Three-Dimensional Depth Imaging of Seismic Data to Help Delineate Petroleum Reservoirs in the Williston Basin

Alvin K. Benson

Williston Basin Symposium

... by rapid lateral velocity changes, velocity pull-up, etc. and (b) the necessity of using a depth migration process versus time migration plus...

Enhancing Fault Interpretation Through Broadband Processing and Diffraction Imaging: The First and Successful Experience from Madura Offshore Area

Pongga Wardaya, Rino Saputra, Syaeful Amin

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... SRME demultiple, deghosting is a key component of the broadband processing flow. 3D Kirchhoff anisotropic pre stack time migration (APSTM) was applied...

Tertiary Progressive Folding and Faulting Systems on Evaporite Terrains at the Oil Province of Southern Mexico

Irasema S. Olvera-Barroso, Mario Aranda-Garcia

GCAGS Transactions

... yellow square for the location of Figure 9. In the time slices at 2, 2.5, 3, and 3.6 seconds, displacement were measured in the lateral faults considering...

Geological Evolution of the Western Papuan Basin

P. C. Home, D. G. Dalton, J. Brannan

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... to major tectonic events and the basin placed in its proper plate tectonic context through time. Eight megasequences can be identified in the sedi...

DEVELOPING A SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE LATE DEVONIAN CHATTANOOGA SHALE OF THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: RELEVANCE FOR THE BAKKEN SHALE

JÜRGEN SCHIEBER

Williston Basin Symposium

..., 14, 15) in post-Devonian time. In places, these phosphate nodules have been reworked into a lag of Tournaisian age, the so called...

Early Mesozoic Paleotectonic-Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the Southern Sierra Nevada Region

J. B. Saleeby, S. E. Goodin, W. D. Sharp, C. J. Busby

Pacific Section SEPM

... Jurassic time a submarine fan complex was shed off the truncated continental shelf and dispersed across the fracture zone c o m p l e x . The sands...

The Role of the ESCAP Regional Mineral Resources Development Centre

James F. McDivitt

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... a relatively small part. Thus each group slices the field of geology and mineral resources at a different angle. RMRDC was established by ESCAP in 1973...

Multiparameter FWI imaging in the Gulf of Mexico

Tom Rayment, Karen Dancer, James McLeman, James Penwarden, Tim Ooi, Monica Hartmann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... wave-equation-based algorithms such as reverse time migration (RTM). Multi-parameter full-waveform inversion (MP-FWI) imaging is a novel approach...

Hydrocarbon Reserves Estimation from Contour Maps: A Do-It-Yourself Exercise: GEOLOGICAL NOTE

E. C. Dahlberg

CSPG Bulletin

... "slices," the volumes of which are individually calculated and then summed. Most subsurface geological features such as sand bodies and carbonate...

Meta-Attributes: A New Concept for Reservoir Characterization and Seismic Anomaly Detection

Fred Aminzadeh

GCAGS Transactions

... that can be related to a particular geological or reservoir property seismically. That includes post stack, pre-stack and time lapse based anomalies...

Volume Blending with Directional Seismic Attributes (Geophysics Paper 13)

Arthur E. Barnes, Surender S. Manral

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... lightscape, an attribute that resembles illuminated apparent topography when viewed as time slices or extracted along horizons (Barnes, 2003). The idea...

Rigid-Peel Technique for Preserving Structures in Coarse-Grained Sediments: RESEARCH-METHOD PAPER

Rufus T. Getzen, Raymond A. Levey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... for preserving and studying sedimentary structures since the 1930's (Bourns, 1969). These thin slices of artificially cemented sediment reveal sedimentary...

Research Methods Papers A Monolith Sampler for Saltmarsh Sediments

Jannine Stoodley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Engineering Significance: Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, p. 1-19. ALLEN, J.R.L., AND RAE, J.E., 1986, Time sequence of metal pollution...

ABSTRACT: New Methods for Extracting and Constructing Fault Surfaces from 3D Seismic Data; #90013 (2003)

OYVIND STEEN, STEIN INGE PEDERSEN, CHRISTOPHE BASIRE

Search and Discovery.com

... way corresponding to geologically sensible displacement patterns of faults. If the horizons have wrong picks it may lead to time-consuming editing...

Abstract: Improving the Image: 5D Interpolation and COV Gathering of a MegaBin’ Survey; #90171 (2013)

Darren P. Schmidt, David Gray, Xinxiang Li, Daniel Trad, and Jon Downton

Search and Discovery.com

... processing, which included migration of the post-stack interpolated data, shown in Figure 5a. (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 4: Time slices. a) Post-stack migration...

Advances in Spectral Decomposition and Reflectivity Modeling in the Frio Formation of the Gulf Coast, by Michael D. Burnett and John P. Castagna, #40113 (2004).

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Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian-Age Mid-Continent Carbonates, #30297 (2013)

Michael Grammer, Darwin Boardman, James Puckette, Jay Gregg, Priyank Jaiswal, Miranda Childress, Buddy Price, Beth Vanden Berg, Stephanie LeBlanc

Search and Discovery.com

... rocks Compacted mud samples 6000 3-D Seismic 5000 m/s 5000 4000 43% 12% 3000 2400 m/s 2000 Grammer (2010) 1000 0 Time-average equation Woods...

Visualizing Anisotropy in Seismic Facies Using Stratigraphically Constrained, Multi-Directional Texture Attribute Analysis; #120163 (2014)

Christoph Georg Eichkitz, Paul de Groot, Friso Brouwer

Search and Discovery.com

... of the GLCM calculations are also compared to enhanced semblance-based coherence depth-slices (Eichkitz et al. 2012a). With the help of GLCMbased...

Distribution of Clay Minerals In the Northern North Sea Basin During the Paleogene and Neogene: A Result of Source-Area Geology and Sorting Processes

Ole Bjørslev Nielsen, Erik Skovbjerg Rasmussen, Brit Inger Thyberg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and outcrops (clay pits and cliff sections). The time slices investigated comprise from the Paleogene, the post-Ekofisk Fm. interval of the Paleocene...

Quantitative seismic geomorphology of a Quaternary leveed-channel system, offshore eastern Trinidad and Tobago, northeastern South America

Lesli J. Wood, Kristine L. Mize-Spansky

AAPG Bulletin

.... Channel thalweg tracings from time slices show a significant lateral migration of the channel occurring over time (Figure 3a, b, c, d). Channel 2...

Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Fort Worth Basin

Jack L. Walper

Dallas Geological Society

... Paleozoic, a period of tectonic unrest resulted in erosion or non-deposition of sediments in this time interval in the Fort Worth basin area...

3D anisotropic wavefield simulation with an advanced time-space domain temporal high-order SGFD solution

Xinquan Wang, Long Wu, Yunshan Lei, Panpan Lv, Huibing Zhao, Xiaoling Guo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... results. Among them, Figures 4(a) and 4(b) are reference 3D snapshot and seismogram slices, which are generated by a fine time step. Figure 4(c...

Experimental Test of Tectonic Controls on Three-Dimensional Alluvial Facies Architecture

Thomas A. Hickson, Ben A. Sheets, Chris Paola, Michael Kelberer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Sheets, B., Hickson, T., and Paola, C., 2002, Assembling the stratigraphic record: depositional patterns and time-scales in an experimental alluvial...

Interpreting 3-D Seismic Data

Bruce S. Hart

Special Publications of SEPM

... facies associations or stratal surfaces, identify fluid contacts, etc . Horizon slices can be thought of as approxi ations of paleodepositional...

Chapter 10: 3-D Seismic-Structural Workflows – Examples Using the Hat Creek Fault System

Graham Yielding, Brett Freeman

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Measurements from sets of profiles were collated into a suite of maps, typically recording the echo-time to each layer in the sequence. This survey...