Using Seismic Inversion to Predict Geomechanical Well Behavior: A Case Study From the Permian Basin

Simon S. Payne, Jerry Meyer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for the expected lower resolution of seismic data using a 22ft Backus filter (Backus, 1962). 3 Prior to performing the inversion, a set of conditioning...

Fast, Fully Probabilistic, Nonlinear Inversion of Seismic Attributes for Petrophysical Parameters; #120047 (2012)

Andrew Curtis, Mohammad Shahraeeni, and Gabriel Chao

Search and Discovery.com

.... For example, on the 2025 ms-2070 ms interval we observe that seismic Is has large biases with respect to Backus averaged Is log. On the same interval...

Sequential vertical gas charge into multilayered sequences controlled by central conduits

M. Foschi, J. A. Cartwright, and C. W. MacMinn

AAPG Bulletin

... then upscaled using a variable blocking operator. The Backus averaging blocking method (Backus, 1962) was used for this operation and was based...

Paleoecology of a Late Eocene (Bartonian) Vertebrate Fauna, Moodys Branch Formation, Techeva Creek, Mississippi

Sylvester Q. Breard, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

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

Casino Pipeline: Novel Pipeline Integrity Inspection

Steve Henzell, Fiona Read

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... were fully contaminated further material could not be picked up from the walls. The sludge contamination is described by Backus et al. (2015...

Magnetotelluric inversion using supervised learning trained with random smooth geoelectric models

Lian Liu, Bo Yang, Yixian Xu, Dikun Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... frequencies and observation stations, noise, and the model equivalence regarding its resolution (Backus & Gilbert 1967; Parker 1983). Geophysicists...

A Rapid Method of Making Replicas of Rock and Mineral Surfaces for Use in Electron Microscopy

Charles F. Kahle, Mort D. Turner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., The Netherlands, 51 p. End_Page 608------------------------ BACKUS, R. C. AND WILLIAMS, R. C., 1950, The use of spraying methods and of valotile...

Sediment Age Determination by Rb/Sr Analysis of Glauconite

Leonard F. Herzog , William H. Pinson, Jr. , Randall F. Cormier

AAPG Bulletin

... Life of Rb87," Phys. Rev., Vol. 103, p. 1045. BACKUS, M. M., 1955, "Mass Spectrometric Determination of the Relative Isotopic Abundances of Calcium...

Abstract: Q Effects on Thin-bed AVO/AVF Analysis; #90224 (2015)

Wenyong Pan and Kris Innanen

Search and Discovery.com

... are analyzed to facilitate hydrocarbon detection (Castagna and Backus, 1993; Aki and Richards, 2002). Traditional AVO techniques rely primarily...

Comparison of an Estimated Shear Wave Log with a Measured Shear Wave Log, by Felix Oghenekohwo, George Smith; #40687 (2011)

Search and Discovery.com

U.S. Natural Gas Flaring and Venting, Late 1800s and Onward: Determining a Magnitude of Historic Losses

Mary L. Barrett

Petroleum History Institute

... trade organizations and publications (Lott and Backus 1947; Avery and Mahoney 1958). By 1977, these data were acquired and reported by the newly-formed...

Memorial: Donald West Rockwell (1918-1997)

Richard L. Conroy

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

..., optimistic, caring, and visionary human being. The following are expressions from two associates at GSI and his daughter, Elsie. Milo Backus: "Don...

AVO Analysis for Direct Hydrocarbon Detection in Field X in the Persian Gulf (Paper 5)

Mohammad Ali Riahi, Mohammad Emami Niri

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... and Backus, M.M. (1993): Offset-dependent reflectivity - Theory and Practice of AVO analysis: Society of Exploration Geophysics. Taner, M. T., Koehler, F...

A Regional Geophysical Study of the Chihuahua City Area, Mexico

C. L. V. Aiken, D. L. Garvey, G. R. Keller, P. C. Goodell, Mauricio de la Fuente Duch

AAPG Special Volumes

... Internat. Mtg. (Calgary). Green, W. R., 1975, Inversion of gravity profiles by use of a Backus-Gilbert approach: Geophysics, v. 40, p. 763-772. Griscom...

High-Resolution Sequence Architecture and Seismic Sedimentology Interpretation of Fan Delta, Shaheajie Formation, Bohai Basin, China; #30501 (2017)

Dakun Xiao, Hui Wang, Tingen Fan, Xiaoqing Hu, Weiping Zhao, Xianwen Zhang, Tao Niu, Yukun Zhang

Search and Discovery.com

... and sedimentary cycle sequence: Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, v. 20/1, p. 112-113. Zeng, H.L., M.M. Backus, and K.T. Barraw, 1998, Stratal slicing, part I...

Seismic geomorphological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Cretaceous Cromer Knoll Group, Heidrun field, Norway

Lorena Moscardelli, Sarika K. Ramnarine, Lesli Wood, Dallas B. Dunlap

AAPG Bulletin

.... T. Halbouty, ed., Giant oil and gas fields of the decade 19781988: AAPG Memoir 54, p. 383406.Zeng, H. L., M. M. Backus, K. T. Barrow, and N. Tyler, 1998...

Chapter Five: Reservoir Identification

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

...-Dimensional Seismic Data (Seventh Edition), 2011 Backus, M. M., and R. L. Chen, 1975, Flat spot exploration: Geophysical Prospecting, v. 23, p. 533...

Multicomponent Seismic Technology Assessment of Fluid-gas Expulsion Geology and Gas-hydrate Systems: Gulf of Mexico

B. A. Hardage, P. E. Murray, R. Remington, M. De Angelo, D. Sava, H. H. Roberts, W. Shedd, J. Hunt Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

..., Elastic velocity models for gas hydrate bearing sedimentsA comparison: Geophysical Journal International, v. 159, p. 573590.DeAngelo, M. V., M. Backus, B...

Spatially varying Chi volumes: A study in offshore Australia on background trend calculation from the Shuey two-term approximation

Hayden Powers, Noah R. Vento

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... quality, which can be degraded by a multitude of factors (O’Doherty and Anstey, 1971; Newman, 1973; Dey-Sarkar, 1986; Backus and Castagna, 1993...

Research of accurate depth interpretation method for thin sand body in offshore reservoir and its application in A oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin

Li Wenbin, Hebing Tang, Xuetong Liu, Yichuan Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Widess, M. B., 1973, How thin is a thin bed? Geophysics, 38, 1176–1180, doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1440403. Zeng, H., and M. M. Backus, 2005...

Patterns of Fluid Flow in the Central Tuscaloosa Trend, Louisiana

Richard P. McCulloh

GCAGS Transactions

... Backus, 1979, Geopressured formation parameters, geothermal well, Brazoria County, Texas, in Proceedings, Fourth U.S. Gulf Coast geopressured-geothermal...

An Experimental High-Resolution Seismic Survey over Tin-Mine Ponds

Surendra Singh, G. A. Van Klinken

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... reverberations are multiples in the water layer generated by the trapped energy of seismic reflections from the bedrock (Backus, 1959). Both types...

Lithology Discrimination and Pore-Fluid Detection Using 3D Pre-Stack Simultaneous Inversion: A Case Study at Gumai Formation, Jambi Sub-Basin, South Sumatra

Widia Anggraeni, Mawar Indah Nursina, Andri Syafriya, Bagus Sapto Mulyatno, Muh Sarkowi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., Simpedance, and density from the pre-stack seismic gathers. Hampson et al. (2005) extended the work of Simmons and Backus (1996) and Buland Omre (2003...

The Role of Horizontal Seismic Sections in Stratigraphic Interpretation: Chapter 3

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... important of all, the interactive interpreter can maintain a rapid flow of ideas because of the short response time of the system. Backus, M. M...

Log-curve amplitude slicing: Visualization of log data and depositional trends in the Middle Devonian Traverse Group, Michigan basin, United States

Albert S. Wylie Jr., Jacqueline E. Huntoon

AAPG Bulletin

...-Pleistocene, onshore Louisiana (abs.): AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. A158.Zeng, H., M. M. Backus, K. T. Barrow, and N. Tyler, 1998a, Stratal...