Author: Mike Cline, T/X Resources
I got the idea for today’s posting from a client’s search for a critical well log—he’s been searching for it for a while now, but hadn’t been able to find it, so far. So, I suggested a few more companies to search, and hence this posting. Since logs are so important for what we do as geoscientists, I thought that the list of sources (in no particular order) that I sent to him, might be helpful to others, as well.
IHS has millions of feet of world-wide coverage of digitized logs, and raster images at: http://www.ihslognet.com/
TGS also has world-wide coverage of digital LAS log files, and raster logs at: http://www.tgsnopec.com/data_solutions/geological_products_services.asp
Author: Mike Cline, T/X Resources
Continuing the hardware theme for today, flash-based solid state drives (SSD’s) are making great headway towards eventually displacing the conventional hard disk drive. Contrary to the conventional hard drives now used for program and data storage, SSD’s store data in non-volatile, “always on” memory chips (see the graph of a comparison test below).
Author: Mike Cline, T/X Resources
For those of you who may be interested in computer hardware technology, read on and I’ll explain:
Most of us use computers in our current jobs, right (duhh…, we are SMT users after all)? It’s also well established that the continual advances in computer hardware technology allows us to crunch more geoscience data, and do it easier, faster and cheaper by the day. However, what may be less well known by some, is that video gamers are currently helping to drive much of the hardware advances in their quest for faster computers, and video cards. Being able to display more realistic scenes, and action, in their games may be helping keep many of us employed (for now)!
Author: Mike Cline, T/X Resources
Have you ever had to plan a seismic survey, or determine a well location prior to drilling? If so, did you use a paper map? Wouldn’t it be better to utilize something more accurate, informative, and realistic-looking, such as a shaded Digital Ortho-Quad (DOQ), similar to the image below?
