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For seismic work as far as I can tell almost everyone is using just Petrel and Paradigm as their core day to day tools. H&R has some stuff but really if you loo

For seismic work as far as I can tell almost everyone is using just Petrel and Paradigm as their core day to day tools. H&R has some stuff but really if you look at people working in the field you'll see Petrel experience is the most common trait. Yes every shop has internal tools but again much of this is stuff cobbled together by non-software developers. I remember at one point a major tool at this one shop stopped working. It turns out they had hard coded a network share as a temp folder and the folder got removed. Out $300k spend was on a completely loaded out license from a company that rhymes with lumberge. I don't want to put the name since there was a pretty strict NDA infront.

doodlebugging 8y ago
Thanks for the additional information. I believe you were probably listing prices for interpretation software packages like Petrel. Processing software is an entirely different animal and that is what I was talking about in my reply. You have to process the data so that it can be interpreted. Your big packages for interpretation are Petrel, Paradigm's Epos systems, and IHS Kingdom-SMT. They are all great packages but as you noted there are things about each one that the user will stumble into which end up making no sense and likely result from poorly coded features which should have been upgrades but ended up being kludges. > rhymes with lumberge Scumbagger? As a former employee I can tell you that the best day of my life outside of my marriage and the births of my kids was the day I opened my mail to find an offer letter from another company - which I promptly accepted. Scumbagger bought a great processing software provider a few years ago. Their software was full-featured and very user-friendly. It had some quirks and a lot of kludges but their software support was top-notch the best I have seen in the industry. After the buyout, the older support hands were laid off and the support was bureaucratized to the point where it was no longer worth it to report a bug or request support. A true shame. Once a company gets that large they become like that old saying about juggies on the field crews - if they can't fuck it up they shit on it.

doodlebugging 8y ago

Thanks for the additional information. I believe you were probably listing prices for interpretation software packages like Petrel. Processing software is an entirely different animal and that is what I was talking about in my reply. You have to process the data so that it can be interpreted. Your big packages for interpretation are Petrel, Paradigm's Epos systems, and IHS Kingdom-SMT. They are all great packages but as you noted there are things about each one that the user will stumble into which end up making no sense and likely result from poorly coded features which should have been upgrades but ended up being kludges. > rhymes with lumberge Scumbagger? As a former employee I can tell you that the best day of my life outside of my marriage and the births of my kids was the day I opened my mail to find an offer letter from another company - which I promptly accepted. Scumbagger bought a great processing software provider a few years ago. Their software was full-featured and very user-friendly. It had some quirks and a lot of kludges but their software support was top-notch the best I have seen in the industry. After the buyout, the older support hands were laid off and the support was bureaucratized to the point where it was no longer worth it to report a bug or request support. A true shame. Once a company gets that large they become like that old saying about juggies on the field crews - if they can't fuck it up they shit on it.