HPC advances and impacts to exploration and reservoir development

Khaled Al Dulaijan, Mohammed Alajaji

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... for correcting acoustic finite-difference amplitudes for elastic effects: Geophysics, 79, no. 4, T243–T255, doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2013-0335.1...

Different Approaches of Combining Geophone and Hydrophone Data From OBC Seismic at Bintuni-Berau Bay, Papua

Tepy Septyana, Yayat Supriatna, Supriyono, Greg Schurter, James Keggin, Jean-Jacques Chameau

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... A., 2009, 3D Finite-Difference Modeling Study of Seismic Imaging Challenges in Bintuni Bay, Irian Jaya Barat, The Leading Edge Shatilo A., Duren R...

Reinvigorating exploration in the Nile Delta and East Mediterranean, Egypt

Gebril Saleh, Amr Talaat, Karim Ali, Ramy Eid, Sugandha Tewari, Hosny Diab, Mohamed Radwan, Mohamed Helal

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) algorithms. Figure 2 shows a comparison between the legacy finite-difference volumes and the updated RTM image. Significant improvement in both the sub...

A simple modeling experiment for understanding the impact of noise on high-resolution high-density near surface seismic reflection data

Ted Stieglitz, Jim Pfeiffer, Juan Ortega, Doug Laymon

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) were considered: Kirchoff (sukdmig2d) and two one-way wave equation methods: Fourier Finite Difference (supreffd) and Phase Shift Plus Interpolation...

Improved subsalt imaging in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea with converted wave attenuation

Monica Hartmann, Jana Caskey, Benjamin Cole, James McLeman, Tom Rayment, Ares Ouzounis

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... a reflectivity model specific to this surface. This reflectivity is then given to a 3D dual-leg visco-acoustic Born two-way forward modelling finite-difference...

Key to Successful Petroleum System Analysis: Understanding of Input Parameters in 2D Basin Modeling

Akihiko Okui

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and Accumulation) is a finite difference code developed by the Technology Research Center of Japan National Oil Corporation. SIGMA-2D can simulate the generation...

Reservoir Description by Interferometric Imaging of VSP Data in Transition Zones

Thomas Radford, Martin Karrenbach, Ferry Yustiana, Willi Brianno, Dhea Wachju

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... finite difference elastic modeling algorithm (Karrenbach, 2000), which captures complete overburden responses due to fine-scale layering as well as target...

Statistical imaging through strongly scattering near-surface with path summation techniques

Andrey Bakulin, Ilya Silvestrov, Maxim Protasov, Dmitry Neklyudov

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.../s. To simulate input for imaging, we generate zero-offset seismic data using acoustic finite-difference methods that follow the exploding reflector concept...

Reef Delineation by Multiple Offset Borehole Seismic Data Collection: A Case Study

D. E. Miller and L. Dupal

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 1984; Koehler and Koenig, 1984; Wiggins and Levander, 1984), phase-shifting in the frequency domain (Gazdag and Sguazzero, 1983), and finite-difference...

Rift-Initiated Permian to Early Cretaceous Subsidence of the Sverdrup Basin

R. A. Stephenson, A. F. Embry, S. M. Nakiboglu, M. A. Hastaoglu

CSPG Special Publications

... asthenosphere. The thermal problem is solved by the method of finite difference considering the sedimentary layer, lithosphere, and the asthenosphere...

Theoretical Investigation of Water Blocking in Unconventional Reservoirs Due to Spontaneous Imbibition and Water Adsorption

Lichi Deng, Michael J. King

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...) or finite difference approach (Schmid et al. 2016). We have proposed an improved finite difference approach in one of our previous papers...

A Coupled Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Model Considering Multiple Bedding Layers

Jizhou Tang, Kan Wu, Lihua Zuo, Christine Ehlig-Economides

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... flow governed by finite difference methodology considers the flow in both vertical fractures and opening bedding planes. An iterative algorithm is used...

The application of phased-array vibrator system in deep seismic exploration

Minghao Yu, Xiangbo Gong, Xiaojie Wan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) carried out the finite difference forward simulation of the seismic wave field of the combined source, and gave a calculation method of the seismic...

The Challenge of Applying New Technologies to Exploration in a Sub Andean Basins

Marcelo Benabentos, Pedro Muñoz, Juan Uribe, Francisco Ortigosa, Dewi Jones

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... of illumination from survey geometries which is valid in most of the cases. Finite difference acustic modeling will provide more accurate and realistic results...

A recipe for practical iterative LSRTM with synthetic and real data examples from Brazil

Valeriy Brytik, Gopal Palacharla, Rishi Bansal, Diwi Snyder, Xu Li, Young Ho Cha, Partha Routh, Inma Dura-Gomez, Dmitriy Pavlov, Carey Marcinkovich

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Elastic synthetic data is generated using a finite difference approach and followed by acoustic LSRTM inversion for impedance. The results are shown...

Optimization method of geometry and application based on Fresnel Gaussian beam forward modeling

Yang Jing, Yu Fuwen, Xu Xiaokun, Lv Shuang, Wang Xiangqian

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and migration is approximately equal to one fifth of the time of conventional wave equation finite difference forward modeling and reverse time...

Hydrodynamics of Denver Basin: Explanation of Subnormal Fluid Pressures

Kenneth Belitz, John D. Bredehoeft

AAPG Bulletin

...------------------------------ Geological Survey Bulletin 168, 147 p. Faust, C. R., and J. W. Mercer, 1977, Finite-difference model of two-dimensional, single...

The Next Generation of Microseismic Imaging

Marc-André Lambert, Paul West

GEO ExPro Magazine

... a finite difference technique. TRI reduces analyst interactions to a minimum and does not require arrival time picking – eliminating a common source...

Solving seismic inverse problems by an unsupervised hybrid machine-learning approach

Mrinal K. Sen, Arnab Dhara

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in a finite difference algorithm. The data residual are back propagated to update the weights of the neural network. The resulting model (Fig 3...

Deep carbonate reservoir characterization with unsupervised machine-learning approaches

Xuanying Zhu, Luanxiao Zhao, Xiangyuan Zhao, Yuchun You, Minghui Xu, Tengfei Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... 3D elastic parameter models of reservoir. Then, we apply 3D seismic forward modelling, using the staggered-grid finite difference method...

Mitigating the effects of guided waves in OBN data for acoustic FWI using data reconstruction: A data example from the Yggdrasil area

M. A. H. Zuberi, E. Cho, T. Seher, R. Myklebust

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the hydrophone component of the OBN data, and the modelled data were simulated using an acoustic finite difference modelling with free-surface boundary...

Passive Margins: Aggrading and Prograding Infill of Buried Cenozoic Seaways, Northwestern Great Bahama Bank

Gregor P. Eberli and Robert N. Ginsburg

AAPG Special Volumes

... Deconvolved before stack Time variant filter Migration by the finite difference method End_Page 98------------------------- Figure 3. WESTERN line...

Frequency-Domain Waveform Tomography in the Foothills: Velocity Model Estimation with Synthetic Long-Offset Data

Search and Discovery.com

..., Mixed-grid finite-difference frequency-domain viscoacoustic modeling in 2D TTI anisotropic media, 77th Ann. Intl. Mtg., Soc. of Expl. Geophys., Expanded...

Fluid Overpressures and Decollements in Source Rocks … Application of Thermo-mechanical Models to the Subalpine Chains,

Josselin Berthelon, William Sassi, Evgueni Burov

Search and Discovery.com

...., 2014). Insight from Mechanical Modelling FLAMAR is a hybrid finite‐element/finite difference code. It solves simultaneously Newtonian equations...

Abstract: Hydrocarbon Maturation in Laramide Basins: Constraints from the Evolution of the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming-Montana

Sven Hagen, Ronald C. Surdam

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... basin. A finite difference numerical model was employed which accounts for 1) basinwide variations in thermal conductivity for stratigraphic sequences...