Estimages is known for its fast and reliable velocity modelling solutions based on geostatistics. From our offices in France, Norway and Australia, we launch projects all over the world. It is time meet the people behind these projects. First up is Marion Lagarrigue, managing director of the Norwegian office. She joined us in 2014 in […]
Africa is a new playground for Estimages
After building 3D HR regional velocity models almost everywhere in the world (2,500,000 km²), the regional project we conducted this year with Murphy Oil Corporation in the Tano Basin, Ivory Coast, was our first in Africa. The challenge remained the same: integrating data of various types (seismic velocities, horizons, well velocities) and ages through 3D […]
New Regional Velocity Model in Denmark
When one of the supermajors expressed interest in having an optimal tool for depth conversion in Danish waters, they turned to us. Although they provided some of the data used to build the RVM, most of it came from the GEUS database. Thanks to GEUS’s efforts to make subsurface data easily available in recent years, […]
Onshore Canning: a new Regional Velocity Model in Australia
A new onshore velocity model has been developed for the onshore Canning Basin of Western Australia through a collaboration between Estimages and Buru Energy. The project was enabled by co-funding under the Western Australian State Government’s Energy Analysis Program (EAP) initiative to encourage exploration of petroleum and geothermal resources in the state of Western Australia, […]
ESTIMAGES conquers new markets
After creating our first onshore regional velocity models in 2023 (Australia), we continue our geographical expansion. We are now applying our expertise in new regions of the world. Malaysia, India, and West Africa are becoming new playgrounds for generating accurate 3D velocity models. No limits.
ESTIMAGES’ Australian RVM library is growing
In 2023, for the first time, ESTIMAGES worked on 3D onshore regional velocity models (onshore Perth, onshore Canning). The challenge was high, especially due to the various qualities of the input data. The reconciliation of seismic velocities, well time-depth functions, and interpretations was not easy. But 3D non-stationary geostatistics coupled with geological and geophysical expertise […]
Abstract accepted at Petroleum Geostatistics 2019
We’re happy to announce that a second paper on “Stochastic Partial Differential Equations” got accepted at the 4th EAGE Conference on Petroleum Geostatistics in Florence, Italy. We’d like to thank the Estimages’ authors Mike Pereira and Cédric Magneron. But also, Nicolas Desassis (Mines ParisTech) and Nathan Palmer (Central Petroleum) for their help with this article. […]
Legacy data set geostatistical filtering results
Our challenge on a legacy data set: Legacy data are important to include but can be tricky…Was it the worst data set we had to denoise? Possibly! Applying Estimages Geostatistical filtering (SPDE) on a legacy 2D Line from 1966 was certainly a challenge. However, it gave impressive results that we’re happy to present today! A […]
High Resolution Regional Velocity Models
Breakthrough: high resolution regional velocity models available in Australia A high resolution Regional Velocity Model is being built on North West Shelf Basin! We recently improved in-house velocity model building algorithms and that is a major modification. We can now handle a higher amount of data during the merge and calibration steps. @Natalia is currently […]