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  • Microseismic Demo
  • Advanced Horizion Tracking With Confidence Data Type
  • EarthPAK Volumetrics
  • EarthPAK Decline Curve Analysis
  • EarthPAK Economics
  • Microseismic Benefits
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Intuitive Software for Advanced Interpretation

As oil and gas fields mature and new plays are discovered in remote terrain, seismic interpretation has become increasingly sophisticated. The modern geoscientist must integrate geological data, multi-dimensional seismic, modeling, and advanced analytics in a single interpretation. But just because interpretation has become more complex, it doesn’t mean that your software has to.

Welcome to the Future of Interpretation. KINGDOM Advanced - integrated software for your largest and most complex geoscientific workflows - lets you complete work faster and with greater confidence.

KINGDOM Advanced Differentiators

Geological

  • Microseismic data analysis to evaluate fracture jobs in unconventional plays.
  • Multi-layer Volumetrics with Monte Carlo and Sensitivity Analysis to understand geologic uncertainty
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  • Multi-segment Decline Curve forecasts help to accurately estimate reserves
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  • Economic Analysis scenarios helps forecast prospect value and return
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Geophysical

  • Patent-pending Autopicker reduces manual effort on complex structures
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  • Surface Curvature edge detection attribute helps reduce exploration risk
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Management

  • User Security provides project level password control to protect data

KINGDOM Advanced provides these capabilities in a multi-user, highly scalable, secure, 32-bit or 64-bit Windows environment running on Microsoft® SQL Server, Microsoft® SQL Server Express, or Oracle®. It is performance optimized for 64-bit operations on quad core systems with 8GB RAM or greater.

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2d/3dPAK EarthPAK VuPAK Geosteering Add-On Modules

Geophysical Interpretation - KINGDOM 2d/3dPAK Advanced

Overview

Reduce the time between research and finding first oil, while minimizing risk, by using the industry leader for Windows-based geophysical interpretation. KINGDOM 2d/3dPAK allows organizations to interpret 2D and 3D seismic data, map and grid surfaces, and analyze well control.

Benefits

  • Get productive faster with the #1 rated product for "ease of use"
  • Conduct basin wide exploration using a true database layer for scalability
  • Use in large environments with support for multi-authors and project level security

Short Workflow Videos

  • Compute Contours
    Compute Contours
  • Create Grids
    Create Grids
  • Contour/Grids Edit
    Contour/Grid Edit
  • Smoothing Grids
    Smoothing Grids
Features

Graphic Slice
Graphic Slice

Seismic Analysis

  • Generate horizons and faults on in-lines, crosslines, arbitrary lines, and slices in both time and depth domains.
  • Autopick horizons on complex seismic data with patent-pending Illuminator technology.
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  • Produce seismic-based interpretation maps by combined utilization of horizon and fault picking tools.
  • Structure and manage projects through user-defined work trees to isolate and organize pertinent data objects into smaller, more manageable subsets.

Flex Grid
Flex Grid

Mapping & Gridding

  • Edit generated surfaces and grids using the unique graphical feedback displays found in Grid Editor.
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  • Produce accurate maps quickly with proprietary Flex Grid technology by balancing minimum curvature with minimum tension.
  • Relief Shading simulates sun angle and position to better highlight topography.

Boreholes Displayed with Log Curves and Tops
Boreholes Displayed with Log Curves and Tops

Well Control

  • Display borehole and well log information on seismic sections in time or depth.
  • Display straight, deviated, and horizontal boreholes and sidetracks.
  • Display formation tops interpreted from log curves on vertical seismic displays, and then grid and contour the tops in the project area.

Envelope Quickly Reveals Amplitude Anomalies
Envelope Quickly Reveals Amplitude Anomalies

Post Stack Seismic Data Processing (Formerly TracePAK)

  • Conduct Hilbert, Phase Rotation, Instantaneous Phase and Frequency transforms.
  • Calculate the survey spectrum and statistics.
  • Compute or extract wavelets.

Geological Interpretation - KINGDOM EarthPAK Advanced

Overview

Making better decisions with minimal risk starts with having a clear vision of the prospect. KINGDOM EarthPAK enables geoscientists to manage logs, manipulate cross sections, analyze production, and create presentation quality base maps using geological data.

Benefits

  • Improve interpretation accuracy by combining seismic and well data
  • Create more complete pictures by combining rasters, digital and composite logs
  • Conduct basin-wide exploration with support for 100,000+ well environments

Short Workflow Videos

  • EarthPAK Volumetrics
    EarthPAK Volumetrics
  • EarthPAK Decline Curve Analysis
    EarthPAK Decline Curve Analysis
  • EarthPAK Economics
    EarthPAK Economics
  • Digitize Rasterlog
    Digitize Rasterlog
  • Isopach By Zone
    Isopach By Zone
Features

Logs Overlaid On Seismic
Logs Overlaid On Seismic

Manage Logs

  • Import digital and raster logs; and create digital logs from raster logs.
  • Create composite logs to add interpretive lithology and comments in the cross-section.
  • Display log curves in structure/stratigraphic cross-sections with shading based on a constant cut-off value or based on a facies log curve or crossover shading.
  • Display log signature map using multiple log curves with shading, within a specific depth range.
  • Analyze digital log curves with interactive log editing and log calculators including: log statistics, log normalization, and predefined or user-defined equations.

EarthPAK Cross Section
EarthPAK Cross Section

Manipulate Cross Sections

  • Generate structural and stratigraphic cross-sections with one-click interactive correlation.
  • Use drag and drop well log correlation within a cross-section.
  • Display raster logs in cross-section proportionally or within a specified track.
  • Support multiple fault segments in cross-sections, each with specific vertical separations.
  • Display true vertical thickness for deviated boreholes in the cross-section.
  • Apply aliasing of digital and raster log in a cross-section and other displays.

Basemap Production Bubbles
Basemap Production Bubbles

Analyze Production

  • Define zones from depth, formation tops, grids, and horizons.
  • Calculate cumulative production using field, formation, and completion filters, and post using attribute and bubble maps.
  • Generate bubble and attribute maps with transparency from well information, zone attributes, log data, and production data.
  • Calculate zone thickness using measured log, true vertical, and true stratigraphic thickness.

Logs with Bitmap Lithology
Logs with Bitmap Lithology

Create Great Prospect Displays

  • Highlight wells using multiple colors and symbols.
  • Control posting of well data by a scale-based level of detail (LOD) to increase the performance and avoid cluttering the Base Map.
  • Accentuate the structure, isopach, reservoir properties, and other maps using color- filled contours.
  • Import lithology patterns as bitmap files to augment the existing library of patterns.
  • Grid data with enhanced algorithms such as Flex Grid, Minimum Curvature, Inverse Distance To Power, and Nearest Neighbor.

Monte Carlo Simulation of Volumetric Analysis
Monte Carlo Simulation of Volumetric Analysis

Calculate Multi-layer Volumetrics

  • Multi-layer volumetrics allows evaluation of multiple reservoirs simultaneously.
  • Monte Carlo simulation analyzes the range of potential reserves based on the uncertainty of the known volumetric components.
  • Sensitivity Analysis shows how variations in a single volumetric component effect the calculation.

Multi-segment Decline Curve Analysis and Production Forecast
Multi-segment Decline Curve Analysis and Production Forecast

Conduct Multi-segment Decline Curve Analysis

  • Multi-segment Decline Curve Analysis allows the incremental effect of a workover or recompletion to be analyzed.
  • Manual decline curve segments model a proposed program with user-defined production and decline rates.
  • Multiple wells may be combined into group wells for entity-based analysis.
  • Forecasts can incorporate a combination of rate, volume and time limits.

Economic Cash Flow Analysis
Economic Cash Flow Analysis

Perform Economic Analysis

  • Performs sophisticated economic analysis linked to production forecasts.
  • Accommodates multiple product streams in the analysis.
  • Links multiple economic scenarios to a single production forecast.

Petrophysical Review
Petrophysical Review

Quick Look Petrophysical Analysis (Formerly LogPAK)

  • Use advanced curve editing utilities like multi-well normalization, multi-well de-spiking, automatic depth shifting, and nearest value blocking.
  • Neural network-based utility for the reconstruction of missing or corrupted log curve intervals.

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Multi-Dimensional Interpretation - KINGDOM VuPAK Advanced

Overview

The increasing complexity of new exploration and development demands more sophisticated software to enhance predictive accuracy and reduce risk. With the integration of geological and geophysical information in 3D space, KINGDOM's VuPAK helps geoscientists make more accurate interpretations and achieve higher productivity, even in the most challenging plays.

Benefits

  • Increase accuracy by locating hard to detect structures with advanced visualization capabilities
  • Build 3D animations to help sell prospects to investors

Short Workflow Videos

  • VuPAK Interpretation
    VuPAK Interpretation
  • Wellpath Planner
    Wellpath Planner
Features

Valley Fill With GR Lathe
Valley Fill With GR Lathe

3D Interpretation

  • Interpret and display horizon and fault surfaces and grids with contours.
  • Display well log curves, including log lathe displays, and plan potential drilling targets using interactive well path planner.
  • Horizon and geobody interpretation can be accomplished through a new patent pending algorithm based on proprietary Illuminator technology.
  • Co-blend multiple attribute volumes to easily identify geoanomalies.

Spectral Decomp Co-blend
Spectral Decomp Co-blend

3D Visualization

  • Interpreters can control opacity, color, and lighting of seismic volumes, horizons, faults, and grids.
  • Data can be analyzed through slice animation, chair-cut, and oblique-slice displays.
  • Culture and log curves with formation tops along vertical and deviated boreholes can be displayed.
  • Volume scanning using interpreted horizons and co-blending multiple attributes helps rapidly identify subsurface anomalies.
  • Subsets of a survey can be interactively selected from a base map and specific areas may be viewed with zoom-ins - and recorded for playback.

Microseismic Data Analysis
Microseismic Data Analysis

Microseismic Interpretation

  • Matches seismic data interpretation to microseismic events.
  • Generates a better understanding of reservoir to well treatments.
  • Dynamically updates with user manipulation of microseismic events.
  • Includes easy tools to lasso or digitize desired subsets in any view in order to cut or crop points.
  • Provides dynamic visualization of microseismic events by any attribute as applied to color, size, and visibility.

Kingdom Geosteering



Overview

Kingdom Geosteering enables geologists or geosteering specialists to collaborate with drilling engineers on the well plan before and during drilling. Full integration with the reservoir interpretation provides “near” real-time correlation of the drilling well to reference well so that the drill bit can be targeted accurately and efficiently.

Benefits

  • Increase drilling productivity and accuracy.
  • Integrate well data and seismic data to steer the drill bit Improve recovery factor by maintaining wellbore in target zone over very long distances (5k-10k feet) to maximize reservoir contact.
  • Reduce and manage costs by monitoring drilling progress against plan, calibrate and project ahead from the real-time bit position.
  • Auto-correlate logs and save valuable time in calibrating drilling well to reference well.
  • Retain knowledge of geological, geophysical and drilling information into the Kingdom project
Features

Geosteering
IHS Kingdom Geosteering with complete project and application integration in user selected, multiple Geosteering Case displays and workspaces.

  • Automatic Log Curve and Deviation Survey Loading
  • Manual Reference Well / Drilling Well Correlation
  • Automatic Reference Well / Drilling Well Correlation
  • Fully integrated within KINGDOM
  • Based on the KINGDOM Deviated Well Arbitrary Line
  • Full access to any and all data in the KINGDOM Project
  • Geosteering Management for easy access of up-to-date drilling info
  • Easy access to desired data to provide driller updates
  • Utilization of seismic trace data backdrops

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KINGDOM Add-On Modules

Analysis

Dip of Maximum Similarity
Dip of Maximum Similarity


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KINGDOM Rock Solid Attributes (RSA) - Advanced 3D Post Stack Attributes

KINGDOM's RSA gives users access to 50+ advanced 2D and 3D post-stack seismic attributes, including curvature (SMT's newest addition to RSA's family of geometic attributes), spectral decomposition and similarity (edge detection processing). This capability is fully integrated into SMT's KINGDOM family of products to create a time-efficient, cost-effective solution for optimizing reservoir assets and increasing well accuracy.

  • Curvature attributes indicate the rate of change of surface topology and accent features such as faults and fracture systems.
  • Analyze Geometric, Instantaneous, Wavelet, and Spectral Attribute types.
  • Detect faults, channels, unconformities, shaling out, and bedding anomalies.
  • Attributes can be cross-plotted for in-depth analysis.

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Colored Inversion
Colored Inversion


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Create Acoustic Impedance Attributes Using Log Data

Colored Inversion is a proven technique that is fast and easy to apply to seismic data, yet it produces results that match more sophisticated and compute intensive techniques such as sparse spike inversion. KINGDOM Colored Inversion matches the well character within the seismic bandwidth and automatically performs phase correction, thereby minimizing the risk of interpreting incorrect or unwanted seismic events and improving the speed and accuracy of the interpretation. This increase in interpretation efficiency easily offsets the time spent creating the inversion data.

  • Increase interpretation efficiency easily offsetting time spent creating inversion data.
  • Fast and robust method of generating a seismic inversion data type ideally suited for use by all interpreters.
  • Matches seismic data to well log data to produce cleaner data with less noise and less signal instability.
  • Simple for the interpreter to set up and use.
  • Ideal 'quick look' inversion tool for use prior to more detailed inversion studies.

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AVO Crossplot
AVO Crossplot


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KINGDOM AVOPAK - Interpret Pre-Stack Data

AVOPAK brings powerful visualization and interpretation of pre-stack gather data to the interpretation desktop by generating attributes that can be used to locate hydrocarbon indicators in rock volumes and presenting the gathers in a gallery. Using this gallery, you can dynamically compare gathers to multiple data types such as the stack trace, common offset or angle stack trace, well log curves, synthetics, or extracted seismic sections. This comparison can help reduce risk in prospecting for oil and gas.

  • Integrated ability to view, interpret, and analyze pre-stack gathers in 2D and 3D views.
  • Condition data and save processing to disk. This includes sorting, dip-based super gathers, flattening on a horizon or velocity, spectral balancing, angle gather generation, and other improved processing capabilities

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Modeling

Basic Synthetic
Basic Synthetic

Velocity Changes Porosity
Velocity Changes Porosity


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KINGDOM SynPAK - Synthetics and 1D forward modeling

A key task in working with seismic data is the ability to correlate and tie the seismic to the wells in the survey. KINGDOM SynPAK provides the capability of generating 1D synthetic seismogram from well log data that can be correlated with any survey in a project. Tools allow for calculating and accurately tying synthetic to actual seismic data.

  • Edit well logs through stretch/squeeze, bulk shift.
  • Generate theoretical wavelets and rotate phase of the data interactively.
  • Create zone based models of P and S Velocity curves and Density curves.
  • Calculate and model porosities or interval thickness.
  • Use fluid substitution workshop based on Gassman's equations.

 
 
 
 

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Geological Model
Geological Model


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KINGDOM ModPAK - 2D Modeling Of Stratigraphic And Structural Changes

In the absence of direct velocity control, KINGDOM's ModPAK can automatically convert resistivity or density logs to velocity. For simpler models, blocks can be defined with a constant velocity and density. The time-depth function at each well is interpolated to convert the depth section to time before convolution.

  • Interpret surfaces from formation tops or correlate on-the-fly.
  • Model faults, channels, pinchouts and facies changes.
  • Model onlaps, angular unconformities and reservoir fluid changes.

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Complex Geology Modeled in Profile Mode
Complex Geology Modeled in Profile Mode


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KINGDOM VelPAK - Convert Seismic To Depth And Create Velocity Models

Depth conversion and velocity modeling can be a time and labor-intensive process that often leaves nagging questions about accuracy and the ever-present "what ifs?" KINGDOM's depth conversion capability, built in partnership with Equipoise Software, Ltd., is designed for all levels of depth conversion- from simple to the most complex. Geoscientists can construct velocity models to predict depth from seismic time.

  • Derive parameters for VZ=V0+KZ and many others.
  • Extract and smooth interval velocities
  • Produce velocity volumes and write to SEG Y or TDQ formats.

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Data Management

KINGDOM Connect
Kingdom Connect gives you more time to interpret instead of looking for and waiting to get the data you need.

KINGDOM Connect

Kingdom Connect provides user with the ability to connect their Kingdom projects with any OpenSpirit enabled product. This enables the exchange of project information between Kingdom and the OpenSpirit project(s).

  • Reduces interpreter downtime waiting for data transfers between applications.
  • Simple, drag and drop approach to sharing data between Kingdom and other OpenSpirit-enabled applications on the desktop.
  • Fully preserved history of data movement.
  • Complexities of OpenSpirit are hidden from the user.

Web Services
Web Services

Web Services

Kingdom Web Services provides users with the ability to easily manage their culture images/spatial data with a common interface.

  • Simple interface that allows users to preview all layers in a single UI prior to adding to Kingdom basemap.
  • Multiple layers from multiple services can coexist in a single Kingdom session.
  • Multiple layers from multiple services can coexist in a single Kingdom session.
  • Users can add many spatial layers and always have the most up-do-date information without the need to reload data .

Connectors
Connectors


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KINGDOM Connectors - Transfer Data Between KINGDOM And Other Platforms

KINGDOM offers integrated connector technology to ensure harmonious co-existence in organizations using multiple interpretation platforms. Companies are now free to choose best of breed technology while still retaining interconnectivity to existing data sets being managed by other technologies.

  • Use native connectors to common platforms.
  • Use OpenSpirit enabled connectors to access diverse platforms.

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Velocity Changes Porosity
Manage KINGDOM Projects


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KINGDOM Data Managment - Manage And Migrate KINGDOM Information With Ease

KINGDOM Data Managment provides a fully integrated platform for proper stewardship of the ever-increasing complexity of data within an organization, allowing users to manage all information across the KINGDOM environment. For example, the geoscientist can compare multiple projects, query for key interpretation data, convert projects between multiple databases and make unique copies of projects to share with others.

  • Automatically search networks for KINGDOM projects, and inventory data components.
  • Use Project Comparison to look for similarities and differences between projects.
  • Use Database Conversion to convert projects to and from Access, SQL Server or Oracle.

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