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LIS Load
The 'LIS Load' module launches a 'Windows Explorer' dialog which is used to locate the 'file-to-load'.
Select the 'file-to-load' from the 'browse' window. The selected LIS file will be scanned and the following window will then be
displayed:

The selected LIS File name is displayed in the 'LIS Load' dialog header, in the top left hand corner of the window, next to the Well
name.
The LIS 'File Scan' can be viewed or printed by 'clicking' the 'Print scan report' or 'View Scan' buttons, respectively. Listings can
either be:

'Short' : containing only curve names and intervals, or

'Long' : containing a full listing of the LIS file structure.

The 'show comments' check box, if 'checked', will include any comments found in the LIS file, in the short listing. A file
'LISscan.log' is automatically created in the project directory, which contains the results of the last LIS scan. The following is an
example of a short listing of the above file, produced by clicking the 'View Scan' button:

The internal LIS file sequences will be displayed in the box called 'Select File Sequence' on the right hand panel of the 'LIS Load'
window . 'Click' on the file sequence row in the 'Select File Sequence' you wish to 'view' or 'load'. The curves in the selected file
sequence will be displayed in the left hand 'grid' panel.

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Select the curves to load by clicking the 'Load' 'cell' opposite the curve name. By clicking the 'Load' label at the top of the right
hand column the user can toggle between 'select all curves' and 'de-select all curves'. The 'Load' column is useful if the user only
wants to load one or two curves out of a long list.

Input curve names or curve units can be changed, during loading, by manually editing the 'IP Name' or 'Units' columns. A 'Curve
Alias Defaults' file can be set up to load curves from various data sources / logging service companies to a common set of IP
curve names. See the 'Tools' 'Defaults' 'Edit Curve Alias Defaults' module. This is useful, for example, if the user has a
corporate log naming convention and wants to load curves from external sources using the corporate mnemonics.

By 'checking' the 'Append to curve Name - Service ID' box, the curve service ID (see full scan) will be appended to the 'IP
Name'. The service ID is used in several programs, including IP, to extend the length of the curve name from four characters (LIS
format limits curve names to four characters). All characters, from the 4th character onwards, are put into the service ID.

Curve Sorting - Curve names in the Load 'grid' panel can be sorted either using the 'Sort Curves Alphabetically' check
box or the 'Sort Curves using Curve Type' check box. These options may help in selecting a few required curves from
a long list of available curves in the input LIS file. For example, If the user has set up the curve defaults file,
CPARMDEF.PAR (See 'Tools' 'Defaults' 'Edit Curve System Defaults') to pick up required curve names and has
assigned curve 'Types', then IP will map the curve types to recognized curve names. Using the 'Sort Curves using
Curve Type' check box will quickly 'filter' these curves from all those stored in the input file.
Curve Type - The 'Type' column allows the user to select the curve type that is loaded for the input curve. Curve types
are used in IP to help with the auto-selection of curves used in some modules. These can be set later in the 'Manage
Curve Headers'. The default curve type for each input curve is looked up when the file is scanned.
Curve Load Set - The 'Default Load Set' entry box allows the user to individually select which Curve 'Set' to load the
LIS data into. This can be set simultaneously for all curves, by selecting the required 'Set Name' from the 'Default Load
Set' list.
The 'Edit Sets' button allows the user to create new Curve Sets using the 'Manage Curve Sets' module. If a new Set
Name is created, the user is prompted to use this Set to load all curves into. A dialog similar to the following screen
capture is launched. Click 'Yes' to set the new Curve Set for all curves to be imported.

The 'Curve Step' drop down box allows the step to be selected for when populating the 'Load Set' column using the
'Default Load Set' drop down control.
The 'Prefix' box is used when creating automatic set names. The set name will include this text (LIS_*)plus a numeric
value in order to make it unique.
'Auto. New Sets' button is used to create a new set for each different step interval in the well. The set name will include
whatever is in the 'Prefix' box plus a numeric value.

Some curves in LIS files contain higher sample rate data that the normal frame spacing. The part listing, below, of a full scan
shows this:

Curve Service Units File Size Num Rep

Name ID # Byte Samp Code
BS OBDTAB IN 59 4 1 68
CS OBDTAB F/HR 59 4 1 68
AVCL OBDTAB V 59 20 1 68
SCNL OBDTAB 59 2 1 79
NPOR OBDTAB PU 59 4 1 68
C1 OBDTAB IN 59 16 4 68
C2 OBDTAB IN 59 16 4 68

The 'Rep' column displays the 'repeat count' of a curve in each frame of data. This packing of multiple values into the
same frame is used for array data. If an array curve is selected to be loaded into IP then a similar, dimensioned array
curve will be created.
The 'Num Samp' column contains the number of samples per frame. The user can see that curves BS and CS have 1
sample per frame while curves C1 and C2 have 4 samples. The AVCL curve in the above example is in fact an array
data curve with 5 samples in the array. This can be determined by looking at the Size Byte for the curve (20) and dividing
this by the storage size for each value (4 bytes, Rep code 68).
The 'IP Well Units' and 'IP Well Step' boxes are used to set the IP well database units and 'Step' if they have not been
set up when the well was created.
The 'Top Depth' and 'Bottom Depth' boxes are used to define the IP well depth range if it is not already defined.

The user can manually type in the depth Interval to load using the 'Top Depth' and 'Bottom Depth' boxes, or 'double click' on a

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file sequence row will launch the following dialog:

This allows the actual file sequence depth range to be used as the 'Interval to Load'.

Depth data can be in feet in the file and loaded into a metric depth units well. The user can load part of the file by defining the
interval under 'Interval to Load'. The interval-to-load depth units will be in the well depth units, regardless of what units the file is
recorded in. If the 'Interval to Load' extends outside the well interval the following message will be displayed.

If 'Yes' is selected then the 'Well Depths Editor' module will be launched so that the well can be extended.

The 'IP Well Name' box allows the setting or editing of the well name. The 'Well Comment' (see 'Manage Well Header Info.') can
be set from the well name box by placing a colon, with a space before and after, ( : ) after the well name and appending the well
comment after the colon. For example '14/19-23 : Preliminary' will create a well name of '14/19-23' with a well comment of
'Preliminary'.

The 'Load LIS Parameters' check box will allow the loading of any recognised parameters found in the LIS file. The 'Which Run'
box allows the user to select which logging run the parameter data will be loaded into (see Manage Well Header Info.). The
following table shows the LIS parameters currently recognized and loaded to IP by default. This list is user-editable from the
'Tools' 'Options' 'Well Attributes' and 'Log Attributes' modules.

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'Fill Data Gaps' - the 'Fill Data Gaps' check box will extrapolate the curve data over null data gaps when loading. If not
'checked' this same function can be performed using the 'Fill Data Gaps' module.

If the user wants to add an extension to the name of all the curves (e.g. add a '1' to the curve names to denote they come from log
run 1), then type the extension in the 'Extension' box and click 'Add'.

The 'OK' button will load the specified curves into the specified well and sets.
'New File' - this allows the user to choose another file to load.
The 'Create New Well' button allows the user to create a new IP well and then sets this newly-created well as the well to
load the LIS data into.
The 'Set Well' button sets the LIS-Load well 'focus'. This will be the well name into which the curve data will be loaded
and is the Well name that is displayed at the top of the 'LIS Load' window. The button can be used to load several LIS
files into different wells without having to close the window and re-open it. The user changes the well focus on the
primary IP window by using the 'Select Well to Display' options and then 'clicks' the 'Set Well' button on the 'LIS Load'
window.

Overwriting Existing Curves in IP

If the user loads a number of files to IP, which contain data with the same curve mnemonics they will be prompted that 'Curve
XXXX already exists. OK to overwrite ?'.

The 'Overwrite' function in IP actually performs a 'replace and concatenate' operation, in effect an 'Auto-Splice', NOT a
'replace whole of existing curve with new data'.

For example:

An IP well has a GR curve loaded over the depth interval 0-3000 ft

A second LAS file is loaded containing a curve GR over the depth range 2500-6000ft

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On loading the second file the following 'Warning' message appears.

Selecting 'Yes' or 'All' (if there are other curves with existing versions) will prompt IP to replace the existing GR curve from
2500-3000 ft and add/concatenate the new GR data from 3000-6000 ft to the existing curve.

If the user wants to completely replace the existing curve with a new curve you must first delete the existing curve from the
IP database and then load the new curve from an external file.

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