Enhanced ray-based tomography method

Jonathan Liu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... consistency with PSDM, efficiency and flexibility to handle various environments. For example, the velocity model built from ray-based tomography shows...

Challenges for commercial-scale CCS in the saline aquifer: A case study Wyoming CarbonSAFE DF project, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Zunsheng Jiao, Matthew Johnson, Fred McLaughlin, Tao Bai, Ying Yu, Yuri Ganshin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the petrophysical well logs; The seismic interval velocity (pre-stack) and acoustic impedance are used to discriminate lithology using classification...

Application of Geophysical Methods in Phosphate Exploration Southeastern Idaho

James W. Cooksley Jr.

Utah Geological Association

... in a phosphate exploration program. Planning and Estimating Cost of Drilling and Trenching Costs of drilling and trenching have been estimated from preliminary...

Abstract: Subsurface Fracture System in North Summit Gas-Storage Field, Appalachian Basin, by G. Zhou and R. C. Shumaker; #90984 (1994).

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Reservoir properties estimation using MAZ towed multisensor streamer seismic: A Norwegian case study

Cyrille Reiser, Roberto Ruiz

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... amplitudes. The properties will thus not have any direct input from the seismic velocity, which is usually used for the low frequency model building...

Classification of paralic channel sub-environments in an ancient system using outcrops: The Cretaceous Gallup system, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Wen Lin, Curtis Ferron, Sean Karner, Janok P. Bhattacharya

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-grained cross-bedded sandstones of the Gallup fluvial channel correspond to a flow velocity of 0.7 to 1.6 m/s. The flow-velocity estimated from...

Frac Hit Prevention and Engineered Treatment Design in the Permian Basin Using In-Situ Stress from 3D Seismic

Michael Shoemaker, James Hawkins, John Becher, Veronica Gonzales, Sandeep Mukherjee, Reza Garmeh, David Kuntz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (parent) laterals as fields mature. Resultant stress variability from produced fluid depletion or from lithology changes can cause asymmetric fracture...

Predictive Isopach Mapping of Gas Sands from Seismic Impedance: Modeled and Empirical Cases from Ship Shoal Block 134 Field

Robert D. Woock , Alan R. Kin

AAPG Bulletin

... for primary lithology estimation (SAMPLE): case histories from Tertiary western basins: Offshore Technology Conference, OTC 4784, p. 85-87. Gelfand, V...

Assessment of Rock Types Properties in a South American Unconventional Shale Play

Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Jean-Pierre Leduc, Jonathan Pelletier, Sandrine Vidal-Gilbert, Kun Su, Mariano F. Raverta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to corrections by the author(s). Any person or entity that relies on any information obtained from this paper does so at their own risk. The information herein...

Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring of Individual Hydraulic Frac Stages Using a Downhole Distributed Acoustic Sensing Array

Gary Binder, Aleksei Titov, Diana Tamayo, James Simmons, Ali Tura, Grant Byerley, David Monk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... velocity model is shown in green derived from a sonic log. Eikonal-based wavefronts are shown illustrating incident angles along the well from both sources...

Abstract: Just a Bright Spot?, by R. M. Masuda; #91012 (1992).

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Regionally consistent depositional models using data analytics and machine learning: A Gulf of Mexico case study

Arpana Sarkar, Dan Ferdinand Fernandez, Daniel Smith

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... when optimizing the prediction of positive matches and their expected lithologies. Firstly, existing lithology from conventional analysis...

Multi-Well Drilling Campaign Meti “Tokai-Oki To Kumano-Nada” in 2004 for Methane Hydrate Evaluation in the Nankai Trough Area, off Central Japan, by Yoshihiro Tsuji, Yoshijiro Nonaka, and METI “Tokai-oki to Kumano-nada” drilling project members; #90035 (2004)

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Seismic diffraction imaging for improved coal structure detection in complex geological environments

Binzhong Zhou, Weijia Sun

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... In this paper, we describe a moving average error filter (MAEF) applied in the neighbouring traces to extract diffractions from post-stack reflection seismic...

Experimental Study of Abrasion and Its Role in Producing Downstream Fining in Gravel-Bed Rivers

Yoshinori Kodama

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). To find the water velocity at 30 cm above the bed along the thalweg, the roughness k, was calculated from U/u* = (1/)ln(11h/ks,), where mean velocity U...

Wake-Capture Effects Observed in a Comparison of Methods to Measure Particle Settling Velocity Beyond Stokes' Range

C. J. Lovell , C. W. Rose

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Reynolds' number Rn. At Rn < 0.1, the settling velocity of a single particle can be theoretically inferred from particle size using Stokes' solution. Rn...

The Sediment Budget Estimator (SBE): A process model for the stochastic estimation of fluxes and budgets of sediment through submarine channel systems

Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Mike C. Tilston, Christopher J. Stevenson, Stephen M. Hubbard, Matthieu J.B. Cartigny, Maarten S. Heijnen, Jan de Leeuw, Florian Pohl, Yvonne T. Spychala

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Geologists, Bulletin, v. 87, p. 541–560. Sequeiros, O.E., 2012, Estimating turbidity current conditions from channel morphology: a Froude number...

How to Predict Oil-Gas Delineation with Simultaneous Inversion Methods in High Impedance Sand: As a Predictive Hydrocarbon Indicator

Bani Tiofan Tampubolon, Dicky Rahmadi Aprilian, Asep Hendriana Rustam

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... trend relationship, the deviation from this trend is the hydrocarbon. Transformation into the LMR can obtain the lithology distribution of sand...

In-Situ Stresses, Rock Strength, Fluid Pressure, and Implications for Wellbore Stability and Oil and Gas Development in the Senoro and Tiaka Fields, Sulawesi, Indonesia

William L. Power, Agus Tjengdrawira, Sitio Aprianto, Sugiyanto Suwono, Syahriza Ghanny Rachman, Muhammad Wijanarko, Dwi Hudya Febrianto, Anies Baasir, Deddy Hasanusi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...). For the limestones, two different approaches were considered for estimating UCS (Table 2). The input data (slowness from sonic and seismic velocities...

High-resolution Measurements of Elasticity at Core Scale. Improving Mechanical Earth Model Calibration at the Vaca Muerta Formation.

Anton Padin, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, Alain Lejay, Hamid Pourpak, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Atef Onaisi, Gregory Boitnott, Laurent Louis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... shows the results of estimating static Young´s modulus from rebound hardness at the same rock samples for slabbed 1 inch plugs, compared to Young...

Joint Downhole and Surface Microseismic Processing Using 3C Template Relative Migration

T. Bardainne, L. Delmas, N. Belayouni, D. Katz, P.-F. Roux

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of estimating travel-times from any given sub-surface location to the Figure 2: Schematic depiction of the similarity between travel paths for nearby...

Estimation of TOC and Brittleness Volumes and Correlation with Reservoir Production

Sumit Verma, Tao Zhao, Kurt J. Marfurt, Deepak Devegowda, Dario Grana

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... by Perez (2013)) or stratigraphic stacking patterns (spectral magnitude components from 10-90 Hz at 10 Hz intervals, total energy). In a manner...

Lithology Dependence of Porosity in Slope and Deep Marine Sediments

Michelle A. Kominz, Kyle Patterson, Danielle Odette

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sediments is, at least in part, a function of both burial depth and lithology. Overall porosities range from 4 to 94%. Despite the broad range...

The Characterization of Fracture Mechanisms Using a Combination of Surface Microseismic Imaging, Microdeformation Modelling, and Downhole Microseismic Mapping: an Examination of the Value of Moment Tensor Migration Imaging

Raquel Velasco, Kit Chambers, Stephen A. Wilson

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... locations are calculated using hodogram orientations, P-wave and S-wave arrival picks, and a velocity model derived from a monopole sonic log (Jones et al...

Acoustic and Related Properties of Calcareous Deep-Sea Sediments

Edwin L. Hamilton, Richard T. Bachman, Wolfgang H. Berger, Thomas C. Johnson, Larry A. Mayer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... velocity. The best indices to predict sound velocity are percent sand, mean grain size, and the velocity ratio; this ratio varies from about 1.05 on top...