An illustrative scenario compiling method that includes providing a visual representation of a well having well components mapped to different areas of the visual representation, responding to a selection of one of the well components with a list of data sets corresponding to the well component, retrieving a selected data set from a corresponding database, storing the data set in a common location with selected data sets of other well components, and saving the selected data sets as a scenario to be used for assembling a future collection of data sets as input for analysis software.