Paradigm Vanguard^™

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Direct hydrocarbon indicator inverted from the seismic data as
shown in Paradigm Vanguard

Many of the world’s largest oil fields are in decline. Techniques like seismic inversion can add significant value to a geoscientist’s insight into a reservoir’s properties, heterogeneity, compartmentalization and optimization potential. However, seismic inversion is still largely underutilized because of the wealth of data (e.g. seismic, well log, petrophysics, rock physics) and technology (e.g. interpretation, modeling, wavelet analysis) that must be assembled to carry out quality inversion projects. Assembling this portfolio, as well as performing and validating the inversion, is only possible with advanced seismic inversion solutions and strong interoperability and connectivity between different data repositories and best-in-class products.

Increase Interoperability and Interactivity

The ideal seismic inversion solution applies the latest technologies in geologic modeling, geostatistics, rock physics, petrophysics, wavelet estimation and seismic interpretation in addition to seismic inversion. It facilitates data assembly from distributed repositories and performs multi-disciplinary operations on shared data. Inversion results should be correlated with rock physics and petrophysical data, easily transformed to other property volumes, analyzed with rich cross-plotting solutions, and validated with forward modeling.

Paradigm Vanguard is the only seismic inversion and reservoir characterization solution that addresses the complete spectrum of seismic inversion challenges with a collaborative approach. Optimizing data integration, integrity and performance, Vanguard delivers advanced inversion results with confidence and speed.

Validate Inversion with Advanced Technology

The Paradigm Vanguard system advances seismic inversion science and expands its use by delivering state-of-the-art inversion solutions on an open platform. Vanguard is for reservoir characterization professionals tasked with providing a more complete physical and geometric description of a reservoir, while challenged by time constraints and multi-disciplinary requirements. The total Vanguard solution anticipates technical and operational hurdles that must be overcome to achieve successful inversion results. No other system offers seamless workflow and data connectivity from angle domain image gathers and simultaneous inversion to rock physics relationships and reservoir property models.

Geo-statistical model shown in Paradigm Vanguard

Achieve Seamless Connectivity and Collaboration

Paradigm Vanguard optimizes interactivity and collaboration with direct connectivity to seismic interpretation, visualization, and modeling systems.

Incorporate multi-dimensional seismic data and geologic models into advanced seismic inversion schemes
Correlate inversion results with rock physics and petrophysical data available in the system or in third party repositories
Transform cross-plot relationships of well log data and resultant lithology volumes into 3D geobodies with Paradigm VoxelGeo® and VXPlot applications.
Create a complete, integrated pre-stack inversion workflow with Paradigm Probe™ AVA and Paradigm Vanguard reservoir characterization system
Obtain inversion model constraints and assess reservoir properties with the SKUA™ paleogeochronologic model

Deliver Data Quality and Inversion Confidence

Vanguard provides the data quality and in-depth interactivity required to validate and deliver advanced inversion results.

Invert multiple angle or offset data amplitude data simultaneously for a more consistent, multi-property, high-resolution reservoir description Perform a simulaaneous and global inversion of angle or offset data (stacks or gathers) using a robust multi-channel operator that follows the micro-layers of the background geologic model.
Build and use geologic models generated from geostatistical methods or next-generation modeling (SKUA™) to constrain the seismic inversion
Weight the influence of the seismic data or geologic model according to confidence criteria to minimize the influence of noise on the inversion solution
Reach the required resolution for seismic inversion with extremely rich multi-well wavelet extraction and analysis

Improve Productivity and Performance

With Vanguard, users can complete multi-disciplinary operations on an open and distributed data architecture to improve productivity and performance.

Perform seismic reservoir characterization without leaving the system for fewer errors, higher quality and faster results
Rapidly transform one reservoir property to another based on relationships derived from rock physics and petrophysics data
Build detailed high-resolution models that integrate well log, interpretation, velocity and seismic data in a unified framework for maximum functionality and flexibility
Customize the system to accommodate all types of reservoir settings and conditions
Increase decision speed with high levels of interactivity
Perform simultaneous inversion on high performance computing clusters to optimize project turnaround times

General Information | Installation/Upgrade | Licensing | Training and Support | Platform and System Requirements

General Information

1. What is Paradigm™ Vanguard™ and who is it for?
Paradigm Vanguard is a comprehensive platform for integrating seismic, well and geological data, to produce a spatial description of reservoir properties (impedances, porosities, saturations, lithology etc.). Vanguard is a multi-disciplinary reservoir characterization tool. It integrates seismic data, well log data and geologic data to produce a spatial description of reservoir properties.

Unlike other commercial solutions that attempt to bring a diverse portfolio of seismic reservoir characterization solutions to a broad E&P community, the Vanguard system enables this functionality in one system with common data models and a unified and modern interface. The integration operations and transformation functions are equally accessible to reservoir characterization specialists, pore pressure prediction professionals, geophysicists, and seismic interpreters. The embedded analysis tools (seismic attribute and math calculators, lithologic crossplotting, well log window) save users days or even weeks in performing essential but often difficult or tedious data integration or transformation tasks. Specially designed fit-for-purpose product configurations are also available for the seismic interpreter, geophysicist, and reservoir characterization specialists engaged in seismic reservoir characterization projects.

2. What are the technologies which are included in Vanguard?
Vanguard seismic reservoir characterization tools include acoustic, elastic, and simultaneous pre-stack inversion solutions; Lamda, Mu, Rho (LMR) extraction and analysis; neural network prediction of well log curves; geostatistics; interactive multi-well, multi-attribute seismic to well log calibration (wavelet extraction, time-to depth); seismic attribute generation and extraction; cross equalization; advanced well log data management (based on Paradigm Geolog®); special supporting analysis tools (e.g. lithologic crossplotting, horizon and volume math operations, rock physics).

3. What is Institute Francais de Petrole (IFP), inversion?
Vanguard provides a unique pre-stack simultaneous global inversion which is a result of the collaboration with IFP, following years of research that were supported by the major oil companies.

4. How do Vanguard users benefit from the integration the into Paradigm environment?
Seismic reservoir characterization workflows need to draw on diverse input data types and value-added functionality, which is not always available in the system. Paradigm common data model and infrastructure (Paradigm Epos™) allows seismic reservoir characterization projects to be easily enhanced with direct links to Paradigm industry-leading solutions in petrophysics (Paradigm Geolog); seismic facies classification (Paradigm Stratimagic®); stratigraphic model building (Paradigm SKUA®) and volume interpretation (Paradigm VoxelGeo®, Paradigm Reservoir Navigator). Data from third-party data stores is also easily incorporated into Vanguard projects through the Paradigm proprietary, Epos™ infrastructure.

Installation/Upgrade

5. Do I need to run Epos 4.0 to install Vanguard?
Yes, the Vanguard makes use of the data repositories and infrastructure new to Epos 4.0.

6. How can I export and import data between Vanguard and other Paradigm applications, and third-party applications?
Probe reads and writes data directly from the Epos database. The options for data import/export are as follows:

a) ASCII/SEGY Import/Export using flexible interactive tools to interrogate files and QC the data
b) ULA Import/Export using Paradigm client/server technology to connect directly to OW/GF databases for interpretation/seismic/well data access
c) OpenSpirit connections for flexible access (new in Epos 4.0)

Licensing

7. Does Vangaurd have a dependency on other Paradigm products or can it be run stand-alone?
Probe is a stand-alone product and does not have any dependencies.

8. Will I require a new license file for Vanguard for Rock & Fluid Canvas™ | Epos 4.0?
Rock & Fluid Canvas 2007 Epos 3.0 customers with licenses of Vanguard will not require new licenses when they upgrade to Rock & Fluid Canvas 2009 | Epos 4.0.

Training and Support

9. Is training available for Vanguard?
Yes, visit www.pdgm.com/training for a full listing of available classes by location. Also, customers using any of the Rock & Fluid Canvas 2009 | Epos 4.0 products are strongly recommended to enroll in the Epos 4.0 System and Data Management course.

10. Where are Paradigm Training Centers located?
Paradigm offers public at our training centers in the following locations:
Americas - Houston, TX, USA; Calgary, Canada; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Caracas, Venezuela
Europe/CIS - Woking, England; Aberdeen, Scotland; Pau, France; Moscow, Russia
Middle East/North Africa/India - Lagos, Nigeria; Mumbai, India; Dubai, UAE
Asia Pacific - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Perth, Australia
China - Beijing, China

11. Can I schedule a private Vanguard training class just for users in my company?
Yes, Paradigm can teach our Probe class to your users on a private basis at a Paradigm Training Center or at your facility.

12. Can private classes be taught using my dataset?
Yes, but in order to avoid customization charges, we recommended that we deliver a private class using our dataset. After the training class is completed, our trainer can spend an extra day working with users on their datasets. We have found this to be the most cost effective way of transferring knowledge with specific datasets.

Platform and System Requirements

13. What are the system requirements for Vanguard?
Please see the System Requirements tab for specific details.

14. What platforms does Vanguard run on?
Processors: Intel 64 architecture processors; AMD64 architecture processors
Operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 and above; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 and above

The following lists the hardware and software needed to run Paradigm Vanguard. It details requirements across all operating environments, specific requirements for each operating system, and additional software requirements.

For all operating systems:
Memory : 4 GB or more per CPU core recommended; minimum 1GB.
Memory requirements may differ according to application and data.
Swap space: 4GB recommended.
Hard Disk space: 1880MB

Specific requirements for supported operating systems:
Linux for x64 Systems (64 Bits)

Operating System	Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 and above Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 and above
Hardware	Processor: Intel® 64 and AMD64 architecture processors. 3D Graphics Adapter:NVIDIA Quadro series recommended Minimum resolution of 1600x1200 or 1900x1200 depending on aspect ratio

Additional Software Requirements

Web browser

Linux environments: Accessing Help on Linux requires a browser that supports Java and JavaScript. We recommend Mozilla Firefox version 2.x or earlier (http://www.mozilla.com/).

Notes:
1. Epos 4.0 is not supported on virtual machine solutions
2. Epos 4.0 is not supported for display on any X Window System emulators.

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