Regardless of whether a Petrel object has a datakey or not, it may be linked to an external project. Select one or more data types (or individual objects from the Well, Seismic, Horizon, or Fault tabs) and click on this button:
This example will attempt to link the 1389 wells in the project
This linking operation will then attempt to match the Petrel objects' natural key attributes to data in the chosen export project. If a match is found then the matching datakey will be saved with the Petrel object. If matches are found then the selected data rows will be updated as appropriate:
In this example 1389 wells were successfully linked
The default matching natural keys are defined in the OpenSpiritPlugin.config file in the MatchMergeRules element for each data type. The default attributes that are used are summarized in this table:
Data Type |
Attributes Used to Find Matches |
| Wells | uwi |
| Continuous Logs | well uwi, log kind (Petrel log version name - not mapped to Petrel discrete template or synthetic template), sum of non-null log samples (if other attributes match) |
| Discrete Logs | well uwi, log kind (Petrel log version name - mapped to Petrel discrete template), sum of non-null log samples (if other attributes match) |
| Synthetic Logs | well uwi, log kind (Petrel log version name - mapped to Petrel synthetic template), sum of non-null log samples (if other attributes match) |
| Tops | well uwi, top name, interpreter, occurrence |
| Checkshots | well uwi, checkshot name |
| 2D Seismic Surveys | survey name |
| 2D Seismic Lines | survey name, line name |
| 2D Seismic Data Sets | line name, name, domain |
| 3D Seismic Surveys | survey name |
| 3D Seismic Data Sets | survey name, name, domain, storage organization (e.g. trace, slice, etc..) |
| 2D Seismic Horizons | name, line name, domain |
| 2D Seismic Horizon Attributes | name, line name, domain |
| 3D Seismic Horizons | name, 3d survey name, domain |
| 3D Seismic Horizon Attributes | horizon name, attribute name |
Horizon Point Sets |
name, domain |
| Surfaces | name, domain |
| Surfaces Attributes | surface name, attribute name |
| Fault Interpretation | name, domain |
Fault Point Set |
name, domain |
| Fault Polygons | name, domain |
| Stratigraphic Column | name |
| Stratigraphic Column as Well Tops folder | name |
These default values are appropriate for matching data stored in OW that has been migrated from OW 2003 to R5000. The matching attributes may be altered by editing the OpenSpiritPlugin.config XML file. Warning: editing this file without taking great care may cause undesirable results.
Note: If the Petrel object has an existing datakey and a match is found the new matching datakey will replace the existing datakey. The original source project may still be determined by examining the Petrel object history.