introduction-to-wellbore-positioning-r10-2026

Page | 95

The next step is to determine the effect of the observation error on the well path position. In this diagram (Figure 79) you can see that a measured depth error could affect North East and TVD.

Figure 79: Showing that a measured depth error could affect North, East and TVD.

But an azimuth error only affects North and East (Figure 80), so we get the following:

Figure 80: Effect of azimuth error on North and East elements.

Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker