Consultancy & Training

Introduction Training for OpendTect in Houston

dGB provides a one-day OpendTect introduction training. The training is scheduled monthly in our Houston office and several extra training days are schedule in Buenos Aires, Denver and Calgary. The training is useful as introduction to OpendTect for new users, or as refreshment to experienced users. Focus of the training is on basic interactions and the most important seismic interpretation workflows in OpendTect.

The dedicated training is given by one of the experienced dGB scientists from the Houston staff who work everyday with OpendTect. The course hands-on, interactive and allows for plenty one to one interaction with the instructor. To focus the training on the participants interests, subjects in the afternoon session are selected from a list of options by the participants. After the training, participants will be able to set up an OpendTect project, apply standard interpretation workflows in OpendTect and have basic knowledge of optional add-on workflows using Plugins.

Agenda

Morning session, 4 workflows:

• Project Set-Up and Data Loading (seismics, horizons, wells).
• Overview and Basic Interactions (display, colorbar).
• Basics of the Seismic Attribute Engine, Processing Attribute Volumes.
• Spectral Decomposition and Red-Green-Blue Color Blending.

• Cross-plotting.
• Horizon Tracking.
• Isopachs, Surface Data and other Operations using Horizons.
• Mapping using the Open-Source GMT package.
• Forward Modeling and Creating a Seismic to Synthetic Tie.
• Creating Simple (Velocity) Models.
• Time to Depth Conversion.

• An Overview of the Plugins to OpendTect.
• Discussion, Questions and Answers.

Schedule

The training will normally held in the second Tuesday of each month, inhouse in dGB's Houston office. Additional training will be held before SEG annual meeting in Denver and at remote locations in Calgary and Buenos Aires. See the complete training schedule listed below, all classes are in Houston, unless indicated otherwise:

September 14, 2010

September 28, 2010 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

October 5, 2010

October 14, 2010 (Denver)

November 12, 2010

November 16, 2010 (Calgary, Canada)

Cost

The price of the Introduction to OpendTect Training is $600. Universities are discounted 50%. During series of training days listed above, users with an OpendTect Commercial License will be provided with one free seat per license.

Register

For additional questions or to sign-up for the Introduction in OpendTect training please write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . When registering, include in your email your name, company, job description and contact information. Also mention for which date and location you want to sign up.

Bringing your own data and lap-top is encouraged, but notify us in advance. A second day extension of the basic training with additional consultancy, or Plugin training can be arranged on request.

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