petrophysical computations
Comprehensive list of petrophysical computations:
lithology, porosity, saturation, productivity

Define parameter defaults at Project/Well/Zone levels;

hierarchical parameter management facilitates scenario
comparison

Comprehensive user-programming with Python®

User may insert scripts into Quanti Workflow for instant

multi-well, multi-zone application

Monte Carlo uncertainty modelling

Zone Summary Tables

User-defined Cut-offs and Output table content

Sensitivity of the results for a specific zone Multi-well and multi-zone Summary calculation to
(VSH, ! and Sw Cutoff)
different references (MD, TVDSS...)
One-click save of multi-well Output table and direct link to Excel
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Produce graphical output from Cut-off Sensitivity analysis as a one-click operation

Comprehensive and interactive multi-well interpretation workflow

 The multi-component inversion model
offering several numerical techniques

Workflow design
Build multi-component model with linear and non-
linear tool response functions

Save and easily re-apply models to new data

Easily transfer models to other Projects

Solutions
Sequential Quadratic Programming: this is a very
powerful family of robust, non-linear optimisation
methods

Tarantola-Valette Direct Inversion: a Bayesian

Mineral Set definition
solution technique taking account of a priori
information to improve the model and characterise uncertainties better in both logs and parameters

Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation: reduces the solution space to a sub-region of maximum likelihood,
then samples within the sub-region to characterise the uncertainities

Model design
Models may be defined as
single mineral sets per zone

Multiple mineral sets per

zone can also be established
with sets switching automati-
cally according to a partition-
ing curve that changes as the
log facies change

Data partitions are best

Example in Clastics environment
created by SOM or can be
user specified; their role is to
characterise the detailed
geology more completely and
control mineral set switching

User control of tool uncertainties

Solutions constrainable against a priori information e.g. XRD data;

both single component and multiple component volume constraints are
possible

Histogram of observed Histogram-Array plot of

predicted Density data component volumes plotted
against Gamma Ray curve
data Outputs
Detailed automatic Layout Plots, can be fully customised by the user

Unique Array-histograms clarify data relationships by plotting all the

components against inpout log data or log data resuiduals
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Histogram-Array plot of
component volumes plotted
against Resistivity curve data
View residuals against inputs and results either as histograms or with the
Histogram of observed –
unique array-histogram tool.
predicted Gamma Ray data
View and manage uncertainties in complex geological environments
 Objective reconstruction of missing data

Quantitative parameter modelling

K.mod is designed to extract essential information from log data in order to:

predict non-recorded parameters (!, K, ...),

reconstruct missing or poor quality measurements and therefore compensate for bad hole conditions,
environmental effects, acquisition problems, etc,

bring solutions for scale shift management from core to reservoir scale,

potentially reduce the need for coring and plug analysis for the subsequent appraisal wells by comparing
well log and core data.

Supervised Neural Networks

Parameters can be reconstructed or modelled directly
from log data, via an interactive learning process.

Multi-Layer Perceptron: a powerful non-linear modelling

tool that retains all the original variability in the data.

Back propagation

Error control
Learning phase

Validation curve
Fully quantified uncertainties
Learning curve
K.mod is not a "black box" tool: the users keep full
control of the input parameters and receive clear
feedback on the log quality and model quality, at all
times.
Uncertainties can be managed:

on inputs: back propagation method to check the contribution of each input,

on output: self-organized map is categorizing data samples in the training and validation data for
their effectiveness in modeling the target data,

possibility to weight inputs to force the model to reach extreme values.

Interactive, easy-to-use and very fast

K.mod is based on a complex technology but remains easy-to-use.
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It is a straightforward but efficient tool that offers a simple and intuitive interface for an enhanced
interpretation and a more accurate reservoir characterization.

Petrophysical parameter modelling: a strategic issue for static model building

 The intelligent classifier

Advanced classification techniques

Automatic facies identification is playing a key
role within the oil and gas E&P industry. Ipsom is
a unique classification method that brings added
value to interpretation workflows.
The 2D indexed and probabilised self-organizing
map (Ipsom) is designed for use in :
• geological interpretation of well log data and
facies prediction
• optimal derivation of petrophysical parameters
(!, k, hydraulic units...)

Comprehensive statistical tools

During the final control and validation phase,
results are quantified and refined through an
iterative process. High quality statistical and 4. Application of the
graphic tools with total interactivity and great ease map. Interactive Lines
(pink) elicit the facies
of use, lead to a better understanding of coherence correspondence between
logs and map.
between core description, log responses and
consistency on the map. Logs
spectral
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1. Before classification
Random distribution of
the n reference node
Accurate model calibration vectors.

The key to the classification process is calibra-

tion. The aim of calibration is to give each neural
unit an actual geological meaning: this is known
3. After indexation
as the indexation phase. Each neural unit is Result of Indexation. The
colours refer to core-
assigned a code that corresponds to a geological based facies definition
assigned to the nodes by
interpretation (detailed core description). This virtue of their depths and
stage is essential for a direct interpretation of 2. After classification
refined by means of the
spectrum.
electrofacies in sedimentological terms. Rearranged nodes by
pattern recognition of log
responses irrespective of Core Core
depth. Desc.

Benefits
Ipsom improves the robustness of the reservoir modelling.

Ipsom provides consistent and meaningful results that are easier and faster to control and interpret.

Ipsom allows sharper evaluation of data consistency through interactive management of uncertainties.
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Indexed & Probabilised Self-Organizing Map:

the most effective tool for facies modelling
 Import, view and manage from anywhere
Import and manage qualitative and quantitative core
resources in a robust and secure relational database.
Using a standard web browser and an easy-to-use graphi-
cal interface, anyone can search, generate inventories,
export... any selection of the corporate data.
Accessibility
Retrieve core information from anywhere
Advanced data query editor
Easy-to-use interface
Import/Export from/to Excel™
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 The ultimate solution for core
data interpretation

Jointly developed by Techsia and Total, Techcore combines the strengths of both contributors; Techsia
brought innovative software design and efficient development plus expertise in advanced statistical interpre-
tation methods whilst Total brought to the project more than 15 years of detailed, rigorous knowledge and
experience in handling core data.

Techcore incorporates robust and validated methods of data manipulation with new, state-of-the-art statisti-
cal techniques and provides this powerful combination within a fully interactive graphical user interface.

Storage, processing, integration and interpretation of core data

Within an overall integrated reservoir char-
acterization workflow now available with
Techsia software, Techcore provides the
means to rapidly and effectively synthesize
and combine both log and core domains.

Techcore© combines robust method of data

manipulation with state-of-the-art statistical
techniques; it hence constitutes a powerful
interpretation package using a fully interactive
graphical user interface.

Capillary
pressure plot Benefits
Perform specific processing tasks within one user
environment, e.g. calculation of capillary functions
(Thomeer, Buckley-Leverett, Lambda, Wright-
Wooddy-Johnson and Hyperbolic Tangent methods),
grain size, pore throat distributions, etc.

Partition the core data into “hydraulic units” (or “petro-

physcial groups”) that reflect zones in which storage
and transmissivity of fluids are likely to be similar.
Techsia’s extensive experience in techniques of classifi-
Pore throat cation, correspondence analysis and exploratory statisti-
distributions
cal tools such as Principal
Capillary pressure classification
based on Pc curve shape summary Components Analysis is
parameters applied for this task.

Combine the maximum

amount of data available to generate “petrophysical logs”, which are fully
representative of the variation in core data upscaled by rigorous methods to be
comparable to the scale of the wireline or MWD log data. The upscaling is
performed by reference to either continuous core description data (possibly
created by picking on core images) or to the most finely resolved quantitative
measurements on the core (e.g. mini-K or core-gamma) by 1D Kriging interpola-
tion (several external drifts are possible).

Petrophysical logs: 1D Kriging of plug data:

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RHOS, PHI & PERM to create continuous

upscaled curves along cored intervals

Dedicated module for core data process and interpretation

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petrophysical and geophysical

Specialised Tools available

Create a Time to Depth function using one of several techniques based on checkshot and/or sonic log data

Automatically convert selected log data to time basis

Compute Reflection Coefficients and Impedance curves and convolve with chosen seismic wavelet

Apply filters in frequency space to the seismic

wavelet and interactively observe impact on
calculated synthetic seismogram

Apply Gassmann fluid substitution to prepare log

data for comparison to seismic data
Time to depth conversion table

Z/T computation methods

Checkshot only

Sonic only

Least-squares fit of sonic data on to checkshot data

Forced-fit of sonic data on to checkshot data with automatic view

of the adjusted sonic curve

Drag&drop log data to convert into time based data using an

anti-aliasing filter

Drag&drop control of data selection; user control of sampling Create Z/T function

frequency

Synthetic Seismogram generation

Simply drag&drop time-based log
data sampled at the desired
frequency into the control window

One click to create the RFC, Imped-

ance and synthetic trace

Use the graphical wheel control of

the frequency domain band filters
and immediately view the results of
using different filter settings Synthetics generation and modelling

Gassmann fluid substitution

Drag&drop log data into the control window

Edit settings manually or using the graphical wheel controls

View pre-formatted output layouts for clear results

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Gassmann output plot

View and manage uncertainties in complex geological environments

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Classification and normalization

Hierarchical Clustering: Dendrogram. Find similarities between wells;
group wells together; if necessary, align data responses using sophisti-
cated Gaussian analysis, group-by-group amongst wells.
Decision tree
• powerful classifiers where inputs are mixed and incomplete
variables (qualitative and quantitative ).
• rank inputs by their information gain.
• deduced rules can help to understand the input data regarding the output.
Classic and optimized normalization algorithms.

Regressions
Linear, non-linear, polynomial and multiple lines algorithms are
available.
Regression and other fit lines and functions may be created and
conditioned on filters, zonation, well-by-well or multi-well.
Fit lines may be calculated for user-defined subsets of data
Regression Plots using
interactivity with an using the data selection tools and interactivity between viewers.
associated layout

Factorial Analysis
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a useful tool to summarize data,
since it separates the dominating features in the data set.
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is used to determine the best
projection space to discriminate between two or more naturally occur-
ring groups.
It clarifies subsequent Cluster Analyses on users’ data.
Multiple Correspondence Analysis (see Ancor tool) compares qualita-
tive variables that may either be of similar type (observed vs predicted
curves) or be of dissimilar type (geology vs petrophysics).

Signal Processing
Comprehensive suite of tools available for single and multi-well applica-
tions:
Interpolation: linear, Fast Fourier Transform, Gaussian,...
Derivation & Integration
Undersampled transformation of ordinal data.
Spline & smoothing functions.
Despiking.
Outliers detection.
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Instant graphical confirmation of results.

A comprehensive suite of conventional statistical tools to help you make sense

of large amounts of data very quickly