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December 2008 |
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Marcom and
Lantern Awards
Following the
nomination of SKUA™ as a finalist for the World
Oil Awards, Paradigm was also well recognized for
excellence in marketing results.
Paradigm
participated to the Association of Marketing and
Communication Professionals Awards as well as the
Business Marketing Association Awards, also known
as Lantern Awards.
To name a
few, Paradigm received awards for:
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"Focus" is
now Paradigm Echos™
Effective
January 1, 2009, our seismic data processing
system for generating 2D and 3D images of the
subsurface, formerly known as Paradigm "Focus",
will be renamed Paradigm Echos™. Echos (ěk'ōs) is
a Greek word that refers to the systematic
reflection of sound from distant surfaces. Even
though Paradigm has been using the brand name
"Focus" for over 17 years, the technology company
that originally filed for the trademark has
contested our use of the name going forward. We
have agreed to discontinue use of the "Focus" name
for all future releases of the product and related
materials.
What does the name change
mean for our "Focus"
customers?
Other than getting
used to the new name in forthcoming releases,
customers should not experience any issues with
the transition. The future Echos release has been
designed to handle Focus-named product licensing
automatically. Paradigm will provide the
appropriate name-change cues wherever we can to
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Full
Azimuth Seismic Analysis = EarthStudy
360™
Our full
azimuth exploration technology, Paradigm
EarthStudy 360™ (code-named "WideEye"), received
strong interest from large audiences at SEG 2008,
Las Vegas. Paradigm Chief Geophysicist and
inventor Zvi Koren stated that "EarthStudy 360 has
the potential to change the way seismic data is
imaged, interpreted, and
characterized."
Paradigm is
already working with a small number of EarthStudy
360 clients and will continue to present and
publish papers throughout the coming year. You can
obtain more information on EarthStudy 360 from the
recent press release and the SEG article. For direct
inquiries, please contact Adam Farris, Paradigm
Vice President of Emerging
Technologies. |
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Paradigm focuses on
Higher Order
Workflow™ at SEG 2008 |
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SEG 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada was
a terrific platform to showcase Paradigm's Higher
Order Workflow™. Media representatives and
hundreds of conference delegates visited the
Paradigm booth and viewed demonstrations of our
innovative technologies.
What is Higher Order
Workflow™?
Your best return on
investment for terabytes of valuable data is
realized when knowledge from that data is enriched
through every workflow step. Truly effective
workflow builds upon prior, and enriches
subsequent, workflows. This collective,
knowledge-building process, enabled by the
Paradigm solutions continuum, is what we refer to
as our Higher Order Workflow ™. |
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Paradigm
higher order workflow accesses a software
portfolio spanning all E&P domains for
subsurface analysis:
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Seismic processing and
imaging |
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Interpretation and
modeling |
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Reservoir and subsurface
evaluation |
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Well planning and
drilling |
Whether
geophysics, geology, petrophysics or engineering,
Paradigm has progressive, efficient higher order
workflow that optimizes vast amounts of data to
help you identify opportunities throughout your
E&P processes.
Want to learn
more? Click here for a short video
about Higher Order Workflow™ or contact
Paradigm. |
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Paradigm
recently embarked on a unique approach to
geoscience technology innovation. An agreement to
expand internal technology development by posting
critical high-priority challenges to InnoCentive
for open innovation connects Paradigm's science
and technology experts with InnoCentive's global
network of "Solvers," a community of progressive
physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and other
scientists.
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Continuing on
our series of recorded webinars, this month, we
feature the 3D Propagator with a presentation by
Tony Marsh, Technical Director in Visualization,
Interpretation, and Reservoir
Characterization.
Tony is presenting
"Horizon Interpretation - Best Practices for
Propagation Parameterization" during which he
shows the use of various propagation techniques
and how to best QC the propagation results.
To learn more, click here. |
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Upcoming 2009
Training
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Paradigm Geolog®
Introduction to Well Data
Processing & Analysis (2-day
course)
Dates:
Jan 26-27, Feb 18-19, Mar 12-13, Apr 29-30, Jun
25-26, Jul 16-17, Sept 14-15, Oct 19-20, Nov
16-17
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Paradigm Stratimagic®
Basic Stratimagic 3.2: Seismic
Interpretation and Facies Analysis
(2-day course)
Dates: Jan 29-30, Jun
11-12
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Paradigm
GOCAD®
GOCAD Fundamentals
(including Introduction To Structural Framework
Builder)
(2-day course)
Dates: Jan 19-20, Apr 6-7, Jul 20-21,
Sept
21-22
GOCAD Data
Analysis and Property Modeling using GOCAD
2.5
(2-day
course)
Dates: Jan 21-22,
Apr 8-9, Jul 22-23, Sept
23-24
GOCAD
Introduction to Reservoir Risk Management
(JACTA)
(1-day course)
Dates: Jan 23, Jul
24, Sept
25
Velocity
Modeling using GOCAD
(2-day
course)
Dates: Feb 9-10,
Jun
8-9
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For
2009 course details and to register, visit www.pdgm.com and
click on the Support & Training
tab. |
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Featuring
Chao Gao
 What
do you do at Paradigm?
I am a Senior Depth Imaging
Geophysicist.
Why did
you choose to come to
Paradigm?
I was
aware of Paradigm in 1996 when they delivered the
first commercial pre-stack depth migration system.
I joined the Paradigm Beijing office in 1998 and
then Paradigm Canada in 2006.
What was
the first job that brought you into the oil
industry?
I
completed my geophysical degree in China and
I have been working in geophysics since 1984. I
enjoy working in exploration. Each project gives
me a unique image and tells a different story. I
get excited when I see a new seismic
section.
What
special interests outside of work do you
enjoy?
I am very
interested in history and opera. I also like to
play table tennis and go skiing in my spare
time.
What
is your favorite phrase, or word, that motivates
you?
My
favorite phrase is that methods are more than
problem. I believe that the people can always find
an approach to solve a problem. |
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SKUA/GOCAD, and R&FC Data
Connectivity -
An enabler for Higher Order
Workflow
The Earth
Decision acquisition placed Paradigm at a unique
position to fulfill the "model-centric" vision by
integrating Paradigm's rich suite of seismic
data analysis, interpretation, formation
evaluation, and drilling technologies with a
unique earth model engine now called SKUA.
Interest was especially high in bringing
facies classifications from Stratimagic
(seismic-facies) and Geolog (electro-facies) into
GOCAD and SKUA models; populating and constraining
reservoir models with simultaneous inversion
(Vanguard); testing interpretations conducted in
Paradigm SeisEarth™ and VoxelGeo® for
fault-horizon seal integrity (SKUA); and
facilitating the development of complex velocity
models with Paradigm GeoDepth® and GOCAD®.(Read more) |
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Seismic
Shifts
Stuart Walley, Oil
& Gas Middle East, September
2008. |
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SKUA - A Step
Change in Modelling
Scandinavian Oil & Gas
Magazine, September
2008 |
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The need for a correct geological
modelling support: the advent of the
UVT-transform
Stanislas Jayr,
Emmanuel Gringarten, Anne-Laure Tertois,
Jean-Laurent Mallet and Jean-Claude
Dulac, First Break, October
2008. |
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New technology
bridges the gap between seismic and simulation
JPT Online, October
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Chinese Firm
Emerge as Formidable Competitors in Global
E&P
Richard Ward, Journal
of Petroleum Technology, November
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Last month, Paradigm embarked on
a unique approach to geoscience technology
innovation. The objective is to accelerate unique
technology innovation for the energy industry.
Click here to see the press
release.
InnoCentive is an Ely Lilly
spin-out that originated by that company's
realization that innovation can come from many
sources. That company needed to leverage
creative and alternative external resources to
increase its competitive advantage.
The idea resulted in a
marketplace for open innovation where seekers post
challenges that solvers could subsequently propose
solutions. If a solver's solution is chosen by the
seeker they receive an award. The
challenges vary across business and science
domains, with small to very large rewards.
Our CEO, John Gibson identified
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researching a presentation he
presented last year at an SPE event on advancing
technology adoption. The reaction was
interesting, and was also mentioned in his recent
American Oil & Gas Reporter article.
Paradigm has posted a business
challenge to seek optimal commercialization and
pricing models for high performance computing
applications and a scientific challenge for
defining a new high-performance fracture and fault
network representation. We expect that a
number of physicists, geoscientists, business
experts, mathematicians, or others to propose
solutions.
This is one more example of
Paradigm's innovative culture and dedication to
deliver unconflicted solutions to our
customers.
Andrew Stein
CMO |
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Horizon Interpretation -
Best Practices for Propagator
Parameterization |
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Tony
Marsh
Technical
Director
Visualization, Interpretation, &
Reservoir Characterization
A considerable amount of
interpreters' time is spent interpreting geologic
horizons or unconformities within 3D seismic data
sets. Using manual interpretation techniques, it
may take days or weeks to complete interpretation
of a single horizon in a large 3D survey.
Fortunately 3D horizon auto-picking algorithms
such as 3D propagator can reduce this time down to
minutes or hours. An additional benefit of using
tools such as 3D Propagator is that every sample
in the 3D data set can be used thereby providing
considerably more information about subtle
geological features that occur along the seismic
interface being mapped.
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Fig. 1: Alternate Ways
to Limit
Propagation |
The geology in 3D seismic data
sets can be quite varied depending on depositional
environment and/or structural setting. The
interpreter has to be careful to recognize the
type of geological surfaces they are mapping and
then apply the correct 3D horizon propagation
parameters that best fit the geological surface
type. For example, a top of salt surface with
highly irregular topology with lower frequency and
steep dips will require a different set of
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In this presentation, we show
how different parameters are applied during
horizon propagation and what some of the affects
are by changing these parameters.
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Fig. 2: Manual Horizon
Picking - Depositional
Surface
Interpretation |
We will also show some examples
of semi-automated interpretation techniques used
in very challenging data areas, where it is not
possible to auto-pick, and very difficult to
interpret manually.
3D Propagator
Tip
When interpreting an horizon, make
sure that you set the window to be large enough to
avoid any mis-correlations across the fault
planes. This way you will tighten up the
propagator and it will use the data more. Indeed,
it will be correlating more traces inside that
window. (go to 14 min in the video for a demo)
If you want to learn
everything about these methods and their results,
click here to access the
webinar and view the full
presentation!
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Fig. 1: Well Import
from Epos to
GOCAD |
We are
pleased to report on significant development and
commercialization progress towards improved data
and application integration between the Rock &
Fluid Canvas™ (RFC) and GOCAD/SKUA suites.
Customers that have investments in products of
these respective suites will be able to exchange
data much more seamlessly through the integration
of GOCAD/SKUA in the Epos environment. GOCAD/SKUA
customers will be able to share well, numeric
logs, markers, horizon picks, fault picks,
traverses (correlation and cross section), and 3D
seismic data from Epos repositories. Additionally,
cursor event exchange will be
supported.
This new link
will be a great benefit to a broad user community
that makes use of both RFC and GOCAD/SKUA suite
products. Additionally, it will be used to support
a specific application initiative that brings the
2D Gocad Viewers into SeisEarth as supporting
windows for geologic interpretation. This
implementation has been previewed at this year's
annual SEG conference and exhibition in Las Vegas.
The availability of this link is
coming soon, next year. Application interface
unification will also be featured for all
interpretation windows. Integration is ongoing and
driven by our customers, product managers, and
development teams who all strive for the same
application goals and objectives.
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Fig. 2:
Well Sharing between BaseMap
Traverse and
GOCAD Cross
Section |
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Fig. 3: GOCAD and
SeisEarth displaying the
same data extracted
from the
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Future
integration work calls for the identification and
proliferation of "shared components". Future
shared components include among many others the
command framework (a history capture and scripting
capability). We believe this initiative will have
a tremendous impact on our existing customer base
as well as serving as a stimulus for solution
take-up from a new customer base. We look forward
to reporting to you and our customers on this
important project. |
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