We strive everyday to a make our products, your products. That means we want them to function and deliver results in the specific way that a data processor works and just the right way that a data interpreter needs. Balancing the perspectives and needs of processors and interpreters is not easy, but we have found an advantage. Tsunami is pleased to announce a technical consulting relationship with depth migration specialist Dr Scott MacKay. Formerly head of R&D at WesternGeco in Denver, where he was awarded several patents, MacKay is the author of many important industry papers and is now working as an international consultant on depth imaging projects. Scott's experience is unique because he combines the solid fundamentals of a research scientist with the practical work of having interpreted and drilled well discoveries. He is in a unique position to help guide practical software development, and depth imaging projects. Here's is what he is doing for us . . .and for you.
The first project I worked on with Scott was a tomography project where the edges were not displaying well. Tomography relies on data redundancy, and at edges of the survey there just isn't as much data. Working with Scott we developed a technique to greatly improve results on survey edges and areas of low fold. This was a programming change that had a big impact without needing any additional work from the processor. It is all built in.
Then we started looking at our Tomography workflow. We knew that experienced depth imagers were throwing out the RMS velocity model and starting from scratch. We stridently believed that there was value in this data. Scott helped us create the RMS to interval velocity converter and make changes to our velocity smoother to generate a good starting interval velocity model. We learned how we needed to handle the data to show its value, and it was a simple fix that makes depth migration work so much faster.
