Kingdom™ Training by IHS Markit: Geological and Seismic Interpretation Software Training

• How to select a grid algorithm appropriate to the objective and input data
• Intelligent parameter selection for grid workflows
• Gridding for stratigraphic purposes
• Gridding for structural purposes
• Advanced investigations using grid–to–grid operations
• The use of the Grid Tool Editor in the interpretation process
• Selecting appropriate color bars
• Building a new color bar

• Overview of AVO terminology, brief history and principles
• Seismic gather importing
• Offset/angle gather stacking
• Gather manipulation, conditioning and display
• Gather interpretation
• AVO attribute computation
• Crossplot of AVO attributes

• How to create and manage a project including establishing project boundaries, choosing an X/Y projection, and the use of authors
• Importing and editing various culture files, including Landmark metafiles, AutoCAD DXF and Shape files, and using web-mapping services to display geospatial content
• Importing well data from Energy and columnar ASCII formats, as well as importing deviation surveys, time-depth charts, digital log data and formation tops
• Importing, calibrating and displaying raster logs
• Loading production data and columnar ASCII formats, as well as viewing and plotting production data
• Storing and linking miscellaneous documents and images using PAKnotes

• View and Edit 2D SEG Y data files
• Attach multiple 2D SEG Y data to multiple projects
• Convert multiple 2D SEG Y data from One Coordinate System to another
• Make copies and manage the 2D SEG Y data
• View 3D SEGY data in order to verify parameters needed for their import into a Kingdom Project

VelPAK offers the ability to apply different depth conversion functions to layer-cake models, as well as to depth convert in more complex geological regimes. The course topics include the following:

• Navigating VelPAK windows
• Bringing selected data into VelPAK model for depth conversion
• Defining layers for depth conversion, using a sophisticated algorithm to create a chronostratigraphic master list from existing tops
• Applying different depth conversion functions to layer-cake model, including
• Using different velocity functions per layer
• Using well information (velocity/sonic logs and/or time-depth information), as well as stacking velocities to define velocity model
• Rectifying converted depth grids to well information
• Creating continuous sealed surfaces (grids) bounding velocity layers
• Creation and use of VelPAK workflows
• Applying profile depth conversion for more complex geological regimes
• Using VelPAK optimization module for recommendations on velocity function parameters
• Various gridding procedures to create continuous sealed surfaces bounding the velocity
• Selecting and saving resulting grids (depth converted surfaces, interval/average velocity, iso-pachs, isochrones, etc.) to the kingdom project database
• Transferring VelPAK-created velocity model to kingdom project

• Interpreting, assigning, displaying and editing faults
• Interpreting and displaying horizons
• Displaying well and log data, including tops and fault cuts
• Displaying seismic lines and/or time slices and attributes
• Animating seismic volumes and creating movies for display in PowerPoint presentations
• Modifying color and light
• Volume rendering and opacity

• Well data and production data management, including decline curves
• Editing, correlating and performing calculations on well log data, including cross plots
• Facies logs from cross plots
• Quick look petrophysics
• Gridding data
• Bubble maps and displays
• Kingdom spreadsheets to display and edit well data
• Zone concepts

• Create cases with planned, drilling and reference wells along vertical sections or along the wellbore
• Load deviation survey and log data for drilling wells
• Calibrate a drilling well to selected reference wells and between reference wells
• Correlate drilling well log with reference well log, resulting in accurate prediction of formation bedding orientation
• Incorporate seismic data in time via Dynamic Depth Conversion, and therefore time horizons seen in virtual depth, with easy model updates as interpretations are done
• Predict a structural model via Dynamic Map Update that aids in understanding landing depths
• Easily update the drilling well as new data arrives

• Using the Kingdom Data Browser to select wells and log data from a Kingdom project database
• Loading seismic data
• Exporting data from GeoSyn
• Navigating the GeoSyn Synthetic Display and selecting display parameters
• How to perform basic Log Editing functions
• How to generate and apply seismic wavelets to synthetic models

• Create and edit a simple Wedge Model
  • Display a tuning curve and other charts
• Simultaneously generate a geologic and synthetic seismic model based on data from the following:
  • Single well
  • Duplicates of a well
  • Multiple wells
• Model the effects changes in porosity, lithology, fluid content and formation thickness has on the generated models and the influence of faulting
• Create and display single and multiple log cross-plot windows for a well(s) to better detect and color-code areas of interest
• Review the GeoSyn 2D modeling workflow to help provide information to support, aid and predict where to drill future wells

• Creating projects and managing authors
• Understanding cartographic projections
• Understanding the quality control tools for seismic and well data
• Creating cross sections

• Loading culture (in SMT, DXF, and Landmark formats), including TIFF images and shape files
• Loading wells from different sources using Landmark OWX, Tobin, GDS, and generic formats
• Bulk loading deviation surveys, well logs (LAS format), and formation tops (Excel spreadsheet)
• Loading local and shared T-D charts using well subsets
• Loading plus merging/extending 2d/3d seismic surveys

• Locate and inventory all your Kingdom projects
• Examine project contents and identify redundant and incomplete projects
• Query multiple projects for specific criteria
• Examine the location and accessibility of your projects’ seismic files
• Reduce storage needs by sharing seismic between projects more efficiently
• Perform project conversions between databases
• Copy and convert projects in one easy step
• Move data from one Kingdom project directly into another Kingdom project without having to export and import

“In Petra” comments will be included throughout the course to help users understand Kingdom terminology as they work through the following topics:

• Open a Kingdom project, set project options, set user preferences and learn about the Kingdom workspace and the concept of authorship
• Import well data and deviation surveys and then query well data to create well subsets
• Learn the basics of working in the Base Map, including modifying the Base Map settings, displaying data and working with culture groups
• Work with formation top, zone, log, and raster log data, including using Well Explorer to view, edit, and import these data types
• Work with cross sections, including create geological sections, pick formation tops, and create and edit fault cuts
• Import digital log curves and raster logs, calibrate raster logs, and edit and add formation picks on rasters logs
• Learn about Kingdom’s basic mapping techniques, including creating both a structure contour and faulted structure map, compute contours, and use the Dynamic Map Update Module
• Work with monthly production data, view monthly and cumulative production data, and edit existing production data

• Displaying & navigating seismic data
• Seismic interpretation
• Horizon and fault interpretation
• Fault polygons
• Gridding
• Contouring

• Installation, licensing, installing ServicePAKs, monitoring license usage
• Tips to optimize network and workstation performance
• Database considerations
• Cartographic projection issues
• The Kingdom project architecture
• Optimizing data loading and storage
• Managing seismic
• Kingdom 64-bit and SQL Server Express

Volumetric Analysis
Estimates oil and gas reserves of wells/fields at an early stage in the life of a field or wildcat exploration oil and gas reserves before extensive historical well and field performance data is available. The volumetrics module computes net volume, pore volume, and in-place hydrocarbon volume as well as volumes per zone, per reservoir, and per layer.

Decline Curve Analysis (DCA)
Calculates a decline curve from existing monthly production data and estimates future production and ultimate recovery for wells/fields with a significant production history.

Economic Evaluation
Creates evaluation models for various hydrocarbon profiles generated with production forecasts using DCA. This reservoir modeling module generates real and discounted cash flows, net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), and return on investment (ROI). Once Reserves (EarthPAK Advanced) is launched, Volumes, Forecasts, and Economic Cases/Scenarios can be created, edited and managed.

• Intermediate experience
• Petroleum geophysics and/or geology techniques
• Basic knowledge of unconventional resource plays, micro-seismic theory, data acquisition and data processing, as well as about the practice of hydraulic fracturing
• Kingdom interpretation techniques. Intermediate to expert level in EarthPAK techniques; intermediate to expert level in 2D/3DPAK techniques and basic level or above in VuPAK techniques