Strength Anisotropy in Low-Permeability Sandstone Gas Reservoir Rocks: Application of the Axial Point-Load Test

S. J. Clift , S. E. Laubach , J. Holder

GCAGS Transactions

..., Influence of residual elastic strain on the orientation of experimental fractures in three quartzose sandstones: Journal Geophysical Research, v. 75...

Analysis of Sonic Well Logs Applied to Erosion Estimates in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Henry P. Heasler , Natalya A. Kharitonova

AAPG Bulletin

.... Wyllie, M. R. J., A. R. Gregory, and L. W. Gardner, 1956, Elastic wave velocities in heterogeneous and porous media: Geophysics, v. 21, no. 1, p. 41-70...

III Columbia Oil & Gas Investment Conference: Conventional & Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources - Abstracts

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... of porous elastic grains. The effective elastic moduli of the porous grains are calculated using the differential effective medium model where...

AVO Attributes for Successful Exploration and Field Development: A Case Study From Sarawak Basin, Offshore Malaysia

Norbert Van de Coevering, Rusdinadar Sigit, Reza Lasman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... study for seismic elastic inversion. INTRODUCTION Direct identification of fluids with seismic data is of great interest in exploration and production...

A Coupled Geomechanics-Reservoir Properties Workflow for Unconventional Play Landing Zone Optimisation

Jinying Zhou, Taixu Bai, Qingguang Qu, Biwen Gui

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... growth in a given reservoir, this model is based on Lagrangian formulation using the Least Action Principle, which captures the elastic energy...

Gas Hydrates: Part II: Rock Physics, an Introduction

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the connections between geophysical (elastic and electromagnetic) properties of the rock measured at the surface of the earth, within the borehole...

Risk Reduction for Prospecting in the Unconventional Niobrara Play

Tony Rebec, Marino Pareja

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... are qualitatively estimated from elliptical inversion of sectored S-impedances derived from pre-stack simultaneous elastic inversion. Carbonate...

Wave-equation based amplitude versus offset inversion in long time windows, with time-variant wavelets

Dries Gisolf, Peter R. Haffinger

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... inversion Full elastic wave-equation based AVO inversion is based on the 1.5D data model, i.e. stratified properties and plane-wave wavefields...

Understanding the depositional model of the Spraberry formation using facies inversion

Paritosh Bhatnagar, Venkatesh Anantharamu, Ron Bianco

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... called “Elastic Facies”. Figure 4 shows the separation of facies in the elastic space. Theory and/or Method High Trace Data (HTD) was shot and acquired...

Direct modeling of reservoir properties from seismic partial-angle stacks

John V. Pendrel, Henk J. Schouten

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... properties. We finish by estimating elastic facies of geophysical and geological interest from the previously-estimated property models...

Wave-equation based inversion for carbonate reservoir characterization in Kuwait

Rao Narhari, Ahmad Al-Sabari, Afrah Al-Ajmi, Justin Ugbo, Jeremy Harris, Gerard Soto, Panos Doulgeris

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... multiples investigation, elastic well ties, inversion, and interpretation, focusing on preserving multiples generating layers due to their significance...

Detailed Oriented Seismic Processing Leads to More Accurate Elastic Attribute Results in the Delaware Basin

Marianne Rauch-Davies, Steve Smith, Alyona Bashkirtseva Hall

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Detailed Oriented Seismic Processing Leads to More Accurate Elastic Attribute Results in the Delaware Basin Marianne Rauch-Davies, Steve Smith...

Influence of Stratigraphy on Barriers to Fracture Growth and Completion Optimization in the Meramec Stack Play, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Buddy Price, Kyle Haustveit, Alex Lamb

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... impedance and facies inversion resolves the higher resolution variability. An elastic facies analysis of the logs in the area was performed using...

Seismic Reservoir Characterisation of a Channel Sand Oil and Gas Field, Malaysia (Paper A11)

T. J. Focht, M. Sams, D. Brookes, J. Ting

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... was developed that could predict to a reasonably high degree of accuracy the elastic logs based on a petrophysical interpretation in terms of volume...

AVO Attributes of a Deep Coal Seam

Search and Discovery.com

... a coal seam prediction method by using seismic data. From well log data, coal seams typically have high elastic contrasts with the overlaying sandstones...

Abstract: Application of 2D Crosscorrelation and Radon Transform for Analysis of Double Couple Microseismic Source; #90187 (2014)

Neda Boroumand and Hassan Khaniani

Search and Discovery.com

... seismology and further discussed by Nelson and Vidale (1990). In this study, elastic wave forward modeling is performed using a double couple source...

Impact of Broadband Seismic on Quantitative Interpretation Workflows; #41450 (2014)

Eivind Dhelie, Cyrille Reiser, Tim Bird, Euan Anderson

Search and Discovery.com

... elastic properties such as acoustic and shear impedance, whereas the high side of the spectrum improves the seismic resolution and hence the detection...

Predicting Subseismic Fracture Density and Orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea: An Approach Using Elastic Dislocation Models, #20321 (2015).

Brett Freeman, David Quinn, Cathal G. Dillon, Michael Arnhild, Bastiaan Jaarsma

Search and Discovery.com

...Predicting Subseismic Fracture Density and Orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea: An Approach Using Elastic Dislocation Models, #20321...

Elastic Anisotropy of Shales ƒ Revisited; #41557 (2015)

Marina Pervukhina, Patrick N. J. Rasolofosaon

Search and Discovery.com

...Elastic Anisotropy of Shales ƒ Revisited; #41557 (2015) Marina Pervukhina, Patrick N. J. Rasolofosaon Elastic Anisotropy of Shales … Revisited...

Synthetic Seismograms for PS Seismic Data; #41793 (2016)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma

Search and Discovery.com

...-wave) impinges on a rock interface at oblique incidence, the contrast in the elastic parameters it encounters results in compressive and shear...

Microtextural Controls of Diagenetic Alteration of Detrital Alkali Feldspars: a Case Study of the Shap Conglomerate (Lower Carboniferous), Northwest England

Martin R. Lee , Ian Parsons

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., 1993, Stored elastic strain energy: the driving force for low-temperature reactivity and alteration of alkali feldspar, in Boland, J., and Fitz Gerald...

Moment tensor inversion of perforation shots using distributed acoustic sensing

Milad Bader, Robert G. Clapp, Biondo Biondi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... These waves can be used to characterize either the elastic properties of the reservoir or the perforation itself. In both cases, the seismic source...

Incorporating estimates of data covariance in elastic FWI to combat random and correlated noise

Luping Qu, Scott Keating, Kristopher A. Innanen, Xin Fu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Incorporating estimates of data covariance in elastic FWI to combat random and correlated noise Luping Qu, Scott Keating, Kristopher A. Innanen, Xin...

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

Sigit Sukmono

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... seismic property is the best for deriving relative porosity, simple seismic/elastic properties such as amplitude, Vp or AI (Acoustic Impedance) from...

Improved carbonate reservoir characterization using formation density derived from prestack simultaneous inversion: A case study in West Kuwait

Rajesh Rajagopal, Alanood Al Otaibi, Mohamed Hafez A. Jaseem, Taiwen Chen, Bahrouh Bader Faisal

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... characterization problems, such as the modeling of carbonate reservoirs in Marrat formation, Kuwait. Post-stack, pre-stack and elastic seismic inversions...