Work Smarter, Not Harder - Interactively work with terabytes of seismic data
Alan J Cohen
Consultant to Startups, Companies and Institutions - Energy and Other Fields
If you are a multi-client seismic acquisition company, or acquisition and processing company, how can you display huge WAZ seismic datasets (multi-terabytes) on one platform; so that, your oil company clients can view and analyze them, both prestack and poststack, at lightning speed and make a faster and better purchase decision?
If you are a high-end processing and depth imaging company, how can you use leading-edge data compression methods and runstreams to significantly reduce the cycle time of your processing and imaging flows, so that steps that would usually run over the weekend could be finished in a few hours? And what would be the best way for your oil company clients to quickly QC your results at various steps in the flow?
If you are an interpreter at an oil company and want to assess which blocks or concessions you might want to bid on over a large area of the Gulf of Mexico, either in USA waters or Mexican waters, or overseas, how can you best do that reconnaisance work, quickly identifying areas with suitable seismic attributes? What could you use on land? Want to add your own proprietary code? Go ahead, it's very easy. You can add wells...
At a recent industry meeting, Mr. R.A. Walker, CEO, Anadarko, remarked: “ I have terabytes and terabytes of seismic data that I might use five percent of.” How can he extract a benefit from all that unused data and do so quickly and effectively? Oh and do the work on a laptop?
For all of these problems and many others, Headwave, and its sister company Hue, has a software solution for you. They can visualize and analyze huge multiterabyte datsets in real-time. See www.headwave.com They have advanced data compression capabilities and runstreams. I would be happy to discuss further and get our team involved. The commercial terms are very reasonable.
PS And they have a link to and from Petrel as well.
Update from our Mik Isernia from the March 15, 2017 meeting at Rice University, Houston: "We did a demo yesterday at the 2017 Rice O&G HPC event: 140,000 SqKm, the whole Norwegian shelf, all Multi-client Seismic data from Spectrum, plus Wells, Velocities, Horizons, etc... Running on a NVIDA GPU server on Amazon AWS, fully interactive, directly from a browser." Really!
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7 年Very interested and showing geological complexity
Professor Geoscience Department at Universiti Teknologi Petronas
8 年Very nice. Still Alan going strong
Driving innovation in Energy
8 年Medium resolution video of the recent demo at Rice University: https://vimeo.com/209253129
"If you are an interpreter at an oil company and want to assess which blocks or concessions you might want to bid on over a large area of the Gulf of Mexico, either in USA waters or Mexican waters, or overseas, how can you best do that reconnaisance work, quickly identifying areas with suitable seismic attributes? What could you use on land? " This is the perfect scenario (and a very common one) to employ a system like Katalyst Data Management's iGlass, to quickly find any data of interest and view it in real time in order to make that kind of assessment. Saves time - from hours, to days, to weeks, even months, which saves money, and prevents to possibility of having to re-purchase the data because you couldn't find it or didn't know you had it.