Imaging challenges at Gulf of Papua (PNG) and their solutions through high-end imaging technology

Zongying Gong, Subhash Chandra, Xiaodong Wu, Yajing Li, Min Zhi, Michael Szczepaniak, Barry Hung

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... THE ABSORPTION MODEL The starting model for FWI is from the 2010 vintage PSTM velocity converted to depth with proper smoothing. Here, diving waves...

Part 3: Support Data (A)

Francis P. Shepard, Neil F. Marshall, Patrick A. McLoughlin, Gary G. Sullivan

AAPG Special Volumes

...). Because it is well-known that internal waves move across the continental shelf producing a repetition of the wave pattern (LaFond, 1962), it may...

Dynamic Ice-Wallow Relief of Northern Alaska's Nearshore

Erk Reimnitz, Edward Kempema

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Observations on ice deposited by waves on Alaskan arctic beaches, in Dionne, J. C., ed., La Revue de la Geographie de Montreal, v. 30, Nos. 1-2, p. 115-122...

Part Two: Field Trip on the Southern Shelf

New Orleans Geological Society

... of the boats, in the water, and in the sun. Most of the diving localities include both deep and shallow water, therefore a buddy system...

Simultaneous Joint Inversion of Electromagnetic, Gravity and Seismic Data for Thrust Belt and Sub-Basalt Imaging

Virgilio Massimo, Stephen Hallinan, Marco Mantovani

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... as diving waves (pre-migration step) and common image gathers (post-migration step) using standard Kirchhoff migration pre stack algorithm. Figure 4 shows...

The Future of Exploration

Valente Ricoy, Friedrich Roth

GEO ExPro Magazine

... of the poor commercial success rate, standing at about 12% worldwide (Westwood Global Energy, 2019). Diving deeper into well results, it has been noted...

Laminar Micrite Crusts and Associated Foreslope Processes, Red Sea: REPLY

T. C. Brachert , W. C. Dullo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). Second, these carbonates exhibit no fundamental change in character from 120 m below sea level down to 215 m below sea level, which is the diving...

Paleocurrents and Shoreline Orientations in Green River Formation (Eocene), Raven Ridge and Red Wash Areas, Northeastern Uinta Basin: REPLY

M. Dane Picard

AAPG Bulletin

... Picard 1967 2471 2475 51 12. (December) Bagnold, R. A., 1946, Motion of waves in shallow water. Interaction between waves and sand bottoms: Royal Soc...

Unlocking the Potential of Conventional Narrow Azimuth Data by Full-Waveform Inversion: a Deep Carbonate Imaging Case Study, Offshore Indonesia

Jun Wang, Yonghe Guo, Putri Supriandini, Bahrul Yusrie, Natalia Anggriani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... long. Given the short cable length, ray-based modeling of the diving waves through the starting model indicated an expected maximum depth of penetration...

Broad bandwidths reveal double the expected sediment depth in the Northern Carnarvon Basin

Jo Firth, Mark Stanley

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and diving waves in complex media. In this instance, the refraction tomography produced a high-resolution velocity model, identifying localised high-velocity...

Bedforms and Structures Associated with Bar Topography in the Shallow-Water Wave Environment, Kouchibouguac Bay, New Brunswick, Canada

Robin G. D. Davidson-Arnott, Brian Greenwood

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... produced by megaripples in seaward flowing rip-currents which dissect the bar; (3) repetition of the sequence of bedforms and structures as waves shoal...

Terang Sirasun: Indonesia's First Diverless Subsea Production System?

John Brownridge, Daniel Jayson, Rudy Harjoto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and sweet with less than 0.1% CO2 (Table 2, 3), while at the surface, environmental conditions (wind, waves and current) are very mild in comparison to other...

Delivering a Step-Change in Imaging from Indonesias First Ocean Bottom Node 3D Seismic Survey at Tangguh

Christopher Birt, Hery Prastowo, Danang Priyambodo, Simon Wolfarth, Johnathan Stone

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of 20km were recorded to provide diving waves needed for detailed velocity inversion. The dense wide-azimuth design resulted in a high fold of over...

Currents in Submarine Canyons and Other Types of Seavalleys

Francis P. Shepard

Special Publications of SEPM

... that from deep diving vehicles they can be seen to to stir up the fine sands and silts that on the intermediate floatation are so common floors...

Geologic Use of Self-Contained Diving Apparatus

Robert F. Dill , George Shumway

AAPG Bulletin

...Geologic Use of Self-Contained Diving Apparatus Robert F. Dill , George Shumway 1954 148 157 38 1. (January) Newly developed diving techniques...

Application of Anisotropic 3D Reverse Time Migration to Complex North Sea Imaging; #41573 (2015)

M. A. Hall, I. F. Jones, M. C. Goodwin, I. D. Berranger, H. Zhou, P. A. Farmer

Search and Discovery.com

... (diving) raypaths are involved, or when multiples are being generated. In addition, approximations in the extrapolation techniques usually limit the dips...

Hybrid Velocity Model Building: 3D Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) Orthorhombic Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) Depth Imaging of a Complex Geological Structure, Western Berau - Papua, Indonesia

Purbo Santoso, Yayat Supriatna, Tepy Septyana, Leo Tjahjadi, Yonghe Guo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Waveform Inversion (FWI) and ray-based tomography. Shallow, fast carbonates in the overburden limit the penetration of diving waves to ~1500 meters...

ABSTRACT: TUTORIAL: IMAGING THROUGH SHALLOW GAS, DIVING WAVE

Brian Broussard, Luis Canales, Charles Carvill, Lee Lu, Juan Perdomo, Chung-Chi Shih, Sherman Yang, Peter Melville, Mehmet Tanis

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

...ABSTRACT: TUTORIAL: IMAGING THROUGH SHALLOW GAS, DIVING WAVE Brian Broussard, Luis Canales, Charles Carvill, Lee Lu, Juan Perdomo, Chung-Chi Shih...

Compass-Inclinometer for Underwater Outcrop Mapping: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

George Shumway

AAPG Bulletin

... of working underwater, a compact combination of compass and inclinometer is even more important to a diving geologist than is a Brunton compass to a field...

Field Geology in a Marine Environment: ABSTRACT

B. C. Osborn

AAPG Bulletin

... obtained onshore by field mapping. These tools consist of dart sampling, shallow core drilling, SCUBA diving, sampling by submarine, shallow...

Relation of Submarine Canyons to Continental Slope: ABSTRACT

Francis P. Shepard

AAPG Bulletin

... of the slopes. The numerous photographs of ripple-marked sand to depths of 3,500 m, and the observation from deep-diving vehicles of scoured hard rock walls...

Geology of Freeport Rocks, Offshore Texas: ABSTRACT

Paul D. Winchester

AAPG Bulletin

... of isolated, submerged rock pinnacles about 6 mi offshore from Freeport, Texas, were studied by SCUBA diving, petrographic techniques, and carbon-14 dating...

Optimizing Engineering for Permian Geology/Fluid Using Model-Based Analytics, #11151 (2018).

Murray Roth, Michael Roth,

Search and Discovery.com

.... Website accessed October 2018. Roth, M., and M. Roth, 2017, Diving Into the “Bubble-Point-Death” Debate: Part One – Midland Basin Overview: Published...

Aspects Carbonate Sedimentation in Indonesia

Michael Scrutton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... by helicopter, observations from boating the area and from snorkelling and SCUBA diving. Observations of other SCUBA divers have also been taken...

Depositional Structures and Processes in the Non-barred High-energy Nearshore

H. Edward Clifton, Ralph E. Hunter, R. Lawrence Phillips

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the wave form is either solitary or that of a bore. Within the nearshore, shoaling waves become progressively higher and steeper until they break. After...