Newsletters

May 2008

Common Contour Binning, Geothermal energy,Training, MPSI stochastic Inversion, SSIS interpretation module, PSDM-VMB, OpendTect release 3.2, Madagascar

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June 2007

Expansion Mode, OpendTect SSIS phase 2, PSDM- VMB, New Faces, OpendTect 3.0.1 beta released, New Plugins by ARK CLS

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September 2006

OpendTect SSIS visualization, OpendTect Fault Enhancement Filter, Hit Cube success, PSDM-VMB project flies! Addax multiple removal plugin.

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May 2006
OpendTect SSIS released! Users' corner with Shell's feedback on SSIS, Internships Leeds University, and Sintef's image processing plugin. OpendTect's new manual tracking capabilities and the brand new Fingerprint attribute.

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September 2005
OpendTect's new tracker. Chimney classification and seals risk assessment by Roar Heggland of Statoil. Integrated exploration project for Repsol, Iran. Gaz de France sponsors OUF, sponsors sought for PSDM-VMB (Pre-stack Depth Migration), BM (Basin Modeling) and OSC (OpenSpirit Connection). New features of OpendTect version 2.2. Also in this issue New Faces, Hot News, Recent Publications, and Fred Aminzadeh's nomination for the innovative thinker award.

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May 2005
The first issue of dGB++ in a new lay-out. OpendTect's development strategy of sponsored, fixed-term and open-ended projects is explained. Two plans are highlighted: PSDM-VMB (Pre-Stack Depth Migration - Velocity Model Building, a collaboration with GDC) and SBM (Seismic Basin Modeling together with IES). 3rd-party developers from ENI, ARK CLS, ERM.S and SoleGeo explain what they are developing in OpendTect. Also in this issue New Faces, Hot News, Recent Publications, Chimneys in Chile and the new crossplotting and data inspection tool.

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September 2004
2D in OpendTect, fault & horizon tracking and the status of SSIS (Seismo Stratigraphic Interpretation System) are described under New Developments on the frontpage. Also in this issue primers on Spectral Decomposition and software development inside OpendTect. Furthermore, the start of the "Seismic Basin Modeling Group" is announced and in the Company News section acadmic licenses, our new associates and the baby boom that recently hit the dGB community.

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April 2004
"A flying start for OpendTect" is the frontpage article of this newsletter, which gives you an update of the current status of development of OpendTect, the response from the industry and so on. The backside of the newsletter covers the simultaneous tracking tool for horizons and faults which will be part of OpendTect soon. Furthermore, this newsletter contains an interesting article by one of our clients, describing the integration and application of fluid migration detection results (ChimneyCube data) with basin modelling.

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October 2003
This issue is covering the launch of OpendTect. It contains a brief description of what OpendTect is and what OpendTect users and OpendTect programmers can do with the software. In the user's corner a new view on fault leakage is described, in which d-Tect technology was able to enhance small-scale fluid flow structures along fault planes that are relevant in fault seal studies. Besides, some information on the latest d-Tect release (version 1.6) and the change in company style is covered in this issue.

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