Three-Dimensional Depth Imaging of Seismic Data to Help Delineate Petroleum Reservoirs in the Williston Basin

Alvin K. Benson

Williston Basin Symposium

... at each depth to estimate the reflection coefficients at depth z by selecting the amplitudes for zero travel time (measured from the reflector...

Pore-Pressure Prediction in the Permian Basin Using Seismic Prestack Inversion

Colin Sayers, Lennert den Boer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (NMO) analysis or kinematic inversion because these velocities typically have poor vertical resolution. By comparison, inversion of reflection...

Chapter Six: Tuning Phenomena in Reservoirs

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... and the base of a sand bed must be aligned to produce the principal tuning amplitude maximum; here it is assumed that the reflection coefficients...

Sequence-Stratigraphic, Petrophysical, and Multicomponent Seismic Analysis of a Shelf-Margin Reservoir: San Andres Formation (Permian), Vacuum Field, New Mexico, United States

Matthew J. Pranter, Neil F. Hurley, Thomas L. Davis

AAPG Special Volumes

... from log data using average-reflection-strength values for the same intervals on the seismic data. Correlation coefficients (r) of 0.81 and 0.57 between...

Two-Dimensional Synthetic Seismic and Log Cross Sections from Stratigraphic Forward Models

Mark W. Shuster , Tom Aigner

AAPG Bulletin

... incident synthetic seismograms are created using calculated reflection coefficients and user-defined input wavelets. Because stratigraphic simulations...

Feasibility Study of Seismic-Reflection Monitoring System for Underground Waste-Material Injection Sites: ABSTRACT

Fred J. Barr, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

...Feasibility Study of Seismic-Reflection Monitoring System for Underground Waste-Material Injection Sites: ABSTRACT Fred J. Barr, Jr. 1973 1591 1592...

Abstract: Amplitude Interpretation and Visualization of Three-Dimensional Reflection Data, by M. E. Enachescu; #90982 (1994).

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Seismic Detection and Evaluation of Delta and Turbidite Sequences: Their Application to the Exploration for the Subtle Trap: ABSTRACT

Orville Roger Berg

AAPG Bulletin

...-dominated deltas. Each kind of delta has a distinct framework orientation and depositional pattern which results in a characteristic seismic reflection...

ABSTRACT: Seismic Resolution Enhancement using Coefficient Reflection Log and Vertical Seismic Profiling Data, by Wicaksono, Sri Konsep Harum; #90155 (2012)

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History Matching and Predicting Gas Production During ECBM

Ahmed Farid Ibrahim, Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... tool to estimate the initial formation permeability, the initial formation porosity, the matrix shrinkage, and swelling coefficients that reflected...

Roughness of Limestone and Quartzite Pebbles by the Modified Fourier Method

Eliza Czarnecka, J. E. Gillott

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... as total roughness. Numerical values of roughness, shape and texture coefficients and mean harmonic amplitude spectra plotted graphically show...

Can polygonal faults help locate deep-water reservoirs?

Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Daniel T. Carruthers, Seshane N. Mahlo, and Omieari Briggs

AAPG Bulletin

...; Cartwright and Dewhurst, 1998; Stuevold et al., 2003). On seismic reflection data, tier boundaries are typically expressed as clustering of lower...

Critical Analysis of Stack Seismic Systems

L. E. Nugent, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

...Critical Analysis of Stack Seismic Systems L. E. Nugent, Jr. 1967 951 956 51 6. (June) Nugent, L. E., Jr., 1953, Limitations of reflection...

Geology of Natural Gas in South Louisiana Lafayette and New Orleans Geological Societies: PART 3

William R. Paine , James P. Spillers , Kenneth M. Waters , Donald I. Andrews , E. M. Baysinger , A. M. Borland , James Cotton , S. T. Cristina Jr. , Justin P. Hall Jr. , B. W. Kimmey , John E. McDougall , A. A. Meyerhoff , Marvin A. Munchrath , David L. Paffett , Francis L. Paspberry , D. N. Rockwood , Edward P. Roederer Jr. , Jack C. Stipe , H. O. Woodbury

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Texas-Louisiana border (Fig. 1); (see Kimmey, 1964). Discovery history: Regional geological studies and a reflection-seismograph survey led...

A Study of the Morphology and Dioptrics of Some Ostracode Eyespots

Mervin Kontrovitz , John H. Myers

GCAGS Transactions

... for transmission electron microscopy. Although the polished sections provided general information about the morphology of eyespots it is difficult...

Evaluation of New Geophysical Methods

W. M. Rust, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... intelligence and confidence that the information from reflection seismograph work is now used. Two approaches to the application of this criterion...

Abstract: Macro-velocity Model Building in a Laplace-domain Waveform Inversion; #90174 (2014)

Changsoo Shin and Wansoo Ha

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... is promising, however, local minima is a serious problem when inverting field data (Bunks et al., 1995). Inversions of reflection data in the time and frequency...

Abstract: Investigations of Seismic Signatures of CO2 Saturation as Part of a Geological Storage Project; #90187 (2014)

Gautier Njiekak, Douglas R. Schmitt, and Randolf S. Kofman

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.... The ultrasonic pulse transmission technique is the underlying methodology used in this work. Unlike previous rock physics studies involving CO2 as pore fluid...

Hurricane Impact Analysis of a Louisiana Shallow Coastal Bay Bottom and Its Shallow Subsurface Geology

Angelina M. Freeman, Harry H. Roberts, Patrick D. Banks

GCAGS Transactions

... bottom, producing an image of the bottom’s various materials, structures, and textures. Side-scan data show reflection amplitudes from acoustic energy...

Swash„Groundwater„Beach Profile Interactions

Evans Waddell

Special Publications of SEPM

... primarily dependent undisturbed swash can and often will exceed breaker Because features of Magnitude of expend energy on energy reflection...

Carbonate Platform to Basin Transitions on Seismic Data and in Outcrops: Great Bahama Bank and the Maiella Platform Margin, Italy

Gregor P. Eberli, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Christian Betzler, Jan-Henk Van Konijnenburg, Daniel Bernoulli

AAPG Special Volumes

... with velocity values that range between 6250 and 6400 m/s and densities between 2.68 and 2.7 g/cm3, resulting in reflection coefficients of 0.016 (Anselmetti et...

Effective Use of High Density VSP Measurements to Predict Pore Pressure and Estimate Mud Weight Ahead of Drilling in the Mahakam Delta, Indonesia

Mohammed Badri, Stephane Gazet, Gregoire de Tonnac

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and sparsest sequence of reflection coefficients. A linearized inversion takes place to change the inverted model such that the travel times match...

Submarine Geology of Cortes and Tanner Banks

J. E. Holzman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sediment transport is radially downslope (Sverdrup et al. 1942), so that little reflection of current directions may be expected in the sedimentation...

Wave-Front Diagrams in Seismic Interpretation

H. R. Thornburgh

AAPG Bulletin

...) positively nothing concerning the character of the disturbance except its speed of transmission, and (3) the transmission speed to be constant throughout...

Processes That Initiate Turbidity Currents and Their Influence on Turbidites: A Marine Geology Perspective

David J.W. Piper, William R. Normark

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and 3D seismic-reflection data have provided new understanding of the morphology of submarine canyons and the continental slope. This morphology can...