CASE HISTORIES: WESTERN CANADA
Wednesday May 8th, AM
Glenbow Theatre Session
Chairmen: Ken Szata, Chevron Canada and Gord Miller, Chevron Canada
| 8:00 | Integrated geophysical investigation of near surface geological environments D. Schmidt, Z Hajnal, P. G. Killen, A. Prugger, and B. Schreiner |
| 8:30 | Geostatistical reservoir characterization of an Alberta reef: a case history W.K. Hirsche, L.E. Mewhort, II. Porter, Richard Davis |
| 9:00 | Sand distribution derived from 3-D seismic inversion with examples from N.E. Alberta John Card, Kim Edwards, Ron Gray, Don Holmes, Guy Jobidon and Steve Heaton |
| 9:30 | A case study of the Manyberries 'OO' Pool using 3D seismic data Jason Oden |
| 10:00 | Surprises in Glauconitic channel exploration using 3-D seismic: risks and opportunities Alma Eamer, Marilyn Mawdsley and Brian A. Zaitlin |
| 10:30 | 3-D modelling for seismic inversion: a Western Canadian reef example J.V. Pendrel |
INTERPRETIVE IMAGING I
Wednesday May, 8th AM
Macleod Hall A Session
Chairmen: Andy Skuce, Husky Oil and John Bancroft, University of Calgary
| 8:30 | Over thrust depth migration in Central Alberta: Interpretive Imaging Stuart Fagin |
| 9:00 | Making prestack depth migration work through velocity model interpretation Christof Stork |
| 9:30 | In the foothills, prestack depth migration IS interpretive processing Samuel H. Gray, Gary Murphy, N Daniel Whitmore |
| 10:00 | Crooked line, rough topography: advancing toward a correct seismic image Samuel H. Gray, Gary Maclean, Kurt J. Marfurt |
| 10:30 | The properties of a practical approach to depth imaging in a thrust belt environment Ron Schmid, Brian Link, and Patrick Butler |
| 11:00 | Structural imaging below dipping anisotropic layers: predictions from seismic modelling Don Lawton, Jennifer M. Leslie and Richard L. Kellet |
POTENTIAL FIELD METHODS
Wednesday May, 8th AM
Glenview Room (Garden Terrace Level)
Session Chairmen: Ted Glen, Chevron Canada Resources and Nathalie Marchand, Gedco
| 8:00 | Physical scale modelling of the relative performance of the vertical coincident coil and horizontal coplanar coil configurations for targets located in a conductive host environment K. Duckworth and R. Pinkerton |
| 8:30 | Theoretical response of a coincident coil electromagnetic prospecting system to targets located below a conductive overburden K. Duckworth and E.S. Krebes |
| 9:00 | The application of airborne geophysical surveys to assist in the evaluation of surface minable oil sand deposits in the Fort McMurray Area Michael Pesowski, Lawrence Bzdel, Neil O'Donnel and Clark Logan |
| 9:30 | Exploration applications of high resolution magnetic surveys Zeev Berger, Ron Sheldrake, and Foon Der |
| 10:00 | The Lethbridge Dikes – Aeromagnetic surprise from Southern Alberta John W. Peirce, Gerald M. Ross, Doug Pruden and Charles Barrie |
| 10:30 | Observations and theoretical modelling of an unusual negative induced polarization anomaly K. Duckworth and A. Rogozinski |
SEISMIC PROCESSING I
Wednesday May, 8th AM
Macleod Hall B Session
Chairmen: Pat Mckenny, Veritas Seismic and Darren Kondrat, Unocal Canada
| 8:00 | Identification of multiples contaminating surface seismic data using a VSP analysis technique Joseph Molyneux, Mike Jones and Doug Schmitt |
| 8:30 | Free surface elastic multiple removal using inverse scattering Ken Matson and Arthur B. Weglein |
| 9:00 | An improved Radon Transform for short period multiple attenuation Lee Hunt, Peter Cary, Warren Upham |
| 9:30 | Improving surface-consistent deconvolution Guillaume Chambois and Mag Magesan |
| 10:00 | Transition-zone surveying: phase equalization in the absence of overlap Guillaume Chambois, Neil D. Hargeaves and Rene Dupont |
| 10:30 | Deconvolution with a view Stewart Trickett, Brian Link, Bill Goodway |
| 11:00 | Bayesian priors for sparse inversion M.D. Sacchi and T.J. Ulrych |
3-COMPONENT SEISMIC AND AVO
Wednesday May, 8th PM
Glenbow Theatre Session
Chairmen: Aaron Denault, Numac Energy and Chris Juergens, Gulf Canada Resources
| 1:30 | Compressional and shearwave velocity anisotropy determination in the laboratory Douglas R. Schmitt, Eric Molz and Ahmed Kebaili |
| 2:00 | Shear-wave refraction analysis for P-S data Jocelyn Dufour, Stan Gorek, Don C. Lawton |
| 2:30 | Determination of principal direction of azimuthal anisotropy from P-wave seismic data S. Mallick, K. Craft, L. Meister, R. Chambers |
| 3:00 | Characterizing a sand channel reservoir using 2.0,4.5 and 10 Hz 3-C seismic data: Blackfoot, Alberta Robert J. Ferguson and Robert R. Stewart |
| 3:30 | Porosity estimation using P-P and P-SV post-stack data: Blackfoot, Alberta Nicolas W Martin |
| 4:00 | Coupled P-P and P-S seismic interpretation of a Glauconitic channel, Blackfoot field, Alberta Susan L.M. Miller, Evsen O. Aydemir, Gary F. Margrave and Don C. Lawton |
| 4:30 | Fluid prediction using AVO cross-plotting techniques: A Bluesky example Jon Downton |
INTERPRETIVE IMAGING II (SPECIAL WORKSHOP SESSION)
Wednesday May 8th, 1:30 - 5:00 PM
Macleod Hall A Session
Chairmen: Charles Welsh, Talisman Energy and Larry Mewhort, Husky Oil
This session will be a special workshop on the Husky/Talisman Foothills data set.
| 1:30 | Introduction and Welcome Larry Mewhort and Charles Welsh |
| 1:35 | Some issues in the interpretive imaging of complex structure, with reference to the Husky/Talisman Foothills dataset Andy Skuce, Husky Oil |
| 1:55 | Summary oral presentations by poster presenters (two minutes each) All poster presenters |
| 2:25 | Poster Session Paradigm Geophysical - Fred Kierulf and Florian Romaescu Amoco Canada - Gary Murphy, Michael J. O'Brien, Samuel H. Gray Memorial University - Wen-jing Wu, Larry Lines, Andrew Burton, Han-xing Lu, William Jamison, Jinming Zhu, and R. Phillip Bording Landmark Graphics - Christof Stork Exxon Production Research - Cheryl Mifflin Integra Geoscience - Peter Baxter and Jon Downton Kelman Seismic - Ron Schmidt GX Technology - Mick Lambert University of Calgary - John Bancroft and Hugh Geiger Geo-X - Wen-Jing Wu, Oliver Kuhn and Tad Iwamoto Robertson's Research - Ron Silva |
| 3:55 | Panel Discussion |
| 4:15 | Questions and comments from the floor |
SEISMIC SURVEY METHODS AND DESIGN
Wednesday May 8th, PM
Glenview Room (Garden Terrace Level)
Session Chairmen: Mike Galbraith, Seismic Image Software and Stephen Chiu, Kelman Seismic
| 1:30 | Efficient offset reflection point computations without two-point ray-tracing V. Ohanian, G.D. Young, C.R. Dick, D.F. Fouquet and D.E. Larson |
| 2:00 | The application of the 3-D seismic technique for mapping near surface stratigraphy Michael K. Barnes and R. F. Mereu |
| 2:30 | 3-D VSP survey design Robert R. Stewart, Qi Zhang, and Zandong Sun |
| 3:00 | Designing 3-component 3-D seismic surveys Andreas Cordsen and Don Lawton |
| 3:30 | A quantified approach to survey evaluation and design L.G. Peardon and M.W. |
| 4:00 | "Mega-Bin" land 3-D seismic: Toward a cost effective "symmetric patch geometry" via .. regular sparial sampling in acquisition design and cooperative processing, for significantly improved SIN and resolution W.N. Goodway and B. Ragan |
| 4:30 | Some causes of artifacts in 3-D seismic surveys Mike Galbraith and Mike Hall |
SEISMIC PROCESSING II
Wednesday May 8th, PM
Macleod Hall B Session
Chairmen: Richard Thompson, Samson Canada and Vladan Simin, Integra Geoservices
| 1:30 | Filtering coherent noises using 2-D Gabor transform X.-G. Li and T. J Ulrych |
| 2:00 | Seismic signal band estimation using F-X spectra Gary F Margrave |
| 2:30 | A bootstrap procedure for velocity analysis M.D. Sacchi |
| 3:00 | Controlled stacking David Kessler, Luis Canales and Chung-Chi Shih |
| 3:30 | Quick verification of seismic data Penny Colton, David Gray, Bianca Gray |
| 4:00 | Proposed requirements for distributed, client server seismic processing systems In the context of common workspace operation Paul Hewitt and Ron Larson |
CASE HISTORIES: FRONTIERS AND FOREIGN
Thursday May 9th, AM
Glenbow Theatre Session
Chairmen: Ken Umbach, PanCanadian International and Elizabeth Clark, Mobil Oil
| 8:00 | Reservoir delineation through multivariate statistical analysis: a case history from the N.W. Shelf, Australia Keith Hirsche and David Ormerod |
| 8:30 | Seismic structure and allochthoneity: Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland J.A. Wright, P. Barnes, B. Hoffe and G. Quinlan |
| 9:00 | Structural, tectonic and seismo-stratigraphic study of the Terra Nova oil field, offshore N.F.L.D. Michael E. Enachescu, Steve C. Harding, Gerry R. Smee, Robert G. Briscoe, David J. Emery and Shane K. Hallstrom |
| 9:30 | Risk reduction vs. value of information: the cost of managing uncertainty in a North Sea venture Laura Kay Ethetton and Wm. D. Brumbaugh |
| 10:00 | 3-D Coherence Cube processing: Interpretation calibration of the coherence volume with examples from both onshore and offshore 3-D projects Dan Morris, Vasudhaven Sudhakar, Devon Dowell Tony Rebec |
| 10:30 | To drill or nor to drill: a case history in South Sumarra, Indonesia Leon Demers |
| 11:00 | Geostatistical characterization of fluvial reservoir system: an example from Southeast Asia K. Hirsche, P.L. Pichon, C. Gastaldi and G. Bitoun |
DEVELOPMENT AND RESERVOIR GEOPHYSICS
Thursday May 9th, AM
Macleod Hall A
Session Chairmen: Scott Jamieson, Ulterra Geoscience and Doug Pruden, Remington Energy
| 8:00 | Discriminant analysis and seismic attributes for reservoir monitoring John Eastwood |
| 8:30 | Case history: Drilling 46 wells based on seismic monitoring at Cold Lake John Eastwood |
| 9:00 | 3-D seismic waveform analysis for reservoir characterization and exploitation of reef edge oil in Swan Hill Unit #1 Fotios Kalantzis and M. Maklad |
| 9:30 | Reservoir visualization from 3D log property interpolation C. Corbett and E. Jansen |
| 10:00 | Estimating reservoir risk using stratigraphic modeling: an example from the Gulf of Mexico Laura-Kay Ethetton, Scott A. Bowman and Linda Smith-Rouch |
| 10:30 | Knowledge of reservoirs - Reservoir management and the future of geophysics Michael G. Kostashuk |
SEISMIC IMAGING AND ANISOTROPY
Thursday May 9th, AM
Macleod Hall B Session
Chairmen: John Varsek, Amoco Canada and Gary Margrave, University of Calgary
| 8:00 | Accuracy and robustness of reverse time migration Wen-jing Wu, Oliver Kuhn and Tad Iwamoto |
| 8:30 | Implicit interpolation in reverse time migration Jinming Zhu and Larry Lines |
| 9:00 | Forming an unmigrated zero-offset stacked section with no NMO using equivalent offset prestack migration Hugh D. Geiger and John C. Bancroft |
| 9:30 | Velocity sensitivity for equivalent offset prestack migration: a contrast in robustness and fragility John C. Bancroft and Hugh D. Geiger |
| 10:00 | Prestack imaging (PSI): an approach to better imaging in complex areas Ciprian Mihai and Jon Downton |
| 10:30 | Integrated Interpretation using gathers and depth converted seismic Fred Keirulf and Florian Romanescu |
| 11:00 | The relationship of Thomsen anisotropic parameters with the crack density in cracked media Kangan Fang and R. James Brown |
RESERVOIR GEOPHYSICS FORUM
Thursday May 9th, 1:30 - 5:00 PM
Macleod Hall A
Session Chairman: Larry Lines, Memorial University
- Reservoir characterization and geophysics in the 21st century
Larry Lines, Memorial University - If your discipline is represented, then the study must be integrated - or - Some pitfalls to avoid in order to achieve multi-disciplinary integration
Jack Caldwell, Geco-Prakla - The application of geophysical reservoir technology within a business perspective
Doug Uffen, Boyd Exploration - Theoretical and practical considerations of geostatistical reservoir characterization
Keith Hirsche, Western Geophysical - Reservoir porosity characterization using seismic 3-D data: a case history of the Shekilie "121" reef
Atul Nautiyal, Westward Energy Company - Usefulness of subjective error estimation in time depth conversion
Keith Young, Alberta Energy Company - The application of 3-D seismic technology to reservoir management
Matt Mickulich, Chevron Corp.
POSTERS
Wednesday May 8th, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Thursday May, 9th, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Glenmore Room (Garden Terrace Level)
- 3D converted wave processing: A case history
Gary Lorentz and Peter Cary - Seismic characterization of subsurface meteorite impact craters
Hans-Henrik Westbroek, Robert R. Stewart and Don C. Lawton - "A better mouse trap?"- evolution of the CMP
Randall M. Masuda - Acoustic and Elastic Models: "Why doesn't my synthetic march my data better?"
Jan Dewar - Geostatistical depth mapping: integration of seismic times with well tops
David L. Garner
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