Isatis issued from 40 years of geostatistics
Isatis is the result of 40 years of experience in industrial applications and applied research in geostatistics for the oil & gas and mining industries, as well as more recently, for environmental issues. Today, Isatis is widely used the world over by more than 300 private Oil & Gas and Mining Companies, consultancy teams and environmental agencies, and benefits from the expertise of a broad network of research centers.
GEOVARIANCES continuously adapts and updates Isatis to the needs and the evolution of the market.
Through an exclusive agreement with the “Centre de Géostatistique”, GEOVARIANCES keeps Isatis at the cutting edge of technology by incorporating the latest developments in geostatistics.
- 1967. Pr. G. Matheron established Geostatistics at “Ecole des Mines de Paris” and set up the “Centre de Géostatistique” in Fontainebleau.
- 1978. Birth of Bluepack in response to the need for accurate 2D contour maps in the oil industry. It included advanced techniques for time-to-depth conversion using seismic attributes and well data.
- 1980. First release of Magma which brought together a complete set of geostatistical tools and an efficient 2D and 3D data management. Magma already contained most of the available kriging and simulation techniques for carrying out 3D stochastic geological modeling.
- 1986. GEOVARIANCES was founded to market Magma worldwide to an industrial clientele. Total, Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum, Agip, Amoco, Gaz de France for the oil industry, Genmin, CVRD, Impala, MBR for the mining industry, Ifremer for oceanology, ... were among our first users.
- 1993. First release of Isatis, GEOVARIANCES’ leading product, which offered in one integrated and user-friendly package all the techniques previously available in Magma and Bluepack, merging 2D and 3D approaches.
- 1994. Advanced stochastic simulation techniques were implemented in Isatis to address an overwhelming need for a better assessment of the uncertainties.
- 1996. Faults appeared in Isatis.
- 1997. First version for Windows operating system.
- 1998. ISATOIL provided an original, global, multi-layer approach for building a consistent 3D stacked sequence.
- 2000. Polygons were designed in Isatis for global estimation.
- 2002. First version for Linux operating system.
- 2003. Direct links between Isatis and the most popular integrated reservoir characterization systems such as GOCAD (Earth Decision Sciences) and the RML (Beicip Franlab) allowed integrating geostatistics into conventional earth modeling procedures.
- 2004. Plurigaussian simulations were implemented in Isatis to meet a growing need for modeling complex reservoir geology.
- 2004. Direct links between Isatis and standard mining packages such as GEMS (Gemcom) and DATAMINE (Datamine) allowed to combine geology modeling with advanced and powerful geostatistics in an efficient way.
- 2005. The macro selections were designed for efficent domaining.
- 2006. The Isatis 3D-Viewer improved the understanding of data by using sophisticated 3D visualization techniques.
- 2006. New Sequential Gaussian Simulations calling for a moving neighborhood are implemented.
- 2007. Isatis performances were boosted with the 64-bit version.
- 2007. Import and export interfaces were implemented in PETREL™ for an easy access to the full capabilities of Isatis.
- 2007. The wireframe objects appeared in Isatis. Global Trend Modeling and Multiple Point Simulations are implemented.
- 2008. License borrowing facilitated the use of Isatis when being disconnected from the server.
- 2009. Selection from wireframes has been implemented for accurate domaining. The georeferencing of images allowed to put models in real-life situation. Variograms can be computed on very large simulated grids in a click.
- 2010. Birth of Kartotrak, the first all-in-one software solution for contaminated site characterization, born out of a partnership between Geovariances and the French Commission for Atomic Energy (CEA). Isatis now offers exclusive automatic variogram fitting in each direction and for each variable.
- 2011. GEOVARIANCES opened a subsidiary in Brisbane, Australia. Advanced tools developed through M2RC consortium are implemented in Isatis. Simulation performances are up to 30 times faster!
- 2012. Flumy, a new reservoir model for meandering channelized systems, has been implemented in Isatis. Second version of Kartotrak has been enriched with the third dimension, which broadened its use to deep radioactive and chemical contaminations.
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