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September 2012 newsletterContents this month...

Thanks to those who visited us at AAPG ICE in Singapore

October Public Training Dates Full - Additional November Date added

Did you win a public training registration in our client survey?

EIG Conference

Call for Presentations for our 2013 User Meeting

We join the SEG’s SEAM project for Phase II

Registration Open for SEG Workshop: Modelling Structural Evolution to

Improve 3D Models for Exploration and Mine Development

Move Monthly Feature - Algorithm Advice for Kinematic Modelling

Move Sneak Preview: Kriging Method for Surface Creation

Academic Community Resources

2012 Student Structure Prize

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Our two training courses which

take place this month, one in

Glasgow and one in Houston, are

now full. Due to this continued

demand will be running the course

again in Houston on 27 - 29

November 2012.

The training provides industry

geoscientists and academic

geologists with the perfect opportunity to:

• Become familiar with features and

functionality within Move and their

applications to different tectonic settings,

• Learn how structural models evolve

through time,

• Learn how results can be used to refine

structural interpretations,

• Use the software to increase predictive

accuracy and reduce risk.

Glasgow Public Training, NovemberThe course will also run in our Glasgow HQ

on 13th - 15th November and we still have a

couple of spaces remaining.

Further information on the content of

both courses can be found on our website.

Pricing and registration can be obtained by

emailing events@mve.com.

Our Public Training course is endorsed by

the Geological Society of London with GSL

Fellows receiving a 10% discount.

We exhibited earlier this month at the American Association of

Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) International Convention and Exhibition

(ICE), in Singapore with our Upstream Technology Alliance partner

Badley Geoscience.

Visitors to our booth received software

demonstrations of Move and found out

more about our consultancy and training

services.

We also raffled off a few bottles of our

favourite malt whiskys in our business

card raffle. The winners were Megge

Long of Core Labs; Elizabeth Atkinson

of Murphy Oil Corp and Guillaime Rebily

of Geopetrol.

We would like to say thank you to those who spent

some time with us and commiserations to those

who were unlucky win the whisky raffle - better luck

next time!

October Public Training Dates Full - Additional November Date added

2 - 4 October

Public Training: Structural Modelling & Analysis using Move, Glasgow

5 October

Public Training: Digital Mapping using FieldMove Glasgow

9 - 11 October

Public Training: Structural Modelling & Analysis using Move, Houston

25 - 26 October

SEG Workshop: Modelling Structural Evolution to Improve 3D Models for Exploration and Mine Development, Littleton Colorado

4-7 November

GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Charlotte

13–15 November

Public Training: Structural Modelling & Analysis using Move, Glasgow

27 - 29 November

Public Training: Structural Modelling & Analysis using Move, Houston

28 - 30 November

GSL Event: Industrial Structural Geology: Principles, Techniques and Integration, London

December

Move 2013 Software Release

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Client Survey WinnerWe would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who provided feedback through our

recent client survey where a place on one of our training courses was up for grabs.

Out of nearly 100 respondents the lucky winner was James Bowkett of Impact Oil and Gas.

We’ll be welcoming him onto one of our courses next month.

EIG ConferenceMidland Valley Structural Geologist Jenny Ellis attended the Extractive

Industries Geology (EIG) Conference earlier this month at Edge Hill University.

The meeting was well attended with a strong technical program which included

a talk with a co-author from Midland Valley.

Nikolaos Lykaksis, I. Brewer (Tarmac), and A.P. Wilkinson (Quarry Design), were accepted to

present “Structural mapping and modelling of Dolyhir Quarry, Powys as a basis for a refined

reserve assessment and quarry development strategy”.

Read the presentation abstract on our website or find out more about our work in the mining

industry.

Call for Presentations for our 2013 User Meeting

We invite our commercial clients and Academic Software Initiative members to present work

they have undertaken using Move at our 2013 User Meeting which takes place in Edinburgh

in March 2013.

Oral and poster presentation slots are available, please indicate which you would prefer.

Registration fees will be waived for those presenting at the meeting.

For further information or to submit your abstract, email events@mve.com.

We join the SEG’s SEAM project for Phase II

Midland Valley are delighted to announce that we have been chosen by the SEG SEAM

project consortium members to construct a digital 3D geological model of a foothills fold and

thrust tectonic region.

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AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco

14 December

Student Structure Prize Closing Date

2 - 4 January

MDSG Winter Meeting, Leicester

3 - 5 January

TSG AGM, Leeds

3 - 6 March

PDAC 2013, Toronto

27 - 28 March

2013 Move User Meeting, Edinburgh

19 - 22 May

AAPG ACE, Pittsburgh

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Further information on all of these events can be found in the Calendar Section of our website.

Contact us if you would be interested in setting up an appointment around these meetings.

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2013 User Meeting27th & 28th March

Edinburgh, Scotland

We will be merging two partial geologic models provided by consortium members. One is a cube of seismic velocity in the near surface, and

is based on an actual exploration play in a foothills region of South America. The other partial model consists of interpreted geologic surfaces

from a seismic survey over a thrust zone. We will import the data into Move, edit and merge the models, and produce a single, geologically

consistent 3D digital model of a foothills fold- and thrust-belt region. Although the final model will be generic, the original subsurface geology

of the type areas will be represented as faithfully as possible.

Michael Oristaglio, SEG project manager for SEAM Phase II, commented that “Midland Valley was selected for this project on the strength

of its top-rated technical proposal, and for its reputation and experience as a leader in structural modelling and interpretation of complex geol-

ogy.”

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Registration Open for SEG Workshop: Modelling Structural Evolution to Improve 3D Models for Exploration and Mine Development

This two day course is designed for Geologists in Mineral Exploration and Resource Development and their Managers who want to

minimize geological risk and optimise the use of regional and mine-scale geological models. The course is particularly useful for people

working with structurally controlled deposits and/or deposits that have been deformed.

The course will be led by Structural Geologist Jenny Ellis and will take place at the SEG course center in Littleton, Colorado on 25th -

26th October. Contact us for further information or register for the workshop on the SEG website.

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Move Monthly Feature - Algorithm Advice for Kinematic Modelling

May

Effective Structural Modelling

June

The Move Link for Petrel

July

Move Link for R5000

August

Capturing Strain

Structural style Recommended Comments

Quick look on time distorted sec-

tion (not recommended except for

reconnaissance)

Vertical shear This is the only occasion where vertical shear is a

recommended and appropriate approach. Simple

isopach redatumning for anything else is not justified. Cartoon and concept models of

ramp flat geometries and syn-sedi-

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Incline shear, fault parallel flow, flexural slip as

appropriate.

Vertical shear as teaching aid. The relationship of

fault shape to hanging wall shape is easiest for the

non-expert to visualise.Steep Normal faults Incline shear syn and antithetic shear (NOT

Vertical shear). Consider using fault parallel

flow through-out.

Use fault parallel flow plus shear to restore syn anti-

thetic pairs or mix incline shear and the affine shear

from fault parallel flow.Domino Faults Rotation and translation. Use affine shear in move-on-fault tool boxes to adjust

shapes. Note that selecting footwall as a hanging wall

object allows you to partition deformation to footwall.Regional “expanded mesh” normal

faulting with mix of hard and soft

linkage

Use mass-spring approach in Geomechanical

Modelling module otherwise flexural unfolding

and/or syn-antithetic shear.

Avoid using vertical shear except for reconnaissance

quick look.

Shallow normal faults, raft and salt

tectonics

Use fault parallel flow or flexural unloading.If necessary try mixed mode deformation by mixing

algorithms.

Forward modelling of detachment and tip folds.Maintain salt area/volume as base case. Do not

decrease salt volume during restoration.Trishear extension may be appropriate for

extensional rafts.Salt domes and pillars As above but may need to consider syn and

ant ithetic incline shear.Inversion structures Recommend fault parallel flow and trishear as

better approach.

Syn and anticline shear are the common defaults but

don’t often give good results.Thrust and thin skinned tectonics Fault parallel flow and affine shear / flexural

slip / forward modelling.

Incline shear may be justified if you have similar (type

2) folding.Thick skinned up-thrusts Trishear and fault parallel flow. See above.Strike slip Fault parallel flow and affine shear.Basement tectonics Mix deformation mechanisms. Similar folding – incline shear.

Parallel folding – flexural slip.

Type three – fault parallel flow and mixed modes with

affine shear.

May need to model each lithology in turn and use

volume/area balance in rebuild.

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Move Sneak Preview: Kriging Method for Surface CreationMove 2013 introduces the Kriging method of surface creation in the Move Application.

Kriging

The Kriging tool in Move creates a new surface by interpolation of calculations between known locations and points such as well/drill-hole

data. The created surface can be improved to better fit the data by choosing which type of transition model is required eg exponential, linear,

spherical and by using the variogram tool. The tool provides Omnidirectional and directional variograms, variogram surface for anisotropy

investigations and a rose diagram for anisotropy investigations. Using the advanced functionality will produce a smoother, more accurate

surface.

Point data is visualised in Move

Point data is collected in the ‘Create Surface’

toolbox.

Select ‘Ordinary Kriging’ as the

Surface Creation Method.

The variogram allows data manipulation

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Surface is created with points visible

View of new surface without point dataMove 2013 is due for release at the end of this year. Make sure you are on the list to receive it.

academic focus 7 newsletter september 2012

Academic Community ResourcesAs a new academic year begins we would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our initiatives and resources available to the

academic community.

Academic Software Initiative (ASI)

We provide unlimited Move software to

academic institutes for teaching and non-

commercial research.

Online Resources

We have made some resources available on

our website including FieldMove, MoveViewer

and some teaching materials.

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2012 Student Structure PrizeWe urge lecturers and professors to encourage their students to submit their outstanding pieces of structural geology to our 2012 Student

Structure prize where cash prizes of up to USD$2000 can be won. Further information including the rules of the competition can be found on

our website.

Overall best use of : $2,000Postgraduate Prize: 1st place: $2,000 2nd place: $1,000Undergraduate Prize: 1st place: $1,500 2nd place: $500

Student Structure Prize 2012

Let the rest of the world see who you are and what you’ve done!

Rewards outstanding pieces of structural geology by students

with cash prizes of up to

$2000! Closing Date: 14 December 2012

The criteria of the project is broad to cover the whole field of structure

with the emphasis being on individuality and creativity.

Further details, terms and conditions can be found at www.mve.com/academic or by emailing prize@mve.com