CAGC Column

…The CAGC is proud to announce its 30th year anniversary! We were incorporated in March 1977. We will celebrate the year by planning some special events and commissioning a new logo to mark the year. And look for a special spring edition of The Source magazine. Gratuitous plug there! However…

Tracing the Industry

…ON THE MOVE... Kelman Technologies Inc. (KTI) is pleased to announce that Ruth Peach has joined their team as Sales Manager. Ruth will be responsible for selling seismic processing services to the Calgary market. Ruth has a BSc (Hons.) in Geology, and approximately 8 years of geotechnical sales and marketing…

Grapevine

…Conquest Seismic and Norex Conquest Seismic Services, a Division of Norex Exploration Services Inc. would like to thank all of its employees, clients and suppliers for their generous food donations during their annual food drive during December. Over 1,900 pounds of food was collected and donated to the Calgary Interfaith…

DHI / AVO best practices, methodology and applications

William Fahmy

…In 1997, ExxonMobil developed a company wide best practice to evaluate and understand the risk for DHI-dependent plays. Within this best practice, a robust controlled amplitude/ phase processing stream, rigorous analysis, and a calibrated DHI-rating system using both data quality and observed DHI characteristics were designed. The methodology is not…

Risk Management in Seismic Survey Design or “You Don’t Know that You Don’t Know?”

Paul Thacker and Les Corper

…You Know That You Know! Imagine you’re at the controls of an airplane. From movies and games, we all know how very easy it is to take off. You simply taxi to the end of the runway, line up, push the engine throttles forward, pull back gently on the stick…

Building the Perfect Storm

Douglas Iverson

…To be truly effective, a seismic operation must look beyond the initial technical parameters of subsurface imaging. With careful consideration, operational efficiencies, cost management and the technical requirements can be aligned effectively without sacrificing data quality. In short, the relationship between the technical, economical, operational, and program timing must be…

Calibration of Geopressure Predictions using the Normal Compaction Trend: Perception and Pitfall

Selim Shaker

…The prediction of pore pressure (PP) is primarily established based on the divergence of the petrophysical measurements from the normal compaction trend. In the transition zone between the hydrostatically pressured and geopressured systems, formation water is expelled gradually from sediments due to pressure gradient drop from deeper to shallower depth.…

Preparing for the Future in Geophysics

Alan Cohen

…Purpose and Scope This talk was prepared for the fall 2005 CSEG DoodleTrain in Calgary, Canada as the invited lunchtime presentation . Unfortunately, in late August 2005 I evacuated New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina and then spent several months trying to recover; therefore, the talk was never given. Fortunately,…

Petra Buziak

An Interview with Petra Buziak

…[Satinder]: Petra let’s begin by asking you about your educational background and your work experience? I was raised in Marsden Saskatchewan, and I took my Grade I to Grade XII there. When I was 18, I moved to Edmonton and went to NAIT in the Petroleum Resources Technology program. I…

Presidential Column

…In these last few days before Christmas, as I’m struggling to think of anything interesting to write about, summarizing highlights of the CSEG’s activities in 2006 springs to mind. In TV sitcoms, when they resort to retrospective episodes, you know the time has come for the series to be yanked…

Executive Message

…Turning Pages Every now and then I have the need to look at the CSEG Photo Directories. Generally just to look up someone I haven’t met in person in order that I will recognize him or her. Regrettably, the most recent edition has become somewhat dated, as I have noticed…

CAGC Column

…Happy New Year! A year passes so quickly and as I look back to January 2006, we were talking about many of the same things! – Elections. The media have done a fantastic job at making Climate Change one of the number one issues in the mind of the public.…

Tracing the Industry

…ON THE MOVE... Pat Barry is now working as a geophysical consultant in association with Boyd PetroSearch. He can be reached directly at 403-543-5369 or on cell at 403-828-7532. Nobuo Kawaguchi, formerly with Apache Canada, has joined the international exploration team at Husky Energy. Nobuo can be reached at (403)…

Grapevine

…Geomodeling Geomodeling Technology Corp., a leading innovator in geoscience software for the oil and gas industry, today announced that it has released SBED 2006 Version 3, highlighting enhanced bioturbation modeling and multi-phase upscaling functions. SBED is the only software for identifying reservoir potential through small-scale heterogeneity modeling and flow-based upscaling.…

The old and the new in seismic inversion

Brian Russell and Dan Hampson

…Introduction Seismic inversion is a technique that has been in use by geophysicists for over forty years. Early inversion techniques transformed the seismic data into Pimpedance (the product of density and P-wave velocity), from which we were able to make predictions about lithology and porosity. However, these predictions were somewhat…

Geophysics and the Drilling Location. Where is it, and how big is it?

Jim Ross

…When Sandy Lucas approached me about writing this piece my first thought was that ‘we all know what we do, why explain house building to house builders?’ However, as I thought about it, it occurred to me that given my present location maybe the thing to do was to contrast…

2006 Election of Officers Candidates

…Doug Bogstie President Over the past year I have sincerely enjoyed being the Vice President of our Society. It has been an interesting year dealing with a variety of issues that affect the CSEG. The collaboration with the CSPG has been a very positive and along with the commitment of…

Geophysics on the roof of the world

Martyn Unsworth

…1. Introduction For many people the name Tibet is associated with a mysterious and distant land inhabited by monks, nomads and yaks. Made popular by recent films, and with a unique culture, this perception of Tibet is certainly true. However, Tibet is also a natural laboratory where scientists can study…

Outreach at the Calgary Career Show, October 2006

…Where are the geophysicists of the future to be found? Who will replace us as we retire? How do we inform people about our exciting industry and entice them to consider a career in it? The Outreach committee is trying to spread the word by visiting high schools and participating…

An HS&E Perspective on the Changing Technologies in Seismic Acquisition

Kevin Pelletier and Bob Heath

…Introduction The introduction of new, light weight, cable-free seismic systems may inadvertently be increasing the risk of litigation liability for users of existing cable-based seismic systems. The latest cable-free systems offer considerable advantages in terms of Health and Safety, as well as reduced environmental impact, and may, by virtue of…