Cost Effective Seismic Acquisition in the Papuan Foreland Basin

A. Garcia, J. D. Schneider, F. E. Doughty

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... the first five months of the campaign were discontinued after Pecten determined that conventional refraction statics analysis provided more accurate...

Validity of Polar and Continental Movement Hypotheses Based on Paleomagnetic Studies

J. W. Northrop III , A. A. Meyerhoff

AAPG Bulletin

... of the earth's magnetic field is essentially correct. The last involves two corollary assumptions: (a) that the geomagnetic and rotational poles always have...

Crustal Separation Between Eurasia and North America-Greenland: Opening of the Arctic-North Atlantic Ocean: Chapter 8

Peter A. Ziegler

AAPG Special Volumes

... may coincide with the transition from little to strongly attenuated continental crust. This cannot, however, be ascertained for want of refraction...

Burial and Thermal History of the Haynesville Shale: Implications for Overpressure, Gas Generation, and Natural Hydrofracture

Jeffrey A. Nunn

GCAGS Journal

... refraction data are 12 mi (20 km) beneath the Central Mississippi Salt Basin and 19 mi (32 km) below the Wiggins Arch (Worzel and Watkins, 1973...

Physics of Marine Orogenesis

A. E. Scheidegger

CSPG Bulletin

... of Antarctic Submarine Geology; Am. Geophys. Un. Mono., No. 1, pp. 75-81. Gaskell, T. F., 1954: Seismic Refraction Work by the H.M.S. Challenger in the Deep...

Statistical Mitigation of Depth Structure Uncertainty Using Multiple Realizations for the Ujung Pangkah Field

Donald Easley, Ferry Yustiana, Willy Brianno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... This layer produces large long and short spatial wavelength statics that are difficult to resolve with standard processing techniques (refraction...

7.0 The Structural Significance of Seismic Velocity - A Progress Report

P. E. Gretener

AAPG Special Volumes

... Rocky Mountains; Bull. Can. Soc. Petr. Geol., 18/3, p. 332-406. Domenico, S. N., 1974, Effect of Water Saturation on Seismic Reflectivity of Sand...

Trench Slope Model

D. R. Seely, P. R. Vail, G. G. Walton

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...: Nature, v. 222, p. 70. SHOR. G. G., JR., AND FISHER, R. L., (1961),Middle America trench; seismic refraction studies: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 72, pp...

2009 AAPG/SEG Student Expo, September 21-22, 2009, Houston, Texas - Abstracts, #90113 (2010).

Search and Discovery.com

ABSTRACT: Application of Advanced Volume Interpretation (AVI) Workflows to Improve Data Quality for Iterative Interpretation, by Badar, Muhammad H.; #90141 (2012)

Search and Discovery.com

Chapter 10: Earthquake, Tomographic, Seismic Reflection, and Gravity Evidence for a Shallowly Dipping Subduction Zone beneath the Caribbean Margin of Northwestern Colombia

Rocio Bernal-Olaya, Paul Mann, Carlos A. Vargas

AAPG Special Volumes

... was built using (1) marine refraction data from Ewing et al. (1960), (2) an interpretation of the top of the subducting Caribbean oceanic plateau from...

Hydrodynamics and Overpressuring in the Jeanne D'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada: Possible Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration: DISCUSSION

Dale R. Issler

CSPG Bulletin

... Rogers and Yassir (1993) present a new interpretation of subsurface fluid flow in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin. They hypothesize that groundwater flow...

Investigating the Effect of Varying Fault Geometry and Transmissibility on Recovery: Using a New Workflow for Structural Uncertainty Modeling in a Clastic Reservoir

Signe Ottesen, Chris Townsend, Kjersti Marie verland

AAPG Special Volumes

...Investigating the Effect of Varying Fault Geometry and Transmissibility on Recovery: Using a New Workflow for Structural Uncertainty Modeling...

Composite (VS/VP) Ratios in Transversely Isotropic Geology: Possible Aid for Identifying Organic Contamination in Porous Rocks

Alvin K. Benson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

.... In A. E. Maxwell (Ed.), Seismic refraction in the sea, Vol. 4, Part I (pp. 53–84). New York: John Wiley and Sons. Mann, R. L., and Fatt, I. (1960). Effect...

Seismic Stratigraphic Investigation of the West Florida Basin

Jacques P. Lord

GCAGS Transactions

... refraction measurements on the margins of the Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Geological Research, v. 68, 7, p. 1975-1996. Barnett, R. S., 1975, Basement...

Part 1: Empirical Workflow for Predicting Infill Performance in the Marcellus

Adam Chin, Adam Staruiala, Hamid Behmanesh, David Anderson, Christopher Alonzo, David Jones, Saul Rivera Barraza, Leo Lasecki, Kyle McBride

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with a set of assumptions, the impacts of which can be compounded upon integration. The focus of this paper is to present a practical workflow that can...

Fundamental Issues on the Application of Seismic Methodologies for Carbonate Reservoir Characterization

Sigit Sukmono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... methodologies in three important works in carbonate reservoir characterization: facies interpretation, porosity derivation and fluid identification...

The Special Project Team Approach to Evaluation of Small Oil Fields

S. A. Jabaley, M. R. Smith, S. M. Lane

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... of these team members must have the ability to understand and incorporate the others' techniques into the overall interpretation or evaluation. The ability...

A Reasonable View of the Seismic Anomaly

R. W. Dudley

Tulsa Geological Society

... on a seismic anomaly may not accurately reflect the merit of the structure because of the effect of a local vertical velocity gradient. To emphasize...

3D Aeromagnetic Mapping of the Williston Basin Basement; #41588 (2015)

Jiakang Li, Igor Morozov

Search and Discovery.com

... parts of the Williston Basin. The objective is to produce a seamless and integrated interpretation of the basement and extend the previous...

Practical Use of Borehole Seismic in Exploration; Goals and Shortcomings

F. Sandnes, L. Nustt, S. G. Henry

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to the general interpretation of the VSP data, i.e. time calibration of surface seismic, fault identification, VSP trace inversion and VSP Direct...

The Effect of Hydrocarbon Solubilities on Reservoir Formation and/or Destruction

R. W. Rochon

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... assumptions and interpretation techniques used in the of the now obsolete equipment also survived. As I was concerned with the blind acceptance of mud...

Fluorescence (Photoluminescence) of Carbonate Rocks: Instrumental and Analytical Sources of Observational Error: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Karen Rose Cercone , Vicki A. Pedone

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., caused by sample preparation materials; and 3) internal reflection or refraction of fluo escent light. Failure to recognize these problems in the past...

Newly Discovered Group of Diapiric Structures in Western Mediterranean: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

H. K. Wong , E. F. K. Zarudzki , S. T. Knott , E. E. Hays

AAPG Bulletin

... to a maximum depth of 900 m. One unreversed oblique reflection-refraction seismic profile indicates the possible presence of interbedded high- (or low...

Fault Structures Within the Central Papuan Basin — Implications for Petroleum Exploration

J. Pinchin, K. F. Fowler, C. S. Bembrick

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... of the Papuan Basin on behalf of the Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea (RRA & FDB, 1984). The study involved the interpretation and integration of data...