Paradigm opens Seismic Center of Excellence in Mumbai

HOUSTON -- Paradigm has opened a Seismic Center of Excellence in Mumbai, India. The center, staffed by domain experts, will be dedicated to dealing with the challenges associated with the processing, imaging, interpreting and modeling of multi-line 2D seismic surveys.

The center is part of the comprehensive Geoscience Services business offered by Paradigm for oil and gas exploration and development projects around the world. The Geoscience Services offered include full azimuth seismic imaging and characterization, diffraction imaging, seismic inversion, velocity modeling, structural modeling, facies modeling, fracture modeling, pore pressure prediction, model uncertainty, well log management and other projects that require deeper insights into the subsurface.

Although high density 3D seismic data offers orders of magnitude of subsurface insights for both exploration and field development, 2D seismic data is still routinely used for field and basin reconnaissance where operational complexity makes it impractical or too costly to deploy 3D seismic methods.

The sparseness of multi-line seismic surveys requires special skills, experience, and software to generate a 3D perspective of the subsurface from spatially-limited data. 

"We believe that with a best practice focus on multi-line 2D seismic data, this ‘Center of Excellence’ will help operators with project budgetary constraints make better exploration and development decisions," said Duane Dopkin, executive V.P., Geosciences, Paradigm.