Scientific Computer Applications

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{{Infobox company

| name = Scientific Computer Applications Inc.

| logo = Scientific Computer Applications Inc. logo 190 x 121.jpg

| logo_size = 200px

| type = Private company

| foundation = 1969

| location_city = 2815 East Skelly Drive, Tulsa, Oklahoma

| location_country = USA 74105

| key_people = Dick Banks, (President)

| industry = Scientific Software

| homepage =

}}

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.{{Cite web | title=SCA - Reservoir modeling software - contour map software- contour maps software | url=http://www.scaitul.com/About-SCA-Scientific_Computer_%20Applications.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505221416/http://scaitul.com/About-SCA-Scientific_Computer_%20Applications.aspx | access-date=2025-01-11 | archive-date=2012-05-05}}

SCAI markets contour map software that generates single surface, multiple surfaces, contour mapping,{{cite journal

| last1 = Meissner

| first1 = Fred

| authorlink1 = Fred Meissner

| last2 = Banks

| first2 = Richard

| year = 2005

| title = Computer simulation of hydrocarbon generation, migration and accumulation under hydrodynamic conditions - examples from the Williston and San Juan Basins, USA

| journal = AAPG Search and Discovery

| pages = 32

| publisher = AAPG

| url = http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2005/banks/}}

and Reservoir Integration applications for the Personal computer.

{{cite journal

| last=Banks

| first=Richard

| title= Essentials of Reservoir Integration (Volumetrics)

| journal= Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists SIPES Quarterly Technology Corner

| pages=11

| date=May 2005

| url = http://old.sipes.org/Newsletters/newsltrmay05.pdf

}}

{{cite book

| author = Richard Banks

| authorlink =

|date=March 1999

| title = A Proposed Standard Economic and Production Data Conversion File

| pages = 5

| isbn = 978-1-55563-368-4

| location = Dallas, Texas

| publisher = Society of Petroleum Engineers

| url = http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servlet/onepetropreview?id=00052971

}}

{{cite web

| author = Richard Banks

| date=June 2008

| title = Proper Reservoir Integration

| journal =

| pages = 13

| publisher = Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers

| url = http://www.spee.org/images/PDFs/2008Convention/SPEE-2008-09-Banks.pdf

}}

History

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.

See also

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