SEG '14: dGB Earth Sciences announces launch of OpendTect 5.0
SEG '14: dGB Earth Sciences announces launch of OpendTect 5.0
THE NETHERLANDS -- dGB Earth Sciences has announced the launch of OpendTect 5.0, the latest version of its open source seismic interpretation software, at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 84th annual meeting in Denver.
OpendTect 5.0 comes with significant advances to dGB’s HorizonCube and sequence stratigraphic interpretation capabilities that will enable interpreters to gain an improved understanding of structural geologies. The launch also took place in conjunction with an OpendTect 5.0 master class conducted by dGB at SEG.
Key features of OpendTect 5.0 include a new interactive HorizonCube tracker workflow for 2D seismic. The new workflow can be used to track single horizons and creates 2D HorizonCubes through a dip-steered tracker in which, the user picks horizons at multiple seed positions in both the structural and the wheeler domains.
The correlated geologic time lines created through the HorizonCube and OpendTect 5.0 will provide interpreters with new ways of analyzing seismic data, thereby increasing interpreter understanding of their depositional history and improving the ability to find stratigraphic traps and build accurate geologic models.
Many of the new features within OpendTect 5.0 have emerged out of the dGB-led Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation System (SSIS) consortium that includes sponsors such as Saudi Aramco, Statoil, OMV, MOL and RocOil.
OpendTect is available at no cost under the GNU GPL license and has been downloaded over 150,000 times.
