Welcome to DGI
Dynamic Graphics, Inc. partners with our clients to solve spatial analysis problems in the petroleum, environmental, and earth-related sciences. Over the past four decades, we have been the premier provider of geospatial solutions with our innovative, easy-to-use software and outstanding support services.
We offer three separate packages: CoViz 4D, WellArchitect, and EarthVision. While each is a standalone product, serving a different purpose in the hydrocarbon development workflow, when used in conjunction, they provide a collaborative multidisciplinary environment that offers dramatic benefits.
All of our software products are designed to meet clients′ practical application needs, industry standards, and our own stringent quality-control requirements. Each product is thoroughly tested and documented prior to release. We provide a complete spectrum of regularly scheduled and customized training courses prepared by our full-time educational services staff. Once our products are in use at a client site, our technical support personnel are available to offer their expertise and to answer any questions that may arise.
In today′s fast-changing business environment, Dynamic Graphics believes that the key to success is to offer a variety of products and services designed to address a wide range of clients′ needs. Our software can be licensed on a perpetual basis, as an annual lease, or on a client-determined flexible rental schedule. Our EarthVision Solution Projects are also available for data consulting services on a contract basis for clients with intermittent project needs or limited modeling expertise or resources.
Dynamic Graphics is committed to responding to the challenges our clients face in their day-to-day work. We know that the continued success of our company depends upon developing innovative, reliable, easy-to-use software, while offering strategic support services that help our clients solve the demanding, time-sensitive problems that significantly impact their business.
Our History, Our Future
Founded in 1969, Dynamic Graphics initially developed custom programs for corporate sponsors. During this early period, we designed FORTRAN-based software tools that produced two-dimensional models and maps from randomly distributed data, using a proprietary minimum tension gridding algorithm. These programs were released in 1974 as commercial products: the Surface Gridding Library™ (SGL) and Surface Display Library™ (SDL).
As Dynamic Graphics′ user community grew, it became apparent that an easy-to-use, quickly learned interface would enable scientists to use our products directly, rather than working through an intermediary. In addition, the level of complexity of spatial problems had grown as the interaction of a number of surfaces became important. To address these issues, Dynamic Graphics released its Interactive Surface Modeling™ (ISM) program in 1982.
By the late 1980s, the complexity of mapping applications had increased as new types of data became readily available. True three-dimensional data were frequently analyzed using traditional two-dimensional techniques, resulting in a loss in accuracy and comprehension. In response, Dynamic Graphics released its Interactive Volume Modeling™ (IVM) program, which expanded its proprietary gridding routines to model data in space and offered revolutionary visualization of isosurfaces. IVM was followed in 1992 by our Geological Modeling Program™ (GMP) that utilized a geological context during property modeling.
After extensive research, Dynamic Graphics developed a new product family that incorporated an industry standard graphic interface into its existing suite of interactive products, significantly improved product integration, and added new functionality. Our current EarthVision® product suite made its debut in 1992.
Since then, our EarthVision research and development program has focused on providing analysis and visualization of highly complex geologic environments. With the release of the EarthVision Geologic Structure Builder™ (GSB) in 1993, Dynamic Graphics introduced the most accurate, integrated model builder of complex overturned, faulted, and reverse faulted geologic and property geometries available on the market. Our high performance EarthVision 5, released in 1998, included The WorkFlow Manager® (with streamlined, user-friendly operations for even the occasional user), and geosteering tools to track drill bit progress using the precise 3D Viewer. In 1999, synchronized viewing of models, data, and well paths opened communication between the office and the drill site. EarthVision 6, released in 2001 on Linux®, Windows® 2000, and UNIX®, offered advanced geometrically-reconstructed property and horizon gridding, along with seismic import and interactive display.
With the 2002 release of EarthVision 7.0, well path design could be handled quickly and easily. Using a 3D model, target locations, and 3D offset wells for reference, the Well Path Designer allowed multiple section types to be specified via a spread sheet or interactively via the 3D Viewer. EarthVision 7.0 also incorporated new easier time-to-depth conversion into the WorkFlow Manager. This release was rapidly followed in 2003 by the cellular gridding extension modules for EarthVision. These additions dramatically increased the utility of EarthVision structural models by providing new fast and robust methods for generating cellular models for input to reservoir simulation.
Building on the success of the Well Path Designer, in 2005 Dynamic Graphics released WellArchitect—the industry leading 3D well planning, directional drilling, and survey management software. Combining the visual power of EarthVision structural models, with the ease-of-use of DGI well planning, WellArchitect set the new standard for 3D well design and directional drilling software, and added a whole new avenue for the functionality of EarthVision structural models.
The Dynamic Graphics product line was further broadened in 2006 with the release of CoViz 4D. The CoViz 4D product offered visualization and analysis solutions across the reservoir management workflow. The software was specifically designed for multidisciplinary environments where rapid access to diverse spatial and temporal data is critical for successful decision making. 2007 witnessed CoViz 4D version 2.0—vastly enhancing the temporal capabilities of the product—and new versions of WellArchitect.
Dynamic Graphics′ success in the future will be fueled by the needs and ideas of its clients, just as the company′s growth and product development have been throughout its history. Backed by strong client partnerships, Dynamic Graphics is well positioned to capitalize on the current trend of more intensive high technology application in the petroleum, environmental, and earth-related sciences, ensuring the company′s leading role as a geospatial software solutions provider far into the 21st century.
