Using Fluid-Induced Microseismics to Image Permeability

Andrew King, Tobias Müller

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... involves solving a time-reversed version of the same equations, with the pressure observations taking the place of sources, so the same code can be used...

Reserve Growth in Oil Pools of Alberta: Model and Forecast

Mahendra Verma, Troy Cook

CSPG Bulletin

... and this resulted in the following two equations — one to be used for growth at pool level and one at field level. At the pool level: At the field level...

Shale Gas Sweet Spot Identification using Quantitative Seismic Interpretation (QSI) and Neural Network in Krishna-Godavari Basin, India

Soumen Deshmukh, Shrey Omer, P. S. Tomor, Harilal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., the Zoeppritz equations (1919) describe the partitioning of seismic wave energy at an interface (Equation 1). 4 URTeC 2710    sin 1   RP    R...

Iterative Modeling and Imaging of Seismic Data in Depth to Help Delineate Petroleum Reservoirs in the Utah Overthrust Belt

Alvin K. Benson

Utah Geological Association

... be used to determine the wave field at any depth z from surface data through a process known as downward continuation. This is a mathematical...

Delineation of the Reservoir by Seismic Methods: Chapter 3

Roberto Sarmiento

AAPG Special Volumes

.... If the wave strikes the interface within about 20° of normal the above equations give a reasonable approximation of the correct answer. As the equations...

Sequential Shrinking Particle Swam Optimization (SSPSO) and Hierarchical K-Means Clustering Methods to Improve Probabilistic History Matching and Forecast

Theoza Nopranda

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... modeling, the optimization method is used to minimize the objective function of the difference between the model’s calculation and the historical data...

Combined Diving Wave Refraction Tomography and Reflection Tomography for PSDM Velocity Model Building (Bekapai Field, Indonesia)

Andi Kusuma, Florent Bertini, Jacques Bonnafe, Artem Sazykin, Swee Leng Ng

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to success for depth imaging. Kim and Bell (2000) and Bell et al. (1994) used diving wave refraction tomography for processing seismic data from...

Calibration of Kinetic Models with Data from Geologically Matured Organic Matter: Estimation of the Kinetics of Thermal Degradation of Individual Oil-generating Macerals

Johan K. Michelsen and Ganjavar Khavari Khorasini

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... functions which correct for the m e value of the transformation ratio for R=l (The hydrocarbon potential of a maceral is not exhausted ar the maturity...

Predicting Rock and Fluid/Rock Properties by Modeling Diagenesis, by Steven L. Bryant, #90027 (2004)

Search and Discovery.com

Wettability Alteration and Improved Oil Recovery in Unconventional Resources

Fabio Bordeaux Rego, Esmail Eltahan, Kamy Sepehrnoori

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the tuned equilibrium constants (k) for Equations 9 to 26 used to match experimental zeta-potential and contact angles. We also list the values provided...

Abstract: A Stable Criterion for Shear-Wave-Splitting Analysis; #90174 (2014)

Xinxiang Li and Jeff P. Grossman

Search and Discovery.com

...Abstract: A Stable Criterion for Shear-Wave-Splitting Analysis; #90174 (2014) Xinxiang Li and Jeff P. Grossman AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery...

Lomnitz Law Versus Elasticoviscous Controversy

Paul S. Wesson

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and the peaks can be used to investigate damping processes which depend on the temperature under the impetus of a stress wave. The relaxation time...

Reconstruction of the Subsurface Reflected Wavefield on a Dense Grid from Multisensor Streamer Data

M. Vassallo, K. Eggenberger, D.J. van Manen, P. Watterson, A. Raskopin, A. Özbek

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... used in most of the interpolation/regularization techniques proposed in the last two decades (Spitz, 1991; Gülünay, 2003; Liu and Sacchi, 2004; Zwartjes...

Synthetic Seismograms from Vibracores: A Case Study in Correlating the Late Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the New Jersey Inner Continental Shelf

Dominic Esker , Robert E. Sheridan , Gall M. Ashley , Jeffrey S. Waldner , David W. Hall

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the problems associated with the use of well logs and shipboard measurements to construct synthetic seismograms. This method was used to groundtruth...

Geopressuring Mechanism of Organic Matter Cracking: Numerical Modeling

Xiaorong Luo , Guy Vasseur

AAPG Bulletin

... pressure and temperature. NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND PARAMETERS To solve equations 6 and 7, we developed a Lagrangian finite element approach for a two...

Abstract: Use of Seismic and EM Data for Exploration, Appraisal and Reservoir Characterization; #90171 (2013)

Anton Ziolkowski and Folke Engelmark

Search and Discovery.com

... that there are major problems in combining all these measurements, but these problems must be faced if the potential benefits are to be realized. We observe...

Reservoir Characterisation Through Integrated AVO, AI and EI Inversion

Andy Furniss

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and S-wave reflectivities from the data and these can be used to derive secondary attributes more closely related to fluid properties. Poststack inversion...

Carbonate Debris Flows, Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland

Richard N. Hiscott, Noel P. James

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... If the tip of the snout is not visible, two (x,y) coordinates relative to an arbitrary position of the origin on the x-axis can be used to solve...

Natural Catastrophe Risk Modelling for Northwest Australia Offshore Installations

Tomohiko Inamura, Francis Lobo, Rie Hirose, Hajime Sano

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... a range of products that insure against potential losses, including physical damage, control of well, sue and labour, removal of wreck, business...

A general model for growth trajectories of linear carbonate platforms

Nicolas Goudemand,, Pulkit Singh, Jonathan L. Payne

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in forward modeling. In addition, the equations presented above can be used to solve uniquely for unknown parameter values in appropriate circumstances...

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Log Analysis: Chapter 7

John H. Doveton

AAPG Special Volumes

...., J. E. Anderson, and J.-C. Wong, 1990, Porosity Advisor--an expert system used as an aid in interpreting the origin of porosity in carbonate rocks...

Pseudo-Pressure and Pseudo-Time Analysis for Unconventional Oil Reservoirs With New Expressions for Average Reservoir Pressure during Transient Radial and Linear Flow

Randy Roadifer, Hosein Kalaei

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is in direct violation of the assumptions used in the derivation of the liquid solutions; e.g., single-phase oil of constant viscosity and slight...

Prediction of 3-D Facies and Petrophysical Models using Seismic Inversion and Advanced Statistical Data Analytics in Midland Basin Study Area

V. Pandey, T. Nekrasova, I. Tsybulkina, K. Clemons, D. Li, B. Six

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Probability Density Functions (PDFs) to include the variability in the relationship between elastic and petrophysical properties. We used a separate PDF...

Data selection for velocity model estimation using a circular shot OBN survey

Felipe T. Costa, Sergio L. E. F. da Silva, Ammir A. Karsou, Felipe Capuzzo, Roger M. Moreira, Jorge Lopez, Marco Cetale

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., Convolutional perfectly matched layer for isotropic and anisotropic acoustic wave equations: 80th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Expanded Abstracts...

Acoustic modelling with elastic AVA effects

Robin P. Fletcher, James Hobro, James Rickett

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in the center of the model. This is sufficiently far-field to see the effect of the plane-wave reflection coefficients used to derive equation (5). A Ricker...