With a few hours of work last weekend, I finished putting together a Jupyter notebook tutorial, started at the Geophysics Python sprint 2018, demonstrating how to:

• • Use Agile Scientific’s Welly to load two wells with several geophysical logs
  • Use Pandas, Welly, and NumPy to: remove all logs except for compressional wave velocity (Vp), shear wave velocity (Vs), and density (RHOB); store the wells in individual DataFrames; make the sampling rate common to both wells; check for null values; convert units from imperial to metric; convert slowness to velocity; add a well name column
  • Split the DataFrame by well using unique values in the well name column
  • For each group/well use Agile Scientific’s Bruges ‘s Backus average to upscale all curves individually
  • Add the upscaled curves back to the DataFrame

Matt Hall, (organizer), told me during a breakfast chat on the first day of the sprint that this tutorial would be a very good to have since it is one of the most requested examples by neophyte users of the Bruges library; I was happy to oblige.

The code for the most important bit, the last two items in the above list, is included below:

# Define parameters for the Backus filter
lb = 40   # Backus length in meters
dz = 1.0  # Log sampling interval in meters

# Do the upscaling work
wells_bk = pd.DataFrame()
grouped = wells['well'].unique()  
for well in grouped:
    new_df = pd.DataFrame()
    Vp = np.array(wells.loc[wells['well'] == well, 'Vp'])
    Vs = np.array(wells.loc[wells['well'] == well, 'Vs'])
    rhob = np.array(wells.loc[wells['well'] == well, 'RHOB'])
    Vp_bks, Vs_bks, rhob_bks = br.rockphysics.backus(Vp, Vs, rhob, lb, dz)
    new_df['Vp_bk'] = Vp_bks
    new_df['Vs_bk'] = Vs_bks
    new_df['rhob_bk'] = rhob_bks
    wells_bk = pd.concat([wells_bk, new_df])

# Add to the input DataFrame
wells_final = (np.concatenate((wells.values, wells_bk.values), axis=1)) 
cols = list(wells) + list(wells_bk) 
wells_final_df = pd.DataFrame(wells_final, columns=cols)

And here is a plot comparing the raw and upscaled Vp and Vs logs for one of the wells:

Please check the notebook if you want to try the full example.