Super-virtual interferometry for noise elimination on vertical seismic profiling (VSP)

Yicheng Zhou, Yang Cui, Sherif Hanafy

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (Hardage, 1985). Standard VSP uses receivers (seismic sensors), which are discrete and placed at equally spaced intervals within the well. However...

From Atlantic to Pacific Main Hypothesis of the Alpine System

Pierre F. Burollet

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... significance is difficult to prove. We are inclined to link them with basement faulting as was the case in the eastern platform. But it could equally...

Relating Microseismicity to Geomechanical Strain

Adam M. Baig, Ben Witten, Aaron Booterbaugh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-deployed geophones and surface geophone arrays, a multiwell completion was monitored for microseismicity. Moment tensors are inverted from a novel...

Sediment Transport Over the Hatton and Gardar Contourite Drifts

I. N. McCave, P. F. Lonsdale, C. D. Hollister, W. D. Gardner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., there are equally good examples, with such characteristic features as sharply defined crests and fields of regular mud waves, in northeast Atlantic basins. Gardar...

Exploration and Discovery of Santa Ana Structure: Golfo De Campeche, Tabasco, Mexico

P. E. Narvarte

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... reflection survey of the same area, shot by American Exploration Company, employing a drag cable with geophones on bottom and conventional (non-magnetic...

Depth Imaging Seismic Data to Help Delineate Gas Reservoirs in Southwest Wyoming

Alvin K. Benson

Wyoming Geological Association

... is reflected back to the surface, where it is recorded by geophones. Seismic time sections are graphic displays of the recorded travel times. They are only...

Styles of Pre-Salt Carbonate Platforms, Brazil Santos Basin

Search and Discovery.com

Natural Fractures in Folded Sandstones of the Tensleep Formation, Wyoming

John C. Lorenz, Scott P. Cooper

AAPG Special Volumes

... fractures define the edge of an outcrop at Sand Creek. Fracture Pods: Groups of closely spaced, parallel, usually slightly inclined fractures...

In situ stress in the Peace River Arch area, Western Canada

J. S. Bell, R. E. McCallum

CSPG Bulletin

... equally well refer to an inclined plane, but it may not refer to the sediments that overlie the "slice" it investigates, unless those sediments also...

Two-dimensional simulation of controls of fracture parameters on fracture connectivity

Kajari Ghosh, Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

... and a second set of cross fractures. (c) Two orthogonal set of fractures where both sets have similar characteristics.The results of the simulations are compared...

Integrated Geomechanical Interpretation of Hydraulic Stimulation Operations Using Distributed Vibration Sensing

Michael Williams, Joel Le Calvez, Colin Wilson, Adrian Rodriguez-Herrera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... In a monitoring well, where we deploy a hybrid borehole geophone array of 3C geophones for accurate microseismic events mapping, we additionally recover...

Cyclic Deposits and Hummocky Cross-Stratification of Probable Storm Origin in Upper Cretaceous Rocks of the Cape Sebastian Area, Southwestern Oregon

Ralph E. Hunter, Edward H. Clifton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). The surfaces are rounded and tend to be broadly irregular, although a few are steeply inclined (up to 60°) for short distances (Fig. 4c). Much...

Temporal and spatial changes in style of accretion at the bend of a sinuous turbidite slope channel (channel–levee Complex 5, Tachrift System of NE Morocco)

Mattia Marini, George Pantopoulos, Daniele Invernizzi, Fabrizio Felletti, Imad El Kati, Adam McArthur

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-occurring with equally sandstone-rich and coarse-grained deposits accreted at the outer bank. The best-exposed and larger example of LAPs occurs in two...

Stratigraphic Architecture of a Large-scale Point-bar Complex in the McMurray Formation: Syncrude's Mildred Lake Mine, Alberta, Canada

Thomas R. Nardin, Howard R. Feldman, B. Joan Carter

AAPG Special Volumes

... facies changes, inclined stratal geometries, and high-relief unconformities. Within this succession, fluvial-estuarine point-bar reservoirs represent...

From Atlantic to Pacific: Main Hypothesis of the Alpine System

P. F. Burollet

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a "plis de couverture" style. More difficult to explain are the orthogonal (or perpendicular to folding rifts of the Tunisian Atlas. They were certainly...

Geological and Chemical Conditions of Formation of Red Beryl, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah

Jeffrey D. Keith, Eric H. Christiansen, David G. Tingey

Utah Geological Association

... at medial levels within a flow (beneath a more steeply inclined and brecciated upper zone; Burt and Sheridan, 1987). Perhaps equally important...

Glauconite Sandstone Exploration: A Case Study from the Lake Newell Project, Southern Alberta

E. J. Kevin Broger, Garth E. Syhlonyk, Brian A. Zaitlin

CSPG Special Publications

...-Range, E.A., and Koster, E.H. 1987. Inclined Heterolithic Stratification - Terminology, Description, Interpretation and Significance. Sedimentary...

Estimating the Size and Orientation of Hydraulic Fractures using Microseismic Events

Mohammed AlQassab, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Erich Kerr, Reid Scofield, Andrew Johnson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... into the wellbore. This process induces small scale movements or microseismic events, and fracturing operators place geophones in an offset well to detect...

Onshore Exploration Drilling Success in Southern Basin, Trinidad; #11293 (2020)

Xavier Moonan, S. Harrypersad

Search and Discovery.com

... shotpoint station intervals SE • • • 9 geophones per string, 2 geophone strings per group, array equally spaced. Fold coverage – 60 Processed using...

Paleopedology and Paleoclimatic Implications of Late Ordovician Vertic Paleosols, Juniata Formation, Southern Appalachians

Steven G. Driese, J. Lincoln Foreman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for higher concentrations near aggregate margins. Clay platelets within aggregates commonly exhibit preferred orientations which are mutually orthogonal (Fig...

The Hunton Quarry Anticline, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma.

Andrew Cullen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... in the anticline. It should also be noted that NE sense of vergence on the thrust fault is orthogonal to the presumed NE-SW orientation of the maximum...

Cable-Free Freedom

Bob Heath

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., to allow contractors continued use of their costly inventory of geophones and to depreciate their existing cabled products. An exciting era has...

3D Seismic an Indispensable Tool to Delineate Hydrocarbons

B. R. H. Anderson

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... geophones and at sea, hydrophones. Offshore the hydrophones and sources are towed by a survey vessel. Marine 3D seismic are recorded by shooting a series...

Corrected Record Sections

Ernest M. Hall Jr.

CSPG Special Publications

... to accomplish this, as well as the equally important problem of giving geophysicists more easily understood and more accurately presented data...

Sediment Dispersal Patterns of Oolitic Calcarenite in the Sundance Formation (Jurassic), Wyoming

Randolph Stone, Carl F. Vondra

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... set of uniformly inclined crossbeds, but more commonly at least two sets of crossbeds, inclined in different directions, constitute the bodies...