Halliburton’s Landmark Software unit has announced DecisionSpace G1 Personal Edition (DSG1), a head-on competitor for Schlumberger’s Petrel. To make its DecisionSpace interpretation flagship more deployable in smaller E&P shops, Landmark has decoupled it from the OpenWorks database and is offering the 'full-featured’ geosciences suite as a ‘zero-configuration’ (i.e. no Oracle installation) single user bundle at a named-user list price of $99k.
In an unveiling at the Amsterdam EAGE this month, Landmark
showed a time lapse screen capture movie of a DSG1 installation showing
that around half an hour of real time was all that is required to load
the software (including an embedded ArcGIS mapping engine, the SQLite personal
OpenWorks database) and a substantial data set of seismic and well
data. Once loaded, the full DecisionSpace toolkit is available to the
interpreter.
Landmark is pretty fired-up about DSG1’s potential but for some, the
move from a central OpenWorks database to a personal project/file
approach à la Schlumberger Petrel was seen as a step backwards.
Although managing data across different instances of OpenWorks will
likely be easier than across multiple Petrel projects.
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