Immersive Environment:

• 12 x 12 x 12 ft (length x width x height)
• Intersense 900 tracker
• Barco Reality 909 projectors

Visualization Computer:

• Immersive Environment:
  • SGI Onyx 3800:
    • 4 IR3 Graphics Pipes
    • 20 GB RAM
    • 20 R 12K Processors
    • 3.5 TB Fiber Channel Disk
  • Desktop:
    • SGI Octane/Octane2/Fuel
  • Drilling Platform:
    • Laptop

System Features:

• Targets:
  • Definition
  • Selection
  • Editing
• Well Path design and editing:
  • Individual wells, multiple wells, sidetracks
  • Target, path, horizontal section, kickoff depth
• Platform Design, optimization, and editing
  • Position
  • Orientation
  • Target / Slot Assignment
• Well Path uncertainty
• Collision risk display
• Complexity measure
• Economic "optimization"

• Input/Displayed Data:

• Well and platform design constraints:
  • Configuration
  • Kickoff Depth
  • Nudge Depth
  • Max Dogleg Severity
• Well Data:
  • Paths, logs, dogleg severity
• Cultural Data
• Drilling hazards
• Seismic Data:
  • Sections, Volumes
• Interpretation:
  • Horizons and faults
  • "Geobodies"
  • Attributes
• Reservoir Models