1. SEG Technical Standards Committee Meeting SEG Annual Meeting – Las Vegas Tuesday Nov 6, 2012

2. Overview TSC meetings in Las Vegas 2012 2:00-3:00 Open public Technical Standards Meeting 2:00-3:00 Open public Technical Standards Meeting 3:00-4:00 SPS v3 meeting (SPS Sub-committee, Saudi Aramco) 3:00-4:00 SPS v3 meeting (SPS Sub-committee, Saudi Aramco) 4:00-5:00 SEG-Y rev 2 startup meeting (Stewart Levin) 4:00-5:00 SEG-Y rev 2 startup meeting (Stewart Levin) Anyone with an interest in the topics of the separate group meetings are invited to attend.

3. Agenda Admin Admin Launch of SEG-Y rev 2 sub-committee (Stewart Levin) Launch of SEG-Y rev 2 sub-committee (Stewart Levin) Update on SPS rev 3 development (SPS sub-committee) Update on SPS rev 3 development (SPS sub-committee) Microseismic technical standards (Shawn Maxwell) Microseismic technical standards (Shawn Maxwell) SEG-D rev 3, update June 2012 + new reqs SEG-D rev 3, update June 2012 + new reqs Short report from sub-committees and workgroups Short report from sub-committees and workgroups –EM data standard (Friedrich Roth) –Seismic field storage medium recommendations (Peder Berentzen) –Storage format recommendations (Jill Lewis) AOB AOB

4. Technical Standards Committee 2012-2013 Proposal: Chair – Rune Hagelund (rune.hagelund@daeco.no) Chair – Rune Hagelund (rune.hagelund@daeco.no) Vice-chair – Bill Rimmer (Bill.Rimmer@kestrelidm.net) Vice-chair – Bill Rimmer (Bill.Rimmer@kestrelidm.net)

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

6. SEG-Y rev 2

7. SPS rev 3

8. Microseismic

9. SEG-D Rev 3.0, June 2012 Draft published May 2011 Draft published May 2011 Approved at the TSC meeting EAGE June 2012. Approved at the TSC meeting EAGE June 2012. No modification of the binary format No modification of the binary format Release letter included Release letter included

10. Measurement block Enable Measurements block Enable Measurements block –Agreement reached with Energistics regarding use of Unit of Measure system –Integer code assigned to all units –For now only SI units –Snapshot of UoM tables included as Appendix F –Definition of supported measurements on SEG wiki page: http://www.seg.org/web/technical-standards- committee/wiki/-/wiki/Main/SegMeasurements http://www.seg.org/web/technical-standards- committee/wiki/-/wiki/Main/SegMeasurements –Request more by posting in forum or send message to TSC chair

11. More SEG-D 3.0 June 2012 Update leap-second to June 2012 Update leap-second to June 2012 New producers New producers –Verif-i (51), Troika Intl (52), MagSeis (53), Hewlett-Packard (54) New sample units Pascal & Micropascal New sample units Pascal & Micropascal Clarification regarding negative timing words Clarification regarding negative timing words Some more clarifications and typo fixes Some more clarifications and typo fixes

12. New SEG-D requirements Update to support P#/11 Coordinate Reference System definitions (ref. SEG-Y rev 2 work) Update to support P#/11 Coordinate Reference System definitions (ref. SEG-Y rev 2 work) Support little-endian sample values Support little-endian sample values –90xx??? –Most recording systems are now Linux/Intel x86. –Only for some sample types (8036,8038,8058,8080)? Requires new SEG-D revision (3.1?) Requires new SEG-D revision (3.1?)

13. Sub-committees and workgroups

14. EM sub-committee Report from sub-committee Report from sub-committee

15. Seismic field storage medium recommendations workgroup Report from workgroup Report from workgroup

16. Seismic storage format recommendations workgroup Report from workgroup Report from workgroup

17. AOB?

18. Thank you for attending!