A data processing and integration environment for the 21st Century

John Weigant, vice president geotechnical applications, and Paul Hahn, software project manager, Geotrace, explain how their company went about designing a new seismic data processing system to accommodate today’s E&P environment. There has been much discussion in the last few years about the aging of our industry. In particular, the aging workforce has been a topic of some concern. An additional topic of concern is our ageing processing software infrastructure. While there have been many new and exciting technology developments within the last 10 years that have inevitably led to the writing of new applications, seismic data processing systems have remained largely unchanged. By these, we mean the monolithic applications that perform large scale, time domain, batch seismic data processing.