New seismic data acceleration software
A newly launched seismic data acceleration solution promises a multifold performance increase to reduce lengthy processing times and deliver faster results to make drilling decisions.
The company says its software solution harnesses the massively parallel processing capabilities of GPU accelerators to increase the efficiency of data centers and reduce total cost of IT ownership. The firm says this technique is designed for 2D and 3D land and marine data where a typical processing job can compute from several days to months and solves a bottleneck in the seismic processing industry today. The photo shows increased resolution available with the new software.
Migration is a commonly used seismic data processing method used to recover subsurface images of the earth’s interior using surface-recorded data volumes obtained from seismic reflection surveys. This company’s solution is designed to speed up the Kirchhoff prestack time migration method in seismic data processing. By accelerating the computation within this method, the company says it uncovers potential for increased resolution, faster turnaround, and better quality confidence while handling larger data sets of increasing complexity. By accelerating the computations involved in seismic migration, the firm notes that it uncovers the benefits of more dense packaging and improved economics in power and cooling.
Source: Acceleware Corp., 1600 37th St. SW, Calgary, Alta. T3C 3P1.
New deepwater wellhead system
The new MS-800 full bore subsea wellhead system is designed for deepwater applications. With the capacity to withstand 8 million lb of load on the wellhead, the MS-800 is designed to help drillers reach deepwater targets in such regions as the US Gulf of Mexico and offshore Brazil. The new system increases the casing load capacity to 2 million lb for the first position casing hanger and the 16-in. casing hanger, while also increasing the pressure capacity for the 16-in. hanger to 10,000 from 6,500 psi.
Source: VetcoGray, 3010 Briarpark Ave., Suite 300, Houston, TX 77042.