Consultancy & Training

Agenda

Morning

• Introduction and overview of OpendTect (presentation)
• Project Setup and Data Loading (seismics, horizons, wells).
• Overview and Basic Interactions (display, colorbar).
• Basics of the Seismic Attribute Engine, Processing Attribute Volumes.
• Spectral Decomposition and Red-Green-Blue Color Blending.

Afternoon (4 of the following subjects)

• Cross-plotting.
• Horizon Tracking.
• Fault Interpretation
• Isopachs, Surface Data and other operations using Horizons.
• Mapping using the Open Source GMT package.
• Forward Modeling and Creating a Seismic to Synthetic Tie.
• Creating Simple (Velocity) Models and Time to Depth Conversion.

Conclusion

• An Overview of Extended Capabilities using Plugins to OpendTect.
• Discussion, Questions and Answers.

Bringing your own data and laptop is encouraged, but notify us in advance. A second day extension of the basic training covering more subjects can be arranged on request.

Cost

For OpendTect users with a GPL license the training will cost $600. For OpendTect users with an Academic license, a 50% discount is applied. Currently, OpendTect users with a dGB Support & Maintenance License will be provided with yearly one free seat per license.

Currently training for the following Plugins or combinations of Plugins is available

• HorizonCube (Horizon Cube and Dip-Steering) (One day)
• Sequence Stratigraphy (Horizon Cube, SSIS and Well Correlation Panel) (Two days)
• Dip Steering (1/2 day)
• Neural Networks (1/2 day)
• Common Contour Binning (1/2 day)
• Velocity Model Building(1/2 day)
• Seismic Spectral Blueing and Spectral Colored Inversion. (1/2 day)

Bringing your own data and laptop is encouraged, but notify us in advance. Not all plugins are covered by our scheduled training. However, the scheduled plugin training can be extended with additional plugins on the participant’s request. Also, ad hoc training for any combination of plugins can be organized on request.

Cost

The cost of the Plugin training is $1000 per day. For OpendTect users with an Academic license, a 50% discount is applied.

The advanced training is fast paced one day training session aimed at users with prior OpendTect experience and a fairly good proficiency. For less experienced users who want to attend this training, it is advised to attend the "Introduction to OpendTect" course first.

The training aims to introduce the participant to more advanced workflows within OpendTect and OpendTect Plugins, as well to introduce the participants to some lesser known, but powerful options available in OpendTect. Specific attention will also be given to details such as quality control and parameter testing. The training will be a mix of presentations, covering the fundamentals of the applied workflows, and hands-on exercises, followed by interactive discussion and Q&A.

After the training, the participant will have a better insight into some of the more powerful and advanced workflows in OpendTect. The participant will be able to adjust these workflows to apply to his/her own datasets and generalize or recombine (steps) of the workflows to design new workflows.

Agenda

The training is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The agenda in the morning session is set (see below), and the agenda of the afternoon session will be determined by polling the training participants for their main interests.

Morning session:

• Applications of the mathematics attribute: building complex attributes using mathematics and logical expressions.
• Dip steering: use of filtering, scaling effects, and the curvature application.
• Considerations for Neural Network training.
• Improving seismic data quality: using the Dip-Steered Median Filter, Fault Enhancement Filter and Seismic Spectral Blueing.

Afternoon session:

• Determined from a broad selection of possible subjects by polling the participants.

Bringing your own data and laptop is encouraged, but notify us in advance.

Cost

The cost of the Advanced training is $1000. For OpendTect users with an Academic license, a 50% discount is applied.

The day will be spent on a curriculum that seeks to fulfill the following objectives:

• Understanding of OpendTect's structure and code organization.
• Understanding of OpendTect's plugin structure.
• Ability to create customized plugins that compute seismic attributes.
• Ability to create customized plugins with User Interface for Seismic Attributes.

The training participants are assumed to meet the following prerequisites:

• Good knowledge in Object Oriented software design, preferably C++.
• Knowledge about seismic interpretation or processing nomenclature.
• Familiarity with OpendTect.
• Good knowledge in Unix command line handling.
• Experience of debugging in gdb.

Bringing your own data and laptop is encouraged, but notify us in advance.

Cost

The cost of the Plugin Developer Training is $1000. For OpendTect users with an Academic license, a 50% discount is applied.

The 3-day attribute workshop does not require any prior knowledge of seismic attributes, or OpendTect. The workshop will focus on the concepts and practical applications more than in-depth theoretical derivations. Ample consideration will be give to high level considerations, such as: which attribute should I choose, how to I test the parameterization of an attribute, and how particular steps fit in the overall workflow? Four subject areas will be addressed:

• Single attribute techniques: attributes for fault imaging, hydrocarbon detection and other geological objectives.
• Multi-attribute techniques: single attributes can be recombined using techniques such as mathematical recombination, cross-plotting and neural networks to create more geologically meaningful responses.
• Filters: data conditioning filters applied to the seismic data as well as image enhancement filters applied to attribute volumes can significantly improve results.
• Visualization: visually representing the data such that all significant information contained in the seismic attribute is represented in an unbiased manner in the attribute image or map and can readily be recognized by the interpreter.

Bringing your own data and laptop is encouraged, but notify us in advance.

Cost

The cost of the 3-day Attribute Workshop is $2500. For OpendTect users with an Academic license, a 50% discount is applied.