Paradigm announced at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists annual meeting that its new suite of subsurface applications will be known as “SKUA,” an acronym for Subsurface Knowledge Unified Approach. The name was also selected for its symbolic reference to the Skua, an Arctic bird of prey known for its competitive behavior, superior hunting skills and adaptation to some of the harshest terrain on earth.


SKUA is a major component of a new suite of applications that will integrate leading geoscience technology from Paradigm. It simplifies modeling tasks by eliminating many of the complexity limitations of current technology such as the time-consuming construction of multi-faulted models and the severe limitations of pillar and extrusion technology.


“SKUA greatly simplifies the modeling process and reduces modeling time from weeks to days by shifting away from a surface- and pillar-based approach of traditional reservoir modeling,” said Jean-Claude Dulac, Paradigm’s chief architect. “We are pleased to introduce the first SKUA cornerstone application from Paradigm, which is the future breakthrough subsurface imaging, interpretation and modeling technology.”


SKUA solutions benefit geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists and engineers through a simple, one-click approach to 3-D modeling. This results in a better structural, stratigraphic and reservoir 3-D model with multi-resolution capabilities that removes the distortion commonly introduced by current modeling technologies.


For more information, visit www.paradigm.com.

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