Geostatistics boutique Geovariances has just released Isatis 8.0. New features include remote access via a ‘license borrowing’ function and a spare dongle. The on-line help now includes a beginner’s guide, case studies and technical references. Of interest to oil and gas users are the exponential cosine variogram model, said to be good for seismic modeling, and the new Petrel plug in.
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UK-based Eurotech has rolled out a new ‘deskside’ IBM 3592/TS1120 tape drive enclosure. The system houses one or two drives with a standard IBM dual redundant power supply chassis for future upgrade to rack if necessary. 3592E05 capacity is up to 700GB native per media.
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Foster Findlay Associates (FFA) has released SVI Pro 2008, the latest version of its 3D seismic analysis package. SVI Pro 2008 runs on Windows and Linux and is claimed to speed 3D data set screening and to provide ‘robust’ delineation of complex geological entities. Also new is ‘CarbApp,’ a new imaging methodology that addresses carbonate analysis.
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Austin Geo Modeling (AGM) has announced a new release of Recon, its geological modeling and interpretation package. New Recon 3.0 features include direct connectivity to Landmark databases, interactive cross-section animation while interpreting, dynamic stratigraphic termination rules and more.
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Paradigm has introduced four new workflow-based applications in the latest release of its GoCad reservoir modeling suite. The new modules support 2D and 3D restoration, finite element mesh (FEM) construction (a.k.a the ‘tessellation’ workflow) and GoCad reservoir risk assessment (formerly Jacta). The FEM builds tetrahedral meshes for use in 3D restoration while the risk module leverages compute clusters to speed reserve estimation and risking.
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OpenSpirit’s 3.1 release sees new data connector support for GeoFrame 4.4 and Kingdom 8.2, and a pre-release version ofOpenWorks R5000. A new API eases data access and reporting for users familiar with JDBC or ADO.NET-based development. The developer kit also includes a new metamodel service and expanded unit and cartographic services.
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INT’s new 3.0 release of INTViewer claims to be a ‘simple, affordable and extendable’ geoscience data viewer. The ‘workflow-based’ solution allows users to view live geoscience data sets and to share snapshots of their work as ‘INTSessionShots.’ The new tools make up an ‘open environment for large geoscience data sets.’ INT’s tools have to date targeted third party software developers. Increasingly INT is selling direct to end user organizations.
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