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| Paradigm™ Customer Newsletter, Vol.2
Ed.5 October 2009
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Paradigm Highlights Solutions for Petroleum Engineers at SPE ATCE 2009
Paradigm recently delivered Higher Order Workflow™ (HOW) presentations at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference in New Orleans, LA on October 4 – 7.
Main theater presentations emphasized solutions for reservoir characterization, reservoir engineering, reservoir modeling, well planning, and drilling engineering. Personal demonstrations were also available.
If you would like more information about these solutions or would like to request a personal demonstration of Paradigm solutions, please use our online request form.
Featured Presentations:
» Reservoir Characterization - A Higher Order Workflow to enhance petrophysical analysis, electrofacies characterization, stratigraphic correlation, seismic facies analysis, geologic grid construction, and advanced reservoir data analysis and modeling.
» Reservoir Engineering - A Higher Order Workflow for static and dynamic uncertainty analysis, model screening and history matching, featuring integration to StreamSim HM.
» Reservoir Modeling - A Higher Order Workflow including structural and stratigraphic modeling, grid construction, property modeling and upscaling, andlinking to flow simulators.
» Well Planning & Drilling Engineering - A Higher Order Workflow for improved target identification, well planning, drilling engineering and geosteering.
Paradigm Invites You to Join Us at SEG 2009 in Houston
Join us in the exhibition at the Paradigm booth #1426 for presentations and personal demonstrations featuring the latest innovations recently delivered in the Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009 | Epos® 4.0.
Paradigm is also proud to present the following sessions and poster sessions as part of the SEG technical program.
| Wednesday, October 28 |
9:20 am
Poster Session (SVIP P1.1) |
Long Offset Depth Processing for Sub-basalt Imaging in West of Bavla Area Cambay Basin, Gujarat, India
R. Chand, D.C. Lohani, and U.K. Chatterjee, ONGC; C.H. Mehta, S.P. Singh, Trinh Ngoc Anh, and G. Yao, Paradigm |
10:20 am
Poster Session (TOM P1.4) |
Resolution of Small Velocity Anomalies by Wide Azimuth Reflection Data Tomography
A. Bartana, Paradigm; D. Kosloff, Tel-Aviv U/Paradigm; P. Riste, StatoilHydro; Y. Vilenchik, Paradigm |
2:45 pm
INT 4 - Interpretation Technology
Room: General Assembly A |
New 3D Flattened Space for Seismic Interpretation
Emmanuel Labrunye, Christophe Winkler, Cedric Borgese, Jean-Laurent Mallet, Stanislas Jayr, Paradigm |
3:10 pm
ANI 2 - Observation and Interpretation
Room: 342 AD |
Azimuthal AVA Analysis Using Full-azimuth 3D Angle Gathers
Anat Canning and Alex Malkin, Paradigm |
We look forward to seeing you at SEG in Houston. For more information, visit www.askparadigmhow.com |
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Recent Events
» 11th CISBGF & EXPOGEF 2009
Paradigm was a sponsor at the 11th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society that took place in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil on August 24-28, 2009.
The delegates and students were treated to a preview of Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009 | Epos® 4.0 at Paradigm booth.
» Brazil Rock & Fluid Canvas | Epos 4.0 Technology Forum
Paradigm held our first Latin American Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009 | Epos® 4.0 Technology Forum in Brazil on September 17, 2009. |
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The attendees were welcomed by James Lamb ( EVP Americas), Pablo Pascual ( VP Latin America), Dayse Netto (Country Manager Brazil), Bruno de Ribet (Technical Director Latin America), and the Brazil Paradigm team at the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Hotel.
NEW Higher Order Workflows that demonstrated how Rock & Fluid Canvas on Epos 4.0 can be leveraged to solve the industry's foremost challenges such Salt Plays, Structural and Sedimentary Plays were presented.
» Argentina Rock & Fluid Canvas | Epos 4.0 Technology Forum
Paradigm held the Argentina Rock & Fluid Canvas | Epos 4.0 Technology Forum on October 9, 2009 at the Emperador Hotel in Buenos Aires.
The half a day event included of a full program including updates on the newest Paradigm innovations integrating seismic processing and imaging, interpretation, formation evaluation, reservoir modeling and engineering, well planning and frilling engineering. This integration was illustrated by featuring new Higher Order Workflows that demonstrated how Rock & Fluid Canvas on Epos 4.0 can be leveraged to solve the industry's foremost challenges.
For more information about future events, please send an email to silvina.baez@pdgm.com |
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Paradigm Stratimagic 4.0 in Rock & Fluid Canvas 2009 | Epos 4.0
Paradigm™ Stratimagic® is the leading commercial solution and the de facto standard for seismic facies analysis in the oil and gas industry. Utilizing a Total patented implementation of Neural Network Technology (NNT), subtle reservoir characteristics that had previously remained hidden are uncovered for analysis and detailed interpretation. The patented process uses a self-organizing neural network (Kohonen) to map seismic character and assess the variation in signal shape over an interval of interest (e.g. reservoir). The result is a series of color-classified model facies traces (neurons) that represent seismic data heterogeneity. Classification maps are then computed to show the distribution of seismic facies.
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Fig.1: Stratimagic display of seismic data and neurons
using Qt graphics |
This release of Stratimagic 4.0 has a large change of infrastructure enabling much closer integration with Epos based applications. The user interface has been redesigned for easier use and ported to Nokia’s Qt user interface toolkit for consistency with the other Paradigm™ Epos® and GOCAD® based applications. Most notably, the main window has been redesigned to enable, from a single place, most of Stratimagic’s main functions. Many shortcuts are available through new toolbars. Thanks to Qt’s graphics engine the rendering of seismic sections is improved and has full alpha-blending support. The Help subsystem has been ported to WebWorks for consistency and improved navigation.
This release supports two modes of operation, one with NexModel within Epos integrated with Epos data repositories and services, and the other together with StratQC and NexModel supporting a more standalone operation. In the Epos enabled mode, Stratimagic operates on top of an Epos project directly, without the overhead of creating a dedicated ‘Stratimagic’ project. The application is launched from the Epos session manager and the Stratimagic specific data are saved under the umbrella of the Epos project. Cursors are shared with Epos based interpretation applications.
The user interface has been tuned to align with Epos standards to make operation in an integrated environment more intuitive. This version has also adopted mixed units for vertical and horizontal domains. Seismic data access and internal data management has been much simplified and rationalized. Support for Landmark’s R5000 release has been added. Batch execution is fully supported: scripts can now be written to automate particular processing sequences and run them in the background.
The Self Organizing Map (SOM) has been sped up hugely to deliver 5x performance on modern workstations. A constraint clustering option has been added allowing users to nominate a list of traces to be used by SOM or Hybrid and Hierarchical methods as part of the output in the clustering process. The other (unfixed) traces are updated by the clustering process, which takes fixed traces into account thus extending the classification process. By client request, this version supports interval threshold attributes that enable users to aggregate thickness values for any attribute within a user specified range of values. For example, if a seismic attribute can be calibrated to sand then the aggregate of net sand can be calculated for an interval. Statistics of variation within an interval can also be calculated for use as measures of heterogeneity. The zonation process has been improved by replacing discrete methods with continuous spline based methods which estimate zone boundaries and produce zone estimates more accurately. Zonation has been renamed to “Seismic Blocking” in this release. Interval attributes are more accurately computed.
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Fig.2: thickness attribute map using the
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Most of the seismic attributes can now be computed along a horizon surface or strata-slices. This removes the need for creating intermediate volumes, particularly in the first stages of an interpretation. The Discontinuity attribute is improved with the support of separate sizes for vertical and horizontal data windows.
Usability in an integrated Epos environment is improved with the adoption of Epos style slider controls [VCR style] for navigating through 3D seismic volumes. The progress bars have been enhanced and their reports are more accurate. Selecting items in lists is now done in a standard way. Details on data can be obtained directly from the data manager’s lists.
As with the rest of the Paradigm Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009 | Epos® 4.0 release, Stratimagic supports execution on Linux EM64T.
This version marks an exciting new beginning for Stratimagic. Integration with Epos allows the infrastructure burden to be shared among many applications freeing Stratimagic to focus completely on classification technology and its use to add precision and value to seismic and well data interpretation.
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The Web Asset Manager - "Querying and managing Paradigm Epos project data".
The Paradigm™ Rock & Fluid Canvas™ 2009 | Epos® 4.0 release introduces significant changes to the data management and infrastructure framework. New interpretation data and project/survey services as well as new data model extensions support and strengthen multi-user access to Epos project data. New data connectors linking Paradigm™ Epos® to OpenSpirit and Paradigm™ SKUA®/GOCAD® allow our users to access project data from a broader pool of applications and repositories. When you take into account the new access agreements providing our customers a wealth and diversity of Paradigm products combines with the Epos multi-survey data operations and its open and distributed data model, you can see a predictable outcome…more users with more data to manage.
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| Fig.1: WAM Search |
To facilitate the management of Epos project data, the Rock & Fluid Canvas 2009 | Epos 4.0 release introduces a significant upgrade to Paradigm Web Asset Manager (WAM), a utility for providing a global view of all the data in Epos projects at a given site and a tool for performing advanced and global data queries to search for specific data. While WAM is especially designed to support Epos data queries, it also supports specific data objects in third-party repositories such as well data viewing in OpenWorks and GeoFrame databases.
By combining a web browser (Java 5-plug-in) running on the user’s desktop with an application server (running near the databases) and a Geographic Information System (GIS), WAM is able to browse from a list registered databases (Paradigm Naming System or PNS).
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| Fig.2: WAM Query Wizard |
General browsing operations supported by WAM include database filtering, database selection, data search, data collection, and data drilldowns by links. Specific browsing features and functions (e.g. display information, export to Microsoft Excel) are available for well, seismic, interpretation, and project survey data providing users and administrators with a rapid pathway to quality control (QC) available data.
Perhaps the defining feature of the WAM system is its ability to deliver simple and advanced search results via user query and index repository. Query operations include the following:
- Simple queries with searches inside more than 250 different fields with use of the implicit “and”
- 115 predefined queries with optional parameters
- User-defined queries via the “Query Wizard”
- Combined project and data specific query criteria
- Option to save queries
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| Fig.3: WAM Quality Control |
With this comprehensive query facility, users are able to secure answers to data quality control questions, such as “Do I have duplicate well data?” or answer questions that qualify data, such as “Do I have seismic facies volumes?” or “Do I have seismic volumes in depth?”
Search results can also be used to create an Epos project directly from WAM using selected surveys and/or well databases. Epos project parameters (coordinate systems, bounding box…) can also be setup from WAM.
The indexed search results can be displayed in a GIS. GIS display features for search results are rich and include use of culture data and projections of choice. Geographic searches can be performed based on specified “extent” or based on area considerations (e.g. leases, polygons). Internet access permits search data to be displayed in Google Earth with subsequent selection of data for QC and display. Selections can also be exported as ESRI’s shapefiles.
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| Fig.4: WAM GIS Display |
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