OilVoice - Ikon Science Announces the Release of RokDoc® Version 5.4

Ikon Science Announces the Release of RokDoc® Version 5.4

Monday, June 29, 2009

Ikon Science announces the release of RokDoc 5.4, its flagship Quantitative interpretation software system. Headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide, Ikon Science has been at the forefront of rock physics driven software development and quantitative interpretation services for the upstream oil and gas business since 2001.

RokDoc is the quantitative interpretation tool of choice for professionals within the Super Majors, National Oil Companies and Independent Exploration and Production companies alike. Renowned for its integration, adaptability and ease of use, RokDoc enables interpreters, geologists, geophysicists and petrophysicists to utilise rock physics models in order to integrate geology, well and seismic data.

The latest release, supported on Windows and Linux 32 and 64 bit platforms, brings professional geoscientists:-
• Expanded Interactive Petrel* plug-in
• New Bayesian seismic classification to lithology module
• New 3D Interactive Stochastic Inversion and Spectral Inversion module
• New Plugins - run your own algorithm code within RokDoc
• New Depth Trend Analysis functionality
• New Bed Thickness functionality
• Enhancements to RokDoc-PressureView and RokDoc Pressure Suite
• Significant upgrade in performance and Supported on Windows and Linux 32 & 64 Bit platforms
• Performance has been significantly increased with the ability to use prestack and pre-stacked data with greater ease.

The release covers the entire RokDoc product range including RokDoc 1D and 2D, RokDoc-ChronoSeis™, RokDoc-PressureView plus the popular link to Schlumberger’s Petrel* software suite, which now allows interactive synthetics and well ties to be shared between the two systems. RokDoc 5.4 reinforces Ikon Science's position as the leading provider of Quantitative Interpretation solutions to the industry at a time when understanding the science and risk behind E&P projects has fundamental commercial importance.

To familiarise existing users with the new and exciting functionality now available, we are running 1 day RokDoc v5.4 training courses over the summer, plus the first RokDoc User Group Meeting to be held in London on the 16th September.

Ikon Science’s Chief Executive Officer, Martyn Millwood Hargrave, said:
"This release of the RokDoc system enables professionals in geology, geophysics, and petrophysics to collaborate in sophisticated risk and uncertainty based workflows for Pressure analysis, QI and 3D and 4D Reservoir studies. Our worldwide RokDoc community will see real progress towards their needs for more effective and sophisticated analysis of clastic, carbonate and non conventional reservoirs and this shows Ikon’s commitment to an aggressive program of user based enhancements and performance requests to ensure RokDoc continue to add significant value to our clients work."

* Mark of Schlumberger