Supported Functionality
Technology |
OpendTect Suite of Software Products |
Info |
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OpendTect |
OpendTect Pro |
Geoscience Bundle |
Sequence Stratigraphy Bundle |
Attributes & Filters Bundle |
Inversion & Rock Physics Bundle |
Other Plugins |
Data IO |
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SEG-Y, LAS, ASCII |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | SEG-Y manipulator to edit non-standard SEG-Y |
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Use SEG-Y "as is" |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | No data duplication |
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Batch Well and LAS import/export |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | Simple Multi-well and bulk import |
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Access to Petrel* |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Direct link or copy data both ways |
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Access to SeisWorks |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Copy data both ways |
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Export to GIS applications |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | GeotiffExport, free plugin by Wayne Mogg |
Viewers |
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2D Viewers |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Wiggle + variable density |
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3D Viewers |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Multiple scenes in different domains (time, depth, ...) |
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Pre-stack viewers |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | In 3D scene and flat viewers |
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Stereo viewing |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Red-Cyan or Quad Buffer |
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Volume rendering |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Interactive opacity editing |
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RGB(A) blending |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Volumes, horizons, sections |
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Logplots |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Basic log viewer (and Bokeh log plot with Pro License) |
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Cross-plot |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Multi-dimensional cross-plot tool (and Bokeh log crossplot with Pro license) |
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Rose diagrams |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | Faults & Fractures |
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Auto Tracking (2D, 3D, faults, objects, ...) |
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3D Horizon tracker |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Amplitude & Similarity (dip guided using Dip Steering plugin) |
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2D Horizon tracker |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Amplitude & Similarity (dip guided using Dip Steering plugin) |
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3D Horizon Unconformity tracker & Inversion+ tracker |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Inversion-based flattening & combined with similarity tracking (Inversion+) |
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Seismic facies tracker |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Thalweg tracker |
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3D Object tracker |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Voxel Connectivity Filter |
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Attributes & Filters(open source) |
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Interactive multi-volume attribute analysis |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | On-the-fly parameter testing |
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"Standard" attributes and filters |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Energy, Similarity, Instantaneous Attributes, Sweetness, … + plugins by Wayne Mogg |
Texture attributes |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | GLCM based texture attributes for geo-morphologies |
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Spectral Decomposition |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Short window FFT, CWT, EMD, EEMD and CEEMD |
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Mathematics & Logics |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Functions, operations, "IF... THEN... ELSE..." etc. |
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Attributes from attributes |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Create your own attributes by chaining attributes |
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4D Volume alignment |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Match delta and Delta resample attributes |
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Pattern recognition |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Fingerprint attribute |
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AVO and AVA attributes |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Intercept, Gradient and derivatives + AVOAtrrib plugin by Wayne Mogg |
Ridge filters |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Ridge enhancement filter |
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Post-stack "broadband" |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Frequency Shaping + PostDeGhost |
Wavelet shaping |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Colop, free plugin by Peter Zahuczki |
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General Computing |
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Distributed computing & parallelization |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | For batch processing and fast on-the-fly computation |
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Utilities |
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Sharing 3D PDF images |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Grabs a 3D scene and saves it in pdf format |
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Creating PowerPoint presentations |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Python PowerPoint Presentation Maker |
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Python R&D environment |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Machine Learning |
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2D seismic Mistie correction |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Mistie, free plugin by Wayne Mogg |
Wells and Modeling |
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Stratigraphic model |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Optional model ties stratigraphy to markers + horizons |
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Wells, markers, logs |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | IO and basic editing |
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Synthetic-to-seismic well tie |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Supports stretch & squeeze |
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Wavelet estimation |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Stochastic & deterministic; Synthetic wavelets |
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Pre-stack synthetics |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Zoeppritz solution through "flat-earth": P, S, and multiples |
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Cross-sections, wedge models, volume synthetics |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | SynthRock plugin; Gassmann fluid replacement |
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Stochastic pseudo-well modeling |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | SynthRock plugin |
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Well Log Correlation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | Well Correlation Panel to QC and edit markers |
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Rock Physics Library |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Compute new logs using "standard" or private equations |
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Machine Learning log-log prediction |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Ensemble, SVM, CNN, … |
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General Interpretation |
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Velocity Model Buliding |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3D model builder and velocity conversion tools |
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Time Depth Conversion |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Two-way on-the-fly conversion |
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Stratigraphic flattening |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Flattens a 3D scene on a given horizon |
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Manual interpretation |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Points, bodies, polygons, fault sticks, fault planes, ... |
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Mapping, gridding, contouring |
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Gridding, contouring |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Inverse distance, curvature, triangulation + free plugins by Wayne Mogg |
Dip-steered gridding |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Inverse distance interpolation along seismic dip |
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Basemap + mapping |
✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Improves OpendTect's user interaction |
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Seismic Sequence Stratigraphic functionality |
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2D/3D Global Interpretation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | 2D and 3D HorizonCube |
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2D/3D Wheeler transformation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | Flattening of seismic using HorizonCube events |
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2D/3D systems tracts interpretation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | SSIS plugin |
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3D Body Extraction |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | Extract 3D bodies from horizon geometries and attributes |
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Depositional Attributes |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | HorizonCube density and thickness attributes |
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Multi-horizon visualization & manipulation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | 2D and 3D HorizonCube sliders |
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Attributes & Filters (commercial) |
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Structurally Oriented Filters |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Dip-Steered Median Filter, Fault Enhancement Filter, ... |
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Resolution enhancement filters |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Spectral Blueing |
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Fault Attributes |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | Thinned Fault Likelihood, Dip-Steered Similarity, … |
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Fracture Attributes |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | Curvature attributes, fracture density, fracture proximity + FracTex |
Stratigraphic Attributes |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Dip-steered attributes: texture, volume statistics, ... |
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Hydrocarbon Anomaly Enhancement |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | Fluid Contact Finder, Seismic Feature Enhancement* |
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Footprint removal |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | MGS-Destriping |
Machine Learning regression |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Image-to-image via CNN, Unet, … |
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Machine Learning object detection |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Chimneys, Faults, Salt, Facies, … via MLP, CNN, … |
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Machine Learning segmentation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 3D seismic facies via UVQ |
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Machine Learning waveform segmentation |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Horizon-based seismic facies maps via UVQ |
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Quantitative Interpretation functionality |
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Coloured Inversion - AI, EI, EEI |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Seismic Coloured Inversion |
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Net Pay Prediction |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Seismic Net Pay |
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Seismic consistent Low Frequency Model Building |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | HorizonCube guided low frequency model |
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Deterministic Inversion AI, EI, EEI |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | Deterministic Inversion + Bayesian Linear Inversion (also for EI and EEI) |
Stochastic Inversion AI, EI, EEI |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Multi-Point Stochastic Inversion |
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HitCube inversion |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | SynthRock matching stochastic synthetics + real seismic |
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Machine Learning Inversion |
✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Rock property prediction via MLP, CNN, Ensemble, ... |
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Bayesian Inversion |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Predicts rock properties from Probability Density Functions + Bayesian Linear Inversion |
Potential Field Modelling |
✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | Xfield |