Data Sets

Gulf of Mexico
Texaco has provided a data set for near shore central Louisiana which includes two surveys:  ICS310 shot in 1989 and SL340 shot in 1994:

• Over 350 square miles of 3-D seismic digital data
• Logs for 41 wells in digital format for the same area

Amoco has donated a data set for the Eugene Island area:

• 27 square miles of 3-D seismic digital data
• Logs for some 9 wells in digital format for the same area

Exxon Corporation has donated for the South Timbelier block 54 area:

• 9 square miles of 3-D seismic digital data
• Logs for several wells in digital format for the same area.

The Texas Bureau of Economic Geology has sold the Department of Geological Sciences a data set that encompasses the Stratton Field of nearshore Louisiana:

• X square miles of 3-D seismic digital data
• Logs for 8 wells in digital format for the same area.

Central Texas
The Texas Bureau of Economic Geology has sold the Department of Geological Sciences two 3D seismic datasets and well data from, Boonesville and Waha Fields of central Texas.  These latter were developed specifically for geoscience training.
 

National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska
The USGS has provided the Department of Geological Sciences with data mainly concentrated to the east of the Reserve; including digital and paper copies of 2D Seismic Lines and Well Logs:

• Over 136 useable seismic lines
• Logs for some 28 wells.

Bahamas
The RASMAS has kindly provided the Department of Geological Sciences with
1 paper copy of a Regional Seismic Line across the western Bahamas Bank.
 

Offshore Guyana
Mobil Corporation, with the kind permission of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, has unconditionally provided the department with:

• Over 150 seismic lines in digital and paper formats
• Eight well reports
• Several maps and regional reports

• Over 140 2D seismic lines
• Logs for 9 wells

Algoa Basin

• Over 148 2D seismic lines
• Logs for 10 wells

Offshore Western Australia
The Australian Geological Survey Organisation has kindly provided the
Department of Geological Sciences with:
6 regional 2D digital seismic lines

Wiltshire Geological Services is providing all avaliable well logs from the Canarvan Basin.
 
 

Offshore the Maldives
Rice University has kindly given the Department of Geological Sciences with access to some five seismic lines in paper form (provided to Rice by Shell Maldives).
 

Software

Landmark

Open Works 4.1	Open Vision 4.0	Geodata Loading 4.1	ZEH Seismic and CGM 4.1
Geo-Data Works 3.0	Z-MAP Plus 3.0.1	Contouring Assistant 3.0.1	Petro Works/LogEdit 4.0.1
Strat Works 4.0	Wellbore Manager 1.1	SeisWorks 3.4,3DVI 3.0.1	EarthCube 1.2
TDQ 2.0	VoxCube 2.0.1	Pro Max 6.2	Wellbore Planner 1.1
Oracle 7.2.3	StrataModel 4.1.1	Syn Tool 3.1.1	FZAP! 1.0

Schlumberger's Geoquest

Stratigraphic Well Correlation Tool StratLog	GeoFrame Run Time	GeoFrame Data Manger	IESX Kit Pro
GeoFrame Geology Kit

Seismic MicroTechnologies - Kingdom Suite

2d/3dPAK	SynPAK	VuPAK	TracePAK
ModPAK

Smedwig
IRAP/RMS and STORM

Samuel
Seismic Interpretation package

GoCad
Memeber of the GoCad consortium. Have access to  goCad's 3-D development and display software.

IES (Integrated Exploration Systems (USA), Inc.)
PetroMod 4.0, which includes SeisStrat, and PetroFlow.

We also have a range of in-house and commercial software, geographic information systems (Arc/INFO), volume-balancing structural interpretations, including Midland Valley's Move on Fault and 3-D Move, and gravity and magnetic data interpretation (PGandW's GIPSI package, including COMPU-DRAPE, GRIDEPTH, and GRAVMAG, and Northwest Geophysical's GM-SYS).

We use the SEDPAK simulation software, which we developed at the USC, to provide a conceptual framework for modeling the sedimentary fill of basins by visualizing stratal geometries as they are produced between sequence boundaries (Siregar 1995, Wong 1995, Prueser 1995). The simulation is used to substantiate inferences drawn about the potential for hydrocarbon entrapment and accumulation within a basin. It is designed to model and reconstruct clastic and carbonate sediment geometries which are produced as a response to changing rates of tectonic movement, eustasy, and sedimentation (Helland-Hansen et al., 1988, 1989; Strobel et al., 1989a). In the research that we do in our laboratory the simulation enables the evolution of the sedimentary fill of a basin to be tracked, defining the chronostratigraphic framework for the deposition of these sediments.  We use it to illustrate the relationship between sequences and systems tracts seen in cores, outcrop,  well and seismic data. Thus we are using the principles of sequence stratigraphy, as oil companies, to evaluate the exploration plays and build reservoir models use it, essentially using computer-based interpretation to change the mode of the analysis of seismic and well data.  This enables our geologists to develop and test sequence stratigraphic models as they display their data (Link to the StratMod Group).
 

Hardware

• Dual head SGI Octane
• SGI Iris
• SGI Indigo
• Dek Alpha
• Sun Sparc LX,
• Sun Sparc Station 1
• IBM RS 6000
• Large format digitizer
• Several Macintosh computers
• Several printers and plotters.

We have access to the College of Sciences and Mathematics Visualization lab, which has

• A Sun Enterprise 450 server
• Ten Sun Ultras 10s
• Ten high end PCs
• Projection capabilities of screen output

These machines run under a multi-process server and are used to exercise the software listed above in a classroom setting.
 

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