orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . december 2012 scientific computer applications inc. type private company industry scientific software founded 1969 headquarters 2815 east skelly drive tulsa oklahoma usa 74105 key people dick banks president website scaitul.com scientific computer applications inc. scai is a privately held american company based in tulsa oklahoma . scai develops and markets scientific software focused on the oil exploration and production segment of the petroleum industry . scientific computer applications inc. scai was established in 1969 as an oil & gas consulting firm by professional engineering petroleum consultant richard banks a graduate of the colorado school of mines and the university of texas . 1 scai markets contour map software that generates single surface multiple surface contour mapping 2 and reservoir integration applications for the personal computer . 3 4 5 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 contour map software 2.2 petroleum economics 2.3 gas balancing 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit dick banks a colorado school of mines graduate and joe sukkar ph.d began a partnership in 1969 with the development of a contour mapping software package based on triangulation topology . triangulation is more rigorous than gridded contour map software because the original data points are always honored and not estimated as in grid map software . products edit scientific computer applications inc. offers to the petroleum industry three major areas of software products . contour map software edit mcs single surface a contour mapping program that honors every data point and includes single surface contour map software . mcs faulting multisurface a contour mapping software program for reservoir modeling that is focused at the reservoir engineering market . this module handles multiple intersecting non vertical faults among multiple surfaces . mcs multisurface a contour mapping software program that can contour stack geographically up to 125 surfaces simultaneously making a number of structural contour maps and isopachs at the same time . reservoir integration a reservoir modeling software program for petroleum engineering to determine the production opportunity of a petroleum reservoir . integrated time to depth conversion a reservoir modelling software program that uses all seismic and geologic data to generate a contour map . petroleum economics edit fegs forecasting economics and graphics system fegs is a powerful and flexible flat file petroleum economics software package that expedites the accumulation conversion and decline curve analysis of oil and gas production data . decline curve analysis software utilizes exponential hyperbolic hyperbolic reverting to exponential to plot decline curves of well production . gas balancing edit gbs gas balancing system a gas balance accounting software solution that will keep up with the gas imbalance and provide a gas balancing statement to all owners in the well . see also edit fred meissner geographic information system list of geographic information systems software comparison of geographic information systems software scientific software list of information graphics software oil reserves reservoir engineering extraction of petroleum references edit 1 meissner fred ; banks richard 2005 . computer simulation of hydrocarbon generation migration and accumulation under hydrodynamic conditions examples from the williston and san juan basins usa . aapg search and discovery . aapg 32 . banks richard may 2005 . essentials of reservoir integration volumetrics pdf . society of independent professional earth scientists sipes quarterly technology corner 11 . richard banks march 1999 . a proposed standard economic and production data conversion file . dallas texas society of petroleum engineers 5 . isbn 978 1 55563 368 4 . richard banks june 2008 . proper reservoir integration pdf . spee . spee society of petroleum evaluation engineers 13 . scientific computer applications inc. history . retrieved 2012 03 17 . external links edit official scientific computer applications inc. website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scientific computer applications & oldid 700552050 categories software companies based in oklahomacompanies based in tulsa oklahomasoftware companies established in 1969non renewable resource companies established in 19691969 establishments in oklahomaprivately held companies based in oklahomahidden categories orphaned articles from december 2012all orphaned articlesuse mdy dates from march 2012pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 january 2016 at 04 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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