• The two first training courses (SKUA & gOcad) are organized by  Paradigm Company

  Attendees can expect detailed lectures and demos from the instructor, and many comprehensive exercises.

I. SKUA 2009 Quick Start (1 day):

II. lntroduction to GOCAD for Building Geologic Models (2 days):

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course covers three GOCAD® topics to give you a comprehensive introduction to Paradigm GOCAD®. Please note that this course is not a comprehensive course covering the entire functionality of Paradigm GOCAD®.

In this class, you will obtain a complete overview of the basic functionalities of Paradigm GOCAD®. You will progress through a series of comprehensive exercises designed to provide you with an opportunity to use the Paradigm GOCAD® tools to perform data import, display editing, analytic analysis, and data cleaning. Then you will learn how to create a subsurface model from horizon and fault interpretations using the Structural Framework Builder workflow, and how to create a stratigraphic grid from both an existing structural model in Paradigm GOCAD® and geologic knowledge of the field area.

Prerequisites:

None

CONTENT

GOCAD Fundamentals (Day #1 - Thursday June 9th)

• Introduction to Paradigm^TM GOCAD®

• Importing Data and Saving Project

Seismic Cube

Cultural Data

Horizon Interpretations

Fault Interpretations

Well Path, Markers and Logs

• Visualizing Objects in the 3D Viewer

• Preparing Data for Modeling

Static and Dynamic Regions

Property Scripts and Facies Calculator

Geologic Features

Stratigraphic Column

Property Settings

• Analyzing Property Statistics

Histograms

Cross-Plots

• Checking Quality of Data in 3D and 2D

Maps

Cross-sections

Please note that GOCAD® Fundamentals introductory course is the foundation for all other Paradigm^TM GOCAD® training and is essential if you want to attend any other modular training.

Introduction to Structural Framework Builder using Paradigm^TM GOCAD® (Day #2 - Friday  June 10th  )

• Manage fault and horizon data

• Define volume of interest

• Model faults and horizon surfaces

Create surfaces from interpretation data

Edit contacts

Fit to well markers

• Quality control the model

Visualize model slices in 3D viewer

Check quality on arbitrary cross sections

Introduction to 3D Reservoir Grid Building using Paradigm^TM GOCAD® (Day #2 - Friday  June 10th )

• Defining geologic information for modeling

• Define the reservoir grid extension (envelop)

• Create intermediate horizons from miscellaneous data (for example, well markers, interpretation data, and thickness maps) and geologic information

• Manage gridding resolution (for example, horizontal and vertical layering and tartan gridding)

• Manage complex fault geometry, like synthetic and antithetic faults, using the stair-step method

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III. Introduction to Gocad Research Plugins (2 half-days):

This course is organized by the members of the gOcad research team and often by the authors of the plugins themselves.
It consists in a customized ("à la carte") course where attendees can choose the plugin(s) they want to learn. Directed by a good tutorial, they will be helped individually by the instructors.

Attendees can choose one or two half-days course.

Four tutorial exercises are proposed based on eight research plugins (available from http://plugins.gocad.org; plugins will be installed on the training computers):

• Implicit structural modeling
• GeolToolbx
• Contains various tools for building models, such as georeferencing of maps and cross-sections, building surfaces from lines and dip angle, etc.
• Isosurf
• Tool for cutting a TSolid by an implicit surface.
• StructuralLab
• Building 3D geological surfaces from field data using implicit surface and real time editing.
• SolidExplorer2
• Extracts isosurfaces on TSolids.
  Performs visualisation, texture mapping and interactive editing of isosurfaces on tetrahedral meshes.
• Stereonet
• Geostatistical tool to analyse orientation data and extract families of faults.
• Implicit Restoration
• RestorationSuite
• This plugin provides a set of tools to perform 3D restoration of SolidModel objects (topological solid), for both explicit and implicit approaches, using either finite element method or dynamic relaxation. Moreover, SolidExplorer2 is packed with RestorationLab plug-in for vizualisation purposes. 
• ImplicitViewer
• A plugin dedicated to the visualization of implicit horizons, i.e. horizons which are embedded on a property rather than on a mesh. ImplicitViewer makes use of fragment shaders to have a pixel-based resolution.
• Uncertainty vizualization
  
• UncertaintyViewer
• Uncertainty visualization engine dedicated to geological grids.
  Several modes are available for Cartesian and stratigraphic grids, including 2D transfer functions, dispersion bars, anamorphosis, transparency, saturation, isolines, texture, blur, animation, etc. These visualization methods can be combined together for improved perception of uncertainty, or for corendering of more than two variables. A volume rendering engine dedicated to tetrahedral grids is also available.
• Modeling of Discrete fracture networks
• Fractcar
• The FractCar Plug-in is dedicated to the modeling and visualisation of 3D fracture patterns. Fractures representation is made through a Discrete Fracture Network (DFN). Knowing the strain field on the whole model, this plug-in enables to characterize fracture parameters and to simulate DFNs.

Last Update: May 4th, 2011    Pierre.Jacquemin(at)gocad.org