Igeoss

Company: Igeoss

When engineers analyze petroleum reservoirs or try to choose safe waste
storage sites, they need accurate models to predict how different fluids
(oil, water, other chemicals and gas) will behave and move over time.
Fractures and faults have a significant impact on migration, flow, and
entrapment of these fluids, and being able to predict where fractures and
faults are is therefore very important.

Igeoss provides a range of services and software packages to engineers and geotechnicians in the oil, mining and environment industry. These software packages provide state-of-the-art geomechanical methods and tools, originally developed within the Stanford Rock Fracture Project, to improve the 3D geological structure interpretation and to model natural fractures and faults that cannot be detected within rock mass with conventional geophysical techniques (well bore, seismic reflection). Igeoss also makes these software tools available to universities and research institutes for the study of geomechanically earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.

"Our main constraint is to develop software programs for Linux, Unix and
Windows platforms. Since the beginning of the development two years ago, we decided to use Qt for the graphic user interfaces (GUI) because it is a
fast, stable, simple and powerful library. Also, our choice was driven by
the fact that Qt is open-source, it has a rich documentation and facility
to create new types of widgets. We started with Qt version 4.0.0 beta 1 and
therefore had to adapt our development to the constant class interface
changes until the first official release. However, we view this as a plus
for the future as it will help us keep our product up-to-date with the
latest in UI. One of the main advantages of Qt4 over Qt3 for us is that it
separates the core modules from the GUI modules, so that it is now possible
to use QtXml and QtCore in our numerical codes, and execute them on a
machine that does not run an x server." Frantz Maerten, R&D Director/Senior
Software Engineer, IGEOSS

For further information visit the Igeoss homepage.