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Seismic visualisation by Rockeye

Friday, August 23, 2013

Rockeye is a new company which has launched in Stavanger, Norway, with software which promises to make it as easy to visualise your seismic (interpreted 2Dand3DSEG-Y files) as it is to play a computer game.

The company is so sure that the software is easy to use, that it is provided with no instruction manual or training.

The software development team have a lot of practise developing software which runs with no manuals - they have also developed hundreds of computer games, with a philosophy that the game needs to hold a small child''s attention to be successful.

Company founder Kjell Jaeger developed the company because he wanted to make the task of loading SEG- Y files less tedious and slow.

You could use it for working with seismic archive data, or helping people work with vast seismic data sets when deciding which license block to bid for.

There are 20 full time programmers in India working on the project, and 2 full time staff in Stavanger, Norway.

The software can take an enormous amount of seismic data - it has been tested with file sizes of over 500GB, which is the size of all the publicly available seismic data for large sections of the North Sea.

You can load SEG-Y data with one click. The software can search through your data store for interpreted SEG-Y data files.

After a short time of processing, you can view the seismic data in a 3D visualiser.

You can take a section (or ''cube'') of the data and look at it in more detail, and make drawings or annotation on it.
Most functions can be controlled with a mouse, or you can draw where you think the horizons are on a screen with a pen device.

You can make slices through the seismic, and draw where you think the faults are on all of them, and then the computer can make the best fit of your fault line to create a surface.

There is a tool to create ''RockShots''. A RockShot samples all program parameters and stores them together with the present view, for later retrieval on a TimeLine. RockShots from several projects can be assembled on a Presentation Ribbon for autobuilding of a .PPT presentation.

The system was formally launched at the London EAGE event, although by then 10 licenses had already been sold.
The company declines to release the license price but says it is ''much lower than any alternative''.

The company was named after a small stone which Mr Jaeger found on a beach near his Stavanger home while he was trying to come up with a name for the company - the stone had a ring on it which looked like an eye. The stone was on display at the company''s EAGE exhibition stand.

''It is a faster way to look at seismic data,'' Mr Jaeger said.

A30 day free trial is available if you download software from the internet, and then there is a charge per user.
Rockeye now plans to develop a series of apps for the seismic industry.

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