Kingdom Training and Services

Courses and resources created to help professionals master global geoscience software workflows, deepen industry knowledge, and inform strategic business decisions.

Maximize your subscription to Kingdom™ from S&P Global, our seismic and geological interpretation and modeling software, with one of our training and/or service offerings.

Key benefits of training:

Conduct faster, more accurate geological interpretations
Improve oil and gas reservoir evaluations with reservoir simulations and modeling
Streamline seismic interpretations by incorporating geology
Develop synthetics with ease and test your interpretations with “what if” scenarios
Generate simple or complex structural and stratigraphic models
Earn professional development credits

Key benefits of services:

Concentrate on business issues, not Kingdom IT issues
Maximize your investment in Kingdom software
Optimize Kingdom performance
Reduce risk of data loss by assuring proper backup & recovery and disaster preparation

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Available courses and client service offerings

Training Courses:

Geology Getting Started

Duration – estimated 4 hrs

Overview - Self-guided training provides the basic skills for geological data loading and interpretation, including creating a new Kingdom project, importing well, culture and log data, and creating basic grids, contours, and cross sections. This course is intended for geoscientists and geo-technicians.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Creating a Kingdom project and selecting a database
Importing well, culture, and log data
Displaying and navigating the Base Map
Working with Well Explorer
Gridding and contouring
Creating cross sections

Geophysics Getting Started

Duration – estimated 4 hrs

Overview - Self-guided training provides the basic software skills to import and interpret seismic data in S&P Global Kingdom® Geophysics. Students will learn how to import culture layers, 2D and 3D seismic data, and well data. Students will also learn how to prepare the seismic display windows for interpretation (including basic 2D and 3D horizon interpretation) and basic gridding and contouring.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Creating a Kingdom project
Importing culture layers and culture groups
Importing 2D and 3D seismic data
Displaying and navigating through 2D and 3D seismic displays for interpretation
Importing well data
Working with well data in Well Explorer
Picking a horizon on 2D and 3D seismic using auto pickers
Gridding and contouring an interpreted horizon

Geophysical Data Loading

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Designed to introduce students to S&P Global Kingdom® SeismicDirect. Makes loading 2D SEG Y data more efficient and less time-consuming by using a novel approach of attaching 2D SEG Y data directly to the Kingdom projects instead of importing the data.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

View and edit 2D SEG Y files
Validate and attach multiple 2D SEG Y files to various Kingdom projects
Convert multiple 2D SEG Y files from one coordinate system to another
Copy and manage the 2D SEG Y files
Import and view 3D SEG Y files

Basic Seismic Interpretation

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Designed to help students use the variety of geophysical interpretation tools in Kingdom. Helps students develop Kingdom software skills by progressing through basic seismic interpretation workflows, starting with basic seismic and well display and then advancing to time-depth conversion and data display in 3D View. Students will learn also learn workflows for simple post-stack processing techniques, digital log editing, fault and horizon interpretation, synthetic generation, and basic gridding and surface calculations. This course is not intended to teach entry-level interpretation skills or definitions.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Kingdom basics, including selecting proper licensing and creating a new author
Managing project data using Project Explorer and setting project and Base Map display preference
Selecting and navigating through 2D and 3D seismic data
Applying seismic mistie corrections from the Mistie Table and generating new seismic data types
Managing well data in Well Explorer
Querying and saving well subsets
Displaying and editing digital log curves
Generating synthetics using the Kingdom Synthetics module
Interpreting fault surfaces and fault polygons using basic digitizing methods
Interpreting horizon surfaces using manual picking, basic 2D auto-picking, and basic 3D auto-picking techniques
Gridding and surface calculations
Creating a basic Dynamic Depth Conversion model
Displaying data results in 3D View

Geological Data Loading

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Designed primarily for geoscience technicians and interpreters responsible for creating Kingdom projects and loading culture, well, log, and production data into Kingdom. The course assumes that students have a fundamental understanding of the data types used in this class.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Kingdom project creation, including establishing project extents, setting project options, selecting an XY projection method, setting user preferences, and understanding the concept of authorship
Import cultural data in various formats and edit and manage culture groups and layers
Review enhanced layer-based mapping workflows in Spatial Explorer
Import well data from ASCII format and S&P Global well data files
Import other types of well data such as deviation surveys, time-depth charts, zone attribute data, and formation tops in ASCII format
Import digital log curves and review digital log curve management
Import both calibrated and uncalibrated raster logs and use Well Explorer calibration tools to calibrate, edit, and add formation picks on raster logs
Load S&P Global and ASCII formatted monthly production data, view monthly and cumulative production data, and edit existing production data
Use Spatial Explorer to create a map in Map View and AOI Print View
Use PAKnotes to attach various types of documentation (Word docs, Excel files, PowerPoints, and graphic files) to a Kingdom project
In addition to importing workflows for various data types, students will also review exporting methods of various data from a Kingdom project

Geological Interpretation

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Focusing on tools and techniques for managing and interpreting geologic data. Because geologic data is the focus, only licenses for Advanced Kingdom Geology and a 3D View are required.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

View and manage well and production data in Well Explorer
Manage digital logs, including editing, calculations, and computations
Manage raster logs, including raster calibration, picking, and digitizing tools
Manage formation top, including display settings and properties
Formation top picking methods in geologic sections and 3D View
Set up geologic section displays and review interpretation tools
Grid and contour geologic data manually and automatically using the DCMU tool
Review zone concepts and use the Compute functions for zone, production, and log data
Work with culture data in a Base Map and 3D View
Review basic mapping techniques, including data posting, highlight symbols, attribute maps, and bubble maps

Advanced Mapping Techniques

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Designed to equip users with the ability to create optimal maps using the Kingdom software. Covering the three primary elements of computer-based mapping. Gridding - create a model surface based on input data of variable order. Interpreting - prepare these surfaces for mathematical operations of interest to the explorationist or driller. Communication - provide a means to convey the results in a meaningful way.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Selecting a grid algorithm appropriate to the objective and input data
Making the best parameter choice selection for grid workflows
Gridding for stratigraphic purposes
Gridding for structural purposes
Advanced mapping using the Dynamic Map Update module
Use the Grid Shaping Tool Editor in the interpretation process
Understanding the factors in selecting appropriate color bars
Building a new color bar

Advanced Seismic Interpretation

Coming soon - Fall 2023

Analytics Explorer

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Provide you with an introduction to the basic skills and methodologies required to visualize and analyze your data. You will learn how to embed data analytics at every stage of the Kingdom interpretation workflows from data loading to quality control to log facies characterization. You will also learn how to apply advanced calculations and machine learning algorithms from Spotfire to classify and predict data from Kingdom projects and any other external data source integrated with Analytics Explorer.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Synchronizing project data between Analytics Explorer and Kingdom
Loading and working in an Analytics Explorer template file
Creating, using, and saving Analytics Explorer template files
Mining and quality-checking your project data
Identifying and correcting erroneous data using both Analytics Explorer and Well Explorer
Creating well subsets in Analytics Explorer
Analyzing log facies
Performing calculations to help predict production analysis
Saving predicted data columns as zone attributes
Clustering the zone production data
Reviewing Principle Component Analysis capabilities
Identifying features in grids and horizons using Self Organizing Maps (SOM)
Viewing basic seismic information in Analytics Explorer

AVO Analysis for Hydrocarbon Detection

Duration – 2 days

Overview - AVOPAK provides interpreters with the ability to perform real-time AVO analysis of seismic data in hydrocarbon exploration. It is an integral part of the S&P Global Kingdom® software, facilitating data interpretation to take full advantage of the potential of Kingdom Geology, Kingdom Geophysics, VuPAK, and GeoSyn. This two-day course is designed for Kingdom users who want to go beyond their conventional

amplitude interpretation and explore the Pre-stack capabilities Kingdom has to offer in hydrocarbon exploration.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Overview of AVO terminology, brief history, and principles
Seismic gather importing
Offset/angle gather stacking
Gather manipulation, conditioning, and display
Gather interpretation
Generating/editing synthetics
Creating a forward model using 1DFM
AVO attribute computation
Crossplot of AVO attributes

Exploration Techniques for Unconventional Resource Plays

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Provides suggested geological workflows for resource plays, specifically unconventional shale plays. Many of these workflows may prove useful in other trends, including conventional plays. Designed to demonstrate interpretation techniques and workflows using S&P Global™ Kingdom®. These techniques contribute to the ability of petroleum geoscientists to explore for oil and gas in geologic settings that were previously never considered to be reservoirs. The effective use of resource play techniques can influence the economics of the unconventional reservoir.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Quality check your data using Kingdom Analytics
Create maps (gridding)
Estimate total organic carbon using Kingdom Petrophysics
Perform future well planning using Well Path Planner
Geosteer a horizontal well

Geosteering

Duration – 1 day

Overview - S&P Global Kingdom® Geosteering allows users to accurately and efficiently steer wells along a target of interest in a completely integrated interpretation environment. This reduces the need to duplicate data while providing a consistent view across the entire asset team.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Create cases with planned, drilling, and reference wells along vertical sections or the wellbore
Load deviation survey and log data for drilling wells
Calibrate a drilling well to selected reference wells and between reference wells
Correlate drilling well log with reference well log, resulting in accurate prediction of formation bedding orientation
Incorporate seismic data in time using Dynamic Depth Conversion, and therefore time horizons seen in virtual depth, with easy model updates as interpretations are done
Predict a structural model using Dynamic Map Update which aids in understanding landing depths
Easily update the drilling well as new data arrives

Integrated Geoscience Data Loading

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Provides students with additional insight into data importing and exporting techniques not covered in either the Geological Data Loading or Geophysical Data Loading classes. Uses a realistic training scenario, where a new Kingdom project is built from both an existing project and data from external sources. Provides workflows using the new Kingdom Data Transfer, Well Explorer, and Spatial Explorer modules.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Using Kingdom Data Transfer to copy data from one Kingdom project to another
Export 2D seismic data, 3D seismic data, arbitrary seismic lines, wells, culture, local and shared time-depth (TD) charts, seismic horizons, faults, fault polygons, grids, planimeter polygons, contours, seismic wavelets and traces, synthetic traces, XYZ data sets, and zone data from an existing Kingdom project
Load culture (in Kingdom, DXF, and Landmark formats), including TIFF images and shapefiles
Load wells from different sources using Landmark OWX, Tobin, GDS, and generic formats
Bulk load deviation surveys, well logs (LAS format), and formation tops (Excel spreadsheet)
Load local and shared TD charts using well subsets
Load plus merging/extending 2D/3D seismic surveys
Copy seismic surveys into a new Kingdom project using the Share/Copy option
Load and merge seismic horizons
Load other interpreted data including faults and fault polygons, grids, contours, seismic wave-lets, synthetic traces, XYZ data, and zone data.

Kingdom Data Management

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Introduction to the KDM Catalog Builder and Kingdom Data Manager module—Kingdom’s tools that help you manage your Kingdom project and data environment. This course is designed to help system administrators, geotechnicians, data managers, or geoscientists manage Kingdom project data more effectively and efficiently. This course is not intended to teach best practices on Kingdom project data management, but rather to teach you how to use a data-management tool, Kingdom DM.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Locate and inventory all Kingdom projects
Examine project data and identify redundant and incomplete projects
Query multiple projects for specific criteria
Examine the location and accessibility of Kingdom projects’ seismic files
Reduce storage needs by sharing seismic between projects more efficiently
Convert a project from one database to another
Make a copy of a project with the same or different database
Copy and move data from one Kingdom project directly into another Kingdom project using Kingdom Data Transfer

Kingdom Data Loading via Direct Connect

Duration – 1 hr

Overview - Demonstrate using Direct Connect to S&P Global Data inside the Kingdom software program, for convenient project building and faster well and production updates. Learn how to update projects faster by adding new wells and updating content without leaving Kingdom.

Objectives - You can expect the following workflows to be featured, and an opportunity to ask questions: -

Learn Direct Connect options for Well Data, Production Data, and Log Data imports inside the Kingdom software program
Use existing Enerdeq Queries and create new Enerdeq Queries in Kingdom Direct Connect
Use existing project Subsets to update Well and Production Data
Draw polygon on Kingdom Base Map to create a Direct Connect AOI for well imports
Manage and schedule Kingdom Direct Connect Jobs for future updates
Import Raster and Digital Logs from the S&P Global Direct Connect Bulk Log Database

Microseismic

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Focuses on the basics of using the Kingdom Microseismic software.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Load microseismic event and well-treatment data
View and filter microseismic event and well-treatment data in various ways based on a specific criteria
Create data subsets
Generate new microseismic attributes from existing data such as X-, Y-, Z-time, and Z-depth adjustments, borehole and horizon distance attributes, and extracted data attributes
Calculate event subset statistics, display histograms of almost any microseismic data type
Use the 2D Crossplot option to create and view crossplots of any combination of microseismic data.

Petrophysics

Duration – 1 day

Overview - Focused on the Kingdom Petrophysics module.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following topics: -

Learn the basics of navigating the Kingdom Petrophysics module and how this module integrates and interacts with a Kingdom project
Practice using curve editing tools with hands-on exercises including splicing, depth shifting and multi-well normalizing
Work with the curve calculators to create curves by basic log function computing and utilizing multi-line formulas
Use the TOC module to create TOC curves and then use the TOC to apply Organic Shale logic to a deterministic petrophysics workflow using the Log Analysis module
Use the Log Analysis module to interactively adjust the log parameters in a multi-zone analysis to see immediate results using crossplots, histograms, and log plot tools
Use Multi Linear Regression to create regression formulas for curve prediction to aid in completing a well’s log suite
Create facies curves using the Cluster Analysis for Rock Typing option

Project Management and System Administration

Coming soon - Fall 2023

Wind Energy

Duration – 2 days

Overview - Designed for individuals in the offshore wind energy industry, including geotechnical consultants, energy companies, and regulatory agencies. Teaches S&P Global Kingdom® software tools and techniques to import, manage, interpret, and communicate important geophysical, geotechnical, and subsurface data to analyze the seafloor for offshore wind energy planning and development effectively.

This course offers new workflows and techniques for seafloor analysis that assist with Cable Burial Risk Assessments (CBRA) and alignments charts. In general, the offshore wind energy industry uses similar geotechnical data types to the oil and gas industry; however, there are some differences. This course reviews the similarities and differences between these data types and how to manage them in Kingdom for offshore wind projects.

Objectives - Hands-on exercises, and covering the following workflows: -

Importing high-resolution seismic and geotechnical data types
Interpreting seismic data and picking horizons on the seafloor
Creating grids of various seafloor attributes to create an accurate ground model
Creating new geotechnical data types (SBT facies log) from CPT logs
Performing qualitative analysis on SBT logs in Kingdom Analytics
Visualizing geophysical and geotechnical data in 3D View
Creating a comprehensive map of spatial, geotechnical, and geophysical data in Spatial Explorer

Service Offerings:

Onboarding & Initial Setup

Detailed services may include: -

Installation of all SPGI software and licensing
Database setup in collaboration with IT/DBA
Configuration of third-party connectivity
Performance of sample data migrations
Mentoring in data loading and basic usage
Demonstration of backup/recovery techniques

Performance Troubleshooting & Optimization

General IT consulting to improve customer experience which may include: -

Onsite Health Check
Network & software performance review
Database configuration and troubleshooting
Installation assistance
Project inventory and cleanup

Data Migration & Project Conversion

Integrated services to assist with migration to S&P software (Includes Petra to Kingdom): -

Project scope analysis and planning
Kingdom environment setup
Platform connectivity configuration
Data migration and QC
Project upgrades

Project Repair

Assistance with repairing damaged projects: -

Database reconstruction after loss
Systems file database re-linkage
Proprietary tools

Data Loading & Project Creation

General data services, with experienced Kingdom personnel who can escalate any issues: -

Well data loading of all types
Seismic data loading
Culture data loading

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The Learning Center provides easy digital access to our training offerings and allows participants to track progress through learning paths and achieve certifications. The platform and curricula are designed with engaging activities to create an optimal learning experience for you and your team.

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The Live Online training option gives you the opportunity to take advantage of a one-to-many training environment from your desk or home office.

Participants of Live Online courses can expect to receive:

Hard copy delivery of course manual
Virtual networking with fellow attendees
Opportunities to participate in live Q&A with instructors
Guided instruction through hands-on exercises via virtual Microsoft Teams sessions
Access to Kingdom software powered by AWS Cloud

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Take advantage of on-demand comprehensive and micro learning opportunities on a range of topics at your own pace. Our Getting Started Series of courses introduce users to the software and demonstrate how to create a new Kingdom project, import data and how to create grids, contours and cross sections.

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