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Accurate delineation of salt bodies with massively scalable pre-stack depth migration algorithms and visual quality control capabilities.

Image from Paradigm. gigabytes or terabytes

Geology & Geophysics in size, so perfor- mance is critical.

Scientifcally,

Paradigm 14.1 can deploy new tech- niques because of the data’s high level of precision, including quantitative interpretation (QI), which, in the seismic domain, characterizes rock, fuid and fow inside a reservoir.

Advancing seismic

Large scale interpretation has always been a part of seismic acquisition, but the through advanced science upgraded software allows for a reduction in the number of false positive identifca- television industry experienced a few tion of hydrocarbon.

With its latest software years ago. When the industry switched “Drilling down into details, to get into release, Paradigm ofers high- from a standard defnition to a high- that fne, rich, additional information defnition seismic processing defnition signal, many did not run out so that you can discriminate between and purchase televisions right away, false positives and real hydrocarbons is for a general user. Sarah Parker even though the capacity was there to what the technique of QI is all about,”

Musarra discussed the powerful experience a clearer signal. These people Chakrabarti says. “It’s what you can do were still able to watch television; they because your data is in high-defnition.

new software with Paradigm were just not able to take advantage of Another way that Paradigm 14.1

SVP Indy Chakrabarti.

the more precise image. Similarly, many attempts to appeal to an ever-changing operators are gathering high defnition industry is through its ease-of-use. hen a new technology is data, but lack the software systems to Chakrabarti explains that advanced introduced, it is typically properly use it. Paradigm offers hundreds techniques like QI were previously only

W implemented in stages. of new features, but in the creation of this carried out by specially-trained person-

Companies, like consumers, often do not particular software system, Chakrabarti nel. That is not always the case now. heft large sums of money at a product says there was no need to reinvent the “Now with high-defnition data, an any time the next big thing is introduced. wheel. operator has the opportunity to let lots “Of course, [the software] needs to

The seismic industry is no different. more folks do this kind of advanced anal- have all the traditional capabilities,” he

With the introduction of high-defnition ysis,” he says. “Not only do they have the explains. “It’s not like it’s a brand data companies are facing down opportunity, they have the need. new system. Just like with the TV, a new technology – and decid- “We see declining oil prices in the news it didn’t have to be reinvented; ing how to maximize the value today. What that means for operators is it just needed to be tuned in the from these expensive seismic that they have to get more effcient in the right way.” acquisitions. Exploration and way they explore. So there’s an opportu- production software provider Under the tagline “advanced nity with high-defnition data and there’s

Paradigm attempts to bridge science for everyone,” Paradigm a need to get more productive.” this gap with its latest software 14 addresses the three compo- Paradigm 14 can also deploy advanced enhancement, Paradigm 14.1, nents needed to extract value techniques to older data collected in stan-

Indy Chakrabarti which it released in October. out of high-defnition data: dard defnition through broadband pro-

While seismic acquisition companies performance, scientifc techniques and cessing, which is also commonly referred have been shooting and acquiring high- ease-of-use. to by a subcomponent: de-ghosting.

defnition data, Senior Vice President, “When you have higher defnition, “If you’ve got high-defnition data, then

Product Management & Strategy for you have much larger volumes of data we have a system that has the perfor-

Paradigm Indy Chakrabarti says that the because you are now carrying more mance; the scientifc techniques; and the

Paradigm 14 series is a software solution content. You have to be able to load ease of use for you to extract information dedicated to subsurface evaluation in those volumes, process data quickly, and out of it,” Chakrabarti says. “If you don’t high-defnition. then you have to be able to work with have high-defnition data, we have a tech-

Chakrabarti says that the industry it,” Chakrabarti says, noting that high- nique that lets you enhance the defnition is experiencing the same shift that the defnition seismic volume is hundreds of of your standard legacy data.”

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