Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SCM TIPSTRICKS Automated Ant Tracking Aug 2012
SCM TIPSTRICKS Automated Ant Tracking Aug 2012
Automated Data Conditioning ‐> Ant Tracking Workflow
The Ant Tracking workflow is a popular and very useful tool for identifying and interpreting faults. However it is
often underused because of the amount of reiterative data conditioning required to produce a useable and
accurate Ant Tracking volume. This TIPS&TRICKS shows you how to automate the data conditioning and ant
tracking processed in one workflow, allowing for rapid reiterations on extraction parameters.
One typical workflow
An example of a typical workflow for creating an ant tracking volume is below:
A process like this can be very cumbersome to reiterate, as the number of steps required to get from the beginning
to the end are not always efficient.
1
1. First, we need to create the workflow. This simple workflow will allow us to run our attribute processes
either in sequence or individually by turning the ones we wish to run on and leaving the others off. Click on
the Workflows tab, right click on the pane, and select Insert workflow
2. Double‐click on the new workflow to open the workflow dialog. Rename the workflow something
meaningful.
2
3. Click Apply to save the name. The next step is to create the workflow below – Please note comment lines:
3
Notes about the workflow
1. The incremental Volume Attribute processes need to be set individually before running the workflow.
Double‐click on each to set the parameters. The attributes they should generate are defined in the
comment areas above each process.
2. The input for the Chaos calculation should be the conditioned structural smoothed volume, NOT the
Variance volume. In this workflow, the input for both Variance and Chaos is Variable D.
3. If you are in the parameters testing phase, you may wish to add a Delete command before the volume
calculation command to avoid filling your seismic survey with incremental volumes.
4. The workflow above is designed to let you view the results of all the incremental volume attribute
calculations. You may turn this feature off to speed up the workflow. If you choose to use this feature,
make sure a 3D window is open.
5. Input volumes are listed below, as they appear in the workflow:
Volume Attributes #1 – Variable AA
Volume Attributes #2 – Variable A
Petrel is a mark of Schlumberger
4
Volume Attributes #3 – Variable B
Volume Attributes #4 – Variable C
Volume Attributes #5 – Variable D
Volume Attributes #6 – Variable D
Volume Attributes #7 – Variable G
Variables E and F in the above workflow relate to the Variance and Chaos variables, which are inputs for
Variable G, the Variance plus Chaos volume.