Sharp Reflections has announced cloud-based availability of Pre-Stack Pro (PSP), its seismic processing and interpretation package. PSP running on servers in the Amazon cloud costs from €50k per year. The high-end package is accessible over a ‘reasonably good’ internet connection, 25 Mbps for interactive sessions and ‘at least 500 Mbps’ to transfer pre-stack data. If needed, data can be sent to Sharp Reflections for uploading or, in the US, Amazon’s Snowball service can be used for couriered data transfer. User workstations will need the latest version of HP’s remote graphics client.
PSP leverages Amazon’s EBS encrypted storage and security certified to ISO 27001 and SSAE-16 SOC 2. Layered access control includes public/private SSH keys, a random password generated for each session and the Amazon EC2 firewall. PSP acts as a bridge between acquisition and processing, performing remedial processing for AVO studies and parameter selection. PSP includes horizon tools to pick pre-stack reflections on conventional and full-azimuth gathers, said to be key to shale targets where AVO vs azimuth is a reliable predictor of fractures. The system has been tested on an 8 TB TGS multi-client dataset from the Utica shale.
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