Constructing High Resolution, Inch Scale Continuous Logs via a Multi Domain Approach to Improve Hydraulic Fracturing by Capturing Thin Beds in the Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, Reeves County, TX

Santhosh Narasimhan, Pukar Mainali, Harry Rowe, Austin Morrell, Wesley Ingram, Andy Benson, Nathan Ganser, Sean Arrington

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and will be addressed in a subsequent publication specific to this topic. 4  URTeC:2670758 After solving for heavy minerals and organics...

Case Study on Real-Time Pump Health Check for Optimizing ESP Performance and Extending Lifespan in Unconventional Wells

Matthew Wortmann, Haiwen Zhu, Hardikkumar Zalavadia, Chris James, Chad Harbaugh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... rates and head to catalog curves (bench test). Tubing traverse and downhole separation efficiency solving strategies are summarized in Figure 1. Details...

Joint physics-based and data-driven time-lapse seismic inversion: Mitigating data scarcity

Yanhua Liu, Shihang Feng, Ilya Tsvankin, David Alumbaugh, Youzuo Lin

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... reconstructs the model parameters by solving the wave equation iteratively. Common time-lapse FWI (TLFWI) strategies (Asnaashari et al., 2015) include...

Marchenko focusing using convolutional neural networks

Mert S. R. Kiraz, Roel Snieder

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the velocity model and iteratively solving the Marchenko equation, and as a result, the up/down components of the Green’s function...

Use of extended source inversion for estimating the noise level in seismic data

Huiyi Chen, William W. Symes, Susan E. Minkoff

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the normal equations (for fixed value of medium parameters, m) via wa [m, d] = F[m]T F[m] + a 2 AT A 1 F[m]T d. (6) Equation 6 can be solved...

Fast Gauss-Newton full-wavefield migration

Siamak Abolhassani, Eric Verschuur

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... from zN to z0 (one roundtrip) to model angle-independent primary reflections at the Earth’s surface, is calculated via solving the following recursive...

A simulation-free seismic survey design by maximizing the spectral gap

Yijun Zhang, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Ziyi Yin, Rajiv Kumar, Felix J. Herrmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... are almost certainly suboptimal and have shown to be improvable by solving certain optimization problem (Mosher et al., 2014; Manohar et al., 2018; Li...

Results and Applications of Geochemical Logging, Duri Field, Riau Province, Sumatra

William A. Hunter, Clive Dodman, Tjatur S. Hartantyo, Bruno Micaud, Rob North

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Elements to Minerals The calculation of mineral weight percent is determined by solving a matrix which relates the elemental concentrations to specific...

An AI approach to automated magnetic formation mapping beneath cover

David A. Pratt, K. Blair McKenzie, Anthony S. White

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... eigenvalues are found by solving the characteristic 𝐞 equation det ( 𝐁 − 𝚲 𝐈) = 0 while the three eigenvectors J 𝟏 , J 𝟐 , 𝐞 𝟑 are found by solving...

An AI approach to using magnetic gradient tensor analysis for quick depth and property estimation

David A. Pratt, K. Blair McKenzie, Anthony S. White

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the depth estimation. Pratt, McKenzie and White X 𝟐 , 𝐞 𝟑 are found by solving the linear equation 𝐁 𝐞 𝐢 = 𝜆5 X 𝐢 𝐞 [ X 𝐞 X where 𝜆5...

Field Scale Proppant Transport Simulation and Its Application to Optimize Stimulation Strategy

Rui Kou, George J. Moridis, Tom Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... of solving the momentum conservation equation of particles, and account for both particle-particle and particle-boundary collisions. This made the Lagrangian...

Seismic first arrival tomography for top salt velocity update: A case study in the Santos Basin, Brazil

Paulo H. B. Alves, Marco Cetale, Roger M. Moreira, Sérgio L. E. F. da Silva, Jorge Lopez

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... The Fast Sweeping Method, initially introduced by Zhao (2005), is a widely adopted method for solving the eikonal equation. This method employs Gauss...

Optimization of Completion and Well Spacing for Development of Multi-stacked Reservoirs Using Integration of Data Analytics, Geomechanics, and Reservoir Flow Modeling

Kyoung Suk Min, Vikram Sen, Lujun Ji, Richard Sullivan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... problem solving with high-end physics modeling. Due to the enormous size of data sets and complexity of physics in unconventional reservoirs, use...

Application of Flowing Material Balance to Estimate Fillup in Saltwater Disposal Reservoirs

Gerardo Jimenez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for additional disposal capacity. Limitations to this method include its application to vertical wells only. Flow equations for horizontal disposal wells require...

Analytical and Machine Learning Based Modifications to Unconventional Reservoir Simulation Models to Capture Near-Fracture Transient Effects

Hector E. Barrios-Molano, Alvaro Rey, Shihao Wang

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... Equations 6 and 7, we can compute the ratio of flow rate between the analytical solution and the simulation: 𝑞_`%)a = 𝑃. − 𝑃) 𝑞|TUV 𝐿])" =c c 5...

Hydrocarbon Columns, Buoyancy Pressures, and Seal Efficiency: Comparisons of Oil and Gas Accumulations in California and the Rocky Mountain Area (1)

Donald L. Zieglar

AAPG Bulletin

... conditions using the nomograms published by Schowalter (1979), and then solving the basic buoyancy pressure equation: P = (rho[w] - rho[h] ) deltaT[h...

Abstract: Azimuthal Fourier Coefficient Elastic Inversion; #90174 (2014)

Benjamin Roure and Jon Downton

Search and Discovery.com

... and C by solving for u0. AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90174 CSPG©2014 CSPG/CSEG/CWLS GeoConvention 2012, (Vision) May 14-18, 2012...

Evaluation of General Resistivity Density-Based Saturation in Thin, Laminated Sand-Shale Sequences, #41042 (2012)

John Quirein, Burkay Donderici, David Torres, Eric Murphy, Jim Witkowsky

Search and Discovery.com

...-dispersive x-ray fluorescence, the process can be made more accurate by iteratively solving for porosity and saturation from the bulk density along...

Probing Impact of Chemical Diagenesis on the Evolution of Migration Pathways in Unconventional Resources Using Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Modeling: Woodford Shale

Yuliana Zapata, Kathryn N. Garrett, Richard D. Elmore, Zulfiquar Reza

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and reactive-transport models to critically investigate these processes. Numerically, this entails concurrent solution of fluid-flow equations for pressures...

Geotechnical Applications in Soft Sediments: Section 2

Wayne A. Dunlap

AAPG Special Volumes

... this is not an unusual process, small variations in the hour-to-hour calibration pulses produced significantly different calibration equations each hour which...

Abstract: A New Innovating Scheme to Model Hydrocarbon Migration at Basin Scale: A Pressure-Saturation Splitting, by S. Wolf, I. Faille, S. Pegaz-Fiornet, and F. Willien; #90091 (2009)

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Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hydrogeology to Solve Water Related Issues – Case StudiesFfrom South Africa and Malawi

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ABSTRACT Understanding the Aquifers in the Uinta Basin, Utah: A Key to Solving the Basins Saline Water Disposal Problem, #90104 (2010)

Vanden Berg Michael D.; Anderson Paul; Morgan Craig D.; Carney Stephanie

Search and Discovery.com

...ABSTRACT Understanding the Aquifers in the Uinta Basin, Utah: A Key to Solving the Basins Saline Water Disposal Problem, #90104 (2010) Vanden Berg...

Abstract: The First Application of Quantum Computing in the Exploration and Production Industry; #91204 (2023)

Marcin Dukalski, Diego Rovetta, Apostolos Kontakis, Roald van Borselen

Search and Discovery.com

... computing to solving seemingly simple, yet very challenging, optimization problem in subsurface imaging, known as residual statics estimation (RSE...

Paleoslope Reconstruction In Sandy Suspended-Load-Dominant Rivers

Ranie M. Lynds, David Mohrig, Elizabeth A. Hajek, Paul L. Heller

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... can be calculated as Solving Equations 3 and 5 for the Shields number at bankfull flow yields Equation 9 is rearranged to solve for slope...