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Unlock Your Subsurface Data: Interpret Any Type, Any Way with IC

Written by Catriona Penman | August 28, 2025

Tired of wrestling with disconnected subsurface data? 

IC brings everything together - logs, tops, production, stratigraphy - into one intuitive platform. Whether you're planning license applications or decommissioning programs, IC helps you make faster, clearer decisions with confidence. 

IC is built for subsurface professionals who need clarity, flexibility, and confidence in their data. Whether you're an operator managing complex field histories or a consultant juggling diverse datasets across projects, IC gives you full control over your interpretation workflow - no matter the data type, format, or source. 

Total data freedom 

Interpretation should be driven by your expertise - not software limitations. 
IC’s flexible yet robust data engine supports any subsurface data type: picks, logs, intervals, stratigraphy, production metrics, and more. The benefits of this are obvious in IC’s interpretation front-end: You decide how it’s displayed, integrated, and interpreted. 

  • Work with all your data, not just simplified subsets. 
  • Combine multiple data types for richer, more holistic and accurate insights. 
  • Visualise and interpret data the way your project demands. 

Figure 1: The freedom to display data in a myriad of ways to highlight the aspects that are important to communicating with the rest of your team or partners. Curves, picks and zones can all be organized to show the subsurface data effectively. 

 

Built-in conversion tools 

Do you prefer working with interval data but need to export picks for modelling? 

Not a problem – IC has a full suite of data conversion tools, allowing you to work and illustrate your data the way you want, while remaining compatible with other systems. This is especially valuable for consultants and operators working across legacy systems or with client-specific formats.

Figure 2: Where limited data is present (the left hand image) the conversions tools included as standard inside IC allow the building of more data (the right hand image) to ensure the displays and filters show what you need. 

 

The complete interpretation system that reflects your expertise 

Subsurface interpretation often suffers from fragmented data, rigid tools, and time-consuming manual processes. IC is designed to solve these challenges by giving you complete control over your data and workflows.  

Behind the scenes, IC’s interpretation engine drives presentation-quality charts that stay directly linked to your working data—so what you show is always grounded in reality. Interpreting wells becomes faster and clearer, with full control over layout, spacing, and data visibility. The result: precise correlations and compelling presentations, built with confidence. 

IC’s interpretation tools are designed for clarity and control: 

  • Customisable wellsticks show any data on any well. 
  • Click-to-correlate functionality makes structural and stratigraphic interpretation intuitive. 
  • Flexible options for correlation panel well spacing ensures outputs reflect true subsurface relationships. 
  • Integrated charting pulls multiple display formats together to deliver complete insights with confidence. 

Figure 3: Multi-well correlations can be orientated, aligned and scaled to show present day geometries easily while highlighting the area and zone that are of interest. 

 

Stratigraphic awareness that saves time 

IC gives users full control over their stratigraphic schemes - making it the only PC-based software that allows you to define your own hierarchy (e.g. Group → Formation → Member → Bed) and automatically builds and quality-checks it as you interpret. 

By linking multiple schemes together, IC enables you to interpret a single data type while auto-generating the rest of the stratigraphic structure. This rule-based approach not only accelerates your workflow but also ensures consistency and confidence across complex, multi-well projects. 

With IC’s stratigraphic awareness, you can: 
  • Define your own stratigraphic rules to match your project, well or basin-specific needs 
  • Auto-build hierarchical relationships as you interpret, saving hours of manual work 
  • Ensure data integrity with built-in quality checks based on your definitions 
  • Streamline multi-well workflows by reducing repetitive tasks and manual corrections 
  • Maintain consistency across teams and datasets, even in complex geological settings 

Figure 4: Using a known stratigraphic scheme allows data to be build within a set of rules.  Strat. Scheme on the left and the evolution of data going to the right as the automatic build is applied or data updated during editing interactively to save time and keep consistency. 

 

Visualise Before You Model 

Understanding your subsurface data starts with seeing it clearly. IC provides intuitive visualisation tools that let you explore your data in depth, across maps, and in 3D—helping you validate inputs and interpret with confidence before modelling begins. 

Instead of relying on model outputs to uncover issues, IC’s visualisation tools enable early detection of inconsistencies, saving time, improving reliability of your interpretations and reducing the need for model reruns. You can quickly view well data as spatial relationships, overlay GIS layers and calculated grids to embed directly into your interpretation workflows. 

Whether you're working at field or regional scale, IC keeps everything connected—ensuring your models are built on a solid foundation of well-understood data. 

IC’s fast, intuitive data viewers let you explore your subsurface data, helping you: 

  • Visualise subsurface data in 3D with full flexibility 
  • Overlay and compare spatial data from multiple sources 
  • Capture and share insights directly from the viewer 

Figure 5: Example montage showing the map, cross section and correlation alongside a 3D image. Fault penetrations, structural surfaces and picks together to show a complete understanding of the area. 

 

Production Monitoring 

With integration between the 3D viewer and 2D montage Charts and IC’s additional Monitoring module, you can visualise production and injection trends over time alongside your geological and well data. This gives operators and consultants a clearer view of field performance and history essential for planning, optimisation, and decommissioning. 

From well logs and stratigraphy to spatial overlays and production trends, IC keeps everything connected and accessible directly from its interactive visualisation tools.

Figure 6: Static image showing a production Montage to include map with grid and attached production profiles for selected wells in the north. Report tables to show the actual data while a reservoir zone correlation highlights stratigraphic variation and a field overview dashboard (a reference to another, live-data linked, chart) is included. 

 

Why Subsurface Professionals Choose IC – Key Benefits 

  • Work with any data type—no restrictions. 
  • Pull data in from any format or vintage 
  • Highlight anomalies and QC data easily – however works for you. 
  • Interpret smarter with integrated, presentation-ready tools. 
  • Save time with auto-built stratigraphic hierarchies. 
  • Visualise clearly with a powerful 3D viewer. 
  • Interactive interpretations on displays that always link back to the data 
  • Stay compatible with other systems using built-in conversion tools. 
  • Generate a wide range of displays to effectively share interpretations. 
  • Understand production with animated field history views in 2D dashboards and 3D. 
  • Work at any scale within a single package: from thin-section to field to basin.  

 

Ready to Unlock Your Subsurface Data? 

 

IC is designed to support the way you work—whether you're interpreting legacy wells, planning new developments, or managing complex field histories. If you're ready to streamline your workflows, improve data clarity, and make confident decisions, it's time to see IC in action. 

Get in touch to book a demo, request a trial, or speak with our team about how IC can support your next subsurface project.