High-frequency FWI velocity model building for hydrocarbon delineation

Lianping Zhang, Souvik Sengupta, Chirag Parekh, Robert Eliott-Lockhart

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... observed in legacy imaging using an earth model derived by reflection tomography. We employed high-frequency FWI with a maximum frequency of 50Hz...

Shallow Structure and Stratigraphy of Liberian Continental Margin

John Schlee , John C. Behrendt , James M. Robb

AAPG Bulletin

... in the small sediment-filled basins beneath the slope pinch out against the edges of buried Fig. 5. Interpreted seismic-reflection profiles taken along...

The Reflection Seismograph Celebrates 50th Anniversary 1921-1971

W. B. Robinson

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...The Reflection Seismograph Celebrates 50th Anniversary 1921-1971 W. B. Robinson 2003 107 110 Vol. 53 (2003) No. 4. (January/February) This article...

Clay Minerals in Holocene Marine Sediments of the Sungei Muar Flood Plain, Johore

J. K. Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...); this reflection shifting to about 4.9 (28) on glycolation (Fig. 4) and dropping to 8.7 0 (28) on heating to 5000 C (Fig. ~). A small amount of randomly inter...

ABSTRACT: THE CHARACTERISATION OF CLAYS USING MICRO-REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY

M. KRAHE-SOLOMON, B.D. KYBETT, AND E.M.V. NAMBUDIRI

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... Spectroscopy to supplement these methods. Samples are either polished rocks or small particles mounted in resin and polished with isopropyl alcohol...

Abstract: Influence of Tectonics and Mechanical Stratigraphy on Borehole-Scale Deformation in the Permian Basin (Texas, USA)

David A. Ferrill, Sarah Wigginton, Kevin J. Smart, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris

West Texas Geological Society

... and production. Seismic reflection data do not have the detailed resolution necessary to image these small structures at depth, and log and borehole image...

Seismic Facies Study of 3D Seismic Data, Northern Louisiana, Wilcox Formation

Kaare Egedahl, Gary L. Kinsland, Dan Han

GCAGS Transactions

... of seismic reflection configuration to stratigraphic interpretation, in C. E. Payton, ed., Seismic stratigraphy—Applications to hydrocarbon exploration...

Digital Rendering of Sedimentary-Relief Peels: Implications for Clastic Facies Characterization and Fluid Flow

Timothy A. Meckel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Petrology, v. 27, p. 3– 27. Friedman, G.M., 1962, On sorting, sorting coefficients, and the lognormality of the grain-size distribution of sandstones...

Abstract: Theoretical Model of the Hydrogeology of a Pull-Apart Basin, by P. M. White; #91004 (1991)

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Discussion of "Preliminary Evaluation of a Core Scintillation Counter for Bulk Density Measurement in Marine Sediment Cores"

Vincent C. Rose, James R. Roney

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... paper indicates a constant value of µ. The authors computed values of µ at two points on the x = 6.31 data by taking small intervals around the points...

Seismic Sequences and Facies of Siliciclastic Deep-Water Deposits with Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration

Charles J. Stuart

Pacific Section SEPM

... surfaces. The horizontal resolution (also called the Fresnel zone) is the minimum lateral extent of a layer that will generate a coherent reflection...

Petrophysical Analysis and Seismic Response of Chert in the Thirtyone Formation, West Texas

Dongjun Fu, Charlotte Sullivan, Kurt Marfurt, Amit Sondhi, Peter Wang

West Texas Geological Society

... on the reflection coefficients of plane waves: Geophysical Prospecting, no. 3, 381–387. Lacazette, A., 1991, A new stereographic technique...

Illuminating the Complex Geology of the UK Faroe Shetland Basin

Antonio Castiello, Gareth Venfield, Jens Beenfeldt

GEO ExPro Magazine

... precisely. The VMB employed in this project is a combination of highresolution Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) and reflection tomography, constrained by both...

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...

Developments in South Texas, 1938-1939

Gentry Kidd

AAPG Bulletin

... in Duval County, most of these may be relatively small. Likewise the 6 Cretaceous fields opened in the fault line may have small recoveries. Following...

Which geohazards are really hazards for marine infrastructure

Mark E. Vardy

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... is the that they can be extremely difficult to reliably interpret on seismic reflection data using traditional methods. They tend to be low amplitude, small...

Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Sites of Shallow Biogenic Gas Accumulations in the Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche and Second White Specks-Greenhorn Formations of Southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Northern Montana

J.L. Ridgley, D.H. McNeil, C.F. Gilboy, S.M. Condon, J.D. Obradovich

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in the southeastern Alberta gas field is from the Second White Specks pool D, with small amounts of production from pools A, B, F, and G. Most of the gas...

Environmental Applications of the Pseudoseismic Technique

Alex Martinez, David P. Young, John F. Hopkins

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... interpretation techniques work well with small wireline well log data sets; however, data sets can become cumbersome or unmanageable when they are large...

Determination of Permeability from Data of Potentials of Self Polarization

S. A. Sultanov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... the coefficients of permeability (kper) and porosity (kp) (1). However, numerous experiments show that such a correlational relationship (not speaking even...

Cretaceous to Holocene structural and stratigraphic development in south Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, inferred from well and three-dimensional seismic data

Mara Vernica Castillo, Paul Mann

AAPG Bulletin

... of 1600-km2 (617-mi2) three-dimensional (3-D) seismic reflection data centered on this horizontal to monoclinally southwestward-dipping middle Cretaceous...

Use of Seismic-Derived Velocities for Stratigraphic Exploration on Land: Seismic Porosity and Direct Gas Detection: Chapter 4

Norman S. Neidell, J. H. Beard, Ernest E. Cook

AAPG Special Volumes

... velocity anomalies (Figure 22) for this line. It will be seen that on the black and white section there is a lack of positive reflection energy at the top...

Method of Determination of the Coefficient of Oil Output with a Dissolved Gas Drive

V. S. Melik-Pashev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... apparatus that preserves formation pressure and also the small number of wells in which the core is recovered in water-free solution make it difficult...

Seismic Stratigraphy and Global Changes of Sea Level: Part 11. Glossary of Terms used in Seismic Stratigraphy: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

R. M. Mitchum Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation R. M. Mitchum Jr. 1977 205 212 M 26: Seismic Stratigraphy--Applications to Hydrocarbon...

What is Horizontal Resolution?

L. R. Denham, R. E. Sheriff

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... but his estimate might be in error by 25%. A feature such as a small fault or an amplitude change on a gently dipping reflection at three seconds might...

Composition of seismic facies: A case study

Stale Emil Johansen

AAPG Bulletin

... standard small-frame cameras: Gronlands Geologiske Undersokelse, v. 156, p. 717.Dueholm, K. S., and T. Olsen, 1993, Reservoir analog studies using...