Tubing Tab

This replaced the Small Pipe Tab. You must make a selection on the Tubing Tab to activate the tabs that require input from the Tubing or Casing Tabs. Select "None" if there is no tubing in the well. I've also added a Minimum I.D. Box to allow the entry for small I.D.'s in the well.

Casing Tab

This replaced the Big Pipe Tab. The big difference here is that the casing values will now be used for the bailer, strip gun, cbl, etc... calculations. In the past, the Small Pipe values were used because the program started with only one pipe table. I only added the Big Pipe in order to allow the annulus calculations. I finally fixed the spaghetti code and got it right.
There is also an optional displacement section on the Casing Tab. Enter the tubing depth (if present) and PBTD. The program will give you the tubing volume, casing volume, and well bore volume in bbls.

Annulus Tab

There are no changes to this tab.

Bailer Tab

I've done away with the combo box that asked you to select between Titan and HPI bailers. You now only have to select the bailer size you want to use. For simplicity, I'm primarily using the values for Titan bailers. I've only used the HPI sizes that Titan does not offer. The program will indicate the company and bailer size used in the calculations once you make a size selection. Everything else is the same.
Bailer sizes are limited by the Minimum I.D. you enter on the tubing tab or the smallest pipe drift size.

Strip Gun Debris Tab

Only change is that the values from the Casing Tab are now being used.
Note that you can select a strip gun that is too big for the Min. I.D. on this tab. The gun sizes are not parsed down by the minimum I.D. I did not make the code due to the fact that most the guns are small by design anyway.

CBL Arrival Tab

There was an error with the Anhydrite travel times. This has been corrected. Tool sizes are offered based on the well's minimum I.D. The rest is the same.

Fluid Weight Tab

I removed the Pounds Per Cu.Ft. from the Input Selection and replaced it with PSI/Ft. It didn't make much sense to have both pounds per gallon and pounds per cubic foot for input. I've included psi/ft incase you have a pressure gradient and want to work from that angle.
Everything else is the same. You can enter the fluid height to calculate a hydrostatic pressure.

Sinker Bar Tab

Only change is that the minimum I.D. is indicated in the lower, left hand corner of the form.

Proppant Laden Fluid Tab

No changes were made.

Down Hole Gas Rate Tab

This is new to version 4.0. It is based on the Ideal Gas Law and will give you a quick and dirty estimation of the down hole gas volume at pressure and temperature. It will also give you an estimated velocity if you have selected a casing size on the Casing Tab.
This is not intended to be definitive. There is no consideration given to gas composition, Z Factor, etc.... It's intended use is to get a quick and dirty estimate of the down hole conditions.

Burl's Data Eliminator

This is new to version 4.0. It is a program that will reduce the size of any ASCII, or text, file. How many times has some someone presented you with a ridiculous amount of data in a file when a 1/10th as much would be sufficient?
Select the reduction factor, input file, and click run. The program will open your original file on a "Read Only" basis. It will not change the contents of the original. The output file will have the original name with an "_r" followed by a number and "%". Example: C:\Data\TestData_r50%.txt . The original file would have been C:\Data\TestData.txt and it has been reduced by 50 percent. You can change the output file name to anything you wish, except the original file name.

Uncle Raymond Tab

This is new to version 4.0. Pictures of Uncle Raymond and his loved ones. We lost Unc to cancer some time back and he is missed by all of us.

Thanks to Darrell and Charles over at Cardinal Surveys in Odessa for pointing out an error in the fluid weight calculations.

There were several wrong values for pipe drift in the larger, heavy walled casings. Thanks to Mr. Scott Ogier of Devon for pointing out the problem.

I also made some minor cosmetic changes to the forms.

There 3 new tabs on the program: Proppant Laden Fluid (thanks to Jeff Wells), Sinker Bars, and CBL Arrival Times(calculate sonic arrival times).

I also am using a different type of control to display much of the tabular data. Not that I really wanted to, but VB5 has a limited number of controls you can place on one form and I exceeded that number on the update. The MSFlexGrid control allows all the data to be displayed on one control, but it has a serious down side. It will not easily print. The standard print command will print a large black block in its place. I was forced to remove the print button and command.

Not all is lost though. If you need to make hard copies to send to the field, just hold down on the (Alt) key and press the (Print Screen) key. This will place the graphic on the Windows Clip Board. You can then open MS Word, or the likes, and copy the image to that for printing. In some ways this is better in that you can easily print two graphics per page.

The program has also gone through a lot of house cleaning. You will find it much easier to go back a couple of steps in any module and re-calculate an answer. The forms will remove most of the previous calculations.

Updated email address and hyperlink to website. No changes in the program.

I have added another tab to the program that will cross calculate "Pounds per Gallon", "Pounds per Cubic Foot", "Specific Gravity", "PSI per Foot", and "Hydrostatic Pressure"

There was an error in the program on the Bailer Tab. Possible bailer sizes were offered by falling into several categories of Small Pipe I. D. sizes. Ranges of internal diameter were defined as greater than a certain value to less than a another value. Only problem was that a few of the pipe combinations had internal diameters of exactly 2", 3", 4", etc... So, you would have no bailer sizes to select from. Oh well, a few <= (less than or equal to) symbols cured that.

There were several requests to have the program calculate how many feet of fill you would obtain per bailer run. Makes good sense, so I added that feature to the bailer tab. Thanks for the feedback.

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Created on ... May 28, 2003