Zokero has announced SeisWare 6.5 including a ‘true’ compiled 64 bit version for large data sets and Windows Vista 64 and 32 bit compatibility. The package also offers a new hardcopy editor, enhanced OpenSpirit import and export, interactive velocity QC and grid editing for improved depth conversion.
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Google has submitted its Keyhole Markup Language (KML) to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for adoption as a standard. The plan is for KML V3.0 to be ‘harmonized’ with relevant OpenGIS baseline standards. KML is used to display geographic data in Google Earth and Google Maps. The OGC and Google have agreed to better align KML with the OGIS’ Geographic Markup Language (GML).
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TGS-NOPEC has released Facies Map Browser 2 (FMB2), an update of its well-data derived database of depositional systems models. FMB2 offers improved map visualization, single well review and multi-well correlation displays and a query tool for trend analysis. Grid manipulation allows for data use in third party interpretation systems. FMB2 provides access to an online library of reports and references, adding a virtual ‘audit trail’ of supporting documents for an interpretation.
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Beicip-Franlab has just announced ‘FRACAFlow,’ a ‘next generation’ fracture characterization and modeling tool. The tool is a component of Beicip’s OpenFlow environment (OITJ May 2007) which also includes CONDORFlow for assisted history matching and PUMAFlow for reservoir simulation. The new portfolio is made up of plug-in modules that share a common user interface, data model and visualization environment.
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LogTech has just released LOGarc VE, a well log management system for digital and raster log data. A new WELLfile module adds well-related file data types. LOGarc can be used as a component of outsourced data management with data hosted by LogTech. LogTech’s database currently holds over 7,500,000 curves.
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Deloitte Petroleum Services has launched a ‘prospects and play’ module for ArcGIS 9.2 and MapInfo 8.5. The module is available for all PetroView datasets and incorporates a customizable schema that lets users load, edit and query their own prospects and business development opportunities. The module imports information from many formats (PPT, XLS, DOC and CAD) into a single spatially-enabled database. Users view and query corporate prospect outlines and business development opportunities alongside PetroView data and other GIS layers.
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Ryder Scott has added metric units capability to its SNAP well performance and nodal analysis package. SNAP includes code from the Valve Performance Clearinghouse, a consortium of oil companies that establishes gas lift valve performance correlations. Another SNAP customization optimizes tubing tail location in long well completions. SNAP is used by engineers at the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil fields.
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A new release of Geosoft’s Oasis montaj, release 6.4, adds voxel extraction, isosurface plotting for grid visualization and ‘snapshot’ tool to bookmark an area of interest. Math expression support, interactive grid filtering, and SEG-Y import are among other new features.
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