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Halliburton/Landmark’s DecisionSpace desktop – the Petrel Killer1?Around 5,500 attended the 2010 annual conference of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) held in Barcelona. The EAGE continues to struggle with its ‘executive’ events. A promising looking session on ‘corporate responsibility planning’ was first mysteriously cancelled, then moved discretely to a different location. What was billed as an opportunity for a frank and open discussion of the state of HSE, ‘social impact’ and human rights was replaced by a semi private meeting of around 10 individuals. The conference theme was ‘a new spring for geoscience’ which, being interpreted, could be taken to cover the hot topics of the day which are shale gas and fraccing and the potential for European expansion of same, CO2 sequestration – although this is suffering from the economic downturn and questions on its rationale. Curious things are happening in seismic acquisition. The requirement for exhaustive illumination of complex targets means that the old paradigm of sequential shooting is being abandoned in favor of ‘simultaneous source’ acquisition with overlapping shots separated in processing. Of course this means that the amount of data is increasing proportionally. So to keep the processor’s workload within economic bounds, we have ‘sparse’ acquisition, where shot location and shooting frequency is optimized as a function of the subsurface illumination required. But even with ‘sparse,’ trace counts are likely to continue their inexorable rise2. You might have concluded from the special session on high performance computing that seismic processing was moving en masse to esoteric hardware in the form of the graphics processing unit (GPU), the FPGA and or the IBM Cell BE. This reflects more on the selection of such interesting but atypical solutions. The common theme is that such ‘unconventional’ hardware offers massive potential speedups (Saudi Aramco was quoting up to two orders of magnitude!). But such claims need to be considered carefully as few tests of esoteric hardware use a base case of ‘industrial strength’ code running on tuned conventional hardware. A Saudi Aramco presentation showed how new developments of sensors and ‘reduced order’ models are opening the door to new production optimization applications. While the commercial application of such techniques may be a decade away, Aramco is arming itself with ‘hundreds’ of patents in this space. Landmark’s DecisionSpace Desktop (see above) was on show with some impressive multi-disciplinary workflows – all running on RedHat Enterprise Linux, with a Windows port in the offing.Most significant development in the data management space came from OpenSpirit, and particularly from the enthusiastic endorsement it received from poster child SMT which is now using OpenSpirit as the

1 Image (but not the caption!) courtesy Halliburton/Landmark. 2 As indeed was implicit in our report from the 2009 EAGE when a joint Paris Mines/Intel paper envisaged processing a 100 million shot survey. Acquiring this sequentially at a 10 second interval would take over 30 years!

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centerpiece of its data management strategy. The announcement of an OpenSpirit Ocean-Petrel application adaptor raises further interesting possibilities for the upstream data manager. Despite being touted by various marketing departments, the ‘move to Windows’ is less prevalent than one might expect in the high end interpretation workstation space with a significant number of demos from Landmark, Paradigm and Roxar running on RedHat Enterprise Linux. Meanwhile Petrel users are reportedly complaining as compute intense tasks take longer and longer on the ‘monolithic’ PC-based application. This has led some shops to deploy high end NAS filesystems behind their desktops and others (notably SPT) to use Petrel plug-ins that farm-out compute-intense jobs to Linux or Solaris clusters! Roxar was openly vaunting Linux’ scalability and parallelism. And most all ‘ports’ to Windows involve a hedged bet that leverages Nokia’s Qt cross platform development framework. One major vendor recommended, ‘Don’t go to Windows in 2010 – stay multi platform.’

Highlights

DecisionSpace DesktopOpenSpirit Data Management

INT – GPU accelerator for OpenGLSMT Kingdom Connect

SPT’s Petrel plug-inIntegrated field development Special Session

HPC Special Session

Table of Contents1012_1 ‘Too connected to fail’ – Bogdan Motoc, Allied Bionics ................................................................................... 4 1012_2 Halliburton/Landmark ....................................................................................................................................... 4

1012_2.1 DecisionSpace Desktop/EarthModel – Jeffry Yarus, Landmark ........................................................... 4 1012_2.2 LIDAR outcrop study with DecisionSpace Desktop – Bureau of Economic Geology/Qualitative

Clastics Laboratory Industrial Associates ..................................................................................................................... 5 1012_2.3 3DMove for fracture characterization – Alberto Riva, GEPlan Consulting .......................................... 5

1012_3 Shale gas in Europe – Francois Dubost, Schlumberger ..................................................................................... 5 1012_4 Paradigm ............................................................................................................................................................. 6

1012_4.1 Paradigm licenses Acceleware’s GPU-accelerated reverse time migration library ............................. 6 1012_4.2 Windows port for 2011 ............................................................................................................................ 6 1012_4.3 Full azimuth imaging with Earth Study 360° – Duane Dopkin, Paradigm ........................................... 6

1012_5 Spatial data analysis for portfolio management – Gareth Smith, Exprodat ....................................................... 6 1012_6 Petrel and the Ocean Store – Olivier Peyret, Schlumberger ............................................................................... 7 1012_7 OpenSpirit ........................................................................................................................................................... 7

1012_7.1 Ocean-Petrel Application Adaptor ......................................................................................................... 7 1012_7.2 Interview with Dan Piette, CEO ............................................................................................................. 7 1012_7.3 Open Spirit data management – Surendra Bhat ..................................................................................... 8

1012_8 Roxar – new ownership with Emerson Process Management .......................................................................... 8 1012_8.1 RMS 2010 ............................................................................................................................................... 8 1012_8.2 Roxar Tempest 6.6/MORE ...................................................................................................................... 8

1012_9 INT – GPU-based accelerator for OpenGL ....................................................................................................... 9 1012_10 Eliis’ PaleoScan ................................................................................................................................................ 9 1012_11 Petrel fault seal analysis – Rock Deformation Research ................................................................................. 9 1012_12 From Rescue to RESQML – Raphael Henri-Bailly, Total (for Energistics) ..................................................... 9 1012_13 Knowledge-driven shared earth model – Jean-François Rainaud, IFP ........................................................... 10 1012_14 SMT ................................................................................................................................................................ 10

1012_14.1 Kingdom Connect – SMT/OpenSpirit – Kay Sutter ............................................................................ 10 1012_15 SPT – MEPO offloads Petrel number crunching to Linux ............................................................................. 10 1012_16 Integrated Field Development session ............................................................................................................ 10

1012_16.1 Multi-field asset integration – Silvya Rahmawati, NTNU Norway .................................................... 10 1012_16.2 Model-based control for production optimization – Othman Taha, Saudi Aramco ............................ 11 1012_16.3 Well delivery on Valhall, a geomechanical puzzler – Ruth Pettersen, BP Norge .............................. 11

1012_17 From the CD ................................................................................................................................................... 11 1012_17.1 Application of artificial neural networks to the evaluation of formation permeability – P. Kurnik,

AGH University of Science and Technology (SP52) ..................................................................................................... 11

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1012_17.2 Multisource reverse-time migration on GPU hardware – C. Boonyasiriwat, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology .......................................................................................................................... 11

1012_17.3 Thermo-Hydro-Mechano-Chemo coupling in reservoirs – M.Z. Hou, Clausthal University of Technology ................................................................................................................................................................... 11

1012_17.4 Carbonate reservoir characterization with ‘grey theory’ – A.M. Al-Moqbel, Imperial College (P116 ) .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

1012_17.5 The directional geophone – M.A. Al-Jadani, Saudi Aramco .............................................................. 12 1012_17.6 CSEM Data in Exploration – A. Buland, Statoil ................................................................................ 12 1012_17.7 Gas lift algorithms for surface network and reservoir simulation – P. Samier, Total (E022) ............ 12 1012_17.8 Wireless controlled retrofit safety valve – B. Champion, Expro Group (I020) ................................... 12 1012_17.9 Geological field mapping with the (Statoil) Virtual Outcrop Digitizer – E. Casciello, Institute of

Earth Sciences Jaume Almera (J008) ........................................................................................................................... 12 1012_17.10 FPGA-based seismic imaging - P. Marchetti, Eni (K017) ................................................................ 12 1012_17.11 GPU Cluster-based seismic imaging - D. Komatitsch, University of Pau (K018) .......................... 12 1012_17.12 Massively-parallel spatial data structure for subsurface data management – D. Irving, Teradata

(K020) ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12 1012_17.13 VTI RTM on IBM CellBE Blades – H. Zhou, Repsol (K022) ........................................................... 13 1012_17.14 A new compiler for heterogeneous GPU/CPU environments – A. Varanovich, NASB Institute of

Informatics (K023) ....................................................................................................................................................... 13 1012_17.15 DigiFract software for outcrop fracture data acquisition – N. Hardebol, VU University Amsterdam

(K029) ........................................................................................................................................................................... 13 1012_17.16 Fracture modeling in ELFEN – O. Mutlu, ExxonMobil (K031) ....................................................... 13 1012_17.17 Shell’s first ‘Brightwater’ trial – B. Roussennac, Shell (L023) ........................................................ 13 1012_17.18 Uncertainty in borehole image log interpretation – P. Zarian, Baker Hughes (L033) .................... 13 1012_17.19 Probabilistic reserves estimation and the new SEC 2009 reporting regulations – R. Wheaton, BG

Group (L037) ............................................................................................................................................................... 13 1012_17.20 A unified geologic database – L. Bingham, University of Stavanger (P508) ................................... 13

1012_18 Exhibitors ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 1012_18.1 EMC – High performance file system for Petrel ............................................................................... 13 1012_18.2 SDI Editor Advanced Print Solution (APS) ........................................................................................ 14 1012_18.3 Visual Sciences Group (VSG) – Aviso Fire ......................................................................................... 14 1012_18.4 Panasas PAS HC high capacity NAS .................................................................................................. 14 1012_18.5 Geovariances Isatis 10.0 and Moving-GeoStatistics (M-GS) consortium ......................................... 14 1012_18.6 Aptomar SECurus surveillance system ............................................................................................... 14

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