Abstract: Geophysical Characterisation of the Elk Reservoir, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

J. Storey, S. Sioni, M. Kiele

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... characterisation. The rock type and degree of weathering on the surface greatly attenuates the sonic velocity and recoverable frequency in seismic data recorded...

Cascaded full-waveform inversions to resolve Mesozoic structures in shallow-water Gulf of Mexico with limited-offset data

Wei Kang, Christoph Koeninger, Miguel Acosta Perez, Josue Jurado Ramirez, Imran Nagir, Denes Vigh, Silvino Dominguez Garcia, Alfredo Vazquez Cantu, Luis Arturo Vega, Marco Antonio Mayorga

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Arturo Vega, Marco Antonio Mayorga (PEMEX) Summary Full-waveform inversion (FWI) has been widely applied in the velocity model building related...

One more stride forward in Thunder Horse subsalt imaging with elastic FWI

Bunmi Elebiju, Qingsong Li, Ken Hartman, Francis Rollins, Ye Feng, Karl Kaiser, Werner Schinagl, Chi Chen, Alex Yanjun Hao, Zhiyuan Wei, Jiawei Mei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... in both acquisition and imaging, primarily due to the massive salt canopy that causes distorted and poor illumination, leading to velocity and imaging...

Eikonal equation-based adjoint-state characteristic reflection traveltime tomography: Method and application in real dataset

Jianming Zhang, Liangguo Dong, Jianhua Wang, Yilin Wang, Chao Huang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to reconstruct the subsurface velocity model. This method automatically extracts the characteristic reflection traveltimes in pre-stack seismic data by combining...

Sparse 3D seismic survey over the Olympic Dam IOCG deposit

Heather Schijns, Jared Townsend, David Haddow, Max Shawcross, Kathy Ehrig

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., leading to some doubt as to how best to use seismic in this setting. Ambient and passive seismic methods focused on measuring seismic velocity have...

Combined Geophysical Methods for Investigating the Border Area of the Kamsko-Kinel Depression

Yu. A. Byakov, S. A. Shikhov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the Lower Carboniferous by the seismic reflection method: Geologiya Nefti i Gaza, no. 2. 2. Byakov, Yu. A., 1962, Investigation of the effective velocity...

Conditional image prior for uncertainty quantification in full-waveform inversion

Lingyun Yang, Omar M. Saad, Tariq Alkhalifah, Guochen Wu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (FWI) is a technique employed to attain a high resolution subsurface velocity model by minimizing the mismatch between the simulated and observed...

Developing a Versatile Method for Rock Physics Modeling in a Carbonate Reservoir by Integrating Rock Mechanic Laboratory Results, Petrophysical Analysis and Computational Rock Physics: A Case Study from The Kais Formation in the Salawati Basin

Al Hafeez, Ananto Wibisono, Rochmad, Khairil Iqbal, Agus Guntoro, Gianita Octavia

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... reservoirs. Seismic attributes analysis, AVO analysis, inversion analysis and also 4D Seismic will benefit from correct P-wave and S-wave velocity values...

Unraveling US GoM North Green Canyon subsalt complexities with sparse nodes

Katarina Jonke, Jingqian Kang, Sandra Garzon, Gino Alexander, Ganyuan Xia, Gabriel Ritter, Ahmed Afifi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... interpreting on the new data is not without challenges, the new velocity model has revealed a more complex geology driven primarily by an earlier...

3-D High-Resolution Reservoir Characterization from Crosswell Seismic Data

John Washbourne, Kenneth Bube

West Texas Geological Society

... to regularized traveltime velocity inversion, and finally show results from two fully 3-D datasets that demonstrate the specific improvements of a consistent...

Critical Porosity in Understanding Acoustic Porosity Anomalies. A Case Study in Complex Carbonate Reservoir in Indonesia

Aditya Arie Wijaya, Sunawar Kunaifi, Krishna Pratama Laya, Luqman, Dimmas Ramadhan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... links the rock quality to change of the acoustic velocity as a function of critical porosity-bulk modulus for each rock type (Akbar, 2019). Niu et al...

Abstract: Soil characterization using integrated geophysical methods at Sungai Batu, Kedah

Muhammad Taqiuddin Zakaria, Nordiana Mohd Muztaza, Mokhtar Saidin, Rosli Saad, Shyeh Sahibul Karamah Masnan

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... resistivity values of 50-150 Ωm was interpreted as the Table 1: Standard resistivity table in Sg.Batu. Soil types Resistivity, ρ (Ωm) Velocity, Vp (m/s) SPT...

Ground motion seismic surface wave of the 2015 shallow strong earthquake at Ranau central zone seismically active region, Sabah, Malaysia

Bailon Golutin

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the preliminary isoline of surface wave ground acceleration, ground velocity and seismic hazard amplification map encircling the areas radiated...

"Basement" to East Coast Continental Margin of North America

M. A. Mayhew

AAPG Bulletin

... of seismic layers of velocity greater than 4.5 km/sec., and referred to as "basement." The configuration of this surface of the East Coast continental...

Abstract: Subsalt Image Improvements in GOM using Shale and Salt Discrimination through PSDM Velocity Model Building; #90063 (2007)

Search and Discovery.com

Unlocking Hydrocarbon Potential of the Caribbean Plate with the New Deep Strata Survey Approach

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Exploration Of Dinantian As A Potential Geothermal Reservoir - A Methodological Review

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Adventures in Pre-Stack Depth Migration; #110121 (2010)

James Allen

Search and Discovery.com

... is the faultshadow, exposed by Tucker and Yorston in 1971, where strong velocity contrasts across faults can produce time maps that do not correspond...

Integrating Basin Modelling with Geophysical Methods; #120108 (2013)

Hans Martin Helset, Zhijun Du, and Erling Fjær

Search and Discovery.com

... exploration methods. In the exploration phase, seismic and electromagnetic data can be inverted for sediment velocity and resistivity. Using rock physics...

The Identification of Volcanics and its Application for Reservoir Prediction of Bioclastic Dolostone: An Example From Bohai Bay Basin; #20240 (2014)

Jun Ming, Tongxing Xia, and Qingyun Bai

Search and Discovery.com

... that a set of volcanic rock developed in shallow strata, characterized by complex lithology, high velocity and uneven distribution (Figure 3), because...

Bottom Simulating Reflectors and Hydrate Occurrences Beneath the Scotian Slope, Offshore Eastern Canada, by John Shimeld, David Mosher, Keith Louden, Chris LeBlanc, and Kirk Osadetz; #90035 (2004)

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Stochastic model for migration and breakage of detrital and authigenic fines

Bryant Dang-Le, Abolfazl Hashemi, Cuong Nguyen, Grace Loi, Nastaran Khazali, Yutong Yang, Alexander Badalyan, Thomas Russell, Pavel Bedrikovetsky

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... determining the critical failure stresses, breakage points of the beam and breakage flow velocity. The mathemati­ cal model describing lab coreflood...

The Effects of Entrainment on the Hydraulic Equivalence Relationships of Light and Heavy Minerals in Sands

Rudy L. Slingerland

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... (June), A semi-empirical critical velocity equation and critical suspension velocity equation have been developed to explain the settling velocity...

Fractured Reservoir Prediction … A Case Study in the Sichuan Basin; #10512 (2013)

Ling Yun, Xiangyu Guo, Qianggong Song, and Weisheng He

Search and Discovery.com

... structure and the fractured reservoir, and the assumptions for HTI and VTI media, we first extract the earth absorption parameter, velocity model, HTI and VTI...

ABSTRACT: Prebreakup Sedimentary and Volcanic Sequences on Rifted Continental Margin of Wilkes Land, Antarctica

Stephen L. Eittreim, Monty A. Hampton

Circum Pacific Council Publications

.... These synrift deposits have a seismic velocity of 3.6 ± 0.5 km/sec, and are as thick as 4 km in the deepest part of the basin adjacent to the edge.of oceanic...