OpendTect

What do you like best?

One of the most helpful features that opendtect provides is the fact that there is a two-way link to petrel which is one of the most used softwares in the industry, this means that the seg-y data can be work in either software and be imported to and from one another. The thalweg tracker is another excellent feature for isolating channels when working with turbidite related or fluvial reservoir seismic data, which tend to be highly heterogeneous. Perhaps the most valuable features about opendtect are the vast amount of seismic attributes it provides you can use convolution, energy, and frequency, spectral decomposition among others, even in their free and academic versions.

What do you dislike?

One of the things I don't really like is the survey process and import data features, they tend to be over convoluted, so just creating the basis for your project can be a really tedious job. I can also say that similarly to petrel, this software is incredibly demanding on your pc, even analyzing well data for correlations can drive your pc to turtle speed, and if you plan to run a depth or time migration you might have lots of trouble with a regular pc.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For anybody who wants to try opendtect the only recommendation I can truly give is that you go for it, even the free version is amaizing. Just try to use a high end pc for you to get the most out of this software, especially if you plan to use it together with petrel.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Opendtect is an incredible software mostly for seismic interpretation, we tend to use for 2D and 3D pre and post stack interpretation, mostly using seismic attributes. It even has allowed us to work on stochastic seismic inversion for determining best scenarios for drilling.