About the creator
Andy McDonald
I work across geoscience, software and machine learning, building practical tools for subsurface data, interpretation and decision making.
Background
I have nearly 20 years of experience working with subsurface data in the oil and gas industry, across technical, software and product-facing roles. My work has included building industry software modules, developing applied machine learning workflows for geoscience problems, and creating technical training material for geoscientists.
I have delivered conference workshops, written long-form technical articles and published open notebooks on Python and subsurface data analysis. I also write independently through Subsurface Syntax, on practical ways of working with geological data.
Why Bore Lab
A log is usually shown as a finished picture, but it is really a record of when and how the rock was measured. Sensors trail the bit, gas and cuttings take time to reach surface, and mud filtrate changes the rock around the borehole while you drill. Bore Lab lets you drill a well and watch each of those effects happen, with every curve generated from the same earth and petrophysical model.
It is the second tool in the Labs series, after Pore Lab, which looks inside the rock at the pore scale.
Inspired by
The Labs series was inspired by Ryan Sael's The Plane of Focus, an interactive lens lab that explains camera focus by letting you turn the focus ring and watch the sharp plane move through a scene. It showed how much a well-lit, hands-on model can teach.
Find me
The wells, logs and drilling data in Bore Lab are synthetic, generated from an illustrative model.