Dynamic Graphics EarthVision Technology
EarthVision®, developed by Dynamic Graphics, offers software for 3D model building and visualization, with precise 3D models that can be quickly created and updated. Accurate well positioning, reservoir characterization, and environmental analysis are made easy.
EarthVision 7 reduces the cost of building 3D models. With availability on Windows® and Linux® (as well as UNIX®), the full suite of EarthVision modules operate on inexpensive PC hardware. Companies can save up to 90% in hardware costs by converting from UNIX to PC systems.
- Streamline the model building process with EarthVision 7, and its impressive WorkFlow Manager®.
- EarthVision′s multitude of visualization tools, including integrated seismic display and interactive well design, improve and simplify quality control, well planning, and communication to management, investors, partners, and the diverse members of the asset team.
- The Well Path Designer and Well Positioning Toolbox for strategic well positioning offers state-of-the-art accuracy by building the well path via a spreadsheet and interactively with a geologic model in 3D. EarthVision′s latest 3D Viewer for UNIX or PC laptop systems allows rapid MWD/LWD model updates.
- Train today, use tomorrow. Our easy-to-learn interface and advanced capabilities allow even inexperienced users to build expert models quickly and easily.
Faster and Easier 3D Modeling
Streamline model building with the WorkFlow Manager′s geologically oriented process. Using one-time data entry, the WorkFlow Manager′s interface provides an intuitive environment, guiding users through modeling salt domes, diapirs, and complexly faulted structures, and performing time-to-depth conversion.
- Customizable interface allows workflow to easily suit project, user, or site needs.
- Rotate, slice, peel, and clone 3D structural and property models for effective evaluation and verification.
- Contour maps, isochore maps, and cross sections derived from 3D models provide easily understood representations of reverse faults, major fault gaps, and erosional and fault-wedge contours; these realistic views of layer juxtaposition are critical tools in fluid migration and hydrocarbon entrapment analyses.
- Seamlessly integrate seismic interpretation in time with your depth model using EarthVision′s geo-model-driven velocity analysis and time-to-depth conversion.
- Update models or create new surfaces using the WorkFlow Manager during the visualization process.
Breakthrough Property Modeling
3D property models built with EarthVision′s breakthrough geometric restoration technique provide the most rigorous representations of faulted reservoirs. The accuracy of the resulting models allows for greater confidence in well placement and reservoir management decisions. The fault restoration methodology allows for a better understanding of depositional history and clearer insight into efficiently exploiting the reservior. Its unique features include:
- Properties interpolated in geometrically restored, unfaulted space.
- Shifts accommodating varying fault displacements and rotations of fault blocks.
- Properties modeled on a zone-by-zone or fault block-by-fault block basis using conformal or non-conformal minimum tension gridding or kriging.
Accurate Model-based Well Design
EarthVision integrates interactive 3D well positioning tools with geologic models to provide precise well planning and analysis. Geosteering and well display capabilities include:
- Spreadsheet-based well design with interactive target selection using the shared-earth 3D model and based on user-specified path parameters, including DLS control.
- Designed well path viewed immediately with the 3D model, surface intersections, and automated 3D annotation.
- Unlimited hierarchy of planned sidetracks from new or existing wells, with automatic updating when the parent well is changed.
- Uncertainty calculation and collision avoidance analysis with traveling cylinder diagram decreases risk and increases confidence.
- Real time updates to both the well position and 3D structural model, including adjustments for MWD/LWD data.
- Calculation of well path/structure intersections to reduce drilling risks and safely steer wells to optimum positions.
- Synchronized 3D viewing of models and well paths between the office and the drill site for team decision-making.
Integrated Display of Seismic Volumes & 3D Models
The EarthVision display of seismic uses superior data integration for an efficient approach to quality control. Seismic volumes rendered as cubes, isosurfaces, volumetric clouds, or X,Y,Z planar slices against a 3D model allow:
- Display of seismic on a fault block and/or zone basis for easy model verification and quality control.
- Direct comparison and validation of fault and horizon interpretations.
- Errors in interpreted data to be quickly identified and edited on-the-fly.
- Verification analysis for effective communication within the evaluation team and to upper management.
- View seismic data along a well tube.
Industry Links Provide Seamless Workflow
Simplify integration. Import and export direct links to industry standard and widely used data-formats provide the ability to:
- Import OpenWorks® well paths, log curves, tops and fault picks, and completion data for direct display on cross sections, well panels, maps, and with 3D geologic models.
- Import OpenWorks map data and SeisWorks® interpreted horizon and fault data for gridding and contour maps.
- Import SEG-Y (custom service; additional cost) and SeisWorks 3D seismic traces for 3D display integration with geologic models in fully supported rotated space.
- Export to the POSC® industry-standard RESCUE model exchange format to send complete geologic models to reservoir simulator grid generation and upscaling packages.
Best Technology Award
EarthVision software was awarded Best Technology from the PTTC (Petroleum Technology Transfer Council). EarthVision was singled out as the technology that helped most to improve the bottom line for independent oil and natural gas producers. We were chosen because of our:
- Commitment to developing technology to enhance the bottom line.
- Outstanding user support and training.
- Easy to use and practical approach.
