Enhance the Power of an Interpretation System using MATLAB

Interpretation systems are essential tools used by geoscience professionals in the Exploration and Production (E&P) industry to help view, model and understand the subsurface. MATLAB^® is a powerful programming platform designed specifically for engineers and scientists. Whilst interpretation systems are increasingly more powerful in helping geoscientists to both analyse and interpret data in a multi-discipline shared earth environment they often don’t provide all the answers. Frequently E&P companies wish to use proprietary algorithms and workflows to better understand the available data to make better drilling decisions.

GeoDataSync^® Framework (GDS-F) provides an easy to use mechanism to connect MATLAB live to interpretation systems allowing data access in real-time. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate how a geoscientist will now be able to access geoscience data (seismic, horizon, wireline etc.), which would otherwise be constrained to the user’s Petrel* project, with the use of MATLAB. This enables the data to be operated on in a specialist way whilst instantaneously being written back, allowing immediate visualisation of the enhanced data in Petrel*. It is this more interactive functionality that opens the possibility for MATLAB prototypes to be productised into tools in-house for use by asset teams.