Seismic Exploration for Stratigraphic Traps: Geophysical Exploration Methods

Paul L. Lyons, M. B. Dobrin

AAPG Special Volumes

... approach to finding wedgeouts by the seismic method is fraught with difficulties, but progress is being made in resolution of reflection data. Indirect...

Seismic Activity in the Central Gulf Coast Basin

Eugene R. Brumbaugh

New Orleans Geological Society

... of structure, the Gulf Coast is primarily a "subsurface" province, and the seismograph is its most important exploration tool. Reflection seismograph work has...

Deep Seismic Profiles from Around the British Isles Inform Interpretation of Crustal Reflectivity Beneath Illinois Basin: Initial Results

John McBride, Hannes E. Leetaru, Jared T. Freiburg, Steven G. Whittaker

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Survey, 615 E. Peabody, Champaign, Illinois 61820. Abstract Long-record seismic reflection data (5 s) acquired for the petroleum industry, academia...

Mapping Stratigraphic Traps with Seislog

Roy O. Lindseth

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... velocities (and the effects of density) of the same sedimentary section. The sonic log and the related set of reflection coefficients, ignoring density...

Southwest Palawan, Philippines: A Case Study in Seismic Imaging and Interpretation of Complex Structures

Philip M. Rimando, Geronimo A. Manuel, Raymundo A. Reyes, Jr.

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

.... A., Pagado, E.S., 1993, “Southwest Palawan: The Philippines’ Next Oil and Gas Province?”, Trans-Asia Oil and Mineral Development Corporation (Paper...

Sediment Distribution in the North-Central North Fiji Basin

Loren W. Kroenke, James V. Eade, Chun Yeung Yan, Robert Smith

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... DISTRIBUTION 65 Figure 2. Location of ship tracks in the north central North Fiji Basin along which the reflection profiles and 3.5-kHz echograms used...

Imaging and fold comparison of mirror reverse time migration vs. interferometric imaging for VSP data

Liwei Cheng, James Simmons, Ali Tura

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... paths and related reflection points for VSP data are illustrated in Figure 1. The ray path 1 shows the conventional approach that utilizes the up-going...

The Application of 2D Common-Offset Common-Reflection-Surface (CO CRS) Stack Method Towards Synthetic Data

Parapaty Halley, Rachmat Sule, Teuku Abdullah Sanny

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...The Application of 2D Common-Offset Common-Reflection-Surface (CO CRS) Stack Method Towards Synthetic Data Parapaty Halley, Rachmat Sule, Teuku...

Premigration attenuation analysis and mapping to image domain by weighted migrations

Yonghe Sun, Chunling Wu, Mark Fan, Zhemin Tan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) = exp {𝑖2𝜋𝑓 [+ 𝑙𝑛 ( ) + 𝑖 ]}. (6) 𝜋 𝑓0 2 Consider a single reflection trace data 𝐷(𝒔, 𝒓; 𝑡) with source at 𝒔 and receiver...

Application of Shallow Seismic Reflection in Geoenvironment and Geoengineering Mapping

Umar Hamzah, Abdul Rahim Samsudin, Abdul Ghani Rafek

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...Application of Shallow Seismic Reflection in Geoenvironment and Geoengineering Mapping Umar Hamzah, Abdul Rahim Samsudin, Abdul Ghani Rafek CEOSEA...

Fracture Characterization Based on Attenuation Estimation From Seismic Reflection Data Using Well-Log-Based Localized Spectral Correction

Fangyu Li, Tao Zhao, Tengfei Lin, Kurt J. Marfurt

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...Fracture Characterization Based on Attenuation Estimation From Seismic Reflection Data Using Well-Log-Based Localized Spectral Correction Fangyu Li...

A method for inverting the brittleness index in transversely isotropic formations based on the exact reflection coefficient equation

QiYu Yang, Jingye Li, Jinming Cui, Yongping Wang, Yuning Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...A method for inverting the brittleness index in transversely isotropic formations based on the exact reflection coefficient equation QiYu Yang...

Old Electrical Log Interpretation [Pre-1958], Chapter 2: The Lateral Curve

Hilchie, D.W.

AAPG Special Volumes

... shapes by making decay zones, dead zones and reflection points closer or wider apart. The most common value of A0 was 188 although 5, 6, 7.5, 9, 13, 15...

Recognition of Continental-Slope Seismic Facies, Offshore Texas-Louisiana: 2. The Concepts

J. B. Sangree , D. C. Waylett , D. E. Frazier , G. B. Amery , W. J. Fennessy

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Mitchum, R. M., Jr., et al, 1977, Stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection patterns in depositional sequences, in Seismic stratigraphy...

CHAPTER 2: THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OFF SOUTH TEXAS

Henry L. Berryhill, Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... on the inner shelf that sorting out the small channels relative to lowstand surface was not possible on the full-second sweep seismic-reflection profiles used...

Profiler-Sonobuoy Measurements in Colombia and Venezuela Basins, Caribbean Sea

William J. Ludwig , Robert E. Houtz , John I. Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

... of the Colombia and Venezuela basins at about 15°N are presented in a schematic structure section, which includes details from single-channel reflection-profiler...

Forward Modeling to Improve Seismic Acquisition Design

Paula A.C. Barbosa, Jose A. Jaramillo, Jose H. Olaya

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... reflection points and common depth points. Also, it proved that the concentration of rays in certain zones causes positive anomalies in reflection...

Acoustic modelling with elastic AVA effects

Robin P. Fletcher, James Hobro, James Rickett

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-free shear wave propagation. In this paper we propose a new acoustic wave equation, derived using linearized plane-wave reflection coefficient theory...

Advanced Approach Toward Understanding Geologically Complex Area Using MDRS (Multi-Dip CRS): A Case Study

Naoshi Aoki, Shogo Narahara, Akihisa Takahashi, Tsukasa Nishiki

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... based on the common-reflection-surface (CRS) technology. The method offers not only an improved signal to noise ratio of data but also a higher...

Hydrocarbon Expression on Low-Impedance AVO: A Phenomenon of Amplitude Reversal

W. Waluyo

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on the theory of reflection magnitude as a function of incidence angle. In general, reflection magnitude decreases as offset increases. Zoeppritz first...

Basic Seismic Processing: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

Peter M. Duncan

AAPG Special Volumes

... related to shot and receiver positions on the surface of the earth, an elapsed time after the shot that originated the reflection or echo (traveltime...

Structural Features of Continental Shelf, Slope, and Scarp, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

John Antoine , William Bryant , Bill Jones

AAPG Bulletin

... in original publication. End_of_Article - Last_Page 262------------ DISCUSSION Figure 1 shows the location of seismic reflection lines that have been...

Quantitative Petrophysical AVO Error Analysis in a Layered Model

Search and Discovery.com

... parameters but might be ignored in AVO inversion. Such factors include using only the vertical component of reflection amplitude, calculation...

Multi-cycles Sequence Stratigraphy Analysis and the Application of Seismic Waveform Classification Technique for Sandstone Prediction in Shallow Lake Basin, #50642 (2012)

Qinglong Xia, Tao Guo, Chunqiang Xu, Zhigang Liu, Ruoxiang Zhang

Search and Discovery.com

... of seismic signal is always reflected in changes of seismic waveform. Seismic facies classification processing is based on reflection changes in waveform...

Key Technologies for Processing of Seismic Data in Gas Cloud Area, Bohai Bay Basin, #42093 (2017).

Xia Tongxing, Ming Jun, Liu Lei, Zhou Xuefeng, Liu Hongxing, Liu Xuetong

Search and Discovery.com

... attenuated traveltime tomography. Then, model-driven Q compensation is realized directly during depth migration. Conventional reflection tomography...