GeoGraphix

smartSECTION™ Technology
Overview
The industry’s leading log correlation system
smartSECTION® technology, acquired in 2005, is a high-performance cross-section package that combines the industry’s
best log correlation capabilities with advanced tools for sequence stratigraphy and structural analysis.
The flexible, high-performance cross-sectional environment supports extremely high-volume geologic interpretation and
boosts interpreter productivity 10 to 20 times over conventional cross-section tools.
smartSECTION technology’s advanced interpretation capabilities, linked (via database integration) with Discovery™
technology’s mapping system produces the industry’s leading geologic interpretation system.
In contrast to many cross-section software tools that place emphasis on presentation, the emphasis in the smartSECTION
application is all about interpretation. If well log correlation workflow is critical to the success of your project, then
smartSECTION technology should be part of your geological tool kit.

Benefits
Fast, intuitive interpretation Support 3-D seismic exploitation
Operators looking for an effective log correlation Independents and majors working in areas with normally
technology: smartSECTION technology: allows geologists faulted geology (e.g., Gulf of Mexico Basin):
to build cross-sections and correlate well logs fast and with smartSECTION software possesses unique fault picking,
high confidence. Geologists, who learned how to correlate fault gapping and automated offsetting tools that facilitate
using paper logs, will appreciate the smartSECTION the geologist’s role of fault picking and sand picking in
application’s highly intuitive suite of correlation tools that support of 3-D seismic exploitation.
simulate paper-based correlations.
Cost-effective evaluations
Reduced log-data processing and
Operators looking for an efficient tool to evaluate new
interpretation bottlenecks
opportunities when the only logs available are paper logs:
Independents and majors with large operating areas seeking a Rather than incur the cost in time and money to have the
solution to the log-data processing, and log interpretation logs digitized, smartSECTION technology’s super-efficient
workflow bottleneck: smartSECTION technology is a proven handling of depth-calibrated raster log data (scanned from
workhorse for routinely accessing and interpreting dozens to paper) provides a low-cost means of correlating logs and
thousands of well logs over very short periods of time. extracting reservoir and porosity data in a very short period
of time.
Easily and accurately identify unconformities
Companies prospecting in regions where subtle
unconformable relationships control hydrocarbon
accumulations: smartSECTION software’s unique
correlation and unconformity tool-sets support powerful
sequence stratigraphic workflows critical in uncovering
these relationships.

smartSECTION software supports high-volume sequence

stratigraphic workflows.

HALLIBURTON
Features
Link to Discovery technology’s raster image
database from smartSECTION software
Raster well logs imported into Discovery software can be
accessed directly from the smartSECTION application
during the cross-section building process. This capability
expands the number of well log formats accessible for
interpretation.
Easy transfer of tops, faults and intervals to
Discovery software for mapping
Interpretations made and saved within the smartSECTION
application can be transferred to the Discovery suite
database with a single button push.
Fault gapping for structural analysis
workflows
Interpreters can pick and interactively gap (or split) faults to
restore sections missing due to faulting. Geologists can pick
“missing tops” within the gaps and use these missing tops, in
gap mode, to build restored stratigraphic cross-sections.
These gapping tools are an essential aid in log correlation in
highly faulted areas. The vertical separation values derived
from gapping are used to build “gapped” or restored cross-
sections and can be leveraged to constrain correlations offset
across the faults in a robust manner.
Unconformity gapping to support sequence
stratigraphic workflows
Interpreters can pick unconformities and gap the section to
restore sections missing due to erosion or non-deposition.
Missing tops picked within the gap-mode sections
(pseudo-Wheeler diagrams) support building stratigraphic
smartSECTION software’s narrow-log displays and generic marker tools simulate paper-based log correlation
cross-sections for pre- and post-unconformity intervals and
facilitate the drawing of stratal terminations such as
erosional truncation, toplap, onlap and downlap.
Termination positions on the cross-section can be
projected to map view for unconformity subcrop mapping.
Powerful and intuitive interpretation tools
• Simple and intuitive well and log selection during cross-
section construction
• High-performance log scrolling, dragging and re-display
with 50- to 100-well cross-sections
• Simple and intuitive tops, fault and interval pickings
using smartSECTION technology’s “generic” picking tools
• Narrow-log displays that allow geologists to “slip” and
correlate single-log tracks, simulating paper-based
methods
• Well search/filtering tools
• Map-based well and log selection
• Flexible and fast log
dragging/slipping/clipping/splicing/scaling
• TVD well-log displays
• Full-featured cross-section construction including color
fills and annotations
• Net sand/porosity/pay interval picking
• Fault-picking gapping and automated correlation offsets
(based upon vertical separation data)
• Unconformity gapping, missing top picking and
automated sequence stratigraphy tools
Complete data integration Requirements: Hardware /
• Import, scan, store, depth-calibrate (via depth-calibration Software / Operating System
module) and display any well log image or LAS file
• Import and automatically post-production-test data smartSECTION
directly onto well-log depth track Hardware
• Import well header, land grid (including the MINIMUM
GeoGraphix Discovery .cdf format), production tests Pentium® 500 MHz processor
and directional survey 256 MB RAM
• Comma-delimited exports of interpretive data 500 MB disk space after install

• GeoGraphix import and export via WellBase ASCII v. 2 1,024 x 768 graphics resolution
CD-ROM drive
19-inch monitor
RECOMMENDED
Pentium® IV 2.0 GHz processor or greater
1 GB RAM or greater
1 GB disk space or greater
1,600 x 1,200 or higher graphics resolution
CD-ROM drive
21-inch monitor

Software
Oracle® 8i Enterprise 8.1.7

Operating System(s)
Windows® 2000 Professional - Service Pack 4
Windows XP Professional - Service Pack 2

Fault gapping for structural analysis workflows Related Products

Discovery™ Suite
Discovery™ on OpenWorks® Technology
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