Managing uncertainty to deliver complex development wells

Peter van Ruth, Manish Agarwal, Scott Gagen

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... generated by well intersections which the industry has relied upon until now. WELL CONSTRAINED TOMOGRAPHY Key reservoir surfaces and seismic volumes were...

Characterizing seismic anisotropy and AVO using walkaway VSP: Willow oilfield, Alaska

Manish Lal Khaitan, Ali Sayed, Shujaat Ali, Trey Wagner, Jonathan Scorer, Brett Wendt

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Geologists Walkaway VSP for seismic anisotropy and AVO values along the receiver array. Traveltime inversion with the walkaway VSP traveltimes...

Main Geological Results Using Common-Depth-Point Seismic Surveying in Bashkiria and Prospects for Exploration for New Oil and Gas Fields

Yu. N. Kukharenko, F. I. Khat’yanov, N. K. Yunusov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

..., which did not show up on the previous reflection survey sections. Fig. 1 is a map of the oil and gas fields of Bashkiria and also the structures...

Abstract: The Opal-CT/Ouartz Diagenetic Boundary Within the Monterey Formation of the California Offshore Santa Maria Basin: An Untapped Exploration Target, by D. Mayerson and J. Crouch; #90981 (1994).

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Multidomain simultaneous joint inversion for near-surface characterization A case study from onshore US

Nate Johnson, Ali Ahmed Hussein Mohamed, Zhanna Jackson, Seth Riseman, Kevin Douglas

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to the model via subsequent reflection tomography. is reasonable to suggest that such a model would also be an optimal starting point for full-waveform...

Resolving geological complexity with legacy streamer survey, part 2: Application of DM FWI to sub-optimally acquired data

Nebojsa Pralica, Milos Cvetkovic, Seet Li Yong, Daniel Davies, Jon Rogers

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... settings. Since DM FWI uses both the refraction and reflection parts of the wavefield, we are able to update high-resolution and geologically plausible...

Effective Data Denoising and Imaging in the Sanga Sanga PSC Using CRS Approach

Michele Buia, Paolo Marchetti, Amalia Setoputri, Teguh Nugraha

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a better and more complete usage of the acquired data. The Common Reflection Surface (CRS) stacking (Hubral, 1993) is a technique that is able to deal...

Velocity model building with a time shift objective function: Gulf of Mexico examples

Yi Yang, Ken Matson, Tadas Krupovnickas, Mark Huiskes, Rene-Edouard Plessix, Sijmen Gerritsen

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...ed the reflection part of the data by muting below the direct arrival, only diving wave energy was used for this background model building exercise. The inversi...

Data-embedded physics-informed neural network for electromagnetic wave propagation simulation: Potentials and challenges

Yawei Su, Wenyi Hu, Jiefu Chen, Aria Abubakar

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... acquisition constraints under certain circumstances. INTRODUCTION In imaging or tomography applications such as geophysics subsurface detection...

Abstract: Maximize the Potential of Seismic Data in Shale Exploration and Production … Examples from the Barnett Shale and the Eagle Ford Shale; #90187 (2014)

Joanne Wang and Duane Dopkin

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..., the event would be flat cross the azimuth. The reflection event over the azimuth range from 40 to 75 degrees appears to have a larger traveltime than...

Synthetic Seismic-Reflection Profiles of Rift-Related Structures

Martha O. Withjack , D. J. Drickman Pollock

AAPG Bulletin

... section. The width and intensity of the distortion beneath the faults increase as two-way traveltime increases. For the deepest reflection, the distortion...

Velocity Model Building Using Tilted Orthorhombic Depth Imaging for Full Azimuth Seismic Data

Yunfeng (Fred) Li, Qiaofeng Wu, Chuen-Song Chen

GCAGS Journal

... these nine parameters. Additionally, during the last couple of years, ray tracing and tomography (Han and Xu, 2012; Li et al., 2012), Kirchhoff...

Understanding Hydraulic Fractures in Tight-gas Sands through the Integration of Borehole Microseismic Data, Three-dimensional Surface Seismic Data, and Three-dimensional Vertical Seismic Profile Data: A Jonah Field Case Study

Nancy House, Julie Shemeta

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Figure 6). Two calculations are made to find the event location. First, to find the distance and height of the event, the traveltime residuals, which...

Cascaded full-waveform inversions to resolve Mesozoic structures in shallow-water Gulf of Mexico with limited-offset data

Wei Kang, Christoph Koeninger, Miguel Acosta Perez, Josue Jurado Ramirez, Imran Nagir, Denes Vigh, Silvino Dominguez Garcia, Alfredo Vazquez Cantu, Luis Arturo Vega, Marco Antonio Mayorga

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and carbonate. The workflow consists of three loops of FWI with specific objectives and tailored inputs. Between FWI loops, conventional reflection tomography...

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

... and curvature of reflection surface. In this way, CRS offers improved signal-to-noise ratio of data significantly. In 2D situation, CRS traveltime can...

Method of Spatial Observations of RNP Under the Conditions of the Reef Zone of the Orenburg Cis-Urals

I. A. Mushin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... (April) 1. Rappoport, M. B., 1961, Reflection of seismic waves from non-mirror boundaries; Izv. AN SSSR, ser. geofiz., no. 2. 2. Voskresenskiy, Yu. N...

Three-Dimensional Seismic Attributes Help Define Controls on Reservoir Development: Case Study from the Red River Formation, Williston Basin

R. A. Pearson, B. S. Hart

AAPG Special Volumes

... tied log and seismic data, mapped key reflection events in the 3-D seismic volume, calculated the porosity thickness (thickness sonic porosity...

Characterization of a Shallow Steamed Oil Reservoir Using Crosswell Seismology

Bjorn N. P. Paulsson, John W. Fairborn

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... borehole airgun was also done along with the tomography survey. The Production Research Department at Chevron is undertaking an extensive review...

Abstract: P-wave and S-wave Near-surface Characterization in Northeast British Columbia (NEBC); #90174 (2014)

Liliana M. Zuleta and Don C. Lawton

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... static corrections (Al Dulaijan, 2008; Martin, 2002; Parry and Lawton, 1993). Static corrections are used in the processing of reflection seismic data...

Abstract: Investigation of the Resolution Limits of Easy Ro by Inversion, by Ozkan Huvaz, René O. Thomsen, and Sheila Noeth; #90914(2000)

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ABSTRACT: Vector 3C-3D Depth Migration of Salt Images Using Limited VSP Data, by Wang, Dapeng, Yingping Li, John O'Brien, Brian Mallick; #90026 (2004)

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Abstract: Seismic Attributes for Regional Reconnaissance: Deep Gas Interval, Gulf of Mexico Shelf

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Abstract: Evaluation of the Potential of Wave Equation Depth Imaging Technologies on Land, by Morgan P.Brown and Joseph H. Higginbotham; #90076 (2008)

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Abstract: Panama Exploration: A GPS-Based Kinematic Model for the Western Caribbean, by Kobayashi, Dice; #90162 (2013)

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Application of Full-Waveform Inversion for Shale Diapirs and Carbonate Rafts in the U.S. Central Gulf of Mexico

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