Magic Earth's GeoProbe 2.6, the 3D software that features the ability to work with multiple faults, is set to ship in the next few weeks, company employees said during Landmark's 2002 City Forum in Houston. Developers at the Halliburton subsidiary are already focused on the next brass ring: working with individual reservoirs and planning wellbores, said T. Mike Sheffield, Magic Earth's chief of interpretation services. Magic Earth hopes to issue one release featuring a pair of key improvements each year, he said. The fast-track schedule won't hurt the supporting code or infect the application with bugs, he said, because the programmers will focus on only the two innovations rather than attempting to rewrite the whole program. GeoProbe 2.6 can work with large amounts of data quickly and accurately and allows interpretation work with multifaults and seismic data.
"We do in a day what used to take 10 days for someone to do," Sheffield said. "Five years ago, just looking at multi-attributes was something in someone's imagination."
