LAS File Viewer
Description

The LAS File Viewer Applet was created to assist the user in locating and plotting well data, rock measured & observational data and formation tops data by depth. This Applet is an interactive web application that allows the user to search, load, parse geological data from the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) database & file server or the user's PC.

A LAS File Viewer basic function:

The web applications will take advantage of over 9 years of Java development experience at the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) in developing web applications that plot oil & gas data and allows the geologist to perform analysis with that data, i.e. GEMINI Project & Tools on the KGS Web Site.

GEMINI (Geo-Engineering Modeling through INternet Informatics) Project was developed to allow the geologist to seamlessly integrate databases and geological analytical tools across the web. Analytical tools were designed for the independent oil and gas operators, consultants, and widely separated team members within and outside companies.

The web application is being designed to save the data to the PC using the Log ASCII Standard (LAS) version 3.0 developed by the Canadian Well Logging Society . This version provides a means to collect all the geological data in one file. Although the LAS 3.0 Format has default data types, the user can add their own data types to the file provided they use the primary section types, i.e., Parameter, Definition and Data whenever possible, which are briefly paraphrased below, 1

Reference:
(1) LAS 3.0 Log ASCII Standard Document #1 File Structures by Canadian Well Logging Society: http://www.cwls.org/las_info.php

Author: John R. Victorine jvictor@kgs.ku.edu

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