Executive Message

…A year ago I joined the CSEG executive as the Assistant Director of Finance under the expert guidance of Kelly Jamison, Director of Finance, for the first year of a two year term. A year has now passed with Kelly taking a well-deserved rest as his term is completed; I…

CAGC Column

…I found myself on a tour of the oil sands in April thanks to the Energy Council of Canada and Suncor Energy. What a tremendous opportunity this was. Arguably the tours arranged through industry are more in depth and one gets to see more but Suncor Energy also works with…

CSEG Foundation Outreach

…The PDAC International Convention, Trade Show and Investors Exchange began in 1932 and today it is the event of choice for the world’s mineral industry. This year there were over 30,000 participants from 120 different countries, seven of which were student representatives from the University of Regina Geology Department. This…

Through the Eyes of a Student

…I have just completed the first half of a two year diploma at SAIT in “Exploration Information Technology (EXPT)” and I would like to give you a student’s perspective of my experiences during this time. Shortly after classes began in September 2011, our class was offered a chance to attend…

Tracing the Industry

…As many of you know, I am in the placement business. I often use the slang term headhunter to describe what I do. I also use networking extensively in my business. So I was very flattered when I was asked to speak to the students attending the Alberta Student Energy…

Grapevine

…Hello May! As of May 1st, we have just 66 more sleeps until the start of the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede! Not that I’m counting… Hopefully everyone who attended the CSEG/CSPG/CWLS GeoConvention found the experience worthwhile both technically and for networking opportunities. Huge thanks to the MANY volunteers…

Processing 3-C Heavy Oil Data for Shallow Shear-wave Splitting Properties: Methods and Case Study

Richard Bale, Tobin Marchand, Keith Wilkinson, Kurtis Wikel, Robert Kendall

…Summary We demonstrate several aspects of processing 3-C data to obtain anisotropy information from shear-wave splitting. This includes: analysis for unknown or uncertain field orientations of the receivers; a new method of splitting analysis which uses both radial and transverse component data to estimate the S1 direction, which is compared…

Integrated Time-lapse Monitoring of a Morrow Reservoir using Multicomponent Seismic and Flow Simulation, Postle Field, Oklahoma

Nataly A. Zerpa and Thomas L. Davis

…Summary The Upper Morrow sandstones in the western Anadarko Basin have been prolific oil producers for more than five decades. Detection of Morrow sandstones is a major problem in the exploration of new fields and the characterization of existing fields because: (1) they are often very thin, (2) they are…

A Brief History of Depth… and Time Seismic Imaging

Samuel Gray

…From the 1920s to the present, seismic imaging (“migration”) has helped the oil and gas industry locate hydrocarbon traps inside the Earth. Migration has evolved and improved over the years, and it is now used routinely for structural imaging, seismic velocity estimation, and amplitude analysis, among other applications. It is…

GeoConvention 2012 Luncheon Speakers

…Dr. Michael Byers Monday, May 14, 2012 11:30am – 1:30pm Imperial Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Hotel Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. His work focuses on Arctic sovereignty, climate change, the law of the sea, and Canada-US-Russian relations.…

Geostatistical inversion of reflection data from thin bed coals

Jason M. McCrank, Don C. Lawton, and Cheran Mangat

…Abstract A 3D seismic data set was acquired near Alder Flats, Alberta, to image several coal zones of the Ardley Coals. Deterministic inversion of the data shows a band-limited acoustic impedance result that over estimates the very low impedance of the coals as well as overestimating the thickness of the…

Presidential Column

…As incoming CSEG President for 2012, I would like to first thank outgoing President Larry Herd for all his help and guidance in getting me up to speed on the internal workings of the CSEG. Larry did an excellent job of summarizing last year’s activities in the March issue of…

Executive Message

…This time of year is transition time for the CSEG Executive committee. As such, I’d like to take the time to thank Barrie Jose for his work as the outgoing Director of Member Services. Barrie has been a great mentor to me, and a real pleasure to work with. I’d…

CAGC Column

…In a recent presentation by the Petroleum Human Resources Sector Council (PHRSC) the next few years through to 2015 were dubbed the period of Challenge, Choice and Change. Challenge is relatively straightforward including items such as technology, cost management, social license and demographics. These are items our Industry and our…

CSEG Foundation Outreach

CSEG Scholarship Report

Tracing the Industry

…This month I would like to tell you about a wonderful restaurant that we recently visited. The Laurier Lounge in the Beltline District. Their speciality is fondue, and it was indeed special! They have a varied menu and we will be back in the near future to sample some of…

Grapevine

…Hello May! As of May 1st, we have just 66 more sleeps until the start of the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede! Not that I’m counting… Hopefully everyone who attended the CSEG/CSPG/CWLS GeoConvention found the experience worthwhile both technically and for networking opportunities. Huge thanks to the MANY volunteers…

Reservoir vs. Seal Pressure Gradients: Perception and Pitfalls – Based on Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Selim S. Shaker

…There is confusion about the calculation of pore pressure gradient in permeable beds (reservoirs) versus very low permeable beds (seals) especially in the geopressured section. The four subsurface geopressure zones, introduced in this paper, explain the fundamentals of pressure measurements and predictions of reservoirs vs. seals. Reservoir and seal pressure…

Andy Williamson

An Interview with Andy Williamson

…Andy, let's begin by asking you about your educational background and your work experience. I graduated from Queen's University, Kingston, in 1985 with a B.Sc. Honours degree in Geological Engineering majoring in Geophysics. I was always interested in geology, so the program at Queen's provided the opportunity to merge that…

The inaugural CSEG Symposium 2012

John Fernando

…Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy The seeds of the CSEG symposium were sown with Satinder Chopra’s presentation to the CSEG executive in October 2011. Being a person who leaves “no stone unturned” in his quest to make his efforts succeed, the…