Illuminating Asset Value at Mad Dog through New Seismic Technology

Michael J. Staines, Scott Michell, Dean Chergotis, and John Sharp

GCAGS Transactions

... values of the 3D salt model. The subsalt velocities were derived from adjacent basins and subsalt velocity scans. The dual-azimuth reprocessing...

Observations of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Prestack Seismic Data, #41572 (2015).

David Gray

Search and Discovery.com

... (2001) describe a means of displaying prestack offset and azimuth data as a 3D cube. Henceforth, this will be referred to as a COCA (Common-Offset...

Geophysical Insights into Completions and Production Predictability for a Shale Gas Reservoir Using Fault Intensity and AVO Inversion

Carl Reine, Sean Lovric

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... inversion (Hampson et al., 2005). The seismic data are first separated into four partial angle stacks using the migration velocities. Residual moveout...

A method to extract azimuth information from narrow azimuth data and its application in fracture detection

Hongbo Ding, Dekui Xu, Xinyi Duan, Guangrui Xiao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...A method to extract azimuth information from narrow azimuth data and its application in fracture detection Hongbo Ding, Dekui Xu, Xinyi Duan...

Extended Abstract: Horizontal Heterogeneity Measurement of Strength and Elastic Properties for Conventional and Unconventional Rocks

Ji Soo Lee

GCAGS Transactions

... and secondary wave velocities (as shown in Figure 4) and the velocities are converted to dynamic elastic properties (such as Young’s modulus and Poisson...

Internal Geometry and Origin of Vegetated Coastal Sand Dunes

Victor Goldsmith

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... have a distinctive internal dune geometry. At all five locations, azimuth distributions correlate with the prevailing winds, either directly...

A 3D Seismic Exploration Method for Fractured Gas Reservoirs

James J. Reeves, W. Hoxie Smith

West Texas Geological Society

... Lineaments Reservoir fractures are predicted using multiple azimuth seismic lineament mapping in the reservoir section. A seismic lineament is defined...

PS-Wave Azimuthal Anisotropy: Benefits for Fractured Reservoir Management, by James E. Gaiser, #40120 (2004).

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Quantitative Seismic Reservoir Characterization of an Oligocene Miocene Carbonate Buildup: Malampaya Field, Philippines

Dietmar Neuhaus, Jean Borgomano, Jean-Claude Jauffred, Christophe Mercadier, Sam Olotu, Jrgen Grtsch

AAPG Special Volumes

... to nonhyperbolic residual moveout. High-frequency attenuation in the overburden and the effects of residual moveout limit the frequency spectrum...

Using anisotropic rock physics to model VTI parameters

Marco A. Perez

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the dependence of velocity on the propagation direction. Thomsen (1986) describes the seismic significance of vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) often...

Improving fault resolution from multiple angle stacks by latent feature analysis with deep learning

Fan Jiang, Konstantin Osypov

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of seismic exploration, combining multiple stacks, e.g. multi-angle, multi-azimuth, multi-frequency, of seismic data is becoming more and more common...

Seismic HC Reservoir Prediction: A (Critical) Review on the Determination of Lithological Parameters from Seismic Data

Burkhard Buttkus

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... velocities as a function of layer characteristics. Shear waves for example are quite helpful for the confirmation of bright spots identified on P...

Azimuthal Seismic Velocities and Field Fracture Mapping, Southern Moose Mountain; #51058 (2015)

Mohammed Al Duhailan, Don Lawton

Search and Discovery.com

...Azimuthal Seismic Velocities and Field Fracture Mapping, Southern Moose Mountain; #51058 (2015) Mohammed Al Duhailan, Don Lawton Azimuthal Seismic...

Frequency vs Azimuth (FVAZ): the Younger Member of the Family of Seismic Driven Fracture Characterization Methods

Juan Tavella, Victoria Lazzari, Marcelo Frydman, Néstor Herrera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... FVAZ: dependence of inelastic attenuation with azimuth due to the presence of fracture. " 𝛾! (𝑗 + 1, 𝜔, 𝜓, 𝜃) = #$ !"# (1 − 2...

Implementation of the DIPSCAN Method to Estimate Boundary Dips in Complicated Structures by VSP Data

A. A. Tabakov, V.N.Ferentsi, H. Gravini

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

..., that very typical for highlands. The quality of obtained image is in a straight dependence on quality of reference model. And it is the main reason to obtain...

Integrated Analysis of Acoustic Images and Shear Wave Anisotropy Used for Geomechanical Modelling in a Tight Sand Oil Reservoir

Saikat Das, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Sadegh Asadi, Naveen Nathesan, Ahsan Jamil, Hilarion Milan, Ashvin Avalani Chandrakant, Fairuz Azwardy Salleh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in acoustic impedance between a fluid filled fracture and the matrix. The difference in fast and slow shear wave velocities and the azimuth of the fast...

Abstract: Numerical Modeling of Shear-wave Splitting and Azimuthal Velocity Analysis in Fractured Media; #90172 (2014)

Zimin Zhang, Don C. Lawton, Robert R. Stewart

Search and Discovery.com

... indicate that P-wave and S-wave velocities will decrease (often significantly) with cracks or fractures. Vertically aligned cracks may also display...

Production Focused Seismic … Applying Seismic for Well Productivity Analysis and Completion Optimization; #41212 (2013)

Sean Boerner and Ross Peebles

Search and Discovery.com

... Azimuth - HorzAng 38 Azimuth - Kmaxmag_azimuth 39 Azimuth - dip_azimuth Index Variable Name ----- --------------------------40 Azimuth - Kmax_azimuth...

3-D Geomechanical Modeling for Field Development of a Colombian Shale Play

Leonardo Arias Medina, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and drilling induced tensile fractures obtained using the field data indicating a minimum horizontal stress azimuth of 25° (NE-SW direction) and a maximum...

Abstract: Fractures Detection and Characterization for the Jurassic Carbonate Reservoirs Using 3-D P-Wave Pre-Stack Seismic Data in Saudi Arabia, by Abdulfattah A. Al-Dajani; #90077 (2008)

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In-Situ Stresses, Rock Strength, Fluid Pressure, and Implications for Wellbore Stability and Oil and Gas Development in the Senoro and Tiaka Fields, Sulawesi, Indonesia

William L. Power, Agus Tjengdrawira, Sitio Aprianto, Sugiyanto Suwono, Syahriza Ghanny Rachman, Muhammad Wijanarko, Dwi Hudya Febrianto, Anies Baasir, Deddy Hasanusi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... either field. Based on first-motion-solution analysis of two nearby earthquake events, the azimuth of SHmax is inferred to be ~E-W. * ** Baker Hughes...

Abstract: An Azimuthal-AVO-Compliant 3D Land Seismic Processing Flow; #90171 (2013)

David Gray, Darren Schmidt, Nirupama Nagarajappa, Charles Ursenbach, and Jon Downton

Search and Discovery.com

... and the use of Common-Offset, Common-Azimuth (COCA) cubes (Gray, 2007) to validate them. The modifications are the application of azimuthal velocities...

Calibration of PS Shear Wave Anisotropy in a Mississippi Lime Play, North-Central Oklahoma

Scott Singleton, Shihong Chi, Lisa Sanford, Paul Constance

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... polarizations, each having different propagation velocities and thus a time delay between their arrivals at a seismic receiver (Crampin, 2003). Crampin...

Maximizing imaging resolution and amplitude fidelity of low-dip stratigraphic traps through continued optimization of seismic acquisition and processing: A case study from the Guyana South East Stabroek Block

Yaxun Tang, Fuxian Song, Lorie Bear, Mark Widmer, Luke Wilson, Vikas Gudipati, Rishi Bansal, Steve Knapp, Chunshou Xia, Wei Zhao, Yu Huang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-discovery exploration and development activities, the co-venture group has acquired an exploration style 3D narrow azimuth (NAZ) survey covering...

Integrating advanced azimuthal tomography and FWI to improve complicated carbonate fracture-cavity reservoirs in ShunBei oil fields, Tarim Basin

Lanlan Yan, Jiashun Yao, Hao Zheng, Kai Guo, Yong Zhang, Feiluo Peng, Yan Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... optimally improving subsurface images from accurately updating velocity model honored by full azimuth illumination and azimuthally sectored PSDM...