2009 Election of Officers Candidates

…Jon Downton President I was born and raised in Calgary. Growing up in Calgary exposed me to the oil and gas industry and some of the careers associated with it. As a kid I enjoyed rock collecting, and as I enjoyed math and physics in high school I decided to…

CAGC Column

…2008 might be remembered as “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” From record high everything in the summer the economy and stock market crashed hard over a few short months. Beyond fundamentals we have continued to see weakness through fear alone. Even stoic investors…

Science Break: Occam’s Razor

…Mathematics is the language of science, and a language in which I am admittedly only semi-literate. In spite of my lack of mathematical sophistication I am keenly aware that many of the behind-the-scenes mathematical techniques, principles and assumptions we use today have their roots in human thoughts which significantly predate…

Tracing the Industry

…ON THE MOVE... Geokinetics Inc. (AMEX: GOK) announced the appointment of T. Diane Anderson to the newly created position of Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective November 1, 2008. Reporting to Richard Miles, the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Anderson will be responsible for the oversight…

Grapevine

…Light Up The World Silent Auction… needs your help! Volunteers needed! The Light Up The World Silent Auction has been part of our spring convention for five years, raising awareness and funding (over $52,000 to date) for this most worthy endeavour. LUTW is a Canadian humanitarian initiative whose chief goal…

Reflections on the Future of Applied Geophysics

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To Kill or to Complement: Three Technology Improvements in Foothills Seismic Imaging

Rob Vestrum and Jon Gittins

…Abstract The nature of technology development is to improve on current, established methods. New technology can supersede older technology, but often the older method has certain characteristics– robustness, low cost, ease-of-use, etc– that give the older method longevity in the face of its upstart rival. When dealing with seismic data…

An introduction to common offset vector trace gathering

Xinxiang Li

…Summary This paper is an introductory review of the recently developed concept of common offset vector (COV) trace gathering. The COV trace gathering is a 3D generalization of conventional 2D offset gathering. A COV gather is a similar but different representation of a common-offset common azimuth gather. For many types…

Highlights of Petroleum and Crustal Framework of the US Chukchi Shelf: Key Results from the ChukchiSPAN Survey

Menno Dinkelman, Naresh Kumar, James Helwig, Pete Emmet and James Granath

…Summary The US Chukchi Shelf is a highly prospective petroleum province with estimated mean technically recoverable resources of more than 29 billion barrels (4.6 billion cubic meters) of oil equivalent (MMS, 2006). Because of the remoteness of the area offshore of northwest Alaska and the high cost of operations, there…

Personal Professionalism and the Geophysics Practitioner

Tom Sneddon

…Geophysics is a great profession. Much of the technology we Geoscientists take for granted has its roots firmly embedded in solutions to earth science’s problems developed by geophysicists. This is certainly true in the Alberta oil and gas industry. We peer deep into and beneath the Earth’s oceans from space,…

Weed Awareness and the Seismic Industry

Andrew Stiles

…The Seismic Industry prides itself on having a relatively small environmental footprint and an attitude of continuous improvement. Setting up our project areas to renew themselves through natural processes is always the desire d outcome. When we look at the two biggest human initiated threats to biodiversity, we come up…

Bruce Hart

An Interview with Bruce Hart

…Bruce, let’s begin by asking you about your educational qualifications and your work experience. I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Geology from McMaster University back in the early 80s. At the time I wanted to stay away from the Petroleum Industry. I was mostly interested in sedimentary geology so I…

Presidential Column

…Nominations / Elections Your comments are solicited in regards to the nomination and election process for CSEG executive positions. Whether you are a new member, a member of long standing, a volunteer member on any committee, a past president, a past executive member, a member who was nominated but not…

Executive Message

…As I write this article, the world is experiencing a major financial adjustment that undoubtedly will have a profound effect on our industry. How this crisis will settle out is yet to be determined, but one thing is for sure: there are no experts who know what the ultimate outcome…

CAGC Column

…A Crisis in Confidence: the Subject Line from my financial guy’s email in October Excerpts follow: (Re: TSX) Most of the damage this has occurred in the month of September / beginning of October, where the index has realized declines of roughly 27%. The fall has been fast, violent, and…

Science Break: Skin Colour

…Without too much thought a person would conclude that human skin colour tends to be darker in populations originating near the equator, and increasingly lighter as one moves into higher latitudes. But why is that? How to explain exceptions to this general rule, such as the darker skinned Inuit? And…

Tracing the Industry

…ON THE MOVE... Geomodeling Technology Corp. is pleased to announce that Mr. Azer Mustaqeem has joined Geomodeling as the Product Manager for VisualVoxAt. Azer will be an important part of our team as we work to develop a product based on your industry requirements. Over the next few months Azer…

Grapevine

…2009 CSEG Ski Spree The CSEG Ski Spree committee cordially invites you and your families to this year’s Ski Spree! We are pleased to announce the new dates of: February 27-March 1, 2009. Registration will open on November 17, 2008 at 8:00am. At this time, applications will be posted on…

Oil Sands Reservoir Characterization. An Integrated Approach.

Laurie Weston Bellman

…Introduction The Athabasca oil sands contain more than a trillion barrels of oil within the Cretaceous McMurray Formation of northeastern Alberta. In most of the oil sands area, the McMurray Formation is generally considered to be a compound estuarine valley system characterised by multiple cuts and fills. It is bounded…

Calibrated AVO and LMR analysis using a new DHI flat-spot AVO class 6 fluid contact to mitigate reservoir risk at Stonehouse, offshore Nova Scotia

Bill Goodway, Chris Szelewski, Steve Overell, Norm Corbett and Terry Skrypnek

…Abstract This article describes the Amplitude Variation with Offset ( AVO) and Lambda-Mu-Rho (LMR) analysis that followed the Pre-stack Depth Migration (PSDM) of a 2,000 km2 3D covering the shallower, prospective part of the relinquished deep water Stonehouse license offshore Nova Scotia (Figure 1). Figure 1. Location map of 3D…