Extending the Resolution of Seismic Reflection Exploration

L. R. Denham

Pacific Section of AAPG

... small, the difference in moveout between primary and multiple reflections is less than it could be, so multiple attenuation is reduced. Figure 1...

Building Confidence in Containment Security and Reservoir Performance for CO2 Geostorage in the Surat Basin at the Regional Scale

Jonathan Hodgkinson, Vic Ziolkowski, Andrew Garnett, Sebastian Gonzalez

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... While the use of such studies to quantify likely useful storage capacities is limited (this requires dynamic data and simulations), the authors...

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Lars Zühlsdorff, Trond Haugland

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., including attenuation and anisotropy if needed. The Best of Both Worlds As ray tracing is so quick, one could be tempted to combine the most important...

Comparison of seismic resolution enhancement techniques: Spectral extrapolation vs spectral balancing

Charles I. Puryear

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) reconstruction of the seismic traces via summation. Steps 2 compensates for attenuation by preferentially boosting high frequencies at depth. Spectral...

Classification of sedimentary basins

Zhiqiang Feng, Gao Dengliang, Stephan A. Graham, Wu Gaokui, Duan Taizhong

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... on driving mechanisms and lithosphere mechanical properties. We decompose and categorize basins into rift, sag, continental margin, foreland, and pull...

Experimental and Numerical Investigation into the Feasibility of Gas Injection in Waterflooded Reservoirs

S. Sakthikumar, K. Madaoui, B. Thiebot, L. Bouvier

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the above will depend on the particular context. Useful work has been done in clarifying the influence of the parameters controlling the efficiency...

Swash„Groundwater„Beach Profile Interactions

Evans Waddell

Special Publications of SEPM

... sufficiently high frequency to allow for an insight into the actual physical mechanisms and 2 because the pertinent first order parame ters were...

Elastic Anisotropy of Source Rocks: Implications for Hydrocarbon Generation and Primary Migration

Lev Vernik , Charles Landis

AAPG Bulletin

... Bulletin, v. 59, p. 986-996. Hudson, J. A., 1981, Wave speeds and attenuation of elastic waves in material containing cracks: Geophysical Journal...

Chapter 3: Tools and Techniques for Studying Mudstones

O. R. Lazar, K. M. Bohacs, J. Schieber, J. H. S. Macquaker, T. M. Demko

AAPG Special Volumes

... of C vary depending upon the precise mechanisms of organic-carbon production and the subsequent degree of oxic degradations, and are thus very useful...

Overpressure in the Shelfal Area of the Lower Kutai Basin

Agus M. Ramdhan, Neil R. Goulty

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... into hard overpressure, but the downward trend of increasing density continues through the top of overpressure. Hence unloading mechanisms of overpressure...

Cross Section Restoration and Balancing as Aid to Seismic Interpretation in Extensional Terranes

Mark G. Rowan, Roy Kligfield

AAPG Bulletin

... in the North Sea: AAPG Bulletin, v. 68, p. 1029-1039. Gill, W. D., 1953, Construction of geologic sections of folds with steep-limb attenuation: AAPG...

Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal System, Utah--Case Study

Howard P. Ross, Dennis L. Nielson, Joseph N. Moore

AAPG Bulletin

..., heat flow, and temperature are all useful in exploration of the geothermal system, because the thermal fluids themselves rise close to the surface...

Dynamic Imaging of Fluid Mobility in Low-Permeability Matrices Using

Marko Maučec, Ron Dusterhoft, Richard Rickman, Ron Gibson, Andy Buffler, Maciek Stankiewicz, Michael van Heerden

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...). For industrial applications PET has major advantages. First, the 511 keV gamma-rays are relatively penetrating, and second, the effect of attenuation...

Geomechanical Simulation of Different Conceptual Models for Microseismic Interpretation

Shawn C. Maxwell, Atena Pirayehgar

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... contextual information to integrate microseismic locations, magnitudes, source mechanisms and other attributes with other diagnostic information. However...

Chapter 2: Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Some Influences of Tectonics and Paleogeography During Deposition

Jennifer D. Eoff

AAPG Special Volumes

...-Castellanos and Cloetingh, 2012) in basins discussed below. Ingersoll (2012) recently provided a review of the mechanisms of subsidence. Attenuation...

The Role of Regional Seismic Surveys in the Exploration of the North West Shelf

J. Ostby, C. Johnston

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... In almost all situations, the most useful form of regional data is well-tie seismic. The better the quality of regional seismic data, the better...

3D Computer Simulation of Carbonate Depositional Facies Distribution and Productivity Rates Using Continuous Set Theory to Mimic Geologists' Reasoning

William C. Parcell

GCAGS Transactions

... is fundamental to carbonate modeling. Where siliclicastic models are primarily concerned with those mechanisms that affect gravity-driven transport...

Flood Transport and Deposition of Tracer Heavy Minerals in a Gravel-Bed Meander Bend Channel

Johan Hattingh , Izak C. Rust

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). In recent years many workers have examined the formation of fluvial placer deposits by studying mechanisms of heavy-mineral concentration. Smith and Minter...

Plate Tectonics and Sedimentation

William R. Dickinson

Special Publications of SEPM

... of plate tectonic behavior are useful keys to plate of tectonic behavior major geologic spreading along consumption at Chase form to during the time...

Application of Borehole Images to Three-Dimensional Geometric Modeling of Eolian Sandstone Reservoirs, Permian Rotliegende, North Sea

Stefan M. Luthi, Jayanth R. Banavar

AAPG Bulletin

... a hierarchy of reservoir heterogeneities related to alternating depositional mechanisms. Dips and azimuths were measured in interdune layers, bounding...

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Abstract: Stress Re-Distribution During Long-Term Steam Injections and Its Potential Influence on Reservoir Development; #90187 (2014)

Katherine Buckingham, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic, and Anisa Kassam

Search and Discovery.com

... source mechanisms associated with hydraulic fracture stimulations and identify the potential fracture orientations responsible for observed...

Seal Mechanisms In Shallow Sediments: Implications For Shallow-Water Flow And Gas-Hydrate Hazards, by T.J. Katsube, K. O. Horkowitz, I.R. Jonasson, D. Piper and D. Issler, #40160 (2005).

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Carbonate platform or volcanic mound? Seismic characterization of a synrift buildup along the outer high of the Lüderitz Basin, Namibia

N. Rochelle-Bates, G. Calvès, M. Huuse, and S. Schröder

AAPG Bulletin

... of reflectors declines toward the center and base of the buildup where there is a greater thickness of material above. This is likely due to signal attenuation...

Bulk Density--Water Content Relationship in Marine Silts and Clays

Adrian F. Richards, Terrence J. Hirst, James M. Parks

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sediment in an unextruded core using fast neutron and gamma ray attenuation: Deep-Sea Res., v. 17, p. 917-922. DAVIDSON, J. M., J. W. BIGGAR, AND D. R...