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dGB Earth Sciences Donates Software to 20 Nigerian Universities |
dGB Earth Sciences, one of the leading providers of seismic interpretation software to the oil & gas industry, today announced that it is to donate US$ 4.8 million in licenses of its industry leading OpendTect software and corresponding commercial plug-ins to 20 universities across Nigeria.
The announcement is part of dGB's continuing efforts to share its expertise and software with many of the oil & gas industry's leading academic institutions with 180 universities having now benefitted with over 1,000 free licenses. This includes 58 universities in Europe, 12 in the Middle East, 27 in Africa, 28 in Asia, 10 in the Asia Pacific region, and 43 in the Americas. A full list can be found at the OpendTect website.
The announcement, made in partnership with local Nigerian oil & gas services provider, Danvic Concepts International, who will be coordinating the local roll-out, forms part of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), a Nigerian government initiative to enhance research and training within the country's oil & gas sector. A forum introducing the collaboration is to be held in Lagos on July 12th 2010 when the Nigerian Minister of Petroleum, the Executive Secretary of PTDF, the Vice Chancellors from all 20 Universities, and Paul de Groot, President & CEO of dGB Earth Sciences will be present.
The latest partnership will help hundreds of PhD and MSc students in Nigeria hone their seismic interpretation techniques with the same state of the art technology used in the Exploration & Production (E&P) industry. As well as having access to a wide variety of OpendTect plug-ins, such as for dip steering, sequence stratigraphic interpretation, and neural networks, students will also have access to dGB's Open Seismic Repository, which contains seismic data, interpreted horizons and well data from a number of global locations, including Central Alaska, offshore Netherlands, and the North Atlantic Ocean, offshore Canada.
'In our fast-paced industry where operators are continuing to face continuing exploration challenges, such as the need to reduce risk, manage costs, and handle and extract maximum value from multiple volumes of often complex seismic and geological data, it is in everyone's interested to nurture and grow seismic interpretation talent and technologies,' said Paul de Groot, President & CEO of dGB Earth Sciences.
'This announcement today is yet another example of dGB's commitment to knowledge transfer between the commercial and academic sectors, ensuring that the graduates of tomorrow in the geophysical community have the right skills and knowledge to move the E&P industry forward.'
His words were backed up by Dr. Adepelumi Adekunle Abraham, Senior Lecturer in Geophysics at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, one of the beneficiaries of the software where it has already been installed:
'We want to sincerely express our appreciation to dGB for donating OpendTect to our University. Since the installation of OpendTect, the quality of our teaching and research has significantly improved. We now have several students using one aspect or other of the OpendTect for their projects (BSc, MSc and PhD). Indeed, this software is world-class and highly innovative.'
dGB's OpendTect solution is the only available open source seismic interpretation platform used in the oil & gas industry today, providing a highly practical tool through which the understanding and interpretation of structural geologies can be enhanced. Commercial OpendTect plug-ins, that have been developed by dGB and which universities can access, include:
• The Dip-Steering plug-in, essential for calculating dip & azimuth maps.
• The SSIS (Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation System) plug-in to better understand the depositional history of sedimentary sequences.
• The Neural Network plug-in to detect geologically meaningful patterns (3D bodies or 2D horizon-based areas) by the visualization of patterns with similar seismic responses.
• The CCB (Common Contour Binning) plug-in, which stacks seismic traces along horizon contour lines to highlight subtle hydrocarbon-related seismic anomalies and accurately pin-points Gas-Water, Gas-Oil and Oil-Water contacts
Universities can also access other plug-ins developed by dGB Earth Sciences' partners, such as the Seismic Spectral Blueing plug-in developed by ARK CLS and the Deterministic & Stochastic inversion plug-in developed by Earthworks & ARK CLS. |
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Introduction Training for OpendTect in Houston |
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Starting February 9th dGB will provide a monthly one-day training out of the Houston office. The first series of training courses will run for the six months. The training will cover all basic interaction and the most important seismic interpretation workflows in OpendTect. The dedicated training will be given by one of the experienced dGB scientists on the Houston staff who work everyday with OpendTect. The group size will be limited to a maximum of 4 participants to keep the course interactive and allow for plenty one to one interaction. Two additional training classes for larger groups will be held on location in New Orleans (April 9) and Denver (October 14).
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We have started the Open Seismic Repository. In the OSR, free and public datasets are and will be made available. You can find this Open Seismic Repository at http://www.opendtect.org/osr . |
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OpendTect is now completely free |
OpendTect is now completely free Press release: 2 September 2009 dGB Earth Sciences announces that OpendTect is now a completely free seismic interpretation system. Complete because with the release of version 4.0 today, OpendTect supports all functionalities needed in seismic interpretation projects. Free because the software is open source, and can be used at no cost as dGB has changed its licensing policy.
Henceforth OpendTect is released under a triple licensing strategy: 1) under the GNU / GPL license, 2) under a commercial license and, 3) under an academic license. Under the GNU / GPL license, OpendTect is completely free-of-charge, including for commercial use. The commercial license enables the user to extend the system with (closed source) commercial plugins that can either be purchased or leased. Under the academic license agreement universities can get free licenses for OpendTect and commercial plugins for R&D and educational purposes.
This new release of OpendTect includes a large number of new features and improvements, which make OpendTect the first complete, high level, open source seismic interpretation system worldwide. The previous versions of OpendTect already included the industry’s most powerful attribute engine and spectral decomposition, next to more standard features such as horizon tracking and 2D and 3D visualization. In version 4.0 amongst others a synthetic-to-seismic well tie module, a SEGY-wizard, pre-stack AVO attribute computation and Time-to-Depth conversion have been added to the list of supported features. Improvements include the updated step-wise horizon tracker, the enhanced cross-plot functionality and many others.
Several of the commercial plugins have been improved as well. SSIS, dGB’s flagship product for sequence stratigraphic interpretation, now features a new workflow for the analysis of grids of 2D lines. The multi-2D work flow can be applied in faulted areas on 2D and 3D seismic data. ArkCls and partner Visual Technology Services have released a new plugin PDF3D. With this new plugin a 3D scene in OpendTect can be captured and saved in pdf-format. The saved file can be opened in the standard and free Adobe Acrobat Reader that nowadays supports 3D visualization. Here the user can zoom, rotate, change transparencies and toggle elements on and off. PDF3D is bound to change the way in which E&P work is reported to management, colleagues, and partners. Also new by Earthworks and ArkCls is a Connection plugin that allows bodies to be grown from one or more seed points. This plugin can be used e.g. to analyze the results of a stochastic impedance inversion run.
Paul de Groot, President & CEO of dGB Earth Sciences, said: “This new release is the result of many years of hard work by our dedicated team in close cooperation with ArkCls, Earthworks and Geokinetics with the support of many E&P companies. We are glad that we can now offer this complete and high level seismic interpretation system for free to the geophysical community. Why would anyone still pay for seismic interpretation software, when the same features can be had for free? Better spend your budget on the advanced interpretation techniques of the OpendTect plugins, which really add value to your data.” |
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OpendTect VMB & PSDM system launched |
Press release: 23 February 2009
dGB Earth Sciences and Geokinetics have launched a new system for Velocity Model Building (VMB) and Pre-Stack Depth Migration processing. The new software runs in OpendTect and was developed with financial support from Gaz de France and OMV. The first release comprises three (closed source) plugins. VMB is a dGB proprietary plugin for picking RMO velocities and pre-stack events. PSDM-Tomography and PSDM-Kirchhoff are proprietary plugins by Geokinetics. These plugins are released with relevant tools from Ethos, Geokinetics’ internal seismic processing system, to form a complete PSDM processing system.
Paul de Groot, President & CEO of dGB Earth Sciences said: “Costs and quality of PSDM processing are largely dependent on the time-consuming, manual process of building and updating velocity models. Reducing cycle times means you can run more iterations in less time and thus produce higher quality PSDM outputs at lower cost. This is what we aimed for when we started to develop this system three years ago. The first release of VMB includes vertical update - and horizon-consistent update modules. Velocity gridding, horizon picking, 3D body generation and QC are performed in OpendTect Base; the Open Source part of the system. The design of the new system is such that it can support multiple PSDM processing systems. All structures needed to interface a PSDM system to OpendTect – VMB are released in the Open Source domain. We invite other service companies and E&P companies to link their PSDM systems to OpendTect – VMB. Together we can thus continue to develop the next generation VMB – PSDM solutions.”
Lee Bell, Chief Geophysicist, Geokinetics Inc, added “Velocity model building is closely related to interpretation. Modern interpretation tools for identifying and constructing horizons, bodies and faults greatly facilitate the process of transforming seismic data into a geologically feasible depth image.” |
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