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Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT) Integrates Bluware Corp. Volume Data Store (VDS) into IVAAP

INT and Bluware are partnering to empower their upstream clients with true lossless, serverless storage and advanced data visualization in the cloud.

HOUSTON, TX – May 4, 2020 – Interactive Network Technologies, Inc. (INT) a leader in advanced domain visualization in digital exploration and production (E&P) and Bluware Corp., the digital platform that enables the oil and gas industry to accelerate digital transformation initiatives and adopt cloud computing for subsurface data, are pleased to announce the integration of Volume Data Store (VDS), a data format with adaptive streaming technology for seismic data storage, into IVAAP, an upstream data visualization platform. 

IVAAP is an HTML5 data visualization and collaborative platform for large Geoscience and petrophysical data sets in the cloud that empowers product owners, developers, and architects to accelerate the delivery of subsurface digital solutions for oil and gas. Deployable in any cloud environment (Azure®, GCP®, AWS®), IVAAP can scale to meet the needs of tens to thousands of users.

“Companies are pushed to the extreme in terms of remote collaboration and access, and, especially in the case of seismic visualization, finding the right tool to handle large datasets in the cloud can be even more challenging,” says Dr. Olivier Lhemann, President and Founder of INT. “Partnering with Bluware means INT can offer our clients true serverless, lossless storage to visualize their upstream data in the cloud.”

Bluware VDS manages all types of seismic data, including pre-stack, post-stack, WAZ, and more as demanded by an organization’s business needs, workflows, and infrastructure requirements. It can also transfer legacy formats such as SEG-Y or SEP using advanced on-the-fly transcoding on-premise or in the cloud.

“Bluware VDS cloud-native seismic data environment will provide customers with quick, cost-effective, remote access to their data, which is becoming imperative for organizations,” says Dan Piette, CEO at Bluware.

Read the press release on PRWeb >

About Bluware Corp.

Bluware enables oil and gas companies to solve the most challenging objectives in the petrotechnical world. E&P companies use Bluware to achieve previously unthinkable workflows using cloud computing, and artificial intelligence for subsurface data applications and workflows. For more information, visit www.bluware.com.

Simplifying the Learning Curve of the Seismic Unix Library

A graphical user interface to help jumpstart your SU Library adoption

The SU (Seismic Unix) Library is a well-known set of utilities used to research and process seismic data. Supported by the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), it is a powerful package that is widely used in the geoscience community.

Following the Linux philosophy, each utility within this package is a separate command. For example, the segyread command converts SEG-Y files to the SU format. With hundreds of commands at your disposal, and with each command having multiple parameters, it can be a daunting task to get started.

INTViewer provides a graphical user interface for the SU library, reducing the learning curve. The Seismic Workbench is a free plugin that has the documentation for the SU library built in, making it easy to find a particular command and all the parameters that this command requires. INTViewer builds the full command line for you based upon all individual commands selected. [See the Seismic Workbench plugin video walkthrough here.]

An example of generated command line
An example of generated command line

You can elect to run this command line from inside INTViewer or from your own terminal. Running inside INTViewer provides neat integration options: Not only you can leverage INTViewer’s built-in trace processors and generators, but you can also visualize in real time the datasets that each step creates. The workbench allows you to customize the display parameters of each output dataset, and save your set of steps as a complete job for later reuse.

An example of processing step configuration
An example of processing step configuration

While the SU Library was built with Linux in mind, Windows users are not without options. They typically use Cygwin to run native Linux applications, including the SU library utilities. [Stay tuned for our next blog describing the complete installation of Cygwin and the SU Library on Windows.] Users of the seismic workbench have reported that the graphical user interface and the integration with INTViewer made the SU Library much more accessible.

For more information about INTViewer, visit the INTViewer product page, or contact us for a free trial.


Overlaying Shape Files on Seismic Surveys

In our post, “Closer Look at Coordinate Conversions,” we allude to the capabilities of INTViewer with coordinate system conversions. One benefit of on-the-fly conversions is the ability to see your seismic data in context. In the example below, a time slice is reprojected to the coordinate system used by Google Maps.

 

Side-by-side view of seismic dataset in original CRS projected to a Mercator-type CRS over satellite imagery. Data courtesy of Geophysical Pursuit Inc.

 

Showing satellite imagery is only one example of how you can use INTViewer to verify the geolocation of a seismic survey. INTViewer can visualize much more than seismic, and our customers often use INTViewer to compare seismic survey with shape files.

In the example below, the seismic is delimited in two regions, and each of these regions is delimited by a shape file.

Two shape files overlaid on a time slice layer with Bing Maps in the background.

 

The most basic shape files consist essentially of polygons. Each point of this polygon has coordinates relative to a CRS. The shape files in this example are referencing the NAD27 coordinate system. INTViewer automatically converts NAD27 locations to the CRS used by Google Maps, making it possible to view several datasets in the same map window.

Similar to layers in Adobe Photoshop, each dataset has its own layer. Layering allows you to visualize several objects at one, while keeping independent control of each object. This concept is used across the entire INTViewer experience to allow users to overlay data.

When users start a new session, they typically open the dataset from the File menu. Then, to overlay data, they select the Layer → Add Layer menu. For example, to produce the screenshot below, you would first:

One shape file overlaid on a time slice layer.

 
Open a seismic dataset as a time slice:

Seismic dataset as time slice.

 
Then add a GIS layer:

Adding a GIS Layer

 
INTViewer’s support for shape files goes beyond visualizing simple polygons. The example below describes oil and gas fields West of Norway.

Shape file showing Oil and Gas fields west of Norway.

 
INTViewer also lets users create their own shape file programmatically (see our help site here). Check out the subject of our next post — one of the most interesting uses of shape files in INTViewer—the Mineral Rights plugin. In this plugin, seismic surveys are cut along regions delimited by shape files.

Stay tuned!

Check back soon for more new features and tips on how to use INTViewer or contact us for a demo.