Offshore staff
COPENHAGEN, Denmark –With today’s opening of the annual EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers) conference and exhibition comes a number of new technology announcements.
ffA GeoTeric – Geological Expressions software provider ffA says its GeoTeric product now is certified on the NVIDIA Maximus technology platform. In collaboration with NVIDIA, ffA has brought advances to the seismic interpretation workflow through development of GPU based algorithms and technologies that bridge the gap between the interpreter interaction and analysis of 3D seismic attributes, improving interpretation productivity. Maximus combines the visualization and interactive capability of NVIDIA Quadro GPUs and the high-performance computing power of NVIDIA Tesla GPUs into one workstation. Tesla companion processors perform the work of photorealistic rendering or engineering simulation computation. This frees the Quadro GPU to be dedicated to powering interactive seismic visualization.
Fugro-Jason – Fugro-Jason will use the EAGE meeting to focus on seismic to simulation workflow including case studies from the North Sea, C.I.S., and Malaysia. “Significant enhancements in our latest software reveal more geology through geostatistical inversion, detect ever thinner reservoirs in challenging geologic settings and improve the probability of successful wells,” said Eric Adams, Fugro-Jason managing director.
Octio– Octio has announced a formal partnership with Siemens in permanent reservoir monitoring. In the joint PRM offering with Octio, Siemens will contribute with project management and execution, subsea system design, power and communication as well as subsea system manufacturing. Octio is contributing its Permanent Oilfield Monitoring technology based on a digital network including high vector fidelity seismic MEMS sensors with interface to EM, chemical, biological, and oceanographic sensors. The system is built for permanent deployment on the sea floor with a 25 years lifetime. Once installed, the system can perform passive monitoring as well as repeated seismic surveys of the reservoir.
Reservoir Group – EAGE will be the showcase for the Reservoir Group’s launch of Reserves Guard and Interica, a joint entity of InfoAsset and Enigma Data. Reserves Guard is designed to provide a framework for storage of geophysical, geological, and reservoir data by business units which allows the data to be accessed easily. The basic purpose of the program is to help producers correctly estimate reserves and to make the information behind the estimates readily available.
TerraSpark Geosciences -- TerraSpark Geosciences LLC will be previewing its new GPU-enhanced Advanced Automated Fault Extraction (aAFE) solution. Developed with NVIDIA, TerraSpark aAFE uses the NVIDIA Maximus platform to reduce by a factor of 10 the time required to process fault interpretation results. This is part of TerraSpark’s goal of introducing Interpretation Intelligence to replace the labor-intensive work of traditional seismic interpretation software.
6/4/2012
