Elastic Anisotropy of Source Rocks: Implications for Hydrocarbon Generation and Primary Migration

Lev Vernik , Charles Landis

AAPG Bulletin

.... Backus, G. E., 1962, Long-wave elastic anisotropy produced by horizontal layering: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 67, p. 4427-4440. Capuano, R. M...

Geomechanical prestack depth migration of the Kraken 3D (Browse Basin, Australia)

Jarrod Dunne, Ferudun Kilic, Matthew Zengerer, Pramod Kumar, Hamish Stein, Shiv Pujan Singh, Stephen Gallagher

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... provide the necessary link between effective stress and P-wave velocity with Backus averaging handling the “seismic scale” mixing of different...

Rock-physics Models for Gas-hydrate Systems Associated with Unconsolidated Marine Sediments

Diana Sava, Bob Hardage

AAPG Special Volumes

.... In the assumption that the medium is thinly bedded, we again use Backus (1962) averaging to determine the elastic properties of the layered sediments...

ABSTRACT: Evaluating Marine Gas Hydrates with 4-C OBC Seismic Data, by Murray, Paul E., Milo Backus, Michael DeAngelo, Sergey Fomel, Robert Graebner, Bob Hardage, Lesli Wood; #90026 (2004)

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Full Integration of Seismic Data into Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling

P. van Riel, P. Mesdag, H. Debeye, M. Sams

AAPG Special Volumes

... be done using the Backus averaging (Castagna and Backus, 1993). Irrespective of this well-log upscaling, the desired vertical resolution of the model...

Wide-Band Velocity Filtering--The Pie Slice Process: ABSTRACT

Peter Embree, John P. Burg, Milo M. Backus

AAPG Bulletin

...Wide-Band Velocity Filtering--The Pie Slice Process: ABSTRACT Peter Embree, John P. Burg, Milo M. Backus 1963 1769 1769 47 9. (September...

Reflection Seismogram in a Solid Layered Earth: ABSTRACT

Milo M. Backus, Filho Nepomuceno, Jingzhong Cao

AAPG Bulletin

...Reflection Seismogram in a Solid Layered Earth: ABSTRACT Milo M. Backus, Filho Nepomuceno, Jingzhong Cao 1983 416 417 67 3. (March) Current...

Abstract: Rock Physics of Organic Shale and Its Implication; #90187 (2014)

Lev Vernik, Yulia Khadeeva, and Cris Tuttle

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.... Main aspects of anisotropy are treated using both small scale core measurements and Backus modeling of end-member lithologies to demonstrate...

Rock-physics based time-lapse inversion in Delivery4D: synthetic feasibility study for CO2CRC Otway Project

Stanislav Glubokokvskikh, James Gunning, Tess Dance, Roman Pevzner, Dmitry Popik, Christian Proud

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... into account buoyancy of fluids and via Gassmann-Wood fluid substitution in permeable facies followed by Backus averaging using NG information...

Integrating Core and Wireline Log Datasets --- A Pathway to Permeability from AvO Seismic?

Lahra Lanigan, Jarrod Dunne

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... likely overprint the small separation observed on an AI-Vp/Vs cross-plot, as modelled using Backus averaging of calcareous sand properties derived from...

Paleoenvironment of a Diverse Marine Vertebrate Fauna from the Yazoo Clay (Late Eocene) at Copenhagen, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

Sylvester Q. Breard , Gary L. Stringer

GCAGS Transactions

... Geologique de France, Memoire 20 (45), 110 p., 8 pls. Lineaweaver, T. H. and R. H. Backus, 1969, The natural history of sharks: J. B. Lippincott Company...

Well-Log-Based Assessment of Elastic Properties in Organic-Shale Formations

Alvaro Aranibar, Clotilde Chen Valdés, Zoya Heidari

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... correlations based on acoustic-wave velocity measurements, (b) Backus average, (c) low-frequency rock behavior SCA, (d) highfrequency rock behavior...

Abstract: Cross-Validation of 3C and 9C Prestack Shear Wave Splitting Analysis at Big Sky; #90224 (2015)

Jeff P. Grossman and Gulia Popov

Search and Discovery.com

... also Simmons and Backus, 2001). Azimuthal anisotropy and shear wave splitting. The phenomenon of SWS is perhaps most readily understood in terms...

A Workflow For Success in Shales

Ted Holden, John Pendrel, Fred Jenson, Peter Mesdag

GEO ExPro Magazine

... seismic data analysis. Because laminations are below seismic data resolution, Backus averaging is employed to transform them to the seismic scale...

Abstract: A Novel Approach to Reservoir Characterization Using Seismic Inversion, Rock Physics and Bayesian Classification Scheme, by Nader C. Dutta; #90077 (2008)

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ABSTRACT The Multi-scale, Multi-attribute (MA-MS) Calibration; A Methodology for Predicting Sub-seismic Scale Facies from Seismic Attributes, #90104 (2010)

Stright Lisa; Bernhardt Anne; Mukerji Tapan; Boucher Alexandre

Search and Discovery.com

... interpretations. The limitations of the MA‐MS prediction and its dependence upon the method of seismic attribute generation  (i.e., Backus average vs. forward...

Sequence stratigraphy, seismic sedimentology, and lithostratigraphic plays: Upper Cretaceous, Sifangtuozi area, southwest Songliao Basin, China

Wenzhi Zhao, Caineng Zou, Yingliu Chi, Hongliu Zeng

AAPG Bulletin

... dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 164 p.Zeng, H., and M. M. Backus, 2005a, Interpretive advantages of 90-phase wavelets...

Life

K. O. Emery, Elazar Uchupi

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Volkovinsky, and Kabanova (1970) into a general chart of the world ocean which clearly shows that the greatest productivity (averaging about 1,000 mg...

A deep learning workflow for petro-mechanical facies predictions in unconventionals

Noah R. Vento, Enru Liu, Mary Johns

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... was trained using seismic extractions, Backus’ averaging was applied to the PMF labels with a window of 40ft to match the seismic scale. Additionally, well...

Modeling consolidated sandstones with dispersed clay

J. Gallop, L. Vernik, F. Contreras, J.-G. Restrepo, S. Blanco, G. Alvarez

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (2016) workflow can be mixed using the Reuss or Backus method for laminated lithologies typical of deepwater turbidites. A missing component...

Subsurface Surveillance in Low Permeability Oil Reservoir at Tanjung Field Barito Basin … South Kalimantan

Trisakti Kurniawan, Bambang Prasetiyo, Darwin Tangkalalo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... via time averaging and fraction volume of the minerals. To ensure consistency of the rock physics model, various rock physics QC were made...

Multi-Azimuthal Walkway VSP for Full Azimuth Seismic Calibration

Konstantin Galybin, Anastasia Poole, Michael Giles

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... comprised ZVSP measured compressional velocities, extracted shear velocities and density measurements blocked with a minimum of 15m Backus averaging criteria...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Modeling and Seismic Facies Imaging

Hongliu Zeng , Noel Tyler , Milo M. Backus

GCAGS Transactions

...Three-Dimensional Seismic Modeling and Seismic Facies Imaging Hongliu Zeng , Noel Tyler , Milo M. Backus 1995 Vol. 45 (1995), A set of 3-D rock...

High-frequency sequence stratigraphy from seismic sedimentology: Applied to Miocene, Vermilion Block 50, Tiger Shoal area, offshore Louisiana

Hongliu Zeng, Tucker F. Hentz

AAPG Bulletin

... Coast Section SEPM Foundation Perkins Research Conference, CD-ROM.Zeng, H., M. M. Backus, K. T. Barrow, and N. Tyler, 1995, Three-dimensional seismic...

Acoustic Velocity Modeling of Unconventional Reservoirs

Alessandra Simone, Lori Hathon, Michael Myers

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... mathematical methods have been proposed to derive elastic moduli in VTI media including: Backus averaging, Self-Consistent approximation (SC), bounding...