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November 11, 2010

UPB gets seismic software

dGB Earth Sciences, a provider of seismic interpretation software to the oil and gas industry, has donated six commercial licenses for the plug-ins of its OpendTect software to Pitt-Bradford’s petroleum technology program.

Jamal Assad, visiting professor of petroleum technology, secured the software, which he said students will use to interpret seismic data on oil and gas reserves in Pennsylvania.

According to Assad, the software works by taking seismic and geological data and turning it into a three-dimensional representation that can be used to pinpoint the location of oil or gas and the best, most efficient way to reach and extract it.

Assad said students who can use the software will be in demand with operating companies that currently are exploring and extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale layer.

UPB students also will have access to dGB’s Open Seismic Repository, which contains seismic data, interpreted horizons and well data from a number of global locations.

UPB is the first higher education institution in the state to get academic licenses from dGB.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 43 Issue 6

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