Tracing the Industry

…How I got into Geophysics... Allan Feir, Precision Seismic Processing It was the early ‘70s, my education was done, so I decided it was time to see some of the world; I packed my bag and headed for England. It is amazing how fast time can fly when you do…

Grapevine

…New Places and Open Spaces Highview Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce they have moved into their new offices at Suite 700, 635 8th Avenue SW. They also have new neighbours down the hall. HooDoo Hydrocarbons have relocated to Suite 750, 635 8th Avenue SW, T2P 3M3. Congratulations to both…

Peter Bediz

An Interview with Peter Bediz

…[Oliver]: Peter, you’ve had an extremely long and successful career; could you tell us about a highlight that really stands out for you? I am truly pleased and honoured that I had the opportunity to train a great many people in my career. Those many experiences stand out for me.…

CSEG History – A Random “On-Line” Browse

Ron Larson

…An issue of the RECORDER with a specific focus on “Historical Perspectives” should have some kind of article on the CSEG’s own history. Fortunately much material has already been assembled and has been installed on the CSEG website. Notable, the Society’s web site contains significant excerpts from David Finch’s 1985…

The Canadian Seismic Data Brokerage Business

A Conversation with Barry Korchinski

…In November 2004, Barry Korchinski sat down with Carmen Swalwell and Ron Larson of the RECORDER for a discussion about the evolution of seismic data brokerage in Canada. Mr. Korchinski is something of a CSEG notable: CSEG President in 1995, and recipient of the Meritorious Service Award. He has been…

Another Look at MEMS Sensors… and Dynamic Range

John Gibson and Roy Burnett

…In an October 2003 CSEG RECORDER article, Tessman and Maxwell discuss the importance of vector fidelity in full-wave recording and the key design elements in achieving good fidelity. One important design element relates to tilt measurement and the proposed need for a sensor to be force balanced against gravity. Figure…

Modelling and imaging of an impact structure

Matteo Niccoli

…Introduction Of the more than 150 impact craters currently known, approximately 25% are associated with economic deposits and 17 are being actively exploited (Grieve and Masaytis, 1994). Brown (2002) highlighted the two most interesting aspects about the petroleum potential of impact craters: 1) mixed breccia deposits that formed during the…

Field Techniques

Helen Isaac

…In these reminiscences from the Oral History project, eminent geophysicists remember what it was like to work in the field in the days before the technological revolution. – Helen Isaac Craig Ferris: In 1936 I had been at the University of Oklahoma for about three years and I was offered…

Microseismic and Time-lapse Seismic Monitoring of a Heavy Oil Extraction Process at Peace River, Canada

Peter McGillivray

…Summary Peace River is Shell Canada’s in situ heavy oil production operation in northwestern Alberta, with estimated bitumen in place of 7 billion barrels. The current production strategy is to use multi-lateral horizontal wells to steam the bitumen saturated sand reservoir and to then use the same horizontal wells to…

Reservoir Characterization and Heavy Oil Production

Larry Lines, Ying Zou, and Joan Embleton

…Summary Given the prediction that most of Alberta oil production in the 21st Century will come from existing heavy oil fields, there is a growing demand for the synergistic integration of geology, geophysics, and reservoir engineering in order to optimize production from these fields. Effective reservoir characterization and production will…

Reservoir characterization by combining time-lapse seismic analysis with reservoir simulation

Ying Zou, Laurence Bentley and Laurence Lines

…Summary This study integrates time lapse seismic methods with reservoir simulation to image a steam front and by-passed oil at the Pikes Peak heavy oil field in Saskatchewan, Canada. Two seismic 2D surveys, acquired in 1991 and 2000, respectively, had been reprocessed to preserve amplitudes. Cyclical steam stimulation (CSS) of…

Multi-Disciplinary Geoscience: The ‘Brenda’ North Sea Development

Ian Jones, R. Christensen, J. Haynes, J. Faragher, I. Novianti, H. Morris and G. Pickering

…Introduction The North Sea is a mature hydrocarbon province, with many fields having passed their production peak, and some fields even abandoned. As part of an incentive programme to encourage new exploration and/or revitalization of existing or abandoned fields, the UK government has introduced a number of schemes in recent…

An efficient 3D explicit finite-difference prestack depth migration

J. Ren, C. Gerrard, J. McClean, M.Orlovich and A. Long

…Summary An explicit, constrained operator is presented here for wavefield extrapolation in 3D wave equation depth migration. The migration cost and image quality benefit from its reduced number of independent coefficients within the operator, negligible numerical anisotropy, and flexibility that allows for different propagation angles and step sizes in the…

Statistics Made Easy, Nineteen Times Out of Twenty

Jan Dewar

…True story: An interpreter – new to AVO – upon being presented with P-reflectivity and S-reflectivity sections, said, “Two sections? I can hardly cope with just the structural stack section. How do you expect me to manage two?” Wouldn’t you have thought more information would make his job easier, not…

Executive Message

…Volunteers, Volunteers, Volunteers… The CSEG is a great organization! Whether you are Calgary-based and are used to all of our local functions, or in St. John’s reading the RECORDER, or in Australia visiting our luncheons web casts, I am sure you will agree that the CSEG is an amazing society…

CAGC Column

…From the CAGC, we wish a happy New Year to all. As a new year dawns it is a time to look forward as to where the Industry is being taken and what major issues will shape the seismic marketplace. I am pleased to announce our current Vice Chair, Vince…

Expert Answers

…Question 1 In the 1970s and the early 1980s, geophysicists working in offshore areas relied on spotting anomalies, where not being so knowledgeable about structural geology was not so much of a problem. In other words the attitude was to pick up these anomalies without going into why they were…

Seismic Gourmet

…Rouge (French Calgary Style) Seems like it was just yesterday that I started writing this piece and yet here we are introducing another new year for the recorder. So since it’s a new year I thought I’d head to a new style of food that hasn’t yet been covered in…

Tracing the Industry

…On the move… Direct Digital Online Inc. welcomes Tammy Bauer to our team of staff bringing 15 years of industry experience. We would also like to announce our move to a new and more spacious office @ Suite 100, 602 – 11 Avenue S.W. Pat Shannon can be reached at…

Grapevine

…MCI Macdonaldcole inc. My thanks to Judith Cole who has told me of all the great things happening at macdonaldcole inc.! Some may know her as Judith MacDonald…so there is the first announcement…a name change! The team is settling into the new Southbend Business Park location and have welcomed both…