Software visualizes geology, reservoir data
Cyclops is a new software that integrates, manipulates, and visualizes multiple geology and reservoir engineering data sets in a single environment.
The new software was developed by Engineering Simulation & Scientific Software, Florianópolis, Brazil, and is being marketed and sold in partnership with Computational Engineering International, Apex, NC, maker of EnSight visualization and Harpoon meshing software.
Cyclops can handle most kinds of geology and reservoir data, including structured, unstructured, and reservoir grids, with scalar and vector variables associated to cell centers, faces, edges or nodes.Well data from simulation or measurement can be loaded in the same environment, allowing users to analyze both simultaneously.
Cyclops is designed to maximize CPU and memory performance, no matter what the source of the data, the firm says. It is an environment for users who need to share data among several tools within the basin-reservoir modeling process.
In addition to its core ability to manage data importing and exporting from multiple sources, Cyclops includes these features:
- An ASCII reader that allows users to create their own GUI-based data readers without any coding.
- The ability to highlight and load blocks of data from a specific file (from in-house code, for example), saving the time and effort of creating a new file format.
- Data manipulation on-the-fly through high-level, 100% programmable user routines, directly on the user's GUI, with no need for compiling or linking.
- Visualization of grid and well data in a single environment, with integrated and hierarchically organized 3D views and 2D plots.
- The ability to compare simulated and measured data from multiple jobs on multiple windows with fully independent view properties.
- Key frame animation for displaying transient data through time and space.
- The ability to create videos to share visualization with others.
- Full integration with CEI's EnSight Gold software to support virtual reality for fully immersive 3D graphics display, visualizing very large data sets, and collaborating on data analyses and partner presentations.
Source: Computational Engineering International, 2166 N. Salem St., Suite 101, Apex, NC 27523-0833.
Signal processing targets drilling locations
A new signal processing technique is designed to improve the success ratio of targeted drilling locations.
This proprietary signal interpretation engine, called contrast imaging, can identify desirable drilling locations by correlating waveform attributes from post-stack 3D data to those of known areas of hydrocarbon production.
This technology has evaluated more than 1,000 sq miles of 3D data and identified many current and proposed well locations, the firm says. In one typical case, four productive and five nonproductive wells of a nine-well program where the operator had acknowledged all nine locations as bright spots were identified, the company notes.
Contrast imaging, originally developed to monitor brainwaves to determine the cycle time for a drug to move through the human body, now allows operators to minimize their risk by optimizing the target selection process.
Similarities in brain and seismic waves help suit this technology for exploration operations. It uses algorithms to identify, classify, and separate seismic traces into "State A" vs. "State B" categories as defined by the user. Examples of these contrasting states include oil vs. no oil, gas vs. no gas, economic production vs. noneconomic production, sand vs. no sand, and porosity vs. no porosity.
Source: Seismic Insight Inc., 85 W. 400 North, Bountiful, UT 84010.