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In these releases you will find exciting new improvements related to:  

• Omega™ seismic data processing software performance and efficiency.
• Significant performance and usability updates for SeisView and Multiple Attribute Display.
• Geophysical and efficiency enhancements.
• EMB 2024.3 plug-in for Petrel™ subsurface software updates.

And much, much more... 

Omega software performance and efficiency updates:

Large data centers often manage multiple projects and concurrent jobs, which can strain Omega software services and shared filesystems.

To enhance stability and reduce load, several site-configurable updates can be enabled including options to improve the handling of job printout and velocity files and restrict manual actions in Dataset Manager. Other enhancements to data management include updated options for querying data storage in Dataset Manager, and the elimination of redundant checks for temporary outputs in serial jobs, thereby increasing efficiency.
 

Performance and usability updates for SeisView and Multiple Attribute Display:

Multiple Attribute Display (MAD) is utilized for analyzing attribute data for QA/QC purposes. The 2025.1 update introduces significant enhancements to improve usability, including:

• Enhanced picking and overlay functionality.
• Support for managing multiple display tabs.
• An upgraded 3D display.
• Improved data selection and viewing features through embedded Omega software jobs.

The SeisView interactive 2D trace viewer has been updated to boost performance and efficiency, with enhancements including:

• Improved reliability and speed of data reading.
• Optimized performance when displaying data through user-customizable caching options for trace data.

Both SeisView and MAD now offer improved performance when accessing DIO data.
 

Geophysical enhancements 

OBS_WAVEFIELD_DECON
A new dedicated seismic function module (SFM) has been introduced for use with ocean-bottom seismic (OBS) data, enabling up-down deconvolution (UDD) and other wavefield decomposition-related processes. This module offers significantly improved efficiency compared to previous implementations, and features simplified parameterization for ease of use.

ML_FB_PICKER
A new machine learning (ML)-based approach for automatic picking of first-break (FB) energy has been introduced as part of near-surface characterization. This innovation significantly reduces turnaround time and costs associated with seismic first-break picking, and enhances the quality of FB picking, for better near-surface velocity models.

Calibrated Marine Source (CMS) seismic function modules (SFMs)
The CMS SFMs are a suite of seismic function modules designed to address shot-by-shot variations in the far-field signature (FFS) during acquisition, as recorded by near-field hydrophones (NFHs). This approach provides improved capability to account for changes in both the source volume and the resulting source bubble, ensuring more accurate and reliable results.

WIN3D
A new SFM—WIN3D—has been developed specifically for the spatial windowing of large seismic data gathers, to streamline the application of signal processing algorithms. Additionally, WIN3D offers optional tapering of the data blocks, ensuring improved geophysical accuracy during signal processing, as well as facilitating post-windowing sorting and data analysis.

Full waveform inversion (FWI)
New enhanced template-matching (ETM) with QA/QC performs automated data selection and decision-making using QC attributes, including travel-time and least squares, derived internally at each step of FWI. This automation minimizes manual intervention as well as avoidance of unmatched data regions and is key in reducing time taken for scenario testing of mutes. In parallel, users gain access to QC products such as attribute score maps to help guide inversion progress. In addition, this release provides a matching-pursuit style approach to simplify footprint removal from multi-survey acquisitions and provides a means to passively update Vs from a given Vp/Vs ratio (uniform or space-variant), as Vp is updated through inversion.
 

Efficiency enhancements 

General surface multiple prediction (GSMP)
The 2025 release introduces data-analysis-driven automation for aperture and downward reflection points (DRP) spacing. It also includes performance enhancements for large compute nodes and OBN processing in GSMP and extended internal multiple prediction (XIMP). Additional usability improvements include:

• QCs and speed-ups for on-the-fly water bottom modeling.
• An automated method-to-group compute tasks efficiently for land datasets.
   

EMB 2024.3 plug-in for Petrel software updates

Numerous usability and efficiency enhancements have been made across workflows in the earth model building (EMB) Suite for Petrel software, which is compatible with Omega 2025.1.
These include:

Ray tracing and illumination (RTI)
Enhancements for illumination workflows including:

• A new option to create illumination points at the maximum depth of a ray
• Inspector support for quick ray identification in a 3D window.

FWI QC
New data-driven Shot QC score attributes output by Omega FWI to facilitate decision making when executing Omega FWI workflows, and usability enhancements for the Omega FWI Inversion catalog import.

Seismic Velocity Modeling (SVM)
Updates and bug fixes for improved usability and stability, including improved interaction in projects with many volcan models and windows.

Additional release highlights and information: 
 

SeisFlow usability updates
Usability enhancements for SeisFlow include new import/export options for seismic function flow (SFF) parameters, which enable easier editing of existing SFFs, providing greater flexibility when creating and modifying standard flows. Additionally, the Multistep feature now offers improved options to enhance the visibility of step names.
 

Efficiency updates for SFMs
Improvements have been made to the following SFMs to boost efficiencies and reduce turn-around time:

• MIGR_DEPTH_KIRCH
• MULTIWAY_SORT
• TOOLKIT
• CURVELET_TRANSFORM
• WEM_MOD
• MIGR_KIRCH_DEPTH_PSF
• SIMULT_INVERSION

Enhanced functionality has also be added for many SFMs, including:

• VOLCAN_TO_DIO
   

VISTA-IVA 2025 updates
Many significant improvements in usability and stability have been implemented for the VISTA IVA 2025 application.

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Omega™ seismic data processing software overview

Omega software delivers advanced workflows and algorithms, combining leading scientific techniques with scalable processing and flexibility to maximize the value of geophysical data.

Spanning the full subsurface project lifecycle—from signal processing and depth imaging to reservoir characterization—it offers interactive QC tools, robust seismic processing infrastructure, and sophisticated project management features.
 

Target users

This suite of tools encompasses the Omega software and Ocean™ software development framework plug-ins within Petrel software. It is designed for users to condition, process, model, image, interpret, invert, and apply AVO modeling on a large or small scale and is applicable to geophysicists and geologists.