New Software Release

Release details

Omni 3D software is the industry standard for seismic survey design and modeling. It can be used to plan, execute, and analyze land, marine, transition zone, vertical seismic profile (VSP), and multicomponent surveys. The intuitive interface and versatile multi-project handling capability of the software enable users to analyze and monitor their seismic acquisition projects quickly and effectively. OMNI 3D 2024 improves the user experience with a focus on usability and efficiency, with a faster turnaround on common workflows.

Omni 3D software is available in two modules:

• Omni 3D software is used for geometry design, QC, analysis and reporting as well as 2D ray model and target model building and analysis.
• Omni 3D Workshop contains all OMNI 3D functionality from geometry design and QC and adds advanced analyses including 3D-model building and analysis.

Product details

The 2024 software release for OMNI 3D™ seismic survey design software is now available. Download the full package from the Software Download Center.  

Release highlights

• Improved usability and efficiency
• Users can quickly create surveys from multiple, irregular shaped shapefiles using the new option Add Lines from shapefile

Add survey shot and/or receiver lines and stations using shapefiles

 
• Users can now display near and far offset maps after computing the Fold only analysis (BAFO)

Create fold, near, and far offset maps in a fraction of the time using the added color bins by functionality added to the bin fold only analysis.

• Import multiple P1/11 files into a survey
• Improved draw speed for obstacles and detours
• Added more functionality for workflows using shapefiles

• Modernized legacy arrays for performance gains, more efficient memory allocation, preparation of future enhancements and scalability, faster development, and easier debugging and adoption of the latest coding techniques

Updated progress bars provide more details on progress statistics, perform updates more frequently and support nested operations.

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Release details

• Users can quickly create surveys from multiple, irregular shaped shapefiles using the new option Add Lines from Shapefile under the Add Shots and/or Add Receivers. This feature digitizes one or many shapefile lines, to create/replace station lines

• Shapefile loads for XY line-based objects handle more convertible object types
• When loading a shapefile containing multiple loadable objects, the user can select an object from an object selector dialog

• Users can create surveys within a shapefile boundary using the 3D Design Wizard by setting the file type to “shapefile.”
• The Create/Redefine Points and Redefine Selected Points Wizards now support line point loading via shapefile
• The 2D Line Digitizer now supports line point loading via shapefile
• The Project Shots onto Line Wizard now supports line point loading via shapefile
• The Chain Shots onto Line Wizard now supports line point loading via shapefile
• Expanded P1/11 import facilities for Survey (Land or OBC) objects
  Users can import multiple P1/11 files at once, into a survey. Expanded loading multiple obstacles and detours from XY files. Modernized legacy arrays, the primary array object used throughout Omni 3D software. The benefits are performance gains, more efficient memory allocation, preparation of future enhancements and scalability, faster development, and easier debugging and adoption of the latest coding techniques
• Users can now display near and far offset maps after computing the Fold only analysis (BAFO)
• Expanded the query bin values to trace density, S/N gain, near offset and far offset statistics for Fold only analysis
• Updated Norsar toolkit to the 2025 version
• Omni 3D software only displays stations rather than lines and stations during the View Events of a script, as displaying both could misinform users of patch size
• Area calculation methods for summary reports are computed using convex hull for new Land or OBC or streamer surveys
• The default setting to compute surface boundaries from stations is using convex hull
• Modernized progress bars and their operations—they now provide more detailed statistics, support nested operations, and perform updates in a more timely and consistent manner so users will have more confidence their workflows are running correctly
• Improved the speed at which Omni 3D software draws obstacles and detours
• Enabled simultaneous file reads during load operations
• Improved the application startup procedure that copies files from the read-only Omni 3D software installation folder to the user-writable Omni 3D software AppData folder
• Replaced and improved performance of the system calls to robocopy, which some users may not have permission to run
• Fixed Omni 3D software to no longer terminate if a copy error occurs and allows a manual copy with instructions about how to proceed to the user
• Expanded the LAS file Edit Utility to allow users to modify and save curves as new LAS file:
• Omni 3D software now up-samples modified curves using linear interpolation during save
• Modified curves maintain null values from the original curve rather than erroneously introducing constant extrapolation values bast the end of the log
• Modified curves retain resampled version after file save
• Improved header information on LAS to include each curve name
• Improved the bin grid utility “convert P6/98 to bin grid” to work better with erroneous data
• Implemented safeguards and increased compiler strictness to enhance application security
• Improved crash reporting—application debug files can be sent to SLB, and the users have an option to find, open, and send the files themselves, for faster and easier debugging
• Updated Microsoft Visual C++
• Updated CodeMeter Runtime kit