GLOBE Claritas latest news

19th July 2010. We're Hiring!
We are looking for a mathematics, physics or geophysics graduate to join the GLOBE Claritas team as a support specialist. We need someone with an aptitude for solving problems to provide front-line support to our international clients. We want a quick learner who has enthusiasm, drive, and customer orientation.See https://vacancies.gns.cri.nz/ for more info.

30th June 2010
Claritas at EAGE conference, Barcelona,
We had a successful show at the EAGE conference in Barcelona in June. Many thanks to all of our clients who dropped by at the booth to say hello and preview Version 5.5 ! And it was great to meet so many enthusiastic students from Imperial, Leeds, KIT, IGME and others from our European academic bases. We had a lot of fun with our show giveaway this year, a Playstation 3 running the FIFA World Cup game. The win came down to a tense penalty shootout between PGS and Saudi Aramco, but Steve Pitman of PGS kept his cool and put away the winner. Well done Steve!

Claritas at EAGE, Barcelona, 14-17 June

We will be demonstrating the latest developments in Claritas at EAGE Barcelona 2010, at Booth #147. We'd particularly like to welcome our existing European clients to call in at the booth, see what's new, and talk about development directions.

EAGE will be a busy show for everyone, so if your time is limited in Barcelona, contact us ahead of the show to schedule a time for a demo.

4th June 2010
Latin America Sales Agency
We are delighted to announce that Claritas have signed an agency agreement with GeoNodos of Buenos Aires. GeoNodos will be providing customer support for our software throughout the Latin American region. We are looking forward to working with the highly experienced staff of GeoNodos to deploy Claritas into this exciting region.

Claritas at the Wellington Gold Awards
GNS Science has won a 2010 Wellington Gold Award in the Global Gold category for exporting services.

The award was presented at a function in Wellington in front of an audience of about 700 people. Our entry was based on the impressive growth of our international revenue during the past four years. Guy Maslen from the Claritas team joined other GNS Science business development staff to receive the award on-stage.

Globe Claritas will be at next week's GeoCanada 2010 Conference in Calgary. Come and see the latest developments. We will be at Booth # 616, with our parent company, GNS Science.

Chris LeBlanc of our development team will be at the booth, demonstrating Claritas Version 5.4. He'll be showing off some of the latest functionality, including new Python modules for 3D graphics and header manipulation, plus the latest in our new IMAGE cluster-ready imaging suite.

It's a great chance to explore if any of the new QC or processing applications in Claritas make it a good fit for your business. Come and hear about how some of our latest clients are using Claritas for onboard 3D processing, and to get great results in challenging land and marine projects. And this is a great opportunity for existing clients to get some expert tuition in advanced new Claritas modules.

If you're not in Calgary next week, perhaps we will see you at the Claritas booths at EAGE in Barcelona in June or SEG in Denver, in October

Claritas at GEO2010
We had a successful show in Bahrain at the GEO2010 conference, where we shared a booth with our Middle East agents. Geophysical Services Center. The picture shows Guy Maslen of Claritas congratulating Emad Shafi of Saudi Aramco, the lucky winner of our show giveaway - a Toshiba netbook with Claritas installed.We are sure that in his role as a geochemist he will find our software very useful....

5th December 2010
Version 5.4 release
Claritas Version 5.4 was released in January, with significant changes and acceleration to many of our interactive toolkits. It's all been about speed: smoothing your workflows, speeding up displays, and accelerating some of the modules. All users have received a hardcopy version of the software.

Where are we going to be in 2010?
One of the best ways of learning more about Claritas is to visit us at industry tradeshows. We'll be at Geo2010 in Bahrain in March (Booth 151), GeoCanada 2010 in Calgary in May (Booth 616), EAGE in Barcelona in June, and SEG in Denver in October.

11th December 2009
Claritas signs contract with Black Mountain Seismic
We are delighted that a new local processing firm has chosen to build their business on the Claritas platform. Black Mountain Seismic (www.bmseismic.com) are a new Wellington-based outfit operating both domestically in NZ and internationally. Black Mountain have chosen to take up an Enhanced Maintenance and Support contract with Claritas, giving access to Claritas processing staff for optimising workflows and processing sequences. It is good to see a Kiwi firm seizing the opportunities in the vibrant NZ market, and using Kiwi software to take on the multinational firms.

2nd December 2009
Globe Claritas used in major NZ seismic survey

You can read a full press release about Claritas, Quantum Geoservices and the Bergen Resolution here.

16th November 2009
Onboard Processing in NZ
The Bergen Resolution, operated by Reflect Geophysical, was in Wellington last week at the launch of a 6-month seismic acquisition programme in New Zealand waters. Over 7000km of 2D data will be acquired for NZ Crown Minerals. Quantum Geoservices of Singapore are providing the onboard processing using a mobile Claritas installation. We were delighted to get a tour of the Bergen Resolution while it was in harbour, and look at the Claritas workstation and onboard QC jobflows. We are proud to be part of this exciting frontier exploration project in NZ !

6th September 2009
A busy SEG conference

The SEG conference in Houston was busy as always for the Claritas team. It was good to be able to introduce a preview of Version 5.4 to our US clients, and to meet so many new potential clients from all over the world.

From the responses of people at SEG, it looks as if the new imaging suite and the graphics acceleration in V5.4 are going to be very popular.

We were joined at the show by both Stacey Horne of Stillwater, our US agency, and Abed Badawi of GSC, our Middle Eastern agency. And congratulations to the three lucky winners of our noise cancelling headphones, from Imperial College, Tullow Oil and Chevron !

28th September 2009

We're gearing up for the SEG Annual Meeting in Houston. Visit us at Booth #724 in Hall E to see the latest developments, including new migration modules and some blindingly fast new graphics modes. We'll also have some show specials running for licencing and rentals. Plus three chances to win some BlackBox M14 Advanced Noice Cancelling Headphones!

26th July 2009
Seismic Processing Training for the Philippines

We were delighted to welcome several staff from the Philippines Department of Energy in August to our training facility at GNS Science in Wellington.

The Claritas team delivered our popular Seismic Processing Introduction course, with some customisation for the DOE.

This was a great course, thoroughly enjoyed by both trainers and guests. The enthusiastic, high-energy team from Manila will be using Claritas on petroleum and continental-shelf delineation projects.

Globe Claritas latest release (V 5.3) - July 2009.

V5.3 is the second of three scheduled GLOBE Claritas releases for 2009. The final release is timed for the annual SEG conference in October 2009.

Highlights from version 5.3 are:

• Run-times for job flows have been speeded up by about 30% by use of gfortran.
• Semblance picking in cva is now faster and easier.
• 3D first-break analysis (refstat3d) has been speeded up by a factor of about 120 !
• You can now write your own process modules in C.

We are going to use .rpms for package management under Fedora and Redhat, and
*.deb files for Debian/Ubuntu. This new approach should offer quicker and
easier management of Claritas and its required dependencies.

29th June 2009

NZ Trade & Enterprise feature Claritas
Jonathan Ravens, the chief architect of Claritas, was featured in an excellent article by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise BRIGHT magazine on "Commercialising world-class science" . Claritas was discussed as an example of how to make the transition from scientific discovery to earning export revenue.

23th June 2009

Middle East Agency
Claritas has agreed a Sales Agency with Geophysical Service Center of Amman, Jordan, for our sales and support activities in the Middle East Region. GSC is a long-established service provider, with great experience in using Claritas. See www.gsc-oil.com for more information. Our relationship with GSC will allow superb responsive support throughout the region.

17th June 2009

EAGE 2009: a great conference for the team
The EAGE conference in Amsterdam was very successful for us. Many thanks to all our clients (old and new) who dropped in to the booth to see the latest developments. This was our first presence at EAGE for many years, and we will be back for Barcelona next year!

17th June 2009

Spectrum quadruples seismic processing capacity in Egypt
Spectrum's Egyptian joint venture, Spectrum-Geopex has completed the first phase of a significant computer systems upgrade at its seismic data processing centre in Nasr City, Cairo that will quadruple its seismic processing capacity. Spectrum-Geopex is also the latest location to upgrade to Globe Claritas software as part of Spectrum Group's worldwide adoption programme. Claritas improves the range of processing techniques offered to the Group's growing portfolio of international clients, as well as improving efficiency and turnaround.

3rd May 2009

Claritas at EAGE- Visit us at booth 145

From 8-11 June 2009, Claritas will be at the 71st EAGE Conference and Exhibition, taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With about 6,000 expected delegates, a 4 day technical programme and an exhibition of over 8.000 square meters of participating companies, this conference is one of the major conferences in the field of geosciences and reservoir engineering. We'll be in booth 145 showcasing the latest developments in the forthcoming Version 5.3, including new speed-ups to CVA.

3rd May 2009

Furious Film Making at GNS Science

Claritas is proud to continue its relationship with the vibrant Wellington film community, by sponsoring The Receptionist's stunning entry into the New Zealand 48-hour Furious Film Making Competition. The film (entitled The Quarry) was selected as Audience Favourite in their heat. The film was in the genre of M Night Shyamalan "Big Twist Movie". The Receptionists are an international team of filmmakers and include Christof and Erik from Claritas, and Gwen and Becky from the Oceans team. What a creative bunch! The picture shows actors Stathia Golding and Lauren Gibson in a key scene from "The Quarry". The film will shortly be on YouTube- watch this space.

17th March 2009

Globe Claritas V5.2 released

V5.2 is the first of three scheduled GLOBE Claritas releases for 2009, and is now available for download for our users..

The most significant additions to GLOBE Claritas in V5.2 are:

• Improvements to the velocity analysis application in terms of improved velocity picking features, velocity display, and window management.
• A new RUNPYTHON module which lets the user incorporate Python code into a processing flow. This provides a more modern and powerful alternative to TRFUDGE, since Python includes high-level numerical and scientific plug-ins such as NumPy and SciPy.
  

6th March 2009

A preview of V5.2 : Python code
Claritas 5.2 will make it very easy for the user to run Python code in a Claritas job. This will appeal to clients who wish to write custom code in a high level language or who need to rapidly develop a custom processing flow. This link has an example that uses a quick Python function to create a 3D seismic array from a collection of 2D ones. It then uses the MayaVi software to visualize this data in 3D. Remember, this customisation was created in only a few hours!

23rd February 2009

Claritas Version 5.2 to be released 13th March
A new Claritas version will be released to our clients on March 13th. The new version will include improvements to our CVA module (including new velocity profile displays and mouse button functionality), new and revised tutorials, and a new TRFUDGE module that allows code development in Python.

4th February 2009

New recruit
Claritas is pleased to welcome its latest recruit, Erik Ewig, who joins our support team. Erik has a PhD in geophysics from Victoria University Wellington and is an experienced Claritas user, with a background in land processing.

12th January 2009

Upcoming events in Europe for 2009
With our European user base growing quickly, we will be attending two conferences in Europe in the first half of 2009: the DGG conference in Kiel, Germany (23-26 March; www.dgg2009.uni-kiel.de), and the EAGE conference in Amsterdam (8-11 June; www.eage.org). Contact us to meet us there, or to schedule a meeting in Europe around these dates.

17th December 2008

Everyone's a winner at SEG Las Vegas
Claritas had a successful conference at SEG 2008 in Las Vegas. Thanks to everyone who attended our booth! Also successful was Dr Kristofer Tingdahl, Executive VP (Americas) of dGB Earth Sciences, who won our draw for an Asus EEE PC with one year's Claritas licence. The picture shows thew happy winner being congratulated by Guy Maslen, Claritas Operations Manager. We are sure that Kristofer's son will be an expert Claritas user in a couple of weeks.

16th December 2008

Spectrum chooses Claritas
Spectrum ASA, a global seismic processing firm with locations in the UK, USA, and the Middle East, has chosen Claritas as their processing software for all their processing centres . The Spectrum Group Technical Manager, Dr Ron Silva stated, “This is a genuinely powerful addition to our processing suite, complementing our existing technology with powerful QC and interactivity". We're very pleased to have Spectrum as a major client. Read the whole Spectrum press release on Claritas, on http://spectrumasa.com/News-And-Events_Press-Releases.php.

15th December 2008

We are delighted to welcome Rand Huso to the Claritas development team. Rand brings significant experience in Agile software engineering and is already having a major impact on our software design processes. You can find out more about Rand's backgound and interests on his website, mjollnir.com.

10th October 2008

See us at SEG in Las Vegas

The Claritas team will be at the SEG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, 9-14 November. Come and see us at Booth 2004 to preview our new Version 5 release and learn about our new data management layer, SRME techniques, and PC support. See you there!

13th September 2008

Taupo Day-Night Thriller

Chris LeBlanc from the Claritas team took a short break from developing our new Windows version of Claritas to take on the Taupo Day Night Thriller race- a 12 hour mountain bike relay race sponsored by GNS Science.  Chris notes: “Some of us took the racing pretty seriously, and I have to admit I was one of them. Mountain biking at night is a great experience, it’s like a different sport.  The night laps seemed to go quick. This was an excellent race, probably the most enjoyable one I’ve been to.”

15th April 2008

GLOBE Claritas Seismic Processing Course

Geo-Form, Paris 28th-30th April 2008

GNS Science and Geo-Form are please to announce a three-day course in seismic data processing, using GNS Science's GLOBE Claritas Software.

The course is designed to give attendees practical experience of processing 2D land or marine data with GLOBE Claritas, from field data to final migration. The course is three days in duration, and allows users access to GNS Science expertise in tackling a variety of common problems.

The course caters for a wide variety of theoretical and practical experience. The main objectives are that each attendee should gain:

* understanding of the objectives of seismic data processing;
* understanding of typical land or marine seismic processing flows;
* experience in parameter testing for seismic data processing;
* experience in troubleshooting seismic data processing flows;
* experience in applying 2D land and/or marine processing flows.

The course cost is US$1750 per person, including course materials and refreshments.

For more information on the course and to register, please download this brochure and return it to GNS Science on +64 4 570 4603.

GNS Science course coordinator Guy Maslen.

For more information about Geo-Form, please visit their website : http://www.geo-form.com.

7th March 2008

Seg-Z format

Geophysicists the world over have been asking for enhancements to SEGY. We are linked in with a group in Canada who are looking at a new SEGZ format. Keep an eye on developments here: http://www.segy.ca/segz/index.html.

7th March 2008

New addition to the team

Christof Mueller is now on board as a developer. He has 7+ years after his PhD with the University of Kiel in Germany and secondment to the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa. He's a very experienced Claritas user, and we're delighted to have him on the team. Christof has started work on some exiting new developments for Claritas, as well as working on some very high quality implementation of our existing code.

7th March 2008

Our happy winner!

Calgary-based geophysicist Surinder Dyal visited New Zealand recently as part of his prize in winning our latest seismic processing competition. Entries were marked on a series of criteria and Dyal’s processing and results were not only accurate, but were the easiest for a panel of geoscientists to interpret.

First prize was free use of Claritas software for one year and a trip to New Zealand.
Dyal has been delighted with his 12-months use of the software and has now bought licences to use it in his seismic processing businesses in Canada and India. Check www.mindsetgeo.com.

He says the competition was a great opportunity to get familiar with the software in a setting where there was some urgency to perform.

“I found the software very user-friendly and versatile. It’s also easy to customise for special tasks. You can do everything from the screen display.

“The software enables me to log-in from anywhere in the world and process datasets.

“Another plus for me has been the prompt responses I get from the help desk at GNS Science in New Zealand. “

We will run another competition in 2008, in conjunction with this year’s SEG conference. This time it will be a land-based dataset that entrants will be given to work with. Watch this space.

10 September 2007

GLOBE Claritas training course in Spain March-April 2008

Advance notice
The Claritas team will be running a training course in Barcelona in March or April of 2008 that will be open to all existing academic and commercial Claritas users, and also those interested in knowing more about the Claritas software.

This course will run for 3-5 days and will combine theoretical and practical sessions. It will focus on processing 2D marine and land multi-channel seismic data, and the exact course content will be tailored according to the requests of the attendees.

As part of the course, attendees will process a complete seismic line and observe how their choice of parameters impacts on the final quality of the result. Although the course will use GLOBE Claritas software, the methodologies used are common to all systems and no prior experience is required.

To register your interest in attending this course Please contact the Claritas team here.

27 August 2007

See us at SEG 2007 in San Antonio!

The Claritas team will be at SEG in San Antonio, at booth #310.Contact us to arrange a time for a demo, or just swing by and see us there. Visit this page to keep updated on further news and special offers with Claritas at the SEG.

31st July 2007

Claritas welcomes their latest recruit

The Claritas team welcomes their latest recruit, Andy Juniper. Andy joins us from CGG-Veritas in the UK. He has 19 years processing experience in 2D/3D marine processing. He is a fantastic addition to the team and brings excellent skills in industrial marine processing. Andy will be contributing to our processing services and is already providing valuable steer on our software development. The ease with which Andy has adapted to working with Claritas without significant retraining is a great example of our software's useability.


31st May 2007

Claritas Masterclass in Houston

The Claritas team are holding a Masterclass in Houston on 14th-15th June. This will showcase some advanced features of Claritas, including production processing techniques, and how to resolve complex refraction statics and geometry issues. Places are limited. Please contact our US partners, Stillwater Group, for more details, at www.stillwatergroup.com.

5th April 2007

We have a winner !

GNS Science is pelase to announce that Surinder Dyal has won the 2006-07 Seismic Data Processing Contest. Surinder sucessfully processed a line from New Zealand's geologcally complex East Coast basin; based on five criteria - shallow and deep imaging, signal:noise ratio, demulitple quality and overall interpretatbility the three judges felt that Surinder's section was the best overall section that was received.

All the competition entries had to be processed using GNS Science's GLOBE Claritas software, and a year's free access to the software forms part of the the prize - as well as a trip for two to New Zealand.

"We were really pleased about the quality of the entrants" said Guy Maslen, who runs GNS Science's Seismic Processing Team. "We had expected more students to enter the contest, but it was primarily professionals who took part," Maslen continued. "The range of results was also interesting - all of the sections had unique, positive features which made the judging very close."

"We fully intend to run a second contest in 2007-08, and hopefully make this an annual event. We've already picked out some possible seismic lines to use," Maslen said. "They have to be interesting and challenging, but given New Zealand's location on a convergent margin, locating lines that fit the bill is relatively easy."

Training Course Update

As a result of demand we will be running the "Introduction to Seismic Processing" course in October 2007; the course will be run in using our newly completed training facility, which has ten networked PC workstations. The course is ideal for new seismic processors, or seismic data interpreters who need a deeper understanding of how seismic images are formed. We are also planning courses in Europe (June 2007) as well as Canada - contact the team for more details....

19th February 2007

New Processing Course

The Claritas team will be running another of our popular Introduction to Seismic Processing courses in early March. The course is scheduled for 5-9 March, and will be held at GNS Science in our Avalon offices in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Please find a brochure below here. (PDF 1.2mb).

If you are interested in attending this course, please email us here. Registration is limited to a maximum of 8 people, and some slots are already taken !

30 January 2007

Globe Claritas processing competition

Claritas has launched its first Processing Competition. Part of the competition dataset, a challenging line from the East Coast of NZ, can be seen in the header on this page. The entries will be judged in February by a panel of geologists and geophysicists, and the lucky winner will win a trip to New Zealand!
   
The Claritas team is delighted with the response to this competition. We have received entries from all over the world. Entry is now closed, and entrants have been working on processing the dataset using trial versions of Globe Claritas over the past few weeks. Entries are due to be submitted by 1 Feb 2007.
   
Watch this space for announcements of the winner, and for information regarding our next promotion.

November 2006
Claritas promoted by Foundation for Research and Technology

GLOBE Claritas has recently been showcased in an article in the New Zealand government's Foundation for Research & Technology latest e-newsletter and on their website. The article is entitled "New Zealand software underpins the race for new oil discoveries" and highlights the fact that development and commercialisation of Claritas has been accelerated with the help of the Foundation's Pre-Seed Accelerator Fund.

A quote from Business Development Manager, Dr David Darby, sums up the key messages within the article with this comment: 'Big growth in the petroleum sector has been the trigger to power up the product, and the PSAF investment has been the tool to do that.'

The full text of the article is available online at http://www.frst.govt.nz/FRSTNews/October2006.cfm#8

3 November 2006
Globe Claritas makes animated tutorials available online. The tutorials are generated in Flash and show how to use some Claritas applications and include verbal instructions.

October 2006
Claritas makes a big impact at SEG 06

The Claritas team and North American partners, Stillwater Group, recently exhibited at SEG New Orleans and made a big impact with attendees from all levels of the industry.

The stand provided registrants and exhibitors alike with a visual reminder of Claritas' uniquely New Zealand heritage, including stunning scenery shots from the GNS Science image library. Registrants also had the chance to win a Lord of the Rings collectible statue, personally signed by Special Effects Academy Award winner, Richard Taylor, and kindly donated by the amazing folk at Weta Collectibles. Warm congratulations to the lucky winner, Isabelle Dumas of Xstrata in Canada - here's hoping that the Dark Lord Sauron finds a special place in your home, and your hearts.

The team would also like to thank all those who took the time to drop by and learn more about the Claritas seismic processing system. The feedback we received was simply amazing and strongly reinforces what we always knew i.e. that the software is true to its tagline of 'by geophysicists for geophysicists' - and that it is as breathtaking in form as the land from which it was born.

We look forward to seeing you all again in San Antonio next year.

19 July 2006

Stillwater Group CEO cements partnership with first sale.

Stillwater Group CEO, Stacey Horne, hands the proceeds from the first sale of GLOBE Claritas via the newly formed North American partnership to GNS Science’s Chief Executive, Alex Malahoff. Joining them are the GNS Business Development team, Rob Johnston, Hamish Clark and David Darby.

The celebration was part of a week-long knowledge share visit by Mr Horne in preparation for a combined presence at the upcoming SEG conference in New Orleans in October – the first of a number of planned market development initiatives for the North American market, and beyond.

Mr Horne commented that this would be the first of many such sales and that Claritas was a robust, flexible and innovative product with a very bright future in the global oil and gas industry.

“There is strong demand for this kind of product from individual geophysicists through to mid-tier companies. Houston is a logical springboard for sales of Claritas because so many of the world’s big oil explorers have a base there.”

Mr Horne also sees New Zealand’s geographical location as a big plus, because it allows GNS and Stillwater to provide a premium service offering.

“We can really differentiate ourselves through excellent support, service and responsiveness. By working in parallel with New Zealand, we can offer round the clock coverage because you work while we sleep and vice-versa.”

For more information on this announcement contact us here.

22 April 2006
Claritas announces Houston-based reseller partnership

Due to rapidly rising demand from the North American market, and in line with its global rollout strategy, Claritas recently announced a reseller partnership with Houston-based Stillwater Resource Group, Inc (www.stillwatergroup.com).

Located just minutes from the Houston Energy Corridor, Stillwater Resource Group are specialist technology service providers with a long history in the Texas oil and gas industry.

The partnership came about as a direct result of last year's SEG conference in Houston and the strong interest in Claritas from organisations and individuals throughout the region. It provides North American clients with direct access to in-market resources and dedicated support capability, and is the first in a series of steps that will see Claritas promoted more actively in the region through a variety of channels and service lines, including on-demand processing.

Claritas International Business Development Manager, Hamish Clark, states that "Stillwater are a perfect fit with our ideal partner profile. They are experienced information technology professionals with excellent domain knowledge and relationships in the market segments we wish to pursue. Their long term strategies and value set are also highly aligned with our thinking."

Stacey Horne, President of Stillwater, remarked "We are pleased to partner with such a fine organization, and believe the Claritas product and service offerings will be well received in the marketplace here. We stand committed to fully exploring and expanding the opportunity base for Claritas, and will draw upon all our strategic strengths and alliances in this pursuit."

For more information on this announcement contact us here.

22 April 2006
Claritas selected as Gold Award finalist

Claritas has been selected as one of only three finalists in the Discovering Gold category of the New Zealand Gold Awards.

The Gold Awards are one of the country's premier industry citations and are awarded on the basis of degree of enterprise, innovation and overall excellence. Past winners include some of the big names in New Zealand's high tech industry, including Weta Digital who created the special effects for Lord of the Rings.

The Discovering Gold category focuses on technological, scientific and innovative research and development proje cts and products. The awards are open to all New Zealand businesses and are presented annually with the finals being held in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.

For more information on this announcement contact us here.

22 December 2005
GLOBE Claritas is supported on a wide range of Linux releases. Although we develop and support Claritas mainly on RedHat Linux and Fedora Core versions, many other versions of Linux may be supported. Click here to find out which versions we currently support.

12 December 2005
The team returned from the recent Adelaide training course with an average approval rating of 4.5 out of 5, with the majority of the attendees rating the course as excellent. This is a great endorsement of the quality of the course, given that attendees were drawn from a range of disciplines, including: E&P company interpreters; seismic surveying staff; geoscience technicians; government regulators and a Ph.D student. We are now looking into the possibility of running similar courses in Perth, Houston, Tulsa and Barcelona. Watch this space for news.

28 November 2005
The Globe Claritas team continues to expand with the addition of the services of a progammer new to GNS Science. Malcolm Geddes is a skilled software engineer, and has experience in a number of programming languages; software developed through his company "Geddes Productions" is in about 50% of NZ primary schools. Malcolm has recently worked for GNS on contract converting our basin modelling software for Fortran to C and parallelising the code for use on clusters and supercomputers.

25 November 2005
The seismic data processing course that the team will be running in December is officially full, which is amazing as it was never advertised. The course will run at the Schlumberger Training Centre in Adelaide and is primarily aimed at seismic interpreters wishing to get a better understanding of seismic processing. The teams next scheduled course will probably be in Spain in 2006, but contact us if you want one sooner.

10 November 2005
The Globe Claritas team were out in force in the massive halls of the SEG exhibition, dressed in the New Zealand national sporting colours; All Black, thanks to the generous support of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) . Over the three days of the conference our team presented multiple talks, gave many technical demonstrations and made new contacts and a massively increased potential client base. Exciting new business initiatives were created that we believe will build to something truly exceptional. Watch this space, and see you at the next SEG.

27 October 2005
Want to superseis your seismic processing project? You can with Globe Claritas and the New Zealand Supercomputer (NZSC). Fill in your details on the form to be in with a chance of winning 5000 CPU hours and access to Globe Claritas, winners to be announced after SEG 2005.
Click here to enter the competition

26 October 2005
How clear is your view of Middle Earth? Looking for a clear, bug free of your seismic data? Click here to find out about the latest release of Globe Claritas or talk to us at booth 2501.

25 October 2005
The Globe Claritas team will be running another seismic data processing course in Adelaide in December, following on from the successful course in Wellington in 2004; the focus will again be on marine processing.

11 October 2005
Globe Claritas is being configured to take advantage of the massive increase in processing power of the New Zealand Supercomputer Centre, moving one step close to seismic data processing on demand.
Click here to find out more

7 September 2005
Members of the Globe Claritas and NZSC team will visit the Middle East to discuss setting up a Middle East office. Meetings are arranged with potential in-country representatives, potential clients and government officials.

5 August 2005
The Globe Claritas development team are awarded a further $120,000 of funding from FRST to continue the development and business planning of the next generation of the Globe Claritas Seismic Operating System (SOS), bringing the total funding to $240,000.

4 July 2005
The Globe Claritas Team sign an MOU with marketing and business development consultancy group IMC2 (www.imc2.biz).

10 April 2005
Members of the Globe Claritas visit the APPEA conference in Perth to talk with the Industry players about seismic data processing on demand.

7 March 2005
The Globe Claritas marketing team enter discussions with two potential resellers in India, marking an entry into a new and exciting market

14 February 2005
The Globe Claritas Team sign a MOU with The New Zealand Supercomputer Centre to services offering seismic data processing on demand.
Click here to find out more

13 January 2005
The Globe Claritas Development team have been approved as part of the Mach One Developer program, aimed at porting software applications to Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) ALTIX 64-bit Itanium platform.

1 January 2004
The Globe Claritas development team awarded $120,000 funding from the New Zealand governments Foundation of Science Research and Technology (FRST) to develop parallel processing version of the Globe Claritas Seismic Operating System.