2009 EDGER Forum & Techinical Symposium, 23rd & 24th February
The topic of the Technical Symposium for the 2009 Forum was:
“How can Geophysics enhance our Search for and Definition of Unconventional Resources”
The Symposium included a Keynote Presentation by Larry F. Lunardi, VP-Geophysics, Chesapeake Energy Corporation: “Unconventional Seismic: 3D for Hazard Mapping, Geosteering and Reservoir Characterization”
Session I:
Time Lapse Seismic and Reservoir Characterization
[Ongoing Focus Area of Application]
- Time-Lapse Seismic for monitoring in-situ combustion in a heavy oil field
Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS)
Link to Presentation
- Seismically detecting and discriminating pressure and saturation changes over reservoir production time
Alireza Shahin, PhD Candidate, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
- Joint Inversion of Time-Lapse Seismic well production data: efficiency issues
Armando Sena, Post-Doc Researcher, Jackson School (UTIG)
Link to Presentation - Slowness Driven Gaussian Beam Prestack Depth Migration for Low-Fold Seismic Data
Chaoshun Hu
Chevron (Recent PhD graduate, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
- Seismic critical angle anisotropy analysis in tau-p domain
Samik Sil, PhD Candidate, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
Review of Progress, UT-Austin EDGER Forum
Bob Tatham, Professor, Jackson School (DGS)
Session II:
Technical Symposium:
How can Geophysics Enhance our Search for and Definition of Unconventional Resources? [Growing Focus Area of Application in Unconventional Resources and Resources Plays]
Keynote Address:
Unconventional Seismic: 3D for Hazard Mapping, Geosteering and Reservoir Characterization
Larry F. Lunardi, VP-Geophysics, Chesapeake Energy Corp
Bakken Shale: (the following two presentations are part of at UT/Kerogen cooperative project)
Specification of 3C Seismic Surveys for Bakken Shale Character
Eric von Lunen, Chief Geophysicist, Kerogen Resources
- Anticipated seismic response of the Bakken Shale
(Devonian) East Williston Basin, North Dakota
Fiona Ye, MS Student, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
Bossier of East Texas: (the following two presentations are part of at UT/Anadarko cooperative project)
- Problems with Seismic Characterization of Bossier Reservoirs East Texas
Ron Harris, Anadarko Petroleum - Anticipated seismic response of reservoir sands in the Bossier Formation (Upper Jurasic), Anderson county, East Texas
Diego Valentin, MS Student, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
Barnett Shale:
A review of Geology, Geophysics and Production issues
(If you would like a copy of this presentation, please email Mrinal Sen)
Mrinal Sen, Professor, Jackson School (UTIG & DGS)
Discussion of potential cooperative projects with Industry Representatives
Bakken Shale
Bossier of East Texas
Barnett Shale
Marcellus
Others
Session III:
Recent Student Research
- Progress on the Atlantis 4C Nodes project
(This presentation is part of at UT/bp cooperative project)
Jeff Kao, MS Student, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
- Azimuthal Analysis of Hybrid Supergathers
(This presentation is part of at UT/ConocoPhillips cooperative project)
Anisa Perez, ConocoPhillips & MS Student, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
Session IV:
Computational Issues in Reflection Seismology
[Nascent Focus Area of Application in Numerical Simulation]
- New finite element methods for seismic wave propagation modeling
Jonas De Basabe, PhD Student CAM & Jackson School
Link to Presentation
- A reflectivity method for laterally varying media
Adrian Ciucivara, Post-Doc Research, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation - Parallel Seismic Modeling with a Fourier-Finite Difference Hybrid Method
Chunlei Chu, PhD Candidate, Jackson School (DGS)
Link to Presentation
- Implicit finite difference method revisited
Yang Liu, Visiting Scholar, Jackson School (UTIG)
Link to Presentation
- Post- and Pre-stack inversion with fractal based prior: an alternate approach to geo-statistical inversion
Ravi Srivastava, Visiting Scholar, Jackson School (UTIG)
Link to Presentation
