Modeling Anisotropy in Computer Mapping of Geologic Data: Chapter 7

Gregory Kushnir, Jeffrey M. Yarus

AAPG Special Volumes

... that of Figure 8, and provides a more faithful representation to the underlying geologic model. The improvement is the result of including only two...

Reservoir pressure monitoring via surface deformation inversion integrating numerical modelling with evolutionary optimisation

Reza Abdollahi, Abbas Movassagh, Dane Kasperczyk, Manouchehr Haghighi

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... to a predefined tolerance. Fig. 2 provides a detailed representation of our approach, outlining the input parameters, forward model construction...

Shallow Marine Terrigenous Environments

A. A. Ekdale, R. G. Bromley, S. G. Pemberton

Special Publications of SEPM

...-depth ichnofacies model (Fig. 15-2) are real. Seilacher's (1967a) model continues to stand as an excellent indicator of general depositional conditions...

Perspectives on Stratigraphic Simulation Models: Current Approaches and Future Opportunities

W.Lynn Watney, Eugene C. Rankey, John Harbaugh

Special Publications of SEPM

... Inverse I as Brown i e a fidelity perfectly faithful representation sight Appropriateness of the model appli cation depends on the scale of the problem...

Application of Unsupervised-Manifold-Learning for Productivity Driver Evaluation and Production Forecasting in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs

Yang Gao, Yuewei Pan, Jianhua Qin, Enbo Qiu, Wei Ma, Ran Bi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... decline curve analysis models rely on unrealistic premises and fail to honor the completion and geological realities. Numerical model or reduced-order...

Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of the Texas Gulf Coast Aquifer System and Implication for Developing Groundwater Availability Models

Steven C. Young

GCAGS Transactions

... 2014 433 451 Vol. 64 (2014) Detailed mapping of geochemical data was performed to help assess the conceptual flow model for the Gulf Coast Aquifer...

Geomechanical Modeling of Fracture-Induced Vertical Strain Measured by Distributed Fiber Optic Strain Sensing

Aishwarya Srinivasan, Yongzan Liu, Kan Wu, Ge Jin, George Moridis

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... a physical rock deformation model to simulate the strain-rate responses in offset VMWs during fracture propagation in order to understand and interpret...

3D deblending for marine towed-streamer data

Yangkang Chen, Min Zhou, Ray Abma

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... domain is more focused, and thus, the 3D FFT can get a sparser representation. Because the seismic events are mainly horizontal in the common channel...

Earthquake Detection and Focal Mechanism Calculation Using Artificial Intelligence

Shane Quimby, Yanwei Zhao, Jie Zhang, GeoTomo

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... space of the study area. We simulate theoretical waveforms with a variety of focal mechanisms at each spatial grid point. We train the FMNet model...

Abstract: Push the Limits of Seismic Resolution Using Surface Consistent Gabor Deconvolution; #90171 (2013)

Xinxiang Li and Darren P. Schmidt

Search and Discovery.com

... attenuates the signal at higher frequencies and later times. Introduction The Gabor transform of a time series is a lossless representation of the time...

Impact of Downward Releases on the Risk Profile in Hydrocarbon Process Plants

Fariba Askari, Colin Crowley, Hojat Kord

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... is the release direction, which is usually assumed to be horizontal. This is generally assumed to provide a conservative representation of all other possible...

Joint inversion of magnetotelluric and seismic travel time data with intelligent interpretation of geophysical models

Hongyu Zhou, Rui Guo, Maokun Li, Fan Yang, Shengheng Xu, Zuzhi Hu, Deqiang Tao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... models and seismic post-stack data. In the joint inversion, the output of the IntNet is used as the reference model to constrain the searching space...

Abstract: Kinematic Structural Forward Modeling for Fault Trajectory Prediction in Seismic Interpretation; #90224 (2015)

Mohammed Alarfaj and Don C. Lawton

Search and Discovery.com

... ratios, hanging-wall shear direction and shear angles. The concepts are applied to model and predict a fault deep shape from seismic images where...

Stratton Field

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Petrophysical Modeling to Improve the Understanding of Geothermal Exploration in a Sedimentary Field on Texas Gulf Coast Basin

Laura Ortiz Sanguino, Cesar Vivas, Danny Rehg, Denise Knight, Stephanie Perry, Adam Bradley, Heather Bedle, Saeed Salehi, Sean Marshall

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., porosity and permeability are key controls on geothermal exploration; and an accurate representation is required to understand not only target zones...

High-Resolution DFN Modeling via Seismic Attribute Integration in the Sichuan Basin for Completion Optimization

Xuefeng Yang, Shengxian Zhao, Dongchen Liu, Deliang Zhang, Lieyan Cao, Joseph Leines Artieda, Chuxi Liu, Wei Yu, Jijun Miao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... discrete fracture network (DFN) model. The DFN captures both small- and large-scale geological discontinuities, providing critical insights for optimizing...

Three-dimensional Seismic Inversion and Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling of the Rotliegend Gas Field

R. K. Shrestha, M. Boeckmann, S. Faruqi, M.-K. Wang

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and permeability logs, along with the time and depth markers from 35 wells, the seismic inversion model, and the time and depth surfaces were used...

Accelerated augmented Lagrangian full-waveform inversion based on truncated randomized singular value decomposition

Jiahang Li, Hitoshi Mikada, Junichi Takekawa

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... such as nonconvexity and nonlinearity. The convexity of the objective function can often be enhanced by using a better initial model or a lower starting frequency...

Seismic Imaging of the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline in the Alberta Foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and Its Impact on Exploration; #30533 (2017)

Andrew C. Newson

Search and Discovery.com

... synthetic seismic shot records were simulated from this model using a finite-difference numerical representation of the wave equation that included P...

Transfer Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks for Long-term Production Forecasting in Unconventional Reservoirs

Syamil Mohd Razak, Jodel Cornelio, Young Cho, Hui-Hai Liu, Ravimadhav Vaidya, Behnam Jafarpour

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... practical use. In this paper, a deep recurrent neural network (RNN) model is developed for robust long-term production forecasting in unconventional...

Characterizing seismic anisotropy and AVO using walkaway VSP: Willow oilfield, Alaska

Manish Lal Khaitan, Ali Sayed, Shujaat Ali, Trey Wagner, Jonathan Scorer, Brett Wendt

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... for building a calibrated 1D vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) model, followed by further processing and analysis to determine the AVO response at the target...

Permeability Prediction in Uncored Wells Using an Advanced Statistical Technique

Irvan Novikri

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in this paper. The model is then used to predict permeability in nearby uncored wells across the same reservoir. Routine core analysis and wireline...

Assisted History-Matching for Fractured Reservoirs Characterization and Recovery Optimization using Connectivity Analysis, #120072 (2012)

Arnaud Lange, Alexandre De Lima

Search and Discovery.com

... dynamic field information (e.g. well tests, production data...) (Sarda et al., 2001), (c) an equivalent simulation model applicable at reservoir scale...

Machine-Learning Based Analytics Applied to Stimulation Performance in the Utica Shale: Case Study and Lessons Learned

Sebastien Perrier, Arnaud Delpeint, Zulibukaer Shawuti, Ashis Shrestha

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... But this argument can be applied to any technique (including the type wells method!). A model is a representation of a system. We expect (Figure 5) the G...