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hard disk storage) for use in this obtained as part of a joint Gas we sought a simpler feature for the
and other courses. The operating Research Institute and Department students to map and identify.
system for this machine is a of Energy project, conducted by the The Stratton Field produces from
multiuser version of Wi n d o w s Texas Bureau of Economic Geology; the Frio Formation, which uncon-
3.51 under WinDD, a Tektronix pro- it is available from the BEG for a formably overlies the Vicksburg. We
gram intended to serve multiple nominal cost (including a large num- are not aware of development with-
users simultaneously over a net- ber of well logs, which are not in the study area in the Vicksburg
work of Unix machines from an NT included in the SeisVision demo). A Formation; the paper by Hardage
machine. The students simply enter good introduction to the Stratton and others refers only to reservoirs in
a command at any prompt on their volume is “A3-D seismic case histo- the Frio, and, for the purposes of our
Unix platform, and a new X-win- ry evaluating fluvially deposited classroom experiment, we assumed
dow is displayed, in which the NT thin-bed reservoirs in a gas-produc- that the deeper horizons are unex-
machine appears to be operating. In ing property” by Hardage et al. plored. Several authors (referenced
this environment, the Sun worksta- (GEOPHYSICS, November 1994). by Hardage and others) have point-
tions simply serve as display The Stratton Field consists of a ed out that potential pay exists in
devices for the WinDD-NT system, number of discontinuous gas sands these formations, particularly in
but they are still available as Unix formed by channel sands; the main delta deposits within the Vicksburg
machines in other applications, such problem addressed by the BEG in the area of the Stratton Field. We
as the processing portion of our study was the identification of these hoped to identify, locate, and char-
course. sands where they are below seismic acterize one of these deposits, if one
Figure 1 shows the pertinent resolution, and a novel approach occurred within the 3-D volume.
parts of our network. It is possible was used by those authors. In short, In order to become productive
to use this arrangement with soft- they used detailed well-to-seismic with the SeisVision program, the stu-
ware that requires hardware locks ties incorporating vertical seismic dents worked through a tutorial pro-
and other security arrangements, profiling to identify the portion of a vided by GeoGraphix in which they
although sometimes it is difficult to wavelet containing the reservoir. mapped one of the horizons within
install the security properly. The use the producing field and correlated
of “free software” which can be faults. Then they were provided with
widely distributed and used by The class described in this a possible starting point for mapping
many people at a time, eliminates article was taught by Wayne a horizon deeper than the known
the need for additional security Pennington. It included producing intervals. This horizon
devices and simplifies the adminis- graduate students Terra Lutch, contained both a structural (in time)
tration of the system for teaching Chad Lukkarila, Tim high and a coincident amplitude
purposes. Tereschuk, Baoguo Wei, and anomaly. Figure 2 shows representa-
Deyi Xie, and undergraduates tive seismic data across this structure
The interpretation problem. The JuliAnne Bailey, Angie Chris- within the 3-D volume. All students
SeisVision 2.1 demo CD comes with tenson, Miles Demster, Adam in the class (six geological engineer-
a fully operational version of SeisVi- Kuzinski, Jim Matrella, Joseph ing majors, one geophysics major,
sion; its only restriction is that it can Spencer, and David Zanoni. and five graduate students) success-
only be used with the data set dis- fully identified and described the
tributed with it on the CD. (Note: a anomaly as a likely source of hydro-
new version, SeisVision 3.0, has They then flattened on a correlatable carbons; using correlations with shal-
recently become available, and can horizon slightly deeper than the lower horizons for estimates of
be obtained as a demo version on a reservoir, and mapped the ampli- porosity, they also obtained reason-
CD with two data sets, rather than tude at the reservoir time, just above able hydrocarbon pore volumes and
one.) The data set was the Stratton that horizon by a known amount. defended proposed well locations in
3-D volume, now familiar to many Although this was useful in the pro- brief reports. To our knowledge, this
geophysicists worldwide, which was ducing intervals of the Stratton Field, potential drilling target was not iden-