Issue 39, March 2010

AAPG 2010 ACE

The 2010 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition, 11-14 April, New Orleans

We will be exhibiting in booth 925 with our Upstream

Technology Alliance partner Midland Valley. Our

geologists will be available for hands-on

demonstrations of TT6 with upcoming new features

such as the direct Petrel*-link, discussions of the

OCTek project, or questions on any structural

geological issue, from basin analysis to petroleum systems modelling.

Brett Freeman will be co-chairing a session in Theme V with Bob Krantz on

Monday afternoon, entitled Seismic Interpretation of Faulted Reservoirs: How to

Get the Right Answer the First Time.

Our research partners will also be presenting at the conference:

Monday afternoon session: Theme V, 16:05

N. Kusznir, G. Manatschal: The Mode of Continental Breakup Lithosphere

Thinning and Its Implications for Rifted Margin Crustal Structure

Subsidence and Heat-Flow History.

Tuesday afternoon session: Theme IV, 15:45

N. Kusznir, A. Alvey, C. Gaina, T. Torsvik: S. Atlantic Crustal Thickness

and Ocean-Continent Transition Location Derived from Satellite Gravity

Inversion: Implications for Plate Reconstructions and Aptian Ocean

Basing Geometry.

Wednesday morning session: Theme IV, 8.05

N. Kusznir, A. Alvey: Crustal Thickness and OCT Location for the Central

and Equatorial Atlantic Rifted Margins Derived from Gravity Inversion.

For a free pass to the Exhibition Hall please click here.

*trademark of Schlumberger.

Upcoming TrapTester6 Upgrades

Coming soon...

Petrel*-TrapTester direct linkThis major new feature will enable Petrel*

users to carry out structural validation

techniques and fault-seal analysis

methodologies in TT6. The direct link

supports all the native TT data types including cellular models, making available

the advanced functionality of TT-TransGen for those who want to include

sensible, geologically-based fault properties in their reservoir flow models.

TrapTester 64-bitOur development team has been working on another major upgrade, which will

contain a 64-bit TrapTester build for Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and above. This

upgrade will allow TrapTester applications to make full use of memory on

machines containing 4GB or more of system RAM.

Badleys Calendar

AAPG International Conference &

Exhibition

11-14 April 2010

New Orleans

USA

Badleys will have a strong presence

at the AAPG to be held in New

Orleans, USA. We will be exhibiting

with our Upstream Alliance partner

Midland Valley. Visit the AAPG

website for more info.

In-house training courses June

21-25 June & 28 June - 2 July 2010

Badleys HQ

Lincolnshire

UK

Badleys will be running our annual

Fault-Seal Analysis and Introduction

to TrapTester in-house training

courses in week 1, now with the

possibility of enhancing your skills

with some new advanced courses in

week 2. See our website for more

details.

Improved Interpretation ToolsIn our commitment for continued enhancements to our existing software

portfolio we are now working on adding "horizon flattening" and "seismic

correlation panels" to the Seismic Module of the TrapTester Volume Editor.

Horizon flattening permits a seismic section to be re-datumed to a chosen level.

Seismic correlation panels are user-defined polygonal regions of a seismic

section that may be cut-out and moved interactively to compare with other parts

of the same or different sections.

*trademark of Schlumberger.

The OCTek Project

Tectonics of the Ocean Continent Transition

The OCTek project will make its public debut at the AAPG meeting

in New Orleans. OCTek is a new collaboration between Badleys

and Prof. Nick Kusznir (Liverpool University).

OCTek uses a new gravity inversion technique to produce maps

and grids of crustal thickness and continental lithosphere thinning

factor at rifted continental margins and their ocean-continent

transitions. The maps and grids will be available in both their present-day

coordinate framework and also their restored coordinate framework at the time

of breakup, immediately post ocean-basin formation. OCTek is initially being

applied to the Atlantic between coordinates 65°S and 60°N and includes the

South, Equatorial and Central Atlantic. OCTek-Atlantic will be available in

mid-2010. OCTek will then be applied to the Asia-Pacific region with that product

available in autumn 2010.

We believe that OCTek-Atlantic will be of interest to those exploring or

evaluating the offshore basins of:

South America, including all of offshore Brazil

West Africa, from South Africa north to Morocco

Atlantic southern Europe, Iberia and Biscay

The eastern American/Canadian seaboard

While OCTek-Asia/Pacific will be of interest to those exploring or evaluating the

offshore basins of:

Papua New Guinea & Northern Australia

The Indonesian, Malaysian, Philippine archipelago

Gulf of Thailand, Andaman Sea and offshore Vietnam

South China Sea and East China Sea

Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk

Results from the Atlantic study will be available for viewing at the Badleys-

Midland Valley stand at the AAPG exhibition in New Orleans. In addition, Prof.

Nick Kusznir will be giving a number of talks on the OCTek theme and rifted

margins in general at the accompanying conference (see above). Nick will also

be available for discussion on the exhibition stand.

For further details about the OCTek project please contact us via e-mail or if

calling by phone, ask for Alan Roberts.

Virtual Seismic Atlas

Updated with images from the Badleys archive

Badleys have been Partners in the Virtual Seismic

Atlas project (VSA) since its inception in 2005. The

VSA is coordinated by Prof. Rob Butler of Aberdeen

University and went live to the public in 2008. The aim of the VSA is to provide a

free-to-use atlas of seismic data for use by students, teachers, academic

researchers, industry professionals and anyone else with an interest in viewing

seismic data. The images contained within the VSA are not only free-to-view but

are also free-to-download and can be used (with due acknowledgement) by

anyone.

The geological/geophysical community in

general is encouraged to contribute images to

the VSA, it is not the product of a select group

of authors and the aim is that the VSA will

continue to expand and evolve for some

considerable time. Users can also interact

with the VSA not just by contributing new data

but also by offering new or alternative

interpretations of images which already exist

on the site.

The VSA has recently undergone a significant upgrade to its interface and

search facilities and with this is marked the end of Phase 1 of its development.

Input to Phase 2 and funding models are now under discussion and Prof. Rob

Butler will be pleased to discuss the existing VSA and/or plans for the future with

visitors to the VSA stand (booth 1558) at the AAPG exhibition in New Orleans.

Badleys have recently contributed new material to the VSA, illustrating some of

the complex, modern methods of visualising seismic data and related attributes

in 3D. The Badleys images are available here on the VSA.

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