dGB-USA CEO and President, and SEG President, Fred Aminzadeh, will be a featured speaker at the "Frontier of Geophysics Technology" webcast on August 5, 2008.

"This exclusive webcast will address the most critical technology issues in geophysics, including advances in seismic, gravity, electromagnetic, aeromagnetic, and magnetotelluric technologies. A special emphasis will be placed on challenging hydrocarbon environments, such as deepwater, subsalt, and nonconventional gas."

Four current and past presidents of SEG are headlining the webcast:
Fred Aminzadeh, SEG 2007-2008 President, and President of dGB USA
Larry Lines, SEG 2008-2009 President-Elect and head of the Geology & Geophysics Department at the University of Calgary
Leon Thomsen, SEG 2006-2007 President and Delta Geophysics Chief Consultant
Mike Bahorich, SEG 2002-2003 President and Apache Petroleum Corp. Executive Vice-President
Bob Williams, former Executive Editor of Oil & Gas Journal and currently Director of Research for the Oil & Gas Journal Research Center, will moderate the webcast.

This panel-format webcast will be a freewheeling, panel-format discussion followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

To register for the webcast, click here.

Highlights in OpendTect base:

1. Faults and attributes on faults
2. Pre-stack visualization
3. 3D Bodies and Polygons
4. Madagascar processing flow builder
5. Time-depth conversion (recursive attributes)
6. Quick iso-chron maps
7. Histograms and amplitude spectra
8. Improvements for random lines, cross-plots, scaling and colors, horizon interpolation, data sub-selections, stratal amplitudes and much more.

There are two new commercial plugins supported in v3.2.1:

1. Common Contour Binning (CCB; based on Wintershall technology)
2. Multi-Point Stochastic Inversion (MPSI; by Earthworks / Ark cls).

Furthermore, there are major improvements in some existing plugins:

1. SSIS: new interpretation module and new event-driven chrono-stratigraphy algorithm
2. Neural Networks: Quick UVQ
3. Dip-Steering: Event steering algorithm.