African Petroleum Selects Paradigm Interpretation Suite on Windows as a
Corporate Standard for Seismic Interpretation
Paradigm interpretation applications play a key role in African Petroleum’s oil discovery in
offshore Liberia.
(Amsterdam: Netherlands: April 23, 2012) Paradigm™ (www.pdgm.com) announced today
that African Petroleum (www.africanpetroleum.com.au) has selected the Paradigm interpretation
suite on Microsoft® Windows® as its corporate standard for seismic interpretation. The company
additionally announced that its interpretation applications have subsequently played a significant
role in African Petroleum’s oil discovery offshore Liberia.
“African Petroleum has successfully used Paradigm’s advanced seismic interpretation tools for
detailed stratigraphic interpretation of multiple fan systems in blocks 8 and 9 offshore Liberia,
resulting in a significant oil discovery,” said Adrian Robinson, exploration director at African
Petroleum Corporation Ltd. “SeisEarth® and VoxelGeo® allowed us to rapidly interrogate
multiple, large 3D seismic and attribute volumes to predict reservoir and seal facies as well as
potential areal net-to-gross variation. Visualization of our data in a collaborative environment
helped bring the team together to select the best well location.”
African Petroleum selected the Paradigm interpretation suite based on its ability to easily work at
the regional project scale with large seismic volumes and large numbers of seismic attributes.
Additionally, the suite was selected because of its novel seismic characterization approaches to
generating direct hydrocarbon indicators and transforming seismic data to rock properties, and its
ability to differentiate seismic facies within key depositional units.
“It’s fantastic to see the success that African Petroleum is having using our seismic
interpretation tools,” said Mark Littman, Paradigm’s sales director for Northern Europe. “Now
that these tools are available on Windows, Paradigm looks forward to providing more customers
like African Petroleum with our distinct brand of easy-to-use, high-science technology that
delivers the kind of accurate results demonstrated in this recent success.”
Paradigm interpretation applications will be featured at AAPG 2012 in Long Beach, California,
booth #1018, GeoConvention 2012 in Calgary, booth # 616, and EAGE 2012 in Copenhagen,
booth #1550, together with the rest of the advanced Paradigm 2011 product suite.
About Paradigm™
Paradigm (www.pdgm.com) is the largest multi-national software company exclusively focused
on the delivery of analytical and information management solutions for the discovery and
extraction of subsurface natural resources. Serving the oil & gas and mining industries since
1987, Paradigm, with its 700 employees, operates globally via its 31 client service, technology
and administrative facilities located in 27 countries.
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(collectively, “Paradigm”): Paradigm™, Paradigm logo and/or other Paradigm products
referenced herein. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United
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Paradigm Media Contact
Samhita Shah
Tel: +1 713.393.4109
samhita.shah@pdgm.com
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