3D seismic survey design by maximizing the spectral gap

Yijun Zhang, Ziyi Yin, Oscar López, Ali Siahkoohi, Mathias Louboutin, Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... that is highly suitable for 3D wavefield reconstruction based on matrix completion. This cheap while effective optimization scheme has the potential to scale...

Fast Marching Method Based Rapid Simulation Accounting for Gravity

Tsubasa Onishi, Atsushi Iino, Hye Young Jung, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... analysis (Song and Ehlig-Economides 2011) are commonly used for fracture characterization and well performance predictions. While these analytical...

Streamline Oil and Gas Production Facilities Maintenance with an In-House Computerized Maintenance Management System

Bambang Handoko, Syaiful Anwar, Hadi Siswanto, Mohamad Fauzan Amir, Rossupanji Pribadi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., asset registers, authorization system, work order, work requests, Standard Operation Procedures, KPIs and other functions. It boasts features...

Improving Marcellus Imaging Through the Use of FWI and Joint Tomographic Inversion for Velocity and Epsilon

David McCann

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the potential of mine collapse. In the 19th century, total extraction methods started to be applied. With the total extraction method, and the removal...

A method to evaluate pore structures of fractured tight sandstone reservoirs using borehole electrical image logging

Liang Xiao, Junran Li, Zhiqiang Mao, and Hongyan Yu

AAPG Bulletin

... that for each type of rock, two power functions must be used to express the relationship between 1/POR and Pc. Figure 8. The relationships between...

Accounting for sediment sources and sinks in the linear regression analysis of the suspended sediment load of streams: The Rio Puerco, New Mexico, as an example

Isam E. Amin, Alan M. Jacobs

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... through the monthly suspended sediment-load data. The regression equations of these lines were then used to calculate the amounts of sediment gained...

The Duvernay Formation: Integrating Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Geophysics to Identify Sweet Spots in a Liquids-Rich Shale Play, Kaybob Alberta.

Lindsay Dunn, Justin A. Humenjuk

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the results of seismic inversion using equations 1 and 2. (V p 2  2Vs 2 )  Poisson's Ratio =  2(V p 2  Vs 2 )   (1) Vp = Compressional wave...

Extended Abstract: Water Influx Predictions in Reservoirs with Aquifer Drive Using the Two-Phase Reservoir Integral Type Pseudo-Pressure with Applicability in Gas Hydrate Reservoirs

Melvin Kome, Mohd Amro

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... effective tool in simplifying and solving complex diffusivity equations in reservoirs. Since its introduction by [1] in addressing the non-linear...

Mixed ("Multi") Fractal Analysis of Granite Wash Fields/Pools and Structural Lineaments, Peace River Arch Area, Northwestern Alberta, Canada: A Potential Approach for use in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Frances J. Hein

CSPG Bulletin

... is a potential tool that can be used to differentiate those plays in which there are simple controls on reservoir formation (fractal), versus those plays...

New Gas Lift Valve Design Stabilizes Injection Rates

T. Tokar, Z. Schmidt, C. Tuckness

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... difficult operation of the low pressure separator or compressor shutdown, can occur.4 Second, the full lift potential of the gas is not used, resulting...

The Sea of Environmental Risk Assessment: A Navigational Guide for Hydrocarbon Contamination

David L. Hippensteel

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... Assessment”) is extremely detailed regarding how each variable is determined and used in various intake or dose estimation equations. Many variables can...

Abstract: Nonlinear interactions of shear waves in an elastic medium

Lauren Hayes, Alison Malcolm

Atlantic Geology

... can be used to characterize the fractures in the sample, which gives us further information on potential permeability within the sample. Preliminary...

ABSTRACT: A Template for Enhanced 3-D Geological Modelling of Wave-Dominated Deltaic Reservoirs from the Tertiary Niger Delta, by Simon A. Smith; #91019 (1996)

Search and Discovery.com

Abstract: Investigation of the Relationship between Seismic Velocity Dispersion Principles and the Permeability of Subsurface Porous Materials; #90174 (2014)

Adrienne Campbell, Winnie Pun, and Bernd Milkereit

Search and Discovery.com

... Production Well Program. The P wave velocity dispersion has great potential to be correlated with subsurface permeability. If this promising link can...

Textural Changes as an Indicator of Sediment Dispersion in the Northeastern Channel Island Passages, California

James S. Booth

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... distribution, trend surface analyses were used. Because these analyses emphasize regional trends at the expense of local ones, the potential problem...

Implementing Multi-Disciplinary Teams in Arco Indonesia: Facelift or Functional Improvement?

John G. Kaldi, Frila B. Yaman, James P. Westerheid

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... 1993 - 1995 with respect to the implementation and monitoring of these 4 MDTs. The document reviews the ideal vision used in setting up the teams...

Complementary Role of Multi-Component and Conventional 3D Seismic for Risk Reduction in Unconventional Resource Plays … A Marcellus Shale Example

Tony Rebec, Zhiyong Zhao

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...-wave impedance contrasts. This paper answers this question for onshore unconventional plays using the Marcellus Shale as an example. It shows that using...

Use of Automatic Moment Tensor Inversion in Real Time Microseismic Imaging

Michael Kratz, Michael Thornton

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... on passive seismic data from the Eagle Ford for its usefulness in evaluating the microseismic source mechanisms as well as potential applications for real time...

Parameters Influencing Porosity in Sandstones: A Model for Sandstone Porosity Prediction

M. Scherer

AAPG Bulletin

... to the study of potential oil reservoir sandstones, in G. A. Parks, ed., Computers in the mineral industries: Stanford University Publications in Geological...

Integrated Analysis of Acoustic Images and Shear Wave Anisotropy Used for Geomechanical Modelling in a Tight Sand Oil Reservoir

Saikat Das, Viet Hoang Nguyen, Sadegh Asadi, Naveen Nathesan, Ahsan Jamil, Hilarion Milan, Ashvin Avalani Chandrakant, Fairuz Azwardy Salleh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Integrated Analysis of Acoustic Images and Shear Wave Anisotropy Used for Geomechanical Modelling in a Tight Sand Oil Reservoir Saikat Das, Viet...

Process-Response Modeling of Wave-Dominated Coastal Systems: Simulating Evolution and Stratigraphy on Geological Timescales

Joep E.A. Storms, G.J. Weltje, J.J. van Dijke, C.R. Geel, S.B. Kroonenberg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... surfaces, and in doing so the model produces geometry and grain-size data for potential reservoir and aquifer sand bodies that can be used as input...

Natural fractures of the Tuscaloosa marine shale

Cristina Mariana Ruse, and Mehdi Mokhtari

AAPG Bulletin

... models were built and interpreted. Shear-wave splitting analysis was then used to confirm open fracture presence and study stress direction across...

Perspectives on Stratigraphic Simulation Models: Current Approaches and Future Opportunities

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

Special Publications of SEPM

... law of thermodynamics a et al 1989 1992 used the inverse of erosion equations and estimates of sediment volumes Hay to reconstruct the Miocene...

Conducting a Reservoir Simulation Study: An Overview: Part 10. Reservoir Engineering Methods

Scott K. Laudeman

AAPG Special Volumes

... model. Nevertheless, despite the plausibility of the interpretation used to develop this description, the ultimate test of the simulation model's validity...

The Petrophysical Integration of Four Volumetric End Points Applied to an Indonesian Carbonate

Mark Deakin, David R. Smith

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Effect Density-neutron separation (lsepdn) is used as a sliding switch for the porosity output (port) from the water to gas zone equations, as the gas...