Extended Abstract: What is Wave Equation Pre-stack Depth Migration? An Overview

Andrew Long

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... variations occur, then migration to output each point in its correct lateral position and depth is required prior to the stacking operation ('pre-stack...

Compaction of Wilcox and Carrizo Sandstones (Paleocene-Eocene) to 4420 M, Texas Gulf Coast

E. F.McBride, , T. N. Diggs, , J. C. Wilson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... high but decreases with burial depth, and suggests that compaction continues beyond our maximum sampled depth. From a conservative view, the data can...

Antidunes as Trochoidal Waves

Bryce M. Hand

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... waves (Hw/L = 0.142), it is possible to derive a maximum estimate of water depth for a set of preserved antidunes. A technique for reconstructing...

Structural and Stratigraphic Uses of Dip Profiles in Petroleum Exploration

C. A. Bengtson

AAPG Special Volumes

...) or maximum right dip (point 5). Such points always fall on the trace of an inflection plane,(FOOTNOTE 1) or locus of points on a cross se tion where...

A Retrospective Look at the Weber Sand Pay in the Giant Rangely Field, Rio Blanco County, Colorado

G. Allan Nelson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Sand section was diamond cored to total depth. The maximum Weber interval cored was about 650 ft on the highest part of the anticline in the South...

Paleobathymetry of Cretaceous Greenhorn Sea in Eastern Colorado

Don L. Eicher

AAPG Bulletin

...) Greenhorn sea reached maximum extent and presumably maximum depth at about the time of upper Greenhorn (Bridge Creek Member) and lower Carlile (Fairport...

An AI approach to using magnetic gradient tensor analysis for quick depth and property estimation

David A. Pratt, K. Blair McKenzie, Anthony S. White

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... estimation of depth to magnetic source for a variety of geological target shapes. The method uses the flight line data for maximum depth resolution...

Investigating Depth Structure Uncertainty for Horizontal Well Placement, Bauer Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Erin Shirley

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... relief anticlinal structure, and the maximum relief above the field oil-water contact is 17 m. Depth errors are mainly attributed to different statics...

Fracture Surface Extraction and Stress Field Estimation From Three-Dimensional Microseismic Data

Dylan Copeland, Alfred Lacazette

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... point on the surface is a local maximum in the direction normal to the surface at that point, cf. Figure 1. We present a new method for constructing...

Evolution of Salt Tongues and Sheets

New Orleans Geological Society

...------------------------ This shallow emplacement depth is far above the level at which pressure to push salt outward into the surrounding sediment is at a maximum. This point...

Abstract: Efficency and Accuracy Enhancement for One-way Wave Equation Migration Through Improved Mapping Function in the Time-shift Imaging Condition; #90171 (2013)

Mark Ng

Search and Discovery.com

... mapping function that is based on computing the difference in the direct arrival times taken from the shot-to-image point at depth z and shot-to-image...

Design of Land 3-D Surveys, by Mike Galbraith, #40139 (2004).

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Bed-Form Distribution and Internal Stratification of Coarse-Grained Point Bars, Upper Congaree River, S.C.

Raymond A. Levey

Dallas Geological Society

... fathometer profiles between the point bars and the opposite cutbanks indicate that these pools can obtain a maximum depth of 14 m below the adjacent flood...

Bed-Form Distribution and Internal Stratification of Coarse-Grained Point Bars, Upper Congaree River, S.C.

Raymond A. Levey

CSPG Special Publications

... fathometer profiles between the point bars and the opposite cutbanks indicate that these pools can obtain a maximum depth of 14 m below the adjacent flood...

Simplicity at Its Best: Estimating Depth Uncertainty at the Wiriagar Deep Paleocene Field, Eastern Indonesia

Made Susantha, Imam S. Harun

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... method selection Well-based isochore TVT maps related to the data point distribution and gridding method selection. Depth uncertainty has been assessed...

Retrofit Gas Lift System, Unconventional Method to Maximize Hydrocarbon Recovery

Afif, Djabaruddin, Kurniawan Purwoko, Eko Andriyanto, Sylvia Yusim

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... point (Rattray, 2012). With RGL, gas injection could be delivered as deep as bottom perforation depth.  The Dual Flapper Check Valves allows...

Effect of Anisotropy on Apparent Resistivity Curves

Sylvain J. Pirson

AAPG Bulletin

...) proposed, as a first approximation, to interpret the depth to horizontal discontinuities as being equal to the electrode separation at which a point...

An Interpreter's Guide to Improvements in Depth Imaging Through Model-Based Velocity Estimation and Refinement

Andy Furniss

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... map showing lateral movement of subsurface points when map is migrated to the depth domain. The maximum displacement shown is 130 m. Note...

Geothermal Step in the Oil-Gas Regions of Azerbaydzhan

A. B. Tsaturyants, T. A. Gadzhieva

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... decreases. In the oil industry a value is used for characterizing the change of temperature with depth in the borehole which is the inverse...

Geology of the Point Arguello Discovery

W. E. Crain , W. E. Mero , Don Patterson

AAPG Bulletin

...------------------------------ structures have formed on the flanks of the Point Arguello structure. Maximum structural relief is approximately 4,100...

High-resolution imaging using least-squares migration in the image domain (LSMi) for a marine distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) 3D-VSP

Ali Sayed, Francesca Twynam, Ran Bachrach, Maud Cavalca, Leo Leon, Maria Shadrina, Qingsong Li, Reetam Biswas, Daniel Tebo, Sam Buist

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... point attenuation of a ray that starts at the receiver, reflects from a horizon, and is captured at the source depth, for the given TTI-Q model...

Confluence Scours Versus Incised Valleys: Examples From the Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta, Southeastern Utah, U.S.A.

Mohammad S. Ullah, Janok P. Bhattacharya, William R. Dupre

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... river system, it has been observed that the maximum depth of confluence scours by autocyclic processes may reach up to four to five times the average...

Cemara Timur and Cemara Barat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... 7.14 m Total Depth 2468 m in Jatibarang Voicanics (Oligocene) Bottom-hole Temp. 116° C   Significant Test Data       RESULTS TEST Type...

Deltaic Deposits in the Pennsylvanian Upper Morrow Formation of the Anadarko Basin

Donald C. Swanson

Tulsa Geological Society

... plug." The average maximum thickness of point-bar deposits approaches the maximum depth that the stream scours during flood stage. This depth...

Abstract: Using Gas Carbon Isotopes to Design and Drill Better Shale Gas Wells; #90187 (2014)

Marianne Molgat, Jean-Yves Chatellier, and Milt McCoy

Search and Discovery.com

... of 13C data versus depth suggests that the bulk of Lorraine Shale deformation took place prior to maximum burial depth and generation of natural gas...