Seismic Tiles, a Data Format to Enable Analytics on Seismic by Digitalization of G&G Logic

Seismic Tiles is a data structure for representing seismic reflectors in tabular form. A tile is a small surface, (reflector segment) that aligns with a seismic reflector. In a similar fashion as how the roads of Google Map are represented by connected road segments, connected tiles will represent seismic reflector surfaces. The value of Seismic Tiles is similar to the value of the Google Map data structure, in that logic now can be applied to seismic reflectors in a straight-forward way. We can now automate interpretation tasks such tasks as prospect identification, 4D anomaly hunting, faults and horizon interpretation) by explicit (and thus explainable) logic. In contrast to the machine learning (ML) way where the machine learns by example, Seismic Tiles allows interpretation logic in “digitalized” form to be applied directly. In contrast to ML approaches, this process does not require any training data, and is fully transparent in its workings. We believe this can be a game changer in the automation of seismic analysis, as Google Maps style technology has been in road navigation.