Crustal Structure in Gulf of Mexico from OBS Refraction and Multichannel Reflection Data

A. K. Ibrahim, J. Carye, G. Latham, R. T. Buffler

AAPG Bulletin

... component geophone with a resonance frequency of 8 Hz. On command from an internal clock, 80 sec of data is stored in memory and then recorded (FM...

2008 CSPG/CSEG/CWLS GeoConvention 2008, May 12-15, 2008, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Abstracts, #90170 (2013).

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Abstract: Practical Applications of Seismic Anisotropy; #90187 (2014)

Philip Wild

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... in this way was made using a near offset, multicomponent VSP, which was processed by first rotating the geophone’s horizontal components into radial...

Abstract: Cross-Validation of 3C and 9C Prestack Shear Wave Splitting Analysis at Big Sky; #90224 (2015)

Jeff P. Grossman and Gulia Popov

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... case, where a 3C geophone and a hydrophone are used for simultaneous recordings. We label the components of the data in the field coordinate system...

Bigger is Better … Hydraulic Fracturing in the Williams Fork Formation in the Piceance Basin

Leen Weijers, Yusuf Kama, Julie Shemeta, Stephen Cumella

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.... Serial rights given by author. For all other rights contact author directly. and the time the event is detected by the geophone array (Warpinski et al...

Preliminary Results from the TriCarb Deep Stratigraphic Well drilled into the Newark Rift Basin, Rockland County, New York; #80303 (2013)

Brian E. Slater, Langhorne Smith, Matthew P. Tymchak, and Daniel J. Collins

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... other; cross-dip (east-west) and along basin strike (north-south). Source points were spaced at 36.5 m (120-ft) intervals and geophone accelerometers...

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reservoir Characterization of the Coastal Entrada Erg-Margin Gas Play, Utah (OFR-459)

Thomas H. Morris, John H. McBride, Will D. Monn

Utah Geological Survey

... dropper (“Seispulse”), stacked twice. The seismic source and geophone spacing was 10 ft with 48 recording channels giving a nominal fold of cover of 24...

Land, Marine and Transition Zone Seismic Operations in PPL 123, Papua New Guinea

Alan G. Fenwick, Robert J. Paul

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... achieved by recording with short geophone arrays, relatively low fold, and a small charge size. This technique is successful in good data areas where...

Focal Mechanism Determination and Stress Inversion for Induced Seismicity Related to Shale Gas Hydraulic Fracturing

Yuyang Tan, Jun Hu, Zhengguang Zhao, Lei Li

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the shale gas since 2014. This network consists of 13 short-period seismic stations with a 5Hz geophone buried in a 1~2 m shallow hole. We analyzed...

Strike Oriented, Swath Seismic and Its Potential Application to Exploration and Development in the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt

William F. Robinson IV

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... into the three receiver lines simultaneously. Typical recording geometry would have 180 to 240 geophone groups active on each line with a 30 metre group...

Exploration Potential of the West Bosavi Area, Papuan Foreland Basin, Papua New Guinea

D. J. Bennett, R. P. Brand, C. R. Mills, B. D. Morris

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... are typically low fold, with wide (~60m) geophone spacings. As a result, although major structures and reflectors were imaged, data quality is generally poor...

A Practical Workflow for Determining the Individual-Stage Fracture Network Using Flowback Dynamics and Microseismic Data: A Case Study

Linkai Li, Yue Wang, Xiao Guo, Zhendong Gao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... monitoring, production dynamics analysis, tracer test and formation chemical element analysis. • • • Microseismic Monitoring: A high-resolution geophone...

Baseline characterization of the CO2SINK geological storage site at Ketzin, Germany

Andrea Frster, Ben Norden, Kim Zinck-Jrgensen, Peter Frykman, Johannes Kulenkampff, Erik Spangenberg, Jrg Erzinger, Martin Zimmer, Jrgen Kopp, Gnter Borm, Chris Juhlin, Calin-Gabriel Cosma, Suzanne Hurter

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... different seismic sources and different geophone setups and to define optimal acquisition parameters. The pilot study was performed near the Ktzi 163/69...

The critical role of monitoring, verification, and accounting for geologic carbon dioxide storage projects

Sean I. Plasynski, John T. Litynski, Howard G. McIlvried, Derek M. Vikara, Rameshwar D. Srivastava

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... CO2enhanced oil recovery operation. Starting in March 2008, small microearthquakes (M, -1 to 0) within about 2 km (1.25 mi) of the geophone string...

Oil and Gas Potential of the Amazon Paleozoic Basins

Raul Mosmann, Frank U. H. Falkenhein, Alfredo Goncalves, Francisco Nepomuceno Filho

AAPG Special Volumes

...-receiver offsets. 2. Anti-aliasing geophone arrays. 3. CDP fold coverage enlargement from 1,200% to 4,800% by increasing the number of channels from 24 to 96...

Petroleum Geology of Pikes Peak Heavy Oil Field, Waseca Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Saskatchewan

F. F. N. Van Hulten

CSPG Special Publications

... map of the Homogeneous and and part of the Interbedded unit from seismic interpretation. Several lines used high resolution seismic with geophone...

Exploration Cycles in the Corridor Block, South Sumatra

C. W. Zeliff, S. W. Trollope, E. Maulana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reconnaisance survey in 1971, technical advances in acquisition hardware and utilization of a shorter geophone group interval have resulted in relatively higher...

STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE SAWTOOTH SALIENT OF THE MONTANA DISTURBED BELT

Stephen P. Gardner, Jonathan M. Achuff

Montana Geological Society

... to the geophone array. Further evidence for inferring steep dip of the Sun River Member into the thrust fault comes from the abrupt pull-up...

Combined P and S Waves Survey for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Basuki Puspoputro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be greater than that for P-wave. In practice, it has been observed that the same geophone spread, or source-receiver offset, can be used for recording P...

4-D Seismic: A Powerful New Technology for Monitoring Steam Movements in Duri Field-Central Sumatra

S. D. Jenkins, M. F. Bee, J. H. Lyle, E. Murhantoro

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... shot-geophone offsets in the 4-D data relative to the size and depth of the steam chest, a ray based velocity analysis is required to account for non...

Environmental impacts and social concerns … A case study associated with petroleum exploration activities from onshore Baram Delta NW SarawakJohn

John Jong, Tran Quoc Tan, Franz L. Kessler

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

..., up-hole and geophone planting). √ To plan for assistance from Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ, Department of Road Transport), local police...

Pre-drill Reservoir Evaluation Using Passive Seismic Imaging

Charles Sicking, Jan Vermilye, Ashley Yaner

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on a very high density grid on the surface. The traces from the synthetic that match to the geophone locations in the filed data recording grid were...

North Glo Field: A Minnelusa Discovery Resulting from the Integration of the Stratigraphic-Seismic Method with Subsurface Geology

Daniel K. Allan, R. Randy Ray

Wyoming Geological Association

.... A 96 channel split-spread geometry with 110 ft group interval and a 220 ft source interval was used. Seismic processing included geophone and instrument...

Subseismic Fault Identification Using the Fault Likelihood Attribute: Application to Geosteering in the DJ Basin

Ron Harris, Kyle Bracken, Bill Miller, Steve Angelovich, Thomas O'Toole

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... 3D seismic survey was acquired in August 2013 and is located in Weld County Colorado. The N–S receiver lines had a spacing of 660 ft with geophone...

Analysis of a Multi-Well Eagle Ford Pilot

Kevin Raterman, Yongshe Liu, Baishali Roy, Kyle Friehauf, Brian Thompson, Aaron Janssen

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... Microseismic was simultaneously recorded from a vertical geophone array hung in the MW1 monitor well. Observed events for the B5 are shown in Figure 4...