Mark Sun

Mark Sun
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EarthWorks is the brainchild of Mark Sun, president and owner of Genetek Earth Research, based in Vancouver (with offices in Calgary and Houston)."We've sold systems to individual consultants up to the size of companies such as Shell," says the 39-year old geophysicist."Once people see the product, they love it."

Sun, a geophysics graduate of UBC, began to develop the system from scratch after being hired by Suncor as a seismic interpreter, in 1981."I found the interpretation tools lacking," he recalls."I had programming skills, so I began to develop a geophysicist's interpretation package in my spare time."

When Suncor stopped development on the system in 1988, Sun quit his job, sold his house to buy a workstation, and began to develop the EarthWorks system."I wanted to build an application that had all the major components in a single system, connected extremely tightly," says Sun."I wanted it live-linked, so the programs would talk to each other.I wanted it in real-time, so changes

In 1992, the EarthWorks Exploration System was born.The CPU is a Compaq Alpha 64-bit; currently running at over 600 MHz."It's the only system we write our application to," says Sun."It's the fastest processor in the world."
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"You can import data from all major suppliers via the Internet," says Sun.

Real-time filter, phase and spectral enhancement features allow you to calibrate different-vintage seismic lines and tie in synthetic log responses at the workstation level.

Horizon-picking is automated for quick interpretation, and structure, isochron and other maps can be computed, contoured and 3D visualized on the fly, as horizons are picked."In most systems, you have to pick horizons, store the data then import it into a mapping program," says Sun.
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"You can see amplitude changes even better with Event Imaging (TM), our 3D visualization of 2D and 3D seismic data," says Sun."The spatial characteristics of the anomaly may point toward a deltaic fan or sinuous channel."

Spectral Analysis can be done in real-time to cover more ground."Just pick a window in the seismic section, then display the frequency spectrum," says Sun."You can then fine-tune your seismic data for enhanced band-limited interpretation.Grabbing and dragging the window works like a magnifying glass, enhancing all seismic data beneath the window."

EarthWorks also features a sophisticated synthetic seismogram modeling tool."You can add porosity by reducing the velocity in an interval," says Sun.
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"Geoscientists can rotate the 2D and 3D volume of seismic data, easily identifying seismic events, their structural, amplitude and character distributions," says Sun.Amplitude and time ranges can be made opaque on the fly in order to zero in on anomalies of interest.

One of the newest features to EarthWorks is instantaneous time-depth conversion of event images."You can take time values and convert them to depth in real time," explains Sun.
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"You can bring up well formation tops and well curves and adjust and plot them on a 3D map," says Sun.

EarthWorks is the brainchild of Mark Sun, president and owner of Genetek Earth Research, based in Vancouver (with offices in Calgary and Houston)."We have sold systems to individual consultants, and right up to companies the size of Shell," says the 39-year old geophysicist."Once people see the product, they love it."

Sun, a graduate of UBC, began to develop the system from scratch after being hired by Suncor as a seismic interpreter, in 1981."I found the interpretation tools lacking," he recalls."I had programming skills, so I began to develop a geophysicist's interpretive package in my spare time."

When Suncor stopped development on the system in 1988, Sun quit his job, sold his house to buy a workstation, and began to develop the EarthWorks system."I wanted to build an application that had all the major components in a single system, connected extremely tightly," says Sun."I wanted it live-linked, so the programs would talk to each other.I wanted it in real-time, so changes happened in all applications right away, as you worked."

In 1992, the EarthWorks Exploration System was born.The CPU processor is a Compaq Alpha 64-bit, currently running at over 600 MHz."It's the only system we write our application to," says Sun."It's the fastest processor in the world."
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"You can import data from all major suppliers via the Internet," says Sun.

Real-time filter, phase and spectral enhancement features allow you to calibrate different-vintage seismic lines and tie in synthetic log responses at the workstation level.

Horizon-picking is automated for quick interpretation, and structure, isochron and other maps can be computed, contoured and 3D-visualized on the fly as horizons are picked."In most systems, you have to pick horizons, store the data then import it into a mapping program," says Sun.
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"You can see amplitude changes even better with Event Imaging (tm), which is our 3D visualization of 2D and 3D seismic data," says Sun."The spatial characteristics of the anomaly may point toward a deltaic fan or sinuous channel."

Spectral Analysis can be done in real-time to cover more ground."Just pick a window in the seismic section, then display the frequency spectrum," says Sun."You can then fine-tune your seismic data for enhanced band-limited interpretation."

EarthWorks also features a sophisticated synthetic seismogram modeling tool."You can add porosity by reducing the velocity in an interval," says Sun.
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"Geoscientists can rotate the 3D volume of seismic data, easily identifying seismic events, their structural, amplitude and character distributions," says Sun.

One of the newest features to EarthWorks is instantaneous time-to- depth conversion."You can take time values and convert them to depth in real-time," explains Sun.
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"You can bring up well formation tops and the sonic log and plot them on a 3D map," says Sun.
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1 EarthWorks Exploration System Genetek, Mark Sun, president T(604) 649-6516 F (604) 921-6851 #2210, 144 4 Ave SW Client - Ed Gilmet at Poco, 260-8312

EarthWorks is the brainchild of Mark Sun, president and owner of Genetek Earth Research, based in Vancouver (with offices in Calgary and Houston)."We have sold systems to individual consultants, and right up to companies the size of Shell," says the 39-year old geophysicist."Once people see the product, they love it."

Sun, a graduate of UBC, began to develop the system from scratch after being hired by Suncor as a seismic interpreter, in 1981."I found the interpretation tools lacking," he recalls."I had programming skills, so I began to develop a geophysicist's interpretive package in my spare time."

When Suncor stopped development on the system in 1988, Sun quit his job, sold his house to buy a workstation, and began to develop the EarthWorks system."I wanted to build an application that had all the major components in a single system, connected extremely tightly," says Sun."I wanted it live-linked, so the programs would talk to each other.I wanted it in real-time, so changes happened in all applications right away, as you worked."

In 1992, the EarthWorks Exploration System was born.The CPU processor is a Compaq Alpha 64-bit, currently running at over 600 MHz."It's the only system we write our application to," says Sun."It's the fastest processor in the world."

The hardware and software package sells for $58,000 - $90,000.Genetek charges an 18% annual maintenance fee, which includes upgrades and new software technology.

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Because a working geophysicist designed EarthWorks, it provides all the sophisticated functions that an interpreter needs, yet it is easy-to-use.

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"You can import data from all major suppliers via the Internet," says Sun.

Real-time filter, phase and spectral enhancement features allow you to calibrate different-vintage seismic lines and tie in synthetic log responses at the workstation level.

Horizon-picking is automated for quick interpretation, and structure, isochron and other maps can be computed, contoured and 3D-visualized on the fly as horizons are picked."In most systems, you have to pick horizons, store the data then import it into a mapping program," says Sun."EarthWorks does it all instantaneously, to continuously give you map results in three dimensions."

Data can be contoured automatically, or the interpreter can introduce strike or other bias to adjust for known structure and/or geology.Interpolated data is automatically ranged to any desired density.

EarthWorks is very strong in stratigraphic interpretation.
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"You can see amplitude changes even better with Event Imaging (tm), which is our 3D visualization of 2D and 3D seismic data," says Sun."The spatial characteristics of the anomaly may point toward a deltaic fan or sinuous channel."

Spectral Analysis can be done in real-time to cover more ground."Just pick a window in the seismic section, then display the frequency spectrum," says Sun."You can then fine-tune your seismic data for enhanced band-limited interpretation."

EarthWorks also features a sophisticated synthetic seismogram modeling tool."You can add porosity by reducing the velocity in an interval," says Sun."You can also change the thickness of the zone, and the modified synthetic is immediately animated over the actual seismic section in real-time."

Live-linking technology enables maps to flex into new shapes on the fly when seismic or geological log picks are graphically added, changed or deleted.It also enables you to point to a seismic anom-aly and ‘touch' the depth-converted, mapped feature in three dimensions.

Another recent innovation is Event Imaging (tm), a new way to interpret 2D and 3D seismic projects.
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"Geoscientists can rotate the 3D volume of seismic data, easily identifying seismic events, their structural, amplitude and character distributions," says Sun.

One of the newest features to EarthWorks is instantaneous time-to- depth conversion."You can take time values and convert them to depth in real-time," explains Sun."Velocity models are quickly built using interactive 3D velocity and depth-sculpting tools.You can do it for every play and horizon, in minutes."

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"You can bring up well formation tops and the sonic log and plot them on a 3D map," says Sun."You can take well curves and seismic and paste up a cross section of logs, seismic, or any combination."

In addition, Genetek intends to take advantage of Compaq's slated 1,000 MHz Alpha."I'm writing software now which will take advantage of the 1,000 MHz capability when it becomes available next year."

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1 EarthWorks Exploration System Genetek, Mark Sun, president T(604) 649-6516 F (604) 921-6851 #2210, 144 4 Ave SW Client - Ed Gilmet at Poco, 260-8312