Bentley Systems offers gINT, a set of applications that generate and present subsurface data for mining and other purposes.
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LMKR GeoGraphix
Score 8.0 out of 10
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LMKR in Dubai offers GeoGraphix, a suite of applications supporting research activities for oil and gas like mapping and petrophysical modeling and well planning.
Suitable for all organisations that are required to collate, store and generate borehole site logs in a timely and orderly fashion. Can also be used for the storage of .ags data if setup correctly. Handles multiple projects well but is not without hiccups when used regularly. I believe it is possible to draw section views however have not done so myself.
I can not say where "it is or is not appropriate" in general terms, because you do not have experience in all fields of application of the program. But if you can note that within the areas where it has been applied and where better results have been obtained, it is when the results have been integrated with programs such as the ARGIS, specifically through the map module, obtaining simultaneous general visualizations of different variables. Where lower quality results have been obtained, it is when the intention is to generate contour maps with relatively little information, through the use of interpolation algorithms. I have done tests where I have results with a good amount of information and I try that the program, after removing information selectively, I generate new surfaces, in order to see how sensitive is the generated surface to the amount of information available. The results are similar to those obtained with other software that can also generate the desired surfaces.
It is an integral tool that allows linking information from different disciplines.
The software allows the projects it manages to be stored anywhere in the network where it is working, including storage devices that are connected to the network itself.
The integrity of the data is high, while the search engine and associated quality control maximize the degree of manageability of the data, even when the project is large.
It suffers from what happens to most software of this type: the resolution of isolines that define points or surfaces of the same characteristic (for example, equal depth, or the same degree of hardness), depend a lot on the interpolation algorithm that the software is selected or used directly, so in general the characteristics of these surfaces do not reliably characterize the actual conditions being studied.
The use of this software, in particular, is limited to machines that operate with 64-bit processors.
I find Holebase much more user-friendly and intuitive although have not used for as long as gINT. It seems to handle the data in a much more reliable way and I've yet to find pesky bugs. Whilst gINT feels like a polished interface to what is in essence a simple database, Holebase feels like a bespoke piece of software.
The named software may have the same or higher capacity than the revised one, as far as the analysis of the data is concerned, but they do not have the capacity of visual representation that the GeoGraphix has. The interesting thing is to use the best of the different software. You can analyze with one and import the data to the GeoGraphix to make the analyzes on the platform of this one.
It has enlarged the size of the study area due to its great data handling capacity.
It has increased the possibility of recreating and posing different scenarios, as well as the sensitivity of these to changes in the values of any of the parameters involved.
The speed with which you can obtain results for different study scenarios has also increased.
