SEG Technical Standards Committee Meeting SEG Annual Meeting - San Antonio Tuesday Sept 20, 2011

Overview TSC meetings in San Antonio 1:00-1:30 SPS/P1 coordination meeting (James Musser, Saudi Aramco) 2:00-3:00 Open public Technical Standards Meeting 3:00-4:00 EM subcommittee meeting (Friedrich Roth, EMGS) 4:00-5:00 Seismic field storage medium recommendation workgroup meeting (Nils Aatland, Fugro) 4:00-4:30 IBM Presentation (Jim Karp, Senior Development Engineer, IBM Data Protection and Retention) 4:30-5:00 Oracle Presentation (Robert Raymond, Senior Manager, Oracle Tape Engineering) Anyone with an interest in the topics of the separate group meetings are invited to attend.

Agenda New TSC online collaboration site SEG-D Rev 3.0, May 2011 version and coming measurement update New P1/11 and P2/11 SEG-Y update Launch of workgroup for storage format recommendations Report from sub-committees and workgroups SPS 3.0 status Seismic field storage medium recommendations EM data standard AOB

Technical Standards Committee 2011-2012 Chair – Rune Hagelund (rune.hagelund@daeco.no) Vice-chair – Stewart Levin (stew@sep.stanford.edu)

Important web addresses Technical standards http://www.seg.org/ts Technical Standards Committee online collaboration site http://www.seg.org/tsc

SEG Online Collaboration Site New site for exchange of information from the TSC Announcements Document exchange TSC forum Wiki page RSS and email subscription options available

Discontinue use of Troika ftp/mail-lists The Troika ftp site and mail lists are discontinued as of May 2011 All messages to and from the TSC will go through the new site. User account at www.seg.org required Non-SEG members can create one Notification published in The Leading Edge June 2011 To continue to receive info from TSC regarding standards development etc. you must subscribe to forums and announcements at the community site

SEG-D Rev 3.0, May 2011 SEG Denver 2010 – update needed Meeting held in Oslo Jan 2011 Draft published Mar 2011 No modification of the binary format Clarifications and ”bug fixes” Release letter included

Important clarifications Use of Extended Recording mode Non-continuous acquisition, length of traces, new example E11, etc. CRS definition, use of multiple stanzas Source definition block structure, associating positions etc. with source. Usage of SEG-D when “millivolt” samples are undefined Extended channel type and physical unit list.

Upcoming SEG-D update Energistics UoM available SI Units only! Measurement block completed Quantity Class (length, time, pressure, …) Unit of Measure (m, s, Pa) Measurement Description (equipment width, uphole time, equipment pressure) See http://www.seg.org/web/technical-standards-committee/wiki/-/wiki/Main/SegMeasurements

P1/P2 update New specification of Coordinate Reference Systems Improved position specification Position quality information Will likely affect SEG-D, SEG-Y. Update required? How and when to be discussed

SEG-Y Update SEG-Y 2.0? SEG-XML? SEG-D Rev 3.0 functionality P1/12 functionality Other issues Need to launch sub-committee asap Volunteers needed

Sub-committees and workgroups

Seismic storage format recommendations Launch of workgroup Headed by Jill Lewis (jill@troika-int.com)

SPS 3.0 Report from sub-committee

“Seismic field storage medium recommendations” workgroup Report from workgroup

EM sub-committee Report from sub-committee

AOB?

Thank you for attending!