Basics in IESX

3D Interpretation Workshop 2007

JOGMEC Technology Research Center

Basics in IESX

A tutorial for IESX novices

Presented by JGI
Index
„ Getting Started „ Let's Interpret!
„ Login „ Fault Interpretation
„ Launch IESX „ Horizon Interpretation
„ Save session „ Fault boundary interpretation
„ Interactive mapping
„ Display setup „ Automatic picking tool
„ Restart
„ Overview
„ Select seismic class
„ Color map
„ Post wells
„ Select seismic line
„ Set scales
„ Change view setting
„ Gain
Getting Started
„ We are going to begin using IESX applications to
examine a 3D seismic volume and to identify seismic
anomalies within the volume, such as high amplitude
variations and structural features that may be
potential traps for hydrocarbon accumulation.

„ Before you can start interpreting in IESX, you need

to know the fundamentals of GeoFrame and IESX.

„ This chapter takes you through the basics of project

setup and project management in GeoFrame and in
IESX.
Getting Started
„ What are the GeoFrame and the IESX?
„ Login a GeoFrame project
„ Launch IESX
„ Save session
GeoFrame
„ is a integrated reservoir characterization
system designed by Schlumberger

„ consists of
„ Bore hole geological tools

„ Geological tools

„ Geophysical tools

„ Modeling tools

„ Petrophysical tools

„ Visualization tools
Application Manager
Geophysical tools
„ IESX
„ Geophysical module that allows interpretation of
horizons and faults on seismic data.
„ GeoViz
„ Variance cube

„ SeisClass

„ Synthetics

and so on…
IESX
„ Seismic canvas "Seis3DV"
„ Post seismic sections and wells
„ Horizon/Fault interpretation

„ Basemap canvas "Basemap"

„ Maps creation
„ Seismic line selection for Seis3DV
„ Fault boundary interpretation
Login
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„ Your user account user□

„ The password user□

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 Launch Project Manager
Project Manager

Double Click Geoframe Icon

 Select a project
1.Login folder
2.Select ”I_fileld_jgi□”

3.Password
4.Connect

5.Application Manager
Select SEISMIC from Application Manager
to open Seismic Catalog
Application Manager Seismic Catalog

SEISMIC
 Seismic Catalog

1. Single click 2.Select "New Run"

IESX Icon

3.OK
 Display Basemap on the secondary
screen
1. Pull down "Application" The asterisk (＊ ) denotes
2. Select "Interpretation" that you can select display
3. Choose "Basemap*“ with for the application.
Ctrl key
1
4. Select Screen 1
Ctrl +

Screen 0
IESX Session manager Screen 1
Open a map set

Select the map

indicated by the
instructor
Basemap
 Display Seis3DV on the Primary screen

1. Pull down "Application"

2. Select "Interpretation"
3. Choose “Seis3DV*"

Screen 0
Screen 1
IESX Session manager
Seis3DV
Save session
„ Save your session
„ All settings are saved
„ You can restore the session next time.

„ Never exit from Seis3DV &

Basemap.
 Exit from IESX session manager
„ File > Save as and enter your Session name
„ File > Exit
„ A dialog box will ask if you confirm to save.
„ "Yes"
Save as

enter your session name

trc

IESX Session manager

 Closing windows
„ Close these windows in this order.

1. Exit

2. cancel 4. close

3. Exit
 Restart
„ Restart your session from the Seismic
catalog

1.Click "IESX 2. Double click your

Icon" session
Display setup
Display setup
„ Overview
„ Select seismic class
„ Post wells on Seis3DV
„ Select seismic line
„ Set scales
„ Change view setting
„ Control Color map
„ Control Gain
Display setup
„ This chapter will introduce you
Basemap and Seis3DV and show how
you can use these tools effectively.

„ By the chapter’s end, you will be able

to scan through your seismic data.
 Seis3DV overview
„ Screen layout Menu bar

Icon bar

Display Cursor location

setting

Active horizon or fault Color bar

Icons in the Seis3DV
„ Icon selector will pop-up by clicking
Ctrl MB1 on Icon bar.
1
Ctrl +
Icon selector for SeisDV

Icon selector
 Basemap overview
„ Screen layout
Menu bar

Icon bar

Display
Map / Location
setting Color bar

Information box Survey / horizon / Fault

Icons in the
1 Basemap
„ Icon selector will pop-up by clicking
“user> icons” in menu bar.
Icon selector for Basemap

Icons
Icon bar
„ You can change the column of Icons
1. Open Icon selector
2. Check a box you wish to replace.
3. Select an Icon from Possible icon definitions.

1.Check

2.Select
 Select seismic class Choose the
line type
„ opens

Surveys will
be listed here

Select the class of

seismic
"dmo_mig"
Post wells
„ Before displaying the borehole sets on either
the Basemap or the Seis3DV, both a Borehole
Set and then an Appearance Set need to be
defined.
 Post Boreholes
1. Select
Borehole set
“trc"
2. Select Borehole
appearance
"trc_train1026"
3. Click on this
arrow to combine
these files

4. OK
Appearance of seismic section
„ Display style
„ Color map
„ Gain
Display style
„ VA/VI icons

„ VA：Variable Area mode

„ VI： Variable Intensity mode
Color map
„ Change the Color Map for the
Variable Intensity Mode
„ Click MB1 on the color bar

1
MB1
Color map
• Change and adjust the Color Map for the
Variable Intensity Mode
„ MB1, MB2
„ Change color scheme
„ Sift MB1, MB2
„ Scroll color
„ Ctrl MB1
Accesses user-specified color.
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„
Shift
„ Ctrl MB2 +
„ Flip color spectra 180 degrees Ctrl
Gain
„ Click on

„ Seismic display specifications

window will pop-up.
Seismic display specifications
„ Change Gain
Control parameters

Find your favorite

parameters
Gain parameters example

Type: RMS
Source: Trace
Amplitude: 150
Exercise:

Find your favorite setting

„ Color map
„ MB1, MB2 to change color scheme
„ Sift MB1, MB2 to scroll color
„ Ctrl MB1 to access user-specified color.
„ Ctrl MB2 to flip color spectra 180 degrees

„ Choose optimum Gain

„ by changing Gain control parameters in
Select seismic line
„ There are several way to select lines.
„ from Seismic display
„ from Basemap
„ by Roll
„ from Intersection
„ by Fold-out
from Seismic display
„ Press or "Display > Select line" in
menu bar
from Basemap
Click a line

You can flip

between Inline
and Cross line in
MB3 menu 3
by Roll
„ In Seis3DV Icon bar
„ Roll forward
„ Roll backward
„ Roll radial

„ Roll definition
„ "User>Display>Roll"
Intersect
„ In Seis3DV
„ intersects vertically
„ intersects horizontally
„ MB1 at the position you want to cross
over
Fold-out
„ Fold vertical
„ fold begin left
„ fold begin right
„ fold end left*
„ fold end right*
*They are not in the default Icon bar.
„ Fold horizontal
„
 Exercises:

Brows your seismic data

„ Select line
„

„ Change Roll definitions (e.g. increments) by

"User>Display>Roll"
„

„ from Basemap
„ You can flip between Inline and Crossline from MB3 menu.

„ Fold-out display
„
Exercises:

Create your own Icon bar

„ Do you remember how to change the
column of Icons?

Ctrl+ 1.Check
2.Select
Set scales
„ Click on or select
"Define > Scale"
Recommended scales
„ Set Parameters
Change view setting
„ View options
„ Layout change
„ Fill intersect section
„ Control seismic section
View options
„ Zoom zooms one level
„ Unzoom unzooms one level
„ Revert flips between zoomed and
unzoomed section
„ Copy copies from one view to another
Layout Change
„ You can display multiple lines
simultaneously by using these Icons
„ Layout subdivides the seismic window
„ Copy copies from one view to another view
 Select Layout

1. Click this to
define view layout 2. Select one of the layouts
 Copy the view setting
2. Click Copy From and
Copy To by MB1, and toggle
1. Click this to open on all view attributes.
View copy window.

3. click on Copy.
Roll locked views synchronously
„ Click on the padlock icon in the row of icons
at the bottom left corner of each view.
When a view is locked,
the padlock will be closed.

„ Click on the Roll forward icon to roll

seismic in all views forward
Fill intersect section
„ fills an intersecting section or time
slice on to another window
Fill intersect section
„ fills an intersecting section or time
slice on to another window

„ displays both intersecting section and

time slice on to the other two windows
„ This operation valid only in 3 windows layout
Exercises:
Browse your seismic data
„ Zoom, Unzoom, and Revert
„
You have to
set these new
„ In 2 windows layout icons in your
Icon bar.
„

„ Select lines in each windows

„ Fill intersecting section or time slice by
Exercises:
Browse your seismic data
„ Zoom, Unzoom, and Revert
„
You have to
set these new
„ In 2 windows layout icons in your
Icon bar.
„

„ Select lines in each windows

„ Fill intersecting section or time slice by

„ In 3 windows layout
„ Fill intersecting section and time slice by
Let's interpret!
„ Once you are familiar with your
seismic data and have identified some
potential areas of interest, you can
begin your interpretation workflow;
1. Interpret faults
2. Interpret horizons and fault contacts
3. Interpret fault boundaries
 Interpretation workflow
Seis3DV Basemap
▼▲
Contact Fault
▼▲
boundary
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Fault
Horizon ▼
▲
„ We will start by interpreting faults to develop the
overall structural framework for the seismic volume.

„ Through this fault interpretation, you will be

introduced to the fault interpretation techniques and
tools available in Seis3DV, Basemap

„ By the chapter’s end, you will be able to identify the

fault patterns, amplitude anomalies and stratigraphic
features within a seismic volume.
Fault Interpretation
„ Define a new fault
„ Post Fault on Seis3DV
 Define a new fault
„ To launch Fault management
„ Press or select “Define > Fault” in menu bar.
„ Define a new fault "F_training"
1. Define
"F_training"

2. Set Display
4. Active 3. Add Attribute
parameters
Fault Assign
„ You might rename a
Series of faults.
„ Mode>Fault Assign
„ Select the fault you wish
to assign
„ MB1 on each fault
segment on Seis3DV
Horizon Interpretation
„ Define a new horizon
„ Define auto horizon actions
„ Interpretation mode
„ Picking a horizon
„ Erase mode
„ Revising a horizon
„ Post the Interpretation on Basemap
„ Change horizon parameters
„ Post horizons on Seis3DV
„ Assign fault contact
 Define a new horizon
„ Launch Horizon management
„ Press in Icon bar or select
“Define > Horizon” in menu bar.
„ Define a new horizon "h_training"

2. Set Snap & Display

Attribute parameters

1. Define h_training"

4. Active
3. Add
Change horizon parameters
„ Double click MB1 on a Horizon to start data
manager

Double click here!

Exercise:

Pick horizons freely

„ Pick "h_training"

„ Define New horizons and pick another event.

„ Press or select “Define > Horizon” in menu bar.

„ Are you satisfied with the auto snap?

„ Double click the horizon and check the setting.

„ Post the attributes on Basemap

„ Press to begin with.
„ Post Attribute “Time" or "AMPL_dmo_mig"
Define auto horizon actions
„ "User > Preferences"
„ Change Auto horizon actions
OP1: Snap
OP2: Extract
OP3: None
 Interpretation mode
„ Confirm if you are in interpretation mode.
„ If not, MB3 when pointing on section, then select
"Interpret"
„ or select "Mode > Interpret" in menu bar
2. If you are 3
in another mode,
select "Interpret"
in MB3 menu.
1. Check
current mode
 Picking a horizon
„ In the Interpretation mode
„ Press MB1 to add point
„ Press MB2 to undo
„ Press MB3, select Break

1 1=> 3 => break 123

1 End
Start 1
Erase mode (1)
„ Horizon erase mode is used to delete a part
of horizon interpretation.
„ "Erase" from MB3 menu.
„ Select a range by using this cursor
„ MB1 for picking, MB3 and select "break"
Erase mode (2)
„ Another way to erase a horizon
interpretation.
„ "Mode > Horizon erase" from menu bar
„ Select picking mode, Point or Polygon
„ Select "horizon erase" from MB3 menu
„ Select a part/whole horizon by MB1
„ In case of Point: Point out a segment
„ In case of Polygon: Surround by polygon
„ Horizon appearance turns BOLD READ
„ "horizon erase" again from MB3 menu
Revising a horizon
„ A horizon can not accept multi value
„ Horizon will be replaced automatically when
New horizon is interpreted on the same trace .

Replaced by New
interpretation
Old

New
 Display style
„ You can temporally erase posting
interpretations, wells and annotations
Annotations of the seismic
(e.g. the CDP and timing line) Well

Interpretation
 Post Interpretation on Basemap
„ Press or "Post > 2. Select
Interpret" in Basemap "h_training"
menu bar

1. Select
Horizon

3. Attribute “Time"
Post Faults on Seis3DV
„ Press or select "Post
> Interpretation"

„ Select Faults from a

menu in Interpretation
posting window

„ Set fault Labels

Fault menu part in the Interpretation posting window

Post horizons on Seis3DV
„ Select your horizons to
post
„ Press or select "Post >
Interpretation"
„ Set horizon Labels
Assign fault contact
„ At the point a horizon meets a fault, the
horizon interpretation should be finished by
Contact in MB3 menu

Contact
 Assign fault contact
Seis3DV Basemap
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Contact_up
3 ▼▲
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Contact_down ▼
▲
Fault Boundary Enter/Edit
„ Select "Edit > Fault Boundaries >
Enter/Edit"
 Fault Boundary Enter/Edit
„ Select Horizon and Fault

1.Select
Horizon

2.Select
Fault
 Draw a Fault Boundary
„ Confirm the cursor appearance change
from to
 Draw a Fault Boundary
„ How to draw
„ Press MB1 to add point
„ Press MB2 to undo
„ Press MB3 to show pop-up menu then select
“Break”

1 1=> 3 => break 123

1 1
End
Start Fault Contact
 Draw a Fault Boundary
MB3 pop-up menu
Undo – Deletes the previously point. Same as clicking MB2
Break – Terminates the entry of the current fault boundary
Undo Delete Close – Closes the fault boundary polygon and terminates
the entry of the current fault boundary
Break Clear
Split– splits
Close Cancel
Delete – Not active for enter mode, but used to delete
Split Control selected fault boundary when in delete mode.
Clear – Removes all points entered for current fault
boundary
Cancel
Control – Displays the Fault trace mode menu as shown
above
Draw a Fault Boundary
 Interactive mapping
„ Select "Post > Interpretation > Horizons"
1. Select
Horizon

2. Select attribute ‘Time"

 Gridding
„ Select "Gridding > Project Gridding"

Select “Seismic horizon”

Select “Fault boundaries”

 Gridding

Define Grid pacing

course => smooth

fine =>strict
Gridding
Define Contour
Spacing (contour
line interval)
 Save Grid Map and Contour

„ Select "Gridding > Save as…"

„ Put in Grid Name and/or Contour Set Name
Post Grid Map and Contour
„ Select "Post > Interpretation
> Contours or Grids"

2.Select Contour
set name
1.Select Horizon >
Contour_set
A contour map
Automatic picking tool
„ Some interpreters interpret only every second
or third line and can use an automatic picking
technique to fill in the gaps between those
lines;

„ In this chapter, you will learn how to use the

automatic pickers ASAP on your interpreted
horizons to create and delete interpretation.
ASAP - Automated Seismic Area Picker

„ can generate interpretation on several

horizons per session based on
amplitude or cross correlation.
ASAP picking window
„ In Basemap, choose Tools > ASAP to open
the ASAP picking window
ASAP
Seismic Definition window

„ Click Seismic in the

ASAP Picking window
ASAP
Interpretation Definition window

„ click Interpretation in
the ASAP Picking
window
ASAP
Tracking Parameters window

„ Click Tracking in the

ASAP Picking window
miscellaneous materials
Horizon edit
„ Snap
„ Smooth
„ Erase
Snap
„ For an unsnapped horizon, you can snap it
later.
„ Change to Snap mode by selecting "Mode >
Horizon snap"
„ Select picking mode, Point or Polygon*
„ Select "horizon snap" from MB3 menu
„ Select horizon by MB1
„ Select "horizon snap" again from MB3 menu to
execute
Smooth
„ For an un-smoothed horizon, you can smooth
it later.
„ Change to Smooth mode by selecting "Mode >
Horizon smooth"
„ Select picking mode, Point or Polygon*
„ Select "horizon smooth" from MB3 menu
„ Select horizon by MB1
„ Select "horizon smooth" again from MB3 menu to
execute
*Selection mode
„ Point
„ Point out a horizon you want to be erased

„ Polygon
„ Digitize a polygon by MB1 pick and “brake” in
MB3 pop-up menu to select horizon parts to erase.

„ Select “horizon erase“ in MB3 pop-up to

confirm the erasing

„ You can switch them by "control" in MB3

menu
15 minutes exercise
„ Snap
„ Digitize an unsnapped Horizon
„ Change to snap mode
„ Snap the horizon

„ Smooth
„ Erase mode
„ Basic usages are the same as Snap
 Online Help
„ How to launch Online Help
„ Select “Help > On Application” on the top of the right corner in
Seis3DV or Basemap window.
„ There are 2 ways for looking up a word.

Click on the Topic

(Blue) on any Help
page.

Press “index”
How to reach a keyword
„ from Topics
„ Click on the Topic (Blue) on any Help page
„ from Index
„ Press “index” on the bottom of the right on any
Help page.
 Fault Assign
„ Select “Mode > Fault
assign”.
„ Select fault to assign in the
list.
„ Select faults on the seismic
section, then press MB3 to
select “Fault assign”.
Tools: Flattening
„ Select “Tools>Flattening”.
„ Input Horizon name that you
want to flatten in the
window, or click Horizon on
the seismic section by MB1.
„ Input flatten time, or click
MB1 at the arbitrary time on
the seismic section.
Tools: Image block
„ DEFINE the polygon and PLACE the
image.
Tools: Image block
„ “Tools > Image block”
„ DEFINE the polygon(MB3 to close).
„ PLACE the image
click on the image, move the mouse to
where you want to place the image.
Then click again.
Colormap management
„ Select Black-White-Yellow-Red color by
pressing MB1 when pointing on color bar.
„ Press Ctrl MB1 when pointing on color bar.
„ Click Highest amplitude(Red)
„ Change Blue percentile from 0 to 50%
„ Click Lowest amplitude(Black)
„ Change Blue percentile from 0 to 50%
„ Save as BWYR_TRC
 Colormap management
Original BWYR color map Edited BWYR color map
Edited BWYR color
„ emphasize strong amplitude
Mouse button operations
„ MB1
„ Select menu, add interpretation, change color on color bar
„ MB2
„ Delete last point
„ MB3
„ Accesses pop-up menu
„ Ctrl MB1
„ Accesses control menu for menu items with an asterisk(*)
„ Shift MB1

„ Ctrl MB2
„ Shift MB2
Borehole appearance control window