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What’s New In KINGDOM 8.5 Service Pack 2
Recent Technical Webinar Archive
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Introducing KINGDOM 8.5 Service Pack 2 ... Coming October 1st
- EarthPAK Advanced featuring Volumetrics, Decline Curve Analysis, and Economic Evaluation
- Colored Inversion module – Impedance Data Type Generation
- SQL Server Express now made portable – The higher performance of SQL Server with all the portability of MS Access
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EarthPAK Advanced
- Save and Load base maps at the original extents and scale, restoring the working set of wells, annotations, grids, contours and culture.
- Cross section templates can be saved and then applied to any cross section in the project.
- Arbline templates can also be saved and then applied to any arbline in the project.
- Log alias templates allow an author’s log alias assignments to be used by other authors in any project.
- Formation top author hierarchy bulk alias assignment allows an author to quickly set a formation top alias order for all tops that are common among authors.
- Borehole notes allow the capture of an unlimited number of text notes related to a borehole.
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EarthPAK Adv: Decline Curve Analysis
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EarthPAK Adv: Economic Evaluation
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Colored Inversion
Impedance Data Type Generation
The increasing complexity of oil and gas exploration and development requires more sophisticated technologies to increase the speed and accuracy of interpretation. By applying Colored Inversion to the seismic data, the interpreter is able to work with impedance data that matches the well acoustic log data, giving confidence that the picks are made on true changes in rock lithology. Ambiguity caused by the seismic wavelet and phase are minimized, leading to more accurate, faster interpretation with minimum effort.
Register for Webinar Demo – [ follow this link ]
SQL Server Express Now Made Portable
KINGDOM Auto Attach and Detach of Projects
Still on MS Access because you want the portability it provides? BUT you’d love to have the performance benefits of a true database? Well now, with the upcoming release of KINGDOM 8.5 SP2 on October 1st, SMT makes it possible to have your cake and eat it too.
KINGDOM 8.5 SP2, provides a new automated method for SQL Server Express project portability. Don’t worry, this does not mean another tool; just a different way of how your project works that will make sure that you can move or copy your project just like MS Access. And even better, you gain the many performance benefits that come with SQL Server Express.
By choosing the “Auto SQL Server Express option” all of the portability work will be done for you. The Auto SQL Server Express option will configure your projects so that you can use the simple Windows Explorer drag and drop file approach that you have always used to move or copy your Access project.
For those of you who are already comfortably working with the existing SQL Express Management Tools that have been available in KINGDOM, you don’t need to change anything. These will still behave exactly as they have in the past.
Download our archived webinar “Power and Portability - Transitioning from Access to SQL Server Express” [ follow this link ].
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SERVICES AND SUPPORT HIGHLIGHTS
Get Your Answers Faster – New KINGDOM Online Knowledge Base (Just Log into "My Account")
Introducing the Top Customer Request For Support – The KINGDOM Online Knowledge Base
You told us recently that your top request for technical support was to be able to search an online knowledge base. We heard you loud and clear. Available now, the SMT “My Account” web page contains a searchable database with answers to technical questions and informative “how-to” articles. There are already 200 articles in the database and we are adding more every day! In the months ahead, SMT will continue to add new articles and introduce multimedia content. We believe this new database will help keep KINGDOM the leader for ease of use by getting your questions answered faster!
To try it out, follow the instructions below:
- Login to My Account
- Select "Search" from the new Knowledge Base Menu
- Type in your search and go!
If you need a My Account log in:
Log onto My Account on the SMT web site http://mya.seismicmicro.com/
- Enter your My Account User Name and Password.
- If you need to get a User Name, or if you have misplaced yours, contact SMT Tech Support.
- If you have forgotten your password, click on Forgot your password?, enter your User Name and click Recover Password
- You will receive a password reset by e-mail.
Log In And Take A Look
Monthly Technical Tip
Determining what Type of Database your Project is Using
With the release of 8.4, users now have 2 places to go to find information about the type of project they are working in. When a project is opened with KINGDOM, the new Select Author dialog provides the Project Name, Project Path, Project Type, and Database Name. If you have KINGDOM open, Select Project -> Project Management from the pull-down menus. There is a new Details tab that also will provide this information.
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| Screen capture of both project start up and project management. |
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PRODUCTS
KINGDOM Colored Inversion - Coming October 1st
Quick and robust seismic inversion for improved interpretation
Most interpreters prefer to use seismic inversion as the primary data type for seismic interpretation as it represents a simplified signal compared to the normal seismic response. The inverted data represents true geological layering rather than the wavelet response at an interface.
KINGDOM Colored Inversion is a tool that enables interpreters to quickly generate a relative acoustic impedance data type from the reflection seismic data for the purpose of more accurate, more confident seismic interpretation.
Colored Inversion is a proven technique that is fast and easy to apply to seismic data, yet it produces results that match more sophisticated and compute intensive techniques such as sparse spike inversion. KINGDOM Colored Inversion matches the well character within the seismic bandwidth and automatically performs phase correction, thereby minimizing the risk of interpreting incorrect or unwanted seismic events and improving the speed and accuracy of the interpretation. This increase in interpretation efficiency easily offsets the time spent creating the inversion data.
Colored Inversion Demos:
Benefits
- Cost effective way of increasing interpretation productivity and accuracy
- Fast and robust method of generating a seismic inversion data type ideally suited for use by all interpreters
- Matches seismic data to well log data to produce cleaner data with less noise and less signal instability
- Simple for the interpreter to set up and use
- Ideal ‘quick look’ inversion tool for use prior to more detailed inversion studies
Features
- Supports single and multi-well analysis
- Automatic seismic to well phase correction
- Sonic log to time-depth curve and check shot calibration module
- Fully integrated with the KINGDOM database
- Highly customizable, user friendly interface
Low data requirements
- One or more wells with a sonic or velocity log
- A time-depth or check shot curve for the well or a depth formation top and corresponding time grid
- A seismic reflection data type
- Ideally the well will have also have density log, but this can be automatically derived from the sonic log using Gardner’s equation in the software
Register for our September 21st webinar – [ follow this link ]
To learn more visit the new Colored Inversion web page – [ follow this link ]
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CORPORATE NEWS
OpenSpirit Technical Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Arshad Matin, President & CEO of SMT
True software interoperability enables two or more applications to act like a unified integrated application by sharing data and by streamlining day-to-day workflows, resulting in both time and cost savings. On September 28-29, SMT will be participating in the OpenSpirit Technical Symposium in Houston.
As a member of the OpenSpirit Business Partner Network, we will be demonstrating the power of KINGDOM as it relates to OpenSpirit and the multi-vendor workflows used by customers. In fact, SMT will play a key role in the technical symposium, with Arshad Matin, President & CEO of SMT, delivering a keynote address on the importance of interoperability in the oil & gas industry, and Kay Sutter, Product Manager, discussing how KINGDOM Connect is shortening user workflows between KINGDOM and other applications.
Over the course of the OpenSpirit Technical Symposium, you will:
- GET A SNEAK PEEK! OpenSpirit product experts will showcase the tools you need to do your job better.
- LEARN! OpenSpirit users and Business Partners will take center stage to share their own OpenSpirit knowledge, insights and results.
- NETWORK! Take this opportunity to make new industry connections and exchange thoughts and ideas with your peers.
- CONTRIBUTE! Share your ideas about topics for the Tips & Tricks Workshop, as well as upcoming user and developer meetings.
SMT is pleased to be a sponsor of the Cocktail & Networking Reception that closes out the first day of the Technical Symposium. Come and see new ways to leverage KINGDOM and OpenSpirit to extract maximum value from the technologies that you use every day.
You can view the agenda/details and register here. Looking forward to seeing you there!
SMT Identifies Top Geoscientists in India Using KINGDOM
http://www.seismicmicro.com/Company/press_release_detail.asp?pressID=48
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Webinars
SMT announces the webinar "KINGDOM Colored Inversion – Adding Value to Your Interpretation by Incorporating Well Information into the Seismic."
Tuesday, September 21st
Colored Inversion transforms seismic reflectivity data to relative acoustic impedance data. It enables interpreters to pick true changes in impedance that represent geology that matches well log data, not just picking horizons based on processing reflections. By incorporating the extra information from well log data, time-depth chart data and phase information into the seismic, we can generate an Colored Inversion volume that can be use to improve the quality of the seismic interpretation data. This webinar highlights the ability of KINGDOM Colored Inversion to detect low impedance layers indicative of gas that is not immediately apparent on the standard seismic section.
The software has been designed so that it can be used by any interpreter with seismic data and one or more wells with a velocity log and a TD chart. The resulting seismic events match the well events closely in character, thereby minimizing the risk of interpreting incorrect or unwanted seismic events, improving the speed and accuracy of the interpretation.
The presentation will demonstrate:
- Selecting appropriate data for KINGDOM Colored Inversion
- Generating a Colored Inversion volume
- Highlighting the gas play within the structure
Registration for Upcoming Webinar, click here.
Upcoming 2010 Tradeshows
AAPG International
Sunday, September 12 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Calgary, Canada
SMT exhibiting on site - Booth #419
AAPG Eastern
Saturday, September 25 - Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Kalamazoo, USA
SMT exhibiting on site - Booth #309
Upcoming User Groups
If you are currently a customer you should attend one of our local User Group to learn product tips and tricks, network with other SMT product users and share knowledge with our product management.
Upcoming User Groups: www.seismicmicro.com/registration
Tyler, TX - September 21st
Ft. Worth, TX - September 22nd
Gulf Coast - September 22nd
Lafayette, TX - September 23rd
Dallas, TX - September 23rd
Houston, TX - September 28th
Traverse City, MI - September 30th
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