Monitoring Oil and Gas Sites for Methane Leaks Using Second Generation Satellites

Jean-Francois Gauthier

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of the satellite sensor will be presented. Introduction Up to 97% of natural gas is made up of methane (Enbridge 2019), a powerful greenhouse gas with a Global...

Seismic Surveys Without Cables

Doug Crice

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... The company was The Fairfield Nodal self-contained sensor has minimal environmental impact. It is the only truly cableless system since there are no geophone...

Remote Sensing for the Petroleum Industry

Arthur J. Pyron and Allen M. Feder

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... The discussion that follows will not only identify the particular type of remote sensor, but will also mention some applicability of the technique...

Development of Vertical Cable Seismic System

Eiichi Asakawa, Fumitoshi Murakami, Yoshihiro Sekino, Taku Okamoto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... to the target.  It avoids the coupling problems between sensor and seabottom that cause serious damage of seismic data quality.  Various types...

Some Basic Similarities and Differences of Micromagnetics and Conventional Magnetic Surveys

J. P. Land

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... field is locally distorted and a magnetic anomaly created. The wavelength of a magnetic anomaly is a function of the distance between the magnetic sensor...

Full Spectrum Gravity --- Improving AGG Data Quality at Both Ends of the Spectrum

Chris van Galder, Mark Dransfield

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... as a combination of sensor and acquisition noise. For many years, sensor noise has dominated and the many reductions in noise have been in sensor...

A Robust Gradient for Long Wavelength FWI Updates

Jaime Ramos-Martinez, Sean Crawley, Kathy Zou, Alejandro Valenciano, Lingyun Qiu, Nizar Chemingui, Andrew Long

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to illustrate how this dynamic weighted FWI gradient successfully recovers the velocity from pre-critical reflections. We also show with dual-sensor streamer...

Pulsed-Neutron Data as a Tool for Water Source Identification - Case Examples

Glen Ricky Himawan, Bancha Srikampha

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and collar locator sensor for correlation purposes, and a telemetry system to Halliburton © IPA, 2019 – 43rd Annual Convention Proceedings, 2019...

AAPG Memoir 76, Chapter 16: Pore Pressure ahead of the Bit: An Integrated Approach

Nader C. Dutta, William H. Borland, W. Scott Leaney, Richard Meehan, and W. Les Nutt

AAPG Special Volumes

... in nature, and timing information must be extracted. Referring to Figure 2, correlating the drillstring sensor signal with the seismic sensor...

High-resolution Electrical Borehole Images While Drilling

Jeremy Lofts, Stephen Morris

AAPG Special Volumes

... and possible geomechanical information that may mitigate drilling hazards.This chapter reviews the advances in resolution (sensor technology...

2 Fundamental Terms and Concepts

P. E. Gretener

AAPG Special Volumes

.... a transient or disequilibrium condition In the first case, despite the flow of heat, the temperature distribution remains fixed in time. A temperature sensor...

Abstract: Requirements for Resolution; #90171 (2013)

Mark S. Egan, Antoun Salama, George El-Kaseeh, and Joe Seissiger

Search and Discovery.com

... approximately 20,000 live channels. (Those surveys made use of the single-sensor approach – thereby allowing some of the uplifts in resolution to arise...

Abstract: Requirements for Resolution; #90171 (2013)

Mark S. Egan, Antoun Salama, George El-Kaseeh, and Joe Seissiger

Search and Discovery.com

... approximately 20,000 live channels. (Those surveys made use of the single-sensor approach – thereby allowing some of the uplifts in resolution to arise...

Abstract: Low-Frequency Tremor Signals from a Hydraulic Fracture Treatment in Northeast British Columbia, Canada; #90187 (2014)

David W. Eaton, Mirko van der Baan, Jean-Baptiste Tary, and Kim Pike

Search and Discovery.com

..., Canada Figure 1: Location and layout for the Rolla Microseismic Experiment. Manufacturer Type of Sensor Number of Sensors Sample Rate (ms) Start...

Abstract: Relaxing the Near-Surface assumption in Estimating 3C Receiver Orientations: Azimuth-Stack Power Optimization of Reflected PS Data; #90187 (2014)

Nirupama (Pam) Nagarajappa, Peter Cary, and Chuck Ursenbach

Search and Discovery.com

... component sensor. Analytical methods can be used to determine the orientation estimates for each source-receiver pair and then to determine a statistical...

Abstracts: Microseismic Network Design: Estimating the Number of Detected Events During Hydraulic Fracturing; #90173 (2015)

Shawn Maxwell

Search and Discovery.com

... of sensor arrays, within logistical constraints, in such away as to allow acquisition of high quality data (e.g. Maxwell et al., 2003). A common...

Abstract: Deterministic Marine Deghosting: Tutorial and Recent Advances; #90224 (2015)

Mike J. Perz and Hassan Masoomzadeh

Search and Discovery.com

... this ghost effect, including variable-depth streamers or slanted cables (Soubaras and Dowle, 2010) and dual-sensor streamers combined with random-depth...

Fracture Identification with Seismic Data, XinChang Field, China, by Peter Stewart, John Tinnin, James Hallin, and Jim Granath, #40370 (2008).

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The Acquisition and Assembly of Large Scale, High Resolution Photorealistic Models of Geological Outcrops; #41520 (2015)

Lionel S. White, Jr., Jarvis R. Cline, Mohammed S. Alfarhan, Miao Wang, Carlos L.V. Aiken

Search and Discovery.com

... of the size of the camera sensor pixel, the lens focal length and the distance from the outcrop. The vertical height that can be captured is determined...

A Change in Formation Evaluation Strategy to Enable Making Key Investment Decisions Faster; #42344 (2019)

Iain Whyte, Moses Onen, Gavin Sibbald, Rendani Malada

Search and Discovery.com

... and how flat the sensor responses were, contamination was typically between 12-15%. The service provider was challenged to overcome these obstacles...

Improving Seismic Quality

Jane Whaley

GEO ExPro Magazine

... consider that we are the only company with the technology to do this, with steerable single sensor streamers. There had been a steady take up of Q...

Protecting Coastal Communities Through Civil Maritime Surveillance

Mark Womersley

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on environmental security have been identified and include: a) Environmental Surveillance - New sensor technologies, increasing environmental awareness...

Specialized processing of a massive distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) 3D VSP in a producing well

Ali Sayed, Francesca Twynam, Ran Bachrach, Philippe Caprioli, Marcus Holloway, Qingsong Li, Reetam Biswas, Daniel Tebo, Sam Buist

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (BP), Reetam Biswas (BP), Daniel Tebo (BP), and Sam Buist (BP) Summary Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has enabled long sensor arrays with dense...

ABSTRACT: Advances in Image Log Visualization and Interpretation

James J. Willis

GCAGS Transactions

... sensor that provided full azimuthal coverage. In the logging while drilling (LWD) environment, the sensors rotate with the drill string, yielding...

Solution for Anomaly Detection in Oil & Gas Well Drilling Sensors Based on Recurrent Neural Networks: A Big Data Approach

María Yamile Orellano, Marilyn Vargas, Julián Benavidez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Network (RNN) algorithm, it examines the values transmitted by each sensor in real-time and determines the probability of identifying an anomaly...