When seismic reflection cubes are displayed over an oil and gas reservoir, the trajectories of boreholes are also drawn three dimensionally. In this way, the orientation, size and characteristics of a reservoir is revealed in relation to both current hydrocarbon production and regional geology. This greatly advances resource management. TGS has built Open Inventor on top of the industry standard OpenGL graphics language for sophisticated graphics applications. With the increased complexity of 3D seismic interpretation, the need to improve user productivity becomes even more critical.
Data sets continue to expand in size, complexity, and density.
Along with this expansion comes the need to search, identify, quantify, and fully interpret both routine structural shapes and detailed seismic attributes. Multiple boards can work together to store a minimum of twice as much volume data. SMT is the market leader for geological and geophysical interpretation software on the PC platform. All previous visualization elements, including well data, conventional vertical seismic displays and timeslices, interpreted seismic horizons and faults, and surface geographical boundary lines are displayed within the voxel cube. VuPAK, SMT's three-dimensional visualization package, includes full voxel rendering capabilities.