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Arcis
Officially Celebrates its 10th Anniversary Today, Sept 12th
Ten Years and Counting - Thank You!
By Brad Torry
September 12, 2006 marks ten years to the day when the
numbered company (ARCIS) was formed and our adventure began.
Our vision at the time was to create an integrated
geophysical services company focused on technical excellence
and superior service. Having reached our first decade as a
company we reflect on the obstacles we bridged, the
successes and the failures; but above all, the people we have
assembled as our staff and the people we have had the
opportunity to work with as clients. From our early years as
a public company and surviving $10 oil in 1999, to the privatization of the company
in 2003/04, and through to today, two items carry the torch that remains lit,
our vision and our values. Read More...
Survey Says?
Know Your Grid System & Software to Ensure you Know Where
your Wells Are. A Practical Understanding of Survey Related
Issues.
By Brad
Torry and Mark Watson
Considerable dialogue and debate has taken place in recent
years surrounding the issue of geodetic datum use in Western
Canada (i.e. NAD 83 vs. NAD 27). The issue first came to
light in 1990 when Jake Epp (Federal Energy Mines and
Resource Minister) adopted the North American Datum of 1983
(NAD 83) for all Federal lands. The result of this decision
has slowly imparted itself on provincial agencies to look
towards converting historical data (i.e. topo maps etc.) to
this same reference datum.
Read More...
Benefiting from 3D AVO by Using Adaptive Supergathers
By Yong Xu
3D surface seismic data has many useful features that include fine sampling, better resolution,
better and accurate visualization and volume interpretation of structural and stratigraphic features.
All these help in providing a vivid picture of the geologic features in the subsurface.
These characteristic qualities of 3D seismic data, coupled with the fact that 3D prestack
time or depth migration yield accurate imaging of subsurface features, represent sufficient
ground and reason to expect AVO analysis to be carried out on 3D data.
Read More...
Piano Lovers
Do you love classical piano - if yes - join Arcis for a
private reception and tickets to the Honens semifinals,
October 19th at 6:30 pm. If you are interested, contact Florence
at 781-1437 or email fjanzen@arcis.com.
Space is limited.
New Seismic Data
Available for 2006
View Map...
- Minehead 3D - available now
- West Pembina IV 3D - available now
- Obed 3D - available now
- Marsh Creek 3D - on exclusive until October 13th
- West Pembina II 3D - on exclusive until November 8th
- Pickell 3D - on exclusive until late 2006
News
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Arcis and Geo-Texture have formed a strategic alliance to offer
volumetric curvature and other seismic geometric attribute analysis. Volumetric
curvature attribute analysis is the leading edge technology in the field of
seismic attributes for identifying subtle faults at or below the limits of
seismic resolution, illuminating fractures associated with folds and flexures, and
for making accurate interpretation of stratigraphic features.
- OXY Libya, LLC recently awarded Arcis a contract to process 2D data from
the Sirte Basin, Libya. The project will consist of the
reprocessing of vintage data as well as the processing of
data currently being acquired by OXY Libya, LLC. It is
anticipated that this project will continue into 2007.
- The onshore division of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) of Houston recently awarded two
large, high-density, 3D processing projects to Arcis. The
two projects include the processing of the newly acquired
Cambridge 3D (220 square miles) and the 3D merge of eight
3Ds (928 square miles) in Oklahoma. This is a significant
technical win for Arcis and may be the largest land 3D
dataset to be processed in Calgary. As part of Arcis'
commitment to PGS, Arcis has added 454 compute nodes
to bring the CPU total to nearly 1,000 compute nodes in its Calgary office.
- Explor Data Ltd and Arcis have entered into an agreement to reprocess
Explor's 2D structural data as part of an ongoing project to improve the quality
and consistency of their entire 2D data library. The library
consists of over 17,000 km of high quality regional 2D data
within the AB/BC Foothills, North West Territories, Montana and North Dakota.
Arcis has the innovative tools and experienced personnel
capable of reprocessing complex, structural seismic data. The
project was awarded based on the quality of the test line and as of August 2006, Arcis has
processed over 50,000 records. It is anticipated that the project will continue
throughout 2006 and into 2007.
We hope you enjoyed the second issue of Seismic Matters. If you have
comments or do not wish to receive the quarterly newsletter,
please email
jmahaffy@arcis.com.
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FALL 2006
LUNCHEON
SEMINARS
Curvature and coherence attributes – a definite aid in seismic interpretation
Satinder Chopra
September 26 or 28
more info
Spectral decomposition applications beyond the seismic
bandwidth
Satinder Chopra
October 10 or 11
more info
Wave Equation Summation
(WESUM) for prestack time and
depth migration Jianhua Pan
October 17 or 19
more info
Reliable deterministic inversion of Athabasca oil sand
reservoir heterogeneity
Yong Xu
October 24 or 25
more info
Elements of seismic
Wendy Ohlhauser
October 31 or November 2
more info
To
RSVP for any of the above seminars,
click here
For
more information contact Florence
at 781-1437.
SEG CONVENTION
Visit Arcis' new booth. Look for the spectacular light show.
ARCIS HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE & 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Mark your calendar - November 16th.
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