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Petrel Asia Pacific Newsletter

January 2007

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Dear Valued Customer, The Petrel Team is proud to continue this Newsletter specific to Petrel Asia/Pacific. This Newsletter will be focusing on:

- News of the month - Petrel 2007.1 Seismic Datasets handling - Tips of the month - How to snap an existing interpretation to other tracking features? - Highlight of the Month - How to edit seismic interpretation?

We hope you will enjoy it ! Best regards, The Petrel Asia/Pacific Team

PETREL 2007.1 is coming soon

from snowy Oslo ☺


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News of the month – Petrel 2007.1 Seismic Datasets handling

In our October 2006 Newsletter we provided preliminary System recommendations for Petrel 2007. In this issue, we would like to focus on these systems in relation to seismic data handling. Seismic data handling has undergone a major upgrade in Petrel 2007.1 with much of it being rewritten. This significantly increases the size of seismic volumes that it is possible to work with in Petrel. The new software architecture takes advantage of recent hardware advances (pc’s with multi-cores and multi-cpu’s) to enable interpretation and visualization of seismic volumes nearing 60GB in size. Users with more moderate size seismic volumes can continue to use their current hardware.

For those dealing with extremely large seismic volumes (>60 GB to over 1 TB), Petrel 2007.1 also introduces the Petrel Seismic Server. This new capability will allow you to use a hardware cluster as a backend processor for compute intensive operations such as attribute generation and autotracking. You will be able to store and process huge seismic volumes on a server and access them through the standard Petrel seismic interpretation interface. This not only provides huge time savings, but has the added benefit of allowing an entire asset team to share access to the data and interpretation.

The configuration of the Seismic Server Cluster will depend on the size of your seismic data volume. Please contact your local SLB representative to help design the right configuration for your needs.

Petrel seismic standalone = Nearing 60 GB of seismic

Petrel seismic server = more than 60 GB and over 1TB (up to the number of nodes

available in the cluster)


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1 - In the "Autotracking" settings for a Seismic Interpretation object change the "Expansion Quality" to "None". 2 - Make sure the Seed-point settings are set to "Visible Points" and also that the "Override/Locking" toggle is set to on (you want to override your original picks). 3 - You need to define which type of feature you want to snap on (Peaks, Troughs, S-crossing,...). The two images below show an example of resnapping from Zero-crossing to Peaks. Make a copy of your original horizon if you want, but you can always "Undo" the operation if the snapping does not produce perfect results, in which case you need to adjust the Value constraints - this depends on the data.

Gaston Bejarano, our Petrel Seismic Advisor, has written this tip ☺

Tips of the Month – How to snap an existing interpretation to other tracking feature?


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Highlight of the Month – How to edit seismic interpretation?

The image below describes few tips and related icons to help you editing your existing seismic interpretation in a 3D window. Most of these icons work as well for 2D and Interpretation windows.


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Petrel Asia Training Schedule February 01-02: Petrel Process Manager & Uncertainty Analysis - Adelaide - Australia February 06-09: Petrel Introduction - Adelaide - Australia February 13-16: Petrel Introduction - Tokyo - Japan February 19-21: Petrel Seismic Visualization and Interpretation - Tokyo - Japan February 20-21: Petrel Velocity Modeling course - Jakarta - Indonesia February 22-23: Petrel Process Manager and Uncertainty Analysis - Tokyo - Japan March 14-16: Petrel Property Modeling - Adelaide - Australia March 14-17: Introduction course - Jakarta - Indonesia March 20-23: Petrel for Reservoir Engineers - Adelaide - Australia March 26-27: Petrel Structural Modeling - Tokyo - Japan March 28-30: Petrel Property Modeling (Japanese) - Tokyo - Japan April 03-05: Petrel Seismic Visualization & Interpretation - Adelaide - Australia April 12-13: Petrel Complex Structural Modeling - Adelaide - Australia April 17-20: Petrel Introduction - Adelaide - Australia April 18-21: Introduction course - Jakarta - Indonesia May 01-02: Petrel Applied Mapping - Adelaide - Australia May 03-04: Petrel Applied Well Correlation - Adelaide - Australia May 17-18: Petrel Process Manager & Uncertainty Analysis - Adelaide - Australia May 22-25: Petrel Introduction - Adelaide - Australia May 28-29: Petrel Mapping and Scaled Plotting - Tokyo - Japan June 18-21: Petrel Reservoir Engineering - Tokyo - Japan June 26-29: Petrel for Reservoir Engineers - Adelaide - Australia

Interested in sharing your experience with the other usersaround Asia / Pacific ? Please do not hesitate to contact Caroline Le Turdu ([email protected]). Many thanks !


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