GeoBalance Software Fundamentals Course (for Norway)

Exercises – Day 03

1. What is the first step that must be taken after INSITE is installed?2. INSITE adds a large amount of keys to the Windows registry (“registry”), but out

of all of these there is only one set that is really useful for us. a. Search the registry and identify this set of keys

3. Add the C:\INSITE\Bin directory to the Windows Path environment variablea. This will allow us to run many INSITE applications by typing their name

at the Command Prompt or in Start Run (try it)4. You are out on a job and need to import an ADI onto your laptop (to get up to

date on the operations). As an ADI file is highly compressed (like zip files) INSITE needs to uncompress it before it can be imported. You try to import the ADI, but you get an error saying that you have low disk space and INSITE does not import it for you.

a. How can you solve this problem and import the ADI? (Hint: The registry key that you found in Question 2 above, has a ‘Named value’ that relates to the temporary directory that INSITE uses to do the decompression in – if you set this to your portable hard disk INSITE could do it’s decompression in that directory and may let you import the ADI) – Do not change the key in the VM just list how you would solve the problem.

5. You are out on a job where INSITE is already installed on the computer. Your computer has one hard drive (50 GB), which is running low on disk space. You are sent a second 200 GB hard disk from the base and you install it into the machine successfully.

a. How can you get INSITE to write the database to the new hard disk? (with out reinstallation)? (Hint: It has something to do with the key you found in Question 2).

6. Hands-On Exercise (Using the provided support data - Daily Report, Well Schematic, BOP Drawing, perform the following exercises)

a. Set INSITE to the appropriate unitsi. Select the English unit set

ii. Set Depth to metersiii. Confirm diameter (pipe diameter, etc) are in inchesiv. Save the unit set as QL01v. Set the QL01 unit set as the active unit set

b. Create a new Well i. Wellname = QL01-<Your first name>

ii. Remember to fill in the information as available in the support datac. Enter the Geometry (assume the well is vertical)d. After the well is created

i. What is the Annular volume between 3370 m and 3376 m (Will INSITE let you calculate the volume, without any data in the well?)

ii. Export the Adi and save it as QuickLunchBackup00 (copy this to your folder on the Training drive)

iii. Calculate QuickLunchBackup00.adi MD5 signature (save this in a text file in your folder on the Training drive)

iv. Did you use all the support data files? What did each file provide?e. Create a new Run: 0200f. Update the Geometry

i. How is Geometry entered into a new run? Does it need to be entered again or can it be copied across?

g. Create a new Record called “Hungry” in INSITE. It should have the following variables:

i. Timeii. Date

iii. Activityiv. BigMac (Unit = Pump Pressure)v. FiletOFisk (Unit = Mud Density)

vi. Fries (Unit = Pump Pressure)vii. (Hint: Use the text file we used in class yesterday as a

template/guide)h. Optional: Use the WRTGEN program to generate some fake data for the

Hungry record. (You can start it up by typing Start Run WrtGen)i. Start a Data Exchange to your neighbor

i. What happens on your neighbor’s computerii. Find a way to transfer a file across Data Exchange

iii. Stop Data Exchangej. You realize the record has a mistake it in and you have to return the

database to its original state. Restore the database to its original source (Hint: Remember to turn off INSITE before you restore its state).

k. Start Data Exchange againi. Is the changes you made to the database reflected in your

neighbors machine?7. Hands-On Exercise (Using the provided support data – ADI file)

a. Import the provided ADI file (Stavanger.adi)i. Does INSITE created any extra directories in C:\INSITE\Data?

ii. What happens to your other wells when you import the new well?iii. Set the well we were working on in the previous exercise (QL01-

<Your first name>) as the active well. iv. Why is the active well and active run important?

8. What data is required to do depth tracking?9. Take a break … just kidding … ;)

Bonus:10. Import an ADI and setup Perfmon to monitor the disk space during this

operation. After the operation is complete, graph the disk space vs. time and see the trend.

11. INSITE comes with it’s own remote software called VNC, try and use VNC to remote control your neighbors machine.