Technical Content

The prediction of porosity is essential for the identification of productive hydrocarbon reservoirs in oil and gas exploration. Numerous useful technologies have been developed for porosity prediction in the subsurface, such as multiple attribute analysis, kriging, and cokriging. Kriging allows us to create spatial ...

Gulf of Mexico (GOM) subsalt imaging often suffers from poor illumination due to salt-related wavefield distortion, even with full-azimuth (FAZ) acquisition. In order to image the weakly illuminated subsalt plays, isolating the signal from the noise is a crucial component of many depth imaging ...

This case study highlights how the application of an optimized hydraulic fracture stimulation plan, by honoring lateral well geological heterogeneities measured by RoqSCAN, improved completion efficiency and well production within the Cleveland Sandstone formation, Oklahoma, USA.

The quality of the seismic data you record depends on the quality of the energy generated by the source, how it interacts with the subsurface and the ability to record all the effects of those interactions. To obtain the required response from the reservoir ...

In this article, we focus on variable-depth streamer acquisition and propose a full broadband processing solution that involves three important components: (a) 3D deghosting; (b) Q estimation using Q-Tomography; (c) Q application via Q pre-stack depth migration (Q-PSDM).

In seismic processing and reservoir characterization we often need to measure relative displacements between different realizations of data. Over the years many methods have been developed utilizing different similarity measuring techniques. Such alignment or warping methods are often effective signal or image processing tools ...

In this study on the Mowry and Muddy interval in the Powder River Basin, we have evaluated a number of the controlling factors on productivity and identified those regions with greater prospectivity across the basin. We have combined classic geological disciplines with robust geophysical ...

In this paper we discuss a workflow to update low frequency models in time-lapse inversion studies. In this workflow we invert the base seismic survey and the difference between base and monitor survey in two separate inversion runs. The production effects are picked on ...

Recently, a lot of efforts has been done in seismology and geophysics to track and monitor sub-surface property variations such as velocity, fluid pressure or saturation. In 4D monitoring, the two main observables are velocity and amplitude variations. For a given reflection, variations are ...