A. Getting started with Geocap Oil & Gas

Owned by Erlend Kvinnesland
Last updated: Sept 23, 2013
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Introduction

Geocap is a software for visualization and manipulation of geodata. The core features of Geocap are:

  • 2D/3D visualization of any geodata in the same graphics window
  • Gridding
  • Plotting
  • 2D seismic and interpretation
  • Geodetic conversion
  • Image georeferencing
  • Workflows
  • GIS
  • Scripting

On top of these features Geocap provides a set of plugins that fit perfectly in to your line of work:

  • Shelf - for continental shelf delineation in accordance with UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Article 76.
  • Seafloor - for processing survey data from multibeam echo sounders,
  • Oil & Gas and GIM - for oil exploration and reservoir modeling.

Your Geocap installation will consist of the basic Geocap platform and one or several of these plugins.

Exercises:

User Documentation

Parts of the user documentation is found under the Help pulldown. There rest is found here: http://www.geocap.no/doc. Read briefly through the documentation to get an understanding of what you can expect to find in the documents.

The user documentations consists of:

  • User Guide with detailed descriptions of Geocap usage.
  • Reference manual with syntax and details of the commands in the Geocap scripting language.
  • Installation Guide with details on installation, dongle drivers etc.
  • Release Notes contains incremental updates and bug fix descriptions as well as major releases.
  • Articles is a collection of articles on various topics that still is not included in the documentation.
  • Tutorials contains thematic tutorials on products. The General tutorials mainly contains topics that are put in a better context within the more specialized product tutorials.
  • FAQ is a list of Frequently asked questions, with their corresponding answers.
  • Geocap Extensions contains different scripts and add-on functionality for Geocap.

 

Start Geocap

Open Geocap from the main Windows Start Menu > All Programs > Geocap.


Starting Geocap from the startmenu

The Options dialog

The Options dialog lets you define what Geocap should do on startup. This means that you can predefine a background color, working directory, data window and automatic loading of plugins and scripts etc.

Exercise

Explore the different settings in the Option dialog

  1. Go to: Tools > Options
  2. Select the General tab and set the Working directory to where your data and project is located.
  3. Select the Graphics tab and set your favorite background color.

We need to make sure that the Oil & Gas functionality is available by checking that the Oil and Gas and Depth Conversion Plug-in is loaded.  Geocap will remember this setting, so you only need to do it the first time you start up.

Exercise

Turn on the Oil & Gas functionality

  1. Open the Options dialog by going to Tools > Options
  2. Select the Plug-ins tab
  3. Make sure that Oil and Gas and Depth Conversion has been checked
  4. Click OK