TheGlobe for Petrel is a plug-in to Schlumberger's Petrel version 2010.1 for geodesy, project management and presentation in a world context.

According to Hagenes Data ab, the developers of TheGlobe, Petrel currently limits projects and data to a single cartographic projection, and map projections are not well suited to represent data that are collected with different references or cover large geographic areas. TheGlobe Viewer is a new spatial viewer that differs from the traditional 3D viewer in that the render coordinates are geospatial and not projected. The viewer's scene graph uses a spatial hierarchy and the renderers implement three levels of detail.
TheGlobe was developed using the Ocean Software Development Framework from Schlumberger and Open Inventor's built-in ability to directly handle geospatial coordinates (see the SoGeoProjection class). More information about TheGlobe here
According to Hagenes Data ab, the developers of TheGlobe, Petrel currently limits projects and data to a single cartographic projection, and map projections are not well suited to represent data that are collected with different references or cover large geographic areas. TheGlobe Viewer is a new spatial viewer that differs from the traditional 3D viewer in that the render coordinates are geospatial and not projected. The viewer's scene graph uses a spatial hierarchy and the renderers implement three levels of detail.
TheGlobe was developed using the Ocean Software Development Framework from Schlumberger and Open Inventor's built-in ability to directly handle geospatial coordinates (see the SoGeoProjection class). More information about TheGlobe here