Consideration to Data Driven Solutions for the Acquisition of New Marine 3D Seismic Data

Julie Willmore, Brad Torry, Henrik Roende, Chris Egger, Adriana Thames

GCAGS Transactions

.... Refractions are not included in the study by restricting the maximum take-off angle to 60 degrees. With numerous options to visualize and understand...

Comparative Microseismic Interpretation of Hydraulic Fractures, #41308 (2014)

Shawn Maxwell

Search and Discovery.com

... to SNR, phase consistency to avoid picking reflections and refractions modes, multiple interfering events and noise picking. As an example of application...

Geology & Paleontology of the Southern Border of the San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California; Guidebook for Pacific Sections SEPM, SEG, & AAPG & SJGS Spring Field Trip

Tom W. Dibblee Jr., W. H. LeRoy, E. W. Wellbaum, Archer H. Warne, D. C. Callaway, Richard S. Rheem, F. Sierveld, Douglas R. Waterman, R. A. Nesbit, R. L. Hester, D. W. Day, E. D. B. Laudeman, R. J. Wells, W. A. Sax, A. Bayoumi, R. J. Allenby, J. W. Durham, R. M. Kleinpell, D. W. Weaver, R. H. Tedford, O. L. Bandy

Pacific Section SEPM

... be due to reflected-refractions from fault planes, stratigraphic changes and other discontinuities, or diffractions from intrusives, faults...

Sub-surface Structure of the Pitnyak Region according to Data of Geophysical Investigations and the Prospects of its Oil and Gas Capability

A. M. Syngurov А. М. Сунгуров

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... the Upper Cretaceous complex are felt. The latter shield the refractions of all underlying horizons. Profiles 1 and 5 (Fig. 2) give a general idea...

Full Waveform Inversion: Early Start of Model Building Process to Resolve the Complex near Surface Model in the Exmouth Sub-Basin, North West Shelf Australia

Lianping Zhang, Haryo Trihutomo, Yuelian Gong, BeeJik Lim, Alexander Karvelas

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... in the overburden using early arrivals, diving waves and refractions. Full waveform inversion The APPEA Journal 887 500 (a) Depth(m) 1500 3000 500 (b) 1500...

Enhancing low frequencies in airgun arrays, analysis of various field tests

Susanne Rentsch, Edward Hager, Lauren Wing, Sebastian Holland

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... with not just reflections but also refractions and diving waves showing better coherency and signal to noise ratio. The two shots were taken about...

Deep learning seismic full-waveform inversion and transient EM joint inversion for near surface velocity modeling

Daniele Colombo, Ernesto Sandoval-Curiel, Ersan Turkoglu, Weichang Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to be of effective use. The early arrival wavefield comprises different types of waves that are primarily refractions (e.g., diving waves, head waves), direct...

Estimating Stimulation-Zone Anisotropy Effects During Microseismic Monitoring

Martin Karrenbach, Steve Cole, Victor Yartsev

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ray behavior can be complex due to ray bending and refractions in and around the main treatment zone. We also observe in this case strong shear wave...

Deblending a sparse OBN survey acquired with a generalized survey optimization scheme

Matthew Salgadoe, Bartosz Szydlik, Azat Kuliev, Christopher McMorland

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and the deblending workflow yields OBN data that provides fullazimuth, long-offset data with early arrivals and refractions intact, which is invaluable...

Defining a Steeply-Dipping Salt Flank in Mississippi with a New High-Certainty 3D Method

Nicholas Brooks, Pat Donais, Werner Heigl, Jakob Haldorsen, Fred Li

GCAGS Transactions

... sediments. By deploying three-component (3C) geophones inside the borehole we can record direct arrivals, refractions, reflections, and diffractions...

Seismic Characterization of the Fiordland Gas-hydrate Province, New Zealand

Miko Fohrmann, Andrew R. Gorman, Ingo A. Pecher

AAPG Special Volumes

...). Reprocessing included editing of noisy and dead traces, geometry application, a mute of refractions, wide bandpass filtering (15200250 Hz...

Shallow High-Resolution Seismic Reflection to Delineate Upper 400 m around a Collapse Feature in Central Kansas

Richard D. Miller, Ana Villella, Jianghai Xia

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of reflections on shot gathers is of the utmost importance in differentiating reflection on a CDP stacked section from stacked refractions and other coherent...

Structure Interpretation Problems of a Lower Miocene Reef Associated with a Shallow Low Velocity Anomaly, North Sumatra

Peter Walker, Masrizal Maas, Michael D. Burnaman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... sensitive. Possible refractions through the limestone. Few model constraints. Anisotropy. Unequal water depths The proposed concept was that a low...

Salt Publications

New Orleans Geological Society

... seismic refractions. Geophysics, v. 52, p. 12. EDMUNDS, R.H., 1980, Salt removal and oil entrapment. Can. Soc. Petr. Geol. Memoir 6, p. 988. EWING, M...

Predicting and Detecting Carbonate Cemented Zones Within Latrobe Group Reservoirs of the Gippsland Basin

Mark Bunch

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... effect relevant to field data is the possibility of acoustic scattering (oblique seismic reflections and refractions) caused by a dipping and/or curved...

A Spherulitic Fabric in Selectively Dolomitized Siliciclastic Crustacean Burrows, Northern Kuwait

A. Gunatilaka, A. Al-Zamel, D. J. Shearman, A. Reda

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... be caused by internal reflections and refractions about minute inclusions. The petrographic evidence indicates that some spheroids originated as perfectly...

Structure of Broadtop Synclinorium, Wills Mountain Anticlinorium, and Allegheny Frontal Zone

Frank Jacobeen, Jr. , William H. Kanes

AAPG Bulletin

... sections. Most of these are refractions of seismic energy. They may have their source within the line of section but their origin may be at some...

Fractured Reservoir Prediction … A Case Study in the Sichuan Basin; #10512 (2013)

Ling Yun, Xiangyu Guo, Qianggong Song, and Weisheng He

Search and Discovery.com

... convolution and phase processing Uphole data +shallow refractions + 3D Tomo-inversion statics Field statics Velocity analysis: 1. VSP-surface V analysis 2...

Petroleum Potential of the Fly-Bamu Deltas Region

R. G. Mollan, G. J. Blackburn

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... by Esso Australia Ltd during 1975 and 1976 respectively, has im proved that data qual­ ity because: 1. Coherent noise due to river currents, refractions...

Geological and Geophysical Studies in Western Part of Bengal Basin, India

Supriya Sengupta

AAPG Bulletin

... reflection events are observed on the seismograms in these areas. These features, which are possibly diffractions and reflected refractions from...

Toros-Zagros Folding and Its Relation to Middle East Oil Fields

E. Ilhan

AAPG Bulletin

... or refractions from deep horizons. Large-scale gravimetric and, if the basement rocks are sufficiently magnetic, airborne magnetic surveys can be useful...

Deformation bands and their influence on fluid flow

Haakon Fossen, Arthur Bale

AAPG Bulletin

... section (Figures 7, 8, 9). However, refractions of diagenetic alteration fronts by deformation bands have been reported from the Aztec Sandstone...

Regional detection and monitoring of injection-induced seismicity: Application to the 2010–2012 Youngstown, Ohio, seismic sequence

S. G. Holtkamp, M. R. Brudzinski, and B. S. Currie

AAPG Bulletin

... of reflections and refractions of passing seismic waves, even slight changes in either the source or path parameters of an earthquake (e.g....

Geological Literature on the San Joaquin Valley of California

J. C. Maher, W. M. Trollman, J. M. Denman

Pacific Section of AAPG

...; abs., 1967, in Geol. Soc. America Program, Ann. Mtg., New Orleans 1967, p. 4. Allenby, R. J., 1961, The importance of reflected refractions...

Tintaburra Field--Australia Eromanga Basin, Queensland

C. B. Newton

AAPG Special Volumes

... disregard ray path refractions. Velocity information gathered from Tintaburra 3 enabled seismic time distortion to be quantified, and new basement time...