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RST Montpellier, Here we go !

🎉 Thank you all for an incredible RST 2025 in Montpellier! 🎉 900 abstracts, over 1,200 participants, 8 field excursions, and nearly one in three delegates out in the field during the conference — an enormous logistical challenge, met with… 

Kingdom: how to import sgy with a different CRS ?

mport a sgy file with a different coordinate system. However, Kingdom doesn’t support various CRS at the same time. The procedure is as follows: 1) import the sgy file containing the coordinates, 2) export the navigation (i.e. the world coordinates),… 

Unknown XY : what is the coordinate system ?

Coordinates are often embedded in the sgy file. However, the header doesn’t contain any details about the coordinate system. By chance, you know where the seismic profile is, or you have a map displaying GPS coordinates. Let’s use QGIS !… 

How to get a 2D/3D view using SURFER

Sometimes I need to check bathymetric or topographic data. A good and fast way to do it is to use SURFER. XYZ data need to be gridded first. Click Grid–>Data and open the file. Select the file you want to… 

How to manipulate large sheet files: SURFER !

In Excel, the maximum worksheet size is 1048576 rows by 16384 columns. It means that large files, typically gridded files are hard to manipulate. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3 A possible solution is to use SURFER, particularly the worksheet. SURFER is not free and… 

Resolution of bathymetric maps

I often see gridded maps with a supposed resolution of 100m, even 5m in some cases ! Let’s be clear: it’s almost impossible. I will explain why with an example based on gebco bathymetric data. On the gebco website it… 

Pseudo-Relief in both Kingdom and Petrel

Do you know that your seismic data can be displayed as geological outcrops ? Try a pseudo-relief attribute. It can be calculated in kingdom and then exported to Petrel. Follow the guide ! In the top ribbon, click on the… 

Petromod: Assign facies

In Petromod it’s possible to manually assign different facies for one single layer. So, first of all, the facies must be defined in the Facies Definition Table. Just add a line and provide a name. Then, sub-layers must be added… 

RST 2025 in Montpellier !

The 29th RST will take place in Montpellier from October 27 to 31, 2025. The event’s website is now open: https://rst-montpellier.sciencesconf.org/ and the call for sessions is open until December 31, 2024. English talks and posters are accepted ! 11… 

Create a new Kingdom project

Kingdom is a very useful software for managing large datasets. The first step here is to create a new project. Click on “create new project” Choose a name at your convenience. Remember that you must keep all data in the…