What’s New in KINGDOM Version 8.

The KINGDOM version 8.3 includes new products (1D Forward Modeling; Security), many
significant enhancements across the product suite, and scalability improvements throughout
KINGDOM.

New Feature Highlights

• 1D Forward Modeling
• New Pre-stack Data Conditioning Capabilities
• Neural Network-based Missing and Synthetic Well Log Generation
• Scalability Improvements

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 1D Forward Modeling

Features
• Improved User Interface—Based on SynPAK
• Addition of key Log types—Read or created
- Shear Velocity
- Vp / Vs Ratio
- Poissons Ratio
• Modeling of intervals of Vp, Vs, and Density logs
- Ability to cut, paste and modify thickness
- Ability to model log values directly
- Ability to define mineral and fluid composition
- Fluid replacement modeling
• Synthetic Pre-Stack Gather generation
- User definition of ground acquisition parameters
- Display of pre-stack gathers and stack of gathers
- With NMO (With and with out stretch) and without NMO

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Definition of Gather Parameters
• User defined cable Geometry
• Multiple gather display types
- Offset gather with no NMO correction
- NMO corrected gather with no NMO stretch
- NMO corrected gather with NMO stretch
• Reflection angle calculations
- Limit reflection angle to critical angle
- Limit reflection angle to user defined value

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Shear Wave Log Estimation
• Shear Wave Velocity Log estimation
- Constant Vp \Vs ratio
- Castagna’s Mud Rock Trend
- Define local mud or lithology trend—Crossplot of Vp - Vs

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Gassmann Substitution: Lithology & Fluid Workshops
• VP, VS, PR, Density calculated based on Gassmann calculation
• Bulk Modulus for matrix minerals and pore fluids
• Mineral composition based on Quartz—Calcium—Clay %
• Fluid composition based on Water—Oil—Gas %
• In-Situ Fluids Workshop for more detailed calculation

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Modeled Gathers: With or Without NMO Applied

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 AVOPAK Data Conditioning

New Pre-stack Data Conditioning Capabilities

Process Workflow
• Puts all conditioning options in one dialog box
• Allows selection of multiple processes
• Workflow can be ordered
• Workflow can be saved and loaded
• Applied dynamically in gallery for parameter testing
- Individual processes can be selected / deselected
- Visualize results in gallery data, AVO plot and crossplots
- Immediate feedback of effects on AVO attributes
- Compare different processes in separate galleries
• Run and output results as separate process

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New Capabilities
• Workflow oriented interface (save and restore workflows)
• Either volume based or run dynamically as part of a gallery
- Part of AVOPAK license—no new costs
- Test options in gallery and verify effects on cross plot of attributes dynamically
• Data Reorganization
- Multi-level Sort, Re-binning, Create Angle gathers from offset distance
• • Write gathers and stacks to disk
- Stack as Full, Subset (near, mid, far) stacks or as angle stacks
• Noise Reduction
- Super Gathers: Slice based and Dip Corrected/Edge Preserved
- Spectral balance (RSI SBALAN)
- Event flattening—trim statics (RSI ALIGN)
• Basic Processing
- Mute enhancements: Angle, Distance, Horizon
- Flatten by horizon, RMS velocity or user table
- Spectral analysis
- Trace balance

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Benefits of Data Conditioning

Original data from processor Original data + Re-binned data + Re-binned data +
Low Pass Filter + Super Gather + EPS Super Gather +
Re-binned Align Gather Align Gather

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 LogPAK

Petrophysical Tools
Neural Network-based Missing and Synthetic Well Log Generation
• Simple, intuitive user interface
• Automatically selects appropriate training wells from the working set
• Automatically selects appropriate training curves and intervals in the training wells
• Fast, as compared with other neural network algorithms
• Patent Pending

Merged Curve is blue, individual predictions in other colors

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Synthetic Log Generation Results

Merged curve is blue, individual predictions in other colors

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 Advanced Parameters Enhancements

• Graphically adjust baselines for Rho Shale, PhiN Shale, Dt Shale, RDeep Shale and
RShallow Shale.

• Use Resistivity/
Salinity Aid to
convert salinity to
resistivity and
correct resistivity for
temperature.

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 Scalability

Scalability Improvements
SMT understands how important scalability is to our clients. With each release there is continued
focus on addressing scalability issues.
KINGDOM 8.3 contains significant performance improvements in the following areas:
• Calculator operations
• Well and production data loading and updating
• Seismic display speeds
• Contour display performance
• Base map display speeds
SMT is the industry leader in providing 64-bit Windows™ applications. Optimal performance in
KINGDOM is achieved through the use of 64-bit systems running our 64-bit applications.
Maximizing the amount of RAM on these systems will have a significant positive impact on
overall KINGDOM performance.

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• Basemap Displays—User defined Level of Detail options tied to scale and zoom increase
map visibility and improve performance. Additional optimizations improve display
performance significantly for operations such as:
- Posting well and production information
- Scrolling
- Deviated borehole displays
- Bubble Maps

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• Calculator Operations
- All equations in the Extended Math and Math on Two Maps calculators are significantly
faster. Tests indicate that calculations now execute 30–50 times faster than previous
versions.
- In addition, repairs have been made to the parser. Any equation is now accepted,
resolving any equation element ordering issues.
• Database Performance
- Tests on importing and updating large numbers of wells and production data in 8.3 show
improvements of 10–20 times faster over previous versions in most cases.
• Contouring Display Performance
- Has been improved for the following operations:
• Contour display
• Contour editing display/re-display
• Zoom in/out on contour maps
• Scrolling on contour maps
• Seismic Caching
- Seismic pre-fetching—Seismic data for inlines, crosslines and arblines are preloaded
based on the line skip increment for the vertical seismic window. While the user is
interpreting in the current seismic view seismic data is being preloaded in the background
for the next and previous views based on the line skip increment. This results in a rapid
response when moving to the next view regardless of project size.
- Seismic Caching—As seismic data is accessed by KINGDOM, the seismic data is
cached on the local workstation. The seismic data will be cached locally either in RAM or
on the local hard disk. The location of the cached data depends on RAM availability when
KINGDOM is opened. This is particularly beneficial in a network environment.
- The benefits of the caching options leverage the capabilities of 64 bit hardware and
operating systems. If you are running KINGDOM on a 32 bit workstation, it is
recommended that these options be disabled.
• Vertical Seismic Displays—Utilization of multi-core CPUs, optimization of I/O routines to
leverage high performance file servers, and the immediate display of only the required traces
provide significant improvements to display speeds. Crossline display speed improvements
of 300-500% are not uncommon.

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 Project Management

Security
KINGDOM 8.3 introduces a new Security module. The Security module allows you to control
access to projects and specific project data.
Project access is controlled by setting permissions for Windows™ users.
• You can allow a user unrestricted or partial access to a project, or deny access altogether.
• Users with partial access to a project will be restricted to the data assigned to specific
author(s) work trees.

SQL Server Express Management

The SQL Server Express Management tool has been enhanced to allow the user to easily create
portable KINGDOM projects.
You can:
• Copy the entire project to an external drive OR
• Just move the database to an external drive that contains the rest of the project files
Then
• Connect the external drive to any workstation with SQL Server Express
• Attach the project database
• Execute the project from the external drive

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 OpenKINGDOM

Large Project Handling

Navigation buttons for scrolling through very large lists
• When there are thousands of records, navigation buttons permit quicker loading and easier
paging through the records.
• Set Records per page—this loads only the data need for viewing on this page
- Scroll by page or scroll bar
- Shows current page
- “Go to” specific page or directly to the beginning or end
• This enhancement helps navigation performance for large Oracle and SQL Server based
inventories.

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Data Quality Rules
• Quickly scan the inventory for data which is obviously incorrect.
• The QC task is automated. Set data items to specific values to “watch for”, or let the program
do it for you using “AutoCheck”
• By automating the QC, the user has a better chance of finding data which needs to be
corrected.
• For selected data items, users can set ‘rules’ for the data, which if matched, highlights the
data item in the inventory list.

Here we see the UWIs which have length less that 12 highlighted in yellow

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Setting Data Quality Rules
• Simply select the data item, set the rule or choose AutoCheck to use defaults
• Then set the highlight color to indicate when data meets the criteria
• Now let OpenKINGDOM do the QC

Here we see “AutoCheck” used for UWI

A rule which will highlight any Elevation less than 1
A rule which will highlight any End Depth > 50000
No rules for Surface Location X or Y
And rules to highlight Latitude and Longitude outside 55 and -100 deg, respectively

OpenKINGDOM – OpenSpirit Option

• The KINGDOM Data Accessor now supports the import and export of 3D Bricks and Time
Slices
- Improves interoperability with OpenSpirit tools and OpenSpirit enabled projects
- Use OpenSpirit’s 3dViewer to combine views of seismic, 3D Bricks and Time slices from
SMT with other vendors data
- No need to transfer entire seismic volumes
- Reduces duplication of seismic volumes and storage requirements

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 Interpretation

Annotations in Vertical Displays

• Add text, symbols, lines, or polygons to Vertical Seismic Displays or Cross Sections.
• Annotations are saved with each vertical display – multiple layers are supported
• Transparency, rotation, and drag capability for all annotation objects
• Accessible in any EarthPAK and 2d/3dPAK vertical display

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Transparency in Base Map
• Available for Bubble Maps and Attribute Maps.

8.2 8.3

Import Lithology Pattern as a Bitmap

• In MS Paint or similar graphics system, draw or copy and paste a lithology pattern. Save this
as a Bitmap (.bmp).
• Import the new Lithology pattern under Tools > Lithology Patterns > Import.
• Display the new Lithology pattern on the Cross-section or any other vertical display.

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Posting Cumulative Production with Filters
• Cumulative Production is calculated and posted using monthly production data with the
following filters:
- Field
- Formation
- Depth Range

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Additional Geologic Features
• Import Raster Logs in GeoGraphix format
• Import Compressed (LZW) Tiff Images
- Raster Logs
- GeoTiff and Tiff
• New Well Queries Available
- AND and OR for multiple selections; Cumulative Production with Volume Filters;
Production Tests; Repeat Formation Tops; Formation Top Quality

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Performance Improvements
Significant performance has been improved for:
• Production posting and cumulative calculations
• Production data is directly fetched from the database—not bulk loaded for display or
calculation
• Raster log display in Cross Sections
- Now uses a decompressed format

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Hunt on Slices
Polygon Hunt on Seismic Slices
• Interpret and erase horizons on Time and Depth slices using a modified Polygon Hunt
methodology.
• Select a seed trace location on a Slice. The program will then display the selected trace and
neighboring traces.
• The program will snap the pick to the nearest desired event: Peak/Trough/Zero Crossing.
• Users can adjust the pick location if needed before proceeding with the hunt.
• When the hunt completes the newly interpreted horizons are displayed in a new Map View.

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Ease of Use
New Picking Parameters Dialog Box
• This usability enhancement enables users to set picking parameters for all picking modes in
2d/3dPAK and VuPAK.
• The dialog box content adjusts to reflect only the settings that pertain to selected specific
mode.
• Reduces confusion, the goal is to be clear and concise.

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Horizon Export with Pick Type
2 new SMT Horizon file formats support Manual and Auto Pick Information—Information
has been added to distinguish manual picks from auto picks when exporting and importing
horizon data.
The 2 new formats are:
• Line Trace Time Amplitude PickType
• Line Trace Depth Amplitude PickType

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 Mapping
• Flex Grid Correct to Wells—Uses Back Interpolation to automatically do a residual
correction of the grid to the data, generating an extremely accurate surface model.
• Gridding User Interface—All algorithms will use the UI form introduced in 8.2 with Flex Grid,
including animations to show the chosen parameter effects prior to execution.
• Grid Editor Smoothing—A new smoothing option allows the user to smooth an existing grid
and control the amount of smoothing interactively using the cursor.
• Standalone Grid Smoothing—Perform single or multiple pass smoothing over an entire grid
using the new smoothing technology. This provides a common and consistent grid surface
smoothing approach.
• Contour Smoothing—Improved contour smoothing maintains the consistency between the
grid and the generated smoothed contour lines. Smoothed contour lines will be more
accurate in all cases. Contour Line Approximation provides consistency with pre-8.3
smoothing.

New interface for

ease of use

Residual fit to data

provides more accurate
surfaces

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 Statistics provide information Input statistics are
on input data - hides when easier to read and
you don’t need it understand

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 Grid parameters
are now
integrated into the
grid selection
panel

More options on
extrapolation
limits. Includes
the ability to save
the hull as a
polygon

Allows the
user to
smooth New smoothing
any portion provides for
of a more accurate
surface contours

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 VuPAK
Performance Improvements:
• Faster surface hunt for horizon tracking
• Improved performance of horizon and grid display
• Overall improvement in performance and memory management
• Optimized 3D seismic data range persistency checks
• Ability to snap VSD and scroll through horizon seed line
• Enhanced interpretation recording and replaced AVI player with Windows Media Player
• Displays Active Horizon intersection on seismic

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 VelPAK

Workflows
• Extended power in the workflow system
- Looping in workflows
- Interactive Branching
- Interactive Parameter Prompting
- Extra scratch windows
• New standard workflows
- Fault shadow depth correction

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Scanit tool
• Processes ASCII files and text files of virtually any format
• Designed to unwrap and extract keyed data to columnar format
• Ideal for stacking velocity files, unusually formatted well data, horizon data, etc.
• Handles very large files

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Usability Enhancements
• Easier to read dialog boxes—more visual feedback
• Support for KINGDOM color bars
• Automatic contour level determination
• Import of KINGDOM survey geometry for volume generation
• Workflow auto-save
• Improved memory handling
- Ability to handle 50,000+ wells
- Faster optimization processing (~25%)
- Smaller model file sizes
• Better data integration
- Direct import of velocities from .KSD files

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