Importing Data from Seequent Evo

See the Leapfrog Energy/Seequent Evo Data Flow topic for an overview of importing, publishing and reloading Evo data.

This topic discusses the process of importing data from Seequent Evo. It is divided into:

Starting the Import Process

To start importing data from Seequent Evo, right-click on a folder in the project tree and choose the Seequent Evo option from the Import menu:

Choosing Import Mesh then Seequent Evo from the Meshes folder menu, which opens the Import Mesh from Seequent Evo window listing the objects available in the selected workspace

Importing data into a Leapfrog Energy project is similar to importing data from local files, except you must first specify the workspace that contains the data you wish to import.

  • If a workspace you expect to see is not listed, click the Refresh button () next to the Select workspace dropdown list.
  • If you are unsure which workspace contains the data you wish to import, click the Go to Seequent Evo button to open Seequent Evo in your web browser. You can then see what workspaces you have permissions for and, if necessary, create a new one.

For drilling data, you can choose whether to import data from Evo’s Geoscience Object Service or from the File Service:

Importing drillholes from Seequent Evo, with the submenu offering a choice between the Geoscience Object and File services

Importing drilling data from the File Service is discussed in further detail in Importing Drilling Data from the File Service later in this topic.

The Import from Seequent Evo Window

Once you have chosen the workspace you want to import data from, all data in the workspace that matches the data type you are importing will be displayed. Tick the box for any object you wish to import.

With the column button (), you can choose which columns appear in the table, which can assist in selecting which data to import when the workspace contains a lot of data.

The column chooser open on the import window, with checkboxes controlling which columns other than Name are shown

You can also filter the list to reduce the number of objects displayed. You can choose which columns are used to filter the list by clicking on Filter on columns. When no columns are selected, the filter is applied to only object names.

Typing Year 5 in the search box filters the list of Evo objects down to matching meshes

Note that filtering out objects in this way does not deselect them, if they were selected before the filter was applied.

Once you have selected the objects you wish to import, click the Import button. In most cases, the objects will be added to the Leapfrog Energy project tree. For drilling data and block models, however, there will be extra steps, which are discussed later in this topic. See:

Objects in a project that have been imported from Evo are indicated in the project tree using an Evo badge, which is the case for the meshes selected here:

Meshes imported from Seequent Evo appearing in the Meshes folder, each marked with an Evo badge on its icon

Some objects imported from Evo will include an associated colourmap. If this is the case, the colourmap will be automatically applied to the imported object. The colourmap will appear in the Colourings > Shared Colourmaps > Imported folder in the project tree, where it can be applied to other objects in the project.

Importing Drilling Data from the File Service

In addition to importing drilling data from Evo’s Geoscience Object Service, you can also import drilling data from Evo’s File Service. To do this, right-click on the Well Data folder in the project tree and select Import Wells > Seequent Evo > File.

In the window that appears, click the Collar button:

The empty Import Drillholes From Seequent Evo window, with the folder button beside the Collar field highlighted for selecting the collar file

The window that appears will show all the files saved in the Evo workspace:

The Import Table from Seequent Evo window, selecting the collar file from the files stored in the workspace

Select the collar file you wish to use, then click Import.

Other files in the workspace may be added to the Input Files list, which is the case here for a survey file:

The import window with the collar and survey files chosen and the interval and point tables still empty

Continue adding files to the Input Files list until all the ones you want to import are listed. For example, here, we have a collar file, a survey file and two interval tables:

The import window with two interval tables added to the Intervals list alongside the collar and survey files

Click Import to start working through the files as described in Importing Data Tables.

A drilling dataset will be added to the project tree in the Well Data folder.

You can import additional drilling data tables to an existing drilling dataset from Seequent Evo, but you can only do so from the Geoscience Objects service. To import additional tables, right-click on a drilling dataset and select Import > Import From Seequent Evo, then select the data type you wish to import.

Importing interval values into existing drillholes through the Import From Seequent Evo submenu on the drillhole object

Importing Block Models

If you are importing block models from Seequent Evo, an extra step is required in the import process. This is to select the spatial extents and columns you wish to import. See the Importing a BlockSync Model topic for more information.

Handling Import Errors

Hole ID Mismatch Errors

When importing interval tables to a drilling dataset, Leapfrog Energy will display a warning if hole IDs present in the interval table being imported do not match those in the dataset’s collar table. For example, here two interval tables are being imported that contain hole IDs that do not match those in the collar table:

The HoleID mismatch warning, listing the interval tables with mismatched hole IDs and how many mismatches each has

You can import the data and then resolve the errors by right-clicking on the table in the project tree and selecting Fix Errors. For more information, see Common Errors and How to Fix Them in the Identifying and Correcting Data Errors in Leapfrog Energy topic.

If you no longer wish to see this warning in the currently open Leapfrog Energy project, enable the tickbox. If you later decide you want to see this message when importing interval tables that contain invalid entries, you can enable it via the Settings window. Click on the Leapfrog Energy menu, then on Settings (A). Next, click on the User Interface tab (B) and enable the import warning option (C):

Turning the import warning back on: open Settings from the Leapfrog Geo menu (A), select the User Interface page (B), and tick the warning about invalid interval table hole IDs during import (C)