Research and development

Geocore is an R&D driven company. We develope many of the modules we use in consultancy ourselves. In addition to our inhouse development, we have capacity to cooperate with others on R&D projects. Main focus is on post-processed seismic, but other G/G topics are also of interest. Our main platform for development is Matlab, but we also use native c for parallel high efficiency code.

Geophysical projects

• Seismic modelling
  • Current seismic modelling tools range from 1D profile to 3D pseudo-Kirchoff full field
  • We have focused on building a proper 2D model builder
• Inversion software
  • We have a strong belief in data driven methods both post and prestack. Our prototypes are thus not dependent on background models.
• Timeshift estimation
• Currently, the best way to do timeshift estimation is by Taylor expansions, which also allows for multivintage simultaneous estimation. We have long experience in this way of estimating timeshifts.
• 3D merge and match
• Many merges lack control on seismic phase and frequency content. We have been working on automatically estimating seismic phase and thus be able to align and zero phase subvolumes to a consistent volume.
• Multi vintage methods
• Many vintages of 4D surveys often generate an overwhelming number of datasets. True multivintage methods should reduce the number of datasets to a consistent timeseries.

Multidisciplinary projects

• Seismic modelling of reservoir models
  • 3D sim2seis - Pseudo-Kirchhoff modelling
• Quick Stochastic Volumetrics
  • Volumetrics tend to be too simple or too complex. We have been working to define statistical distributions that naturally captures the explorationists knowledge about the prospect. Besides that a natural goal is simplicity.
• Integrated G&G modelling methods
  • There are many attemts on integrating G&G. Seismic consistent geomodels is a first step, handling the uncertainty in both geology and geophysics.