The goal for the interpreter is to identify the compartments, faults, fault sealing, and trapping mechanisms that hold hydrocarbons, and to understand the depositional history of the environment. These factors help determine drilling locations, and ultimately, exploration project scope and cost. Understanding the structure is a prerequisite for other advanced processes that require structural knowledge.
Structural geologists can interpret geology using several techniques. Paradigm integrates, interprets, and transforms surface data, well data, remote sensing data, and seismic data into 3D images that represent the subsurface. Automation tools, integrated 3D visualization, risk analysis, and ability to extract information that previously was not used, or was overlooked, ensure improved productivity and interpretation accuracy for better exploration success. These activities can be carried out at basin or prospect scale interpretation system for a better understanding of petroleum systems analysis, reservoir trapping mechanisms, and migration pathways.
Integrate. Transform. Understand.
Paradigm Structural Interpretation solutions integrate and transform multiple data sources into images that guide the understanding of the structural subsurface.
- Seamless 2D with 3D multi-survey interpretation
- Concurrent interpretation and modeling
- Seismic attribute (Coherence Cube®, curvature) to fault framework to structural model
- Geologic restoration and balancing
Reduced Cycle Time
Paradigm subsurface solutions provide high levels of application interactivity and computer-assisted technologies to minimize the time required to interpret and model complex structures.
- Wave-shape–based horizon propagation with heredity display and erase capability
- Automatic and semi-automatic fault extraction and structural framework building
- Multidirectional, multi-survey fault and horizon tessellation
- Solid model building and repair for complex structural framework building
Accuracy Ensured
Paradigm ensures accurate structural models by:
- Generating auxiliary outputs of pick quality for automatically picked surfaces
- Providing robust topologies for the most complex models
- Including and honoring all available data
- Validating data through a thorough uncertainty assessment
- Offering unbiased, repeatable, and auditable report capability
- Providing next-generation modeling based on paleo-geochronologic modeling
Paradigm digital subsurface asset management technologies engage integrated workflows to offer advanced solutions throughout the exploration and production value chain.