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Temblor, Inc. is an innovative catastrophe modeling company specializing in seismic hazard and risk assessment. Temblor’s mission is to raise awareness of seismic risk. We serve the insurance, reinsurance, and insurance-linked security communities, as well as mortgage lenders. Our models build on recently published and independently tested scientific analyses to provide an independent, unbiased, and transparent assessment of risk. Our products include dynamic hazard and loss forecasts after large earthquakes, the first globally consistent insurance loss model, stochastic event sets, and the highest-resolution global site amplification model available today. Additionally, we calculate a building-level Temblor Earthquake Score, which incorporates all factors impacting loss into a single number for risk pricing and selection.

Metso Metrics connects crushers and screens through a secured, cloud‑based telematics platform that delivers 24/7 live data access for remote monitoring and enables data‑driven decisions with comprehensive visibility into performance variables. It tracks sustainability metrics such as CO₂ footprint and fuel consumption, delivers advanced real‑time troubleshooting to minimize downtime, and quantifies production output with the Production Tracker add‑on using a proprietary mass‑measurement formula. A built‑in maintenance plan and digital logbook anticipate service activities and optimize parts management, while continuous R&D ensures new features evolve per customer demand. As a retrofit‑ready system, Metrics can modernize legacy equipment with a plug‑and‑play kit, granting accurate performance analytics on any web‑enabled device without additional infrastructure.

Whether you are drilling a vertical or extended-reach well, an equivalent circulating density (ECD) that is too low or too high can cause serious drilling problems or compromise your project’s budget. A successful drilling operation relies heavily on achieving an optimal ECD. Accurate modeling and optimized drilling hydraulics is crucial. It allows engineers to plan ahead, thus improving drilling efficiencies, reducing risk, and decreasing non-productive time (NPT). Pegasus Vertex's HYDPRO is a comprehensive drilling hydraulics model that covers all aspects of hydraulics, including downhole circulating pressures, surge and swab, ECD, bit optimization, hole cleaning, and volumetric displacements. With these features, downhole drilling hydraulic conditions can be fully examined and any potential problems can be identified prior to field execution.

GEOVIA Surpac™ is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software, supporting open pit and underground operations and exploration projects in more than 120 countries. The software delivers efficiency and accuracy through ease-of-use, powerful 3D graphics and workflow automation that can be aligned to company-specific processes and data flows. Surpac addresses all the requirements of geologists, surveyors, and mining engineers in the resource sector and is flexible enough to be suitable for every commodity, orebody and mining method. Its multilingual capabilities allow global companies to support a common solution across their operations.

DEPRO is a comprehensive torque, drag, and hydraulics program. Using this software, users can reduce many of the risks encountered in drilling and completion operations. DEPRO predicts the limits in the length of a horizontal well based on specific friction factors, recommends rig specifications, and evaluates the required weight to set a packer. For hydraulics, DEPRO covers downhole circulating pressures, surge and swab, equivalent circulation densities (ECD), bit optimization, hole cleaning, and volumetric displacements. Using DEPRO, downhole drilling hydraulic conditions can be fully examined and any potential problems can be identified prior to field execution. Torque, drag, and stress calculation. Soft and stiff string models. Drilling, back reaming, rotation off the bottom, tripping in and tripping out operations. Sinusoidal and helical buckling prediction. Field data comparison on workload and surface torque. Friction factor sensitivity analysis. Packer setting analysis.

DUG Insight allows you to focus on geoscience, helping you make your next discovery. DUG Insight is a full-service, interactive software platform for advanced seismic data processing and imaging, interpretation, visualization, and QI—across land, marine, and ocean-bottom surveys. It also includes DUG’s multi-parameter FWI imaging for revolutionary least-squares imaging solutions. DUG Insight takes a fresh approach to geoscience, with powerful features integrated into an easy-to-use interface. With DUG Insight’s processing and imaging module, you can gain access to a number of key technologies designed to turbocharge your seismic workflows. All developed in-house by DUG, these include deblending, noise removal, deghosting, designate, demultiplex, data regularisation, imaging, and post-migration processing. Process your datasets on DUG Insight’s interactive and interpretive platform to meet your land, marine, and OBN processing and imaging needs.

Development of mud-logging software was initiated by an extensive survey on platforms present in the market and extraction of their advantages and disadvantages. Based on the knowledge and expertise of MTC specialists, it was then natively designed. Such original design has the major advantage of customizability and every needed parameter can be added to the software. MAPSA Technology Center’s Mud-Logging Software also has the advantages of considerable computational speed and graphical display through the application of up to date and efficient software development technologies. This lends ML Pro technical superiority to its worldwide counterparts in terms of computational speed and user friendly graphical interface. Drilling parameters are calculated based on data from sensors and illustrated in different ways.

Change how you look at and work with data using streamlined workflows. Generate cross sections rapidly and use tools that integrate your models with engineering designs. Increase the productivity of your 3D subsurface modelling with rapid creation and updating of geological models. As new data is input, your models and outputs (such as cross sections) dynamically update without needing to recreate them, saving both time and money. 3D subsurface modelling offers an unrivalled level of accuracy and efficiency in understanding ground conditions. Better identify and assess risks at every stage of the project lifecycle and spot challenges early on. Seeing subsurface insights in 3D brings clarity to even complex data, giving you a higher level of understanding. Highly visual 3D subsurface models help you better interpret ground conditions.

CoreLog is a log analysis and petrophysical modeling application, based on industry-standard models, used for calculating the petrophysical properties of wells. It calculates several properties, such as porosity, permeability, volume of shale, and others, by zone or well. CoreLog gives users a straightforward and efficient way to import and transform data, view and plot information, calculate petrophysical properties, and export data for use in other applications. It is a robust application with innovative data display capabilities that allow for easy interpretation and manipulation. CoreLog allows users to easily create markers and zones, customize plots, and export or print data. Data is presented in a user-friendly structured format, with tabbed views, tables, and tree views, which help improve user productivity.

Katalyst is a leading provider of geophysical preservation and seismic section scanning services for the oil and gas industry. Our proprietary software, combined with and developed from more than a quarter of a century of experience, enables us to offer our clients a unique and valuable means for restoring aging hard copy paper seismic sections to a digital format. Once digitized and preserved, the data can then be enhanced and used to add value to ongoing and future processing and interpretation activities. Frequently in the exploration industry, historical seismic data is only available in a hard copy format. Often these seismic sections cover exploration areas that lack modern seismic coverage. Conversion of the hardcopy sections to digital SEGY data is a cost-efficient solution to obtaining greater seismic coverage in areas where little other data may exists.

Using the utilities provided in the suite, output files can be made ready for loading to seismic interpretation workstation or further processing. LEAMAP can be used as a standalone system, or can be integrated with LEASSV to provide a full and comprehensive solution for reconstructing seismic data from images of sections and basemaps. The minimum system requirement is a PC running Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10 (x86 or x64). Over 60 raster file formats are supported via Snowbound Software Inc's raster library. Plotting is supported via standard Windows printer drivers. Locprep is an interactive editor for Lynx and UKOOA-type location files, which store seismic shotpoint location information, and can also store general location information. You can use Locprep to perform a variety of tasks with LOC files.

Design your own analysis graphs - Using a drag-and-drop format, choose from a wide range of data types, displacement values, coordinates, vectors, velocities and supplementary information such as site voltage. Vary the date range of reporting periods, data reference values and apply filters such as 24h averaging across your data-set. Design your analysis graphs and then add them to your dashboard for simplified reporting. Heat Mapping - Select any data type to display, adjust your time range and then display the movement in a heat map. Adjust the weighting to heat mapping colors and scale to suit your reporting requirements. Underlay project imagery under your heat maps for quick site reference. Integrate any numbers of prisms or types of sensors to cross reference data from multiple systems.

Mining operations require in-depth intelligence and analysis both during the exploration and operational phases. The evaluation of mineral deposits as part of the exploration process requires the extensive use of bore hole drilling and analysis of samples to determine the type and extent of resources. Within the operational phase of extracting mineral deposits, our technology platform can be utilised to identify changes in underground structures and the emergence of air gaps. This enables mining companies to manage these changes and prevent accidents associated with tunnel collapses. The mDetect technology platform has the ability to be utilised to assist mining companies to identify. Impact of new structures and underground channels and tunnels on existing subterranean structures.

OreSense® Platforms is Plotlogic's collection of algorithms, API's and visualisation tools that interface with your geological models and end users. OreSense® Platforms allows mine planners, supervisors, and geologists to select how data is best integrated within their workflows. Newly obtained information captured by OreSense® systems across the value chain can be used to update relevant parts of the block model or process flow. Alternatively, our APIs allow integration with your existing short-term scheduling tools to provide greater transparency over process variations as they occur. Improved monitoring of mining process through actionable reports generated by Platforms. Data captured and analysed in real time used to inform your decision support system (DSS).

View seismic shot lines in a true survey-based, geographically accurate viewer. Incorporate layers such as NTS and DLS grids, culture, and wells. Add lines, text, areas to the view, and print or plot directly from your PC. Show 3D data as an outline or show all source and receiver shot points. Point and click on a line to open the database record. Scanned documents in electronic image form (e.g: TIF or JPG) on disk or CD-ROM may be linked using third-party software for viewing and printing if desired. Most packages provide editing, faxing or e-mail features and these add increased versatility to the TerraSeisTM application. Powerful, flexible searching tools use your seismic line meta-data or SEG-P1 database to locate lines consistently and uniformly. Find and inter-relate your data in creative ways that exploit the true potential of your data resources. Show key data elements in the locate window to aid in the selection of specific data sets for further processing.

Maptek Vulcan, the world’s premier 3D mining software solution, allows users to validate and transform technical data into dynamic 3D models, accurate mine designs and operating plans. Whether developing day to day or long term mine plans, operations need to know where and when to mine. The Vulcan 3D visualisation environment helps better understand mining projects, with interpretations and results providing decision support for productive and profitable mining operations. Vulcan can manage and visualise very large and complex datasets, process the information and rapidly generate models. Sophisticated algorithms enable virtually instant validation of models, allowing users to build a continuous and up-to-date picture of a deposit.

The Petrel platform is available on-premise and in the DELFI cognitive E&P environment, for geoscientists and engineers to analyze subsurface data from exploration to production, enabling them to create a shared vision of the reservoir. This shared earth approach empowers companies to standardize workflows across E&P and make more informed decisions with a clear understanding of both opportunities and risks. Integration at the data level is the foundation for enabling multi-discipline integration. This integration allows the capture and preservation of knowledge, from exploration to production—from the petroleum systems modeler to the reservoir engineer and beyond, all contributing to a shared vision of the subsurface. Whether you are working on your first deepwater exploration well or delivering a comprehensive drilling program in a shale play, the Petrel platform enhances multidisciplinary workflows.

Canesis Data provides explorationists with cost-effective access to a huge and growing resource of seismic and well data from across the globe. Canesis Data has produced one of the largest selections of non-proprietary legacy data available anywhere. Data is sourced from the public domain and industry sources, conditioned and offered for general sale. Many datasets are scanned and vectorised. Others, where indicated, are original digits data. We have a long track record and bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear on the innumerable challenges involved in the restoration of legacy data, which can sometimes be disfigured, damaged or fragile. Canesis undertakes the processing of released and public-domain data on its own behalf and participates in multi-client situations such as open licensing rounds. The data is available for sale (to appropriately qualified companies in the case of licensing rounds) and it is processed to the same standards as proprietary service work.

​PeN-LAB SCI is a specialized software suite developed by N-LAB Software, designed for the oil and gas industry to facilitate comprehensive data management, log drawing, and reporting for mud logging and drilling control. It enables real-time monitoring and collection of high-resolution drilling, mud, and wellsite geology data, supporting up to 64 analog channels and various acquisition boards through direct driver access. Key functionalities include reservoir simulation, production forecasting, well performance analysis, drilling optimization, and seismic data interpretation. The platform also offers features such as compliance management, equipment and inventory management, job costing, logistics coordination, maintenance scheduling, project oversight, resource allocation, and work order administration.

Danomics is a cloud-native subsurface interpretation platform designed to help geologists and engineers interpret the subsurface better than ever before. It offers advanced mapping and reservoir characterization tools, scalable, cloud-powered log analysis, and powerful, cloud-based decline curve and type curve analysis. Danomics allows users to import well headers, logs, tops, core data, shapefiles, and more in widely popular formats, and generate structure and isopach maps with tools that honor geological principles and rapidly pick tops with assisted tops correlation. Users can rapidly scale interpretations to thousands of wells and customize interpretations using spatial interpolation tools, and generate 3D reservoir property models and visualizations to gain deeper insights into production drivers. It includes features such as mineral inversion-based workflows, automated data conditioning, ML-powered washout repair, lithofacies modeling, shear log modeling, etc.