"Building on its multiplatform architecture, AGM is announcing the release of its latest version of RECON®, AGM's flagship 3D geological interpretation software on both Linux and Windows," says Robin Dommisse, CEO of AGM, "With this release, RECON focuses on delivering new interactive interpretation workflows to our customers. RECON users have demanded more features related to solving problems in data mining and management, data integration, and advanced geological interpretation workflows. AGM has responded by releasing RECON 4.1, which will help its users to speed up their workflows and improve their interpretation quality."

ReConnect™, a stand-alone module integrated with Recon, is an interactive data mining tool that allows the transfer of data between an OpenWorks  database and Recon in real-time. ReConnect can be launched from within RECON to connect to Landmark OpenWorks 2003 and R5000 databases.

"ReConnect™ empowers geologists to rapidly and efficiently mine data in OpenWorks projects, offering more granular control in the selection of their interpretation data," says Tron Isaksen, president of AGM, "ReConnect provides the ability to merge data from multiple OpenWorks projects into a unified RECON project. Advanced table filters and sorting features allow for quick querying and subsetting of large OpenWorks projects, resulting in more manageable interpretation projects."

AGM's new RECON Petrel Plug-in enables fast and efficient data sharing providing an integrated environment for exceptional collaboration. Users can now launch RECON Petrel Plug-in from within Petrel to import or export data to and from RECON. Interpreters report a significant amount of the time is typically spent on the manual and tedious tasks such as to QC data, correlate wells, create surfaces and thicknesses when generating 3D geocellular models. Since these workflows are automated in RECON, the combined RECON to geomodeling workflows can now deliver unprecedented gains in efficiency and accuracy.

Images such as core descriptions, core photographs and raster logs can be imported, depth-calibrated and displayed in Recon's 2-D well log views to aid in correlation.

Some examples of image logs that can be imported:

• Raster Logs
• Image Logs
• Core Descriptions
• Core Photos

2D Seismic Lines can be imported from 2-D SEG-Y files. A new SEG-Y analyzer allows for easy data analysis, streamlining the import workflow. 2D seismic lines can be visualized and interpreted in RECON's 3D view and its Cross Section view.

Augmenting RECON's StratalSlice module is the new stratigraphic layering workflow. Detailed stratigraphic termination layers can be easily generated between reference horizons capture the vertical heterogeneity.

For example; these detailed layers can be edited locally to refine the stratalslices in order to more accurately identify and interpret fluvial channels.

Stratigraphic layers can be interactively generated for the following styles:

• Proportional
• Onlap
• Toplap

ArcGIS Shape files can be imported and displayed in all of RECON's 2D and 3D views.

All interval data, such as facies, production, and completion data can be converted to log curve format for use in RECON's calculator. For example, users can interpret facies in all of RECON's 2D and 3D interpretation views, convert these to log curves, at which point they can use RECON's zone average distribution algorithms to quickly generate facies maps.

The picture on the left shows a facies distribution map derived from interpreted facies intervals.

Users can now import OpenWorks and StratWorks stratigraphic columns, stratigraphic zone attributes, and curve alias lists for use in RECON.

The latest release of RECON adds numerous hard copy improvements to enhance the quality of map and cross section plots. The horizontal and vertical scales in RECON's Section View can be set independently of one another in order to simplify the hard copy process. Customizable legends provide new options to print company names and logos on hard copies.