DUG Insight Release Notes

Petrel Link

• Support for Petrel 2018!

• General: Faster Insight start-up
• 3D view: Simpler initial display with multiple surveys
• Control panel: Help menu links updated
• Horizon Operations: Negative strike direction allowed
• LFM Models: Allow sample intervals smaller than 1 ms
• Processes: Layout for band-pass filter
• SEG-Y loader: Improve warnings for 2D SEG-Y loading
• Sessions: Offer to save when exiting

• Crossplots: Exported points from wells could include duplicates
• Painters & views: 2D views sometimes clipped data when picking
• SEG-Y loader: Allow import of SEG-Y files containing one trace

Data manager

• New reporting tools
• Command-line operation of project backup, compact, repair and reports

• SEG-Y loader: Don’t allow SEG-Y import without CMP or SP

• Data manager: Backup operation could report an error
• Horizons: Rare error when importing a horizon
• Remote links: Nuisance error when making local copies of volumes
• Volumes: export: fix error when re-exporting 2D volumes

3D view

• New 3D cursor settings

Painters & Views

• Updated settings and hotkeys for navigation markers and view intersections

• Horizons: Improve ZMAP horizon support
• Hotkey change: CTRL+SHIFT+S Save session as
• Polygons: Show in map when hovering over table entries
• Wells: Wells have a default TD of 1888.0m

• Sessions: poor performance when manipulating large sessions
• File I/O: Improve handling of special Windows file locations
• Horizons: Don’t allow taking ownership copies during operations
• Mapping: 2D Line label font size in Map view screenshots
• SEG-Y loader: Better handling of no valid traces
• Surveys: Provide feedback when parsing invalid p6/98 data
• Volumes: Nuisance error when completing some exports
• Volumes: Improve resource management during SEG-Y export
• Wells: Improve handling of LAS files with invalid header values

General

• More annotations in 3D view
• Colourbar hotkeys for maps
• Improved histograms with scales, ranges and colourbars
• Enhanced linking options between views
• Many usability improvements and bug fixes

Horizons and Faults

• Asymmetric horizon propagation windows and new event types

Processes

• Cross-correlation: additional features including sliding windows

Crossplots

• Linked crosshairs between views
• Status bar and axis annotations
• Export crossplot data points

Links

• Petrel Link: Improved connection (friendlier with other plugins)

Wells & Well Display

• Correlation: well connections scale with well distance
• Improved display of log and octave values (e.g. resistivity)

General

• Many application-wide performance improvements
• Speedy session loading
• Faster searches and displays
• Many usability improvements and bug fixes
• Improved handling of unstable network environments

Processes

• Volume Derivative: calculate gradient and second derivatives
• Simple Mute: (IGP & GA modules)
• Despike: data cleaning / conditioning (Expl & IGP modules)

Wells & Well Display

• Massively optimised well handling
• High-precision time-depth and well path calculations
• Display any type of gather (offset, angle, frequency, etc.)
• Copy checkshots between wells (via TVD or MD)
• Quick zoom to curve extents
• Correlations: “Selected wells” mode for lightning-fast comparisons

Links

• Petrel Link: Support for Petrel 2017!

2D

• Views: Scale bars (for regularly spaced lines)
• Surveys: Line lengths and additional metrics

Display

• Colourbar hotkeys: F7 and Shift-F7 scroll through colourbars

Horizons and Faults

• Improved names and notes for horizon operation results
• Horizon Operation / Snap: asymmetric windows and new event types
• Greatly improved fault projection while picking

Modelling

• New low-frequency model building tools added to the Lithofluids module

Culture

• Full support for shape file attributes, values and labels

General

• Many improvements to wells
• Major performance improvements
• Many usability improvements
• High resolution screen capture added to all views
• Colour-coded intersections shown for most views

Processes

• Process Creator – Easily find the right process

Control Panel Hotkeys

• CTRL-F : FIND Item
• CTRL-L : LOAD Item
• CTRL-N : NEW Item
• CTRL-P : Switch between Process & Volume

General

• Highlight 2D lines open in other 2D views
• Easily copy Classes, Groups and Crossplots
• High resolution screen capture

Displays & Views

• Linked gather domain navigation (e.g. linked offset-planes)

Processes

• Angle Gathers: transform between angle and offset domains
• Create Gathers: construct gathers from 2D/3D volumes
• Correlation, Semblance, Directional Correlation: Structural analysis tools for fault delineation
• Spectral Shaping: boost, whiten and match amplitudes in the frequency domain

Horizons and Faults

• Calculate pseudo-dip for TWT horizons

Links

• Support for Petrel 2016!
• Petrel Link supports 2D volumes and horizons

Wells & Well Display

• Single Well View for stunning well log displays
• Well Correlation View (with templates and tracks)
• Take ownership of well and all sub-components

General

• Major performance improvements
• Many usability improvements
• Multiple view windows for any section or map
• RGB and CMY blending for multiple volume display
• Enhanced arbline navigation and positioning
• View intersections and updated navigation
• Header graphs in section views
• Improvements to mistie corrections

Image Gather Processing (new module)

Including velocity picking, RMO picking and a full suite of high-powered gather processes:

• Deconvolution
• Dip filter
• F-K transform
• F-X transform
• Frequency Domain Radon
• Polygon mute
• Trace Mix: custom de-spiking and smoothing (IGP module)
• … and more!

Processes

• Curvature attributes for faults and fracture networks
• Header maths: calculations using trace headers
• NaN Removal: in-fill, interpolate or replace invalid values
• Reassign geometry headers: update spatial trace headers
• Trace Shift: adjust trace timing
• Trace Padding: expand trace extents
• Velocity ReDatum: datum corrections for velocity models

Horizons and Faults

• Curvature attributes for horizons
• Fault projection to aid picking
• 3D dip and azimuth attributes
• Improved amplitude extractions

2D

• Convert arblines to 2D
• Export custom sections to SEG-Y

Wells & Well Display

• Bulk import/export (OWX, LAS, ASCII, text)
• Minimum curvature desurveying
• Better handling of horizontal and ascending wells
• Checkshot resampling and time-depth calculations from logs