Petroleum Pride

Eve S. Sprunt

…The petroleum industry has a serious image problem both with the general public and with employees. Many of those working in the oil patch are less than complementary when they talk about their employers. For the last two decades the number of people in the industry has been shrinking. Today’s…

A Brief History of Canada’s Natural Gas Production

Dave Russum

…Natural gas has been the primary driver in Alberta’s growth over the past fifteen years. The graph shows the trend in Canadian marketed gas production (Bcf/d) since 1947 (CAPP Data). The red area shows the gas production from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) while gas production from Eastern Canada…

Implementation of a State-of-the-Art Monitoring system on Turtle Mountain

…On April 29th, 2003, during the Centennial remembrance ceremony for the disastrous Frank Slide, Premier Ralph Klein announced that the Province of Alberta would commit to implementing a state-of-the-art monitoring system for Turtle Mountain at a cost of $1 million dollars. AGS is providing geological technical expertise towards implementing this…

Executive Message

…With March of 2003, my current term as "Vice President of Lunches" draws to a close . (The position started in 1981 with Larry Fichtner as Second Vice President. The name changed to Director of Educational Services in 2001.) Annual Reports usually included lists of Luncheon Speakers, and the recipient…

Expert Answers

…Question What does it take to be a successful exploration geophysicist?   Answer 1 Well, as we all know, many factors contribute to successes on one’s career. But the critical ones are passion, learning and creativity, and networking and communication. Have passion, and a lot of it: in order to…

Tracing the Industry

…Whoops... I would like to extend my sincerest apologies to Shannon Peters. Shannon submitted an announcement in December and I goofed and forgot to include it. I beg forgiveness! Shannon Peters has joined Seismic Brokerage Services Ltd. You can reach Shannon at 262-4520 or shannon@seismicbrokerage.com. New job announcements... Niclas Christoffersson…

Grapevine

…Core Lab RTD's Client Open House Core Lab Reservoir Technologies Division hosted an Open House on January 29th. Core Lab RTD would like to thank the more than one hundred and fifty clients who braved the -30 degree temperatures to visit their new office location in Palliser Square and make…

Geo-Monitor

…August 2003: From the Directory Issue of CIM Bulletin (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum See www.cim.org); "The A.O. Dufresne Award for 2003 was awarded to ARTHUR A. BRANT, posthumously, "in recognition of his many contributions to the science and practice of mineral exploration, both in Canada and internationally."…

Mackenzie Delta: Fresh Look at an Emerging Basin

Christopher L. Bergquist, Peter P. Graham, and Dennis H. Johnston

…Introduction The Beaufort Mackenzie Basin (BMB) is emerging as a major potential source for the supply of future North American energy demands. The BMB has always been touted for its resource potential, however, as this abstract will show, there has been significant enhancement in the basin’s potential as a result…

Focus Intro: Environmental geophysics

Helen Isaac

…Environmental geophysics, like mining geophysics, is thought of, by some myopic Calgarians, as a poor relation of petroleum geophysics. However, much interesting and highly relevant work is being done in this field. Important issues such as the detection of contaminated sites for remedial clean-up of hazardous waste materials, determination of…

Seismic Gourmet

…Rajdoot Restaurant (Culinary Ambassador of India) So how exactly does one find oneself sitting in front of a computer about to embark a journey through the world of food and restaurant reviewing? Exactly the question that I asked myself about ten minutes ago! It starts out one day as an…

Tracing the Industry

…New job announcements... Marc Langlois has joined Key Seismic Solutions Ltd. as Manager, Applied Technology. Marc can be reached at 232-6557 or by email marc@keyseismic.com. Anders Torp will transfer from Perth, Australia to Calgary with Roxar. He has 7 years industry experience. Since August 1999, Anders has been an employee…

Adventures with GPR experiments through ice

Helen Isaac and Greg MacCulloch

…Abstract Three ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys were conducted across frozen lakes to investigate the practicality of the method for determining the depths of lakes for Environment Canada. Traverses acquired at Lake Louise with 25 MHz, 100 MHz and 200 MHz antennae imaged the bottom of the lake very well to…

Mapping groundwater in regolith and fractured bedrock using ground geophysics: A case study from Mal

Richard Kellett and Paul Bauman

…Summary Water supply in rural regions of southern Africa is complicated by the highly irregular nature of aquifers in weathered crystalline bedrock. Drilling success can be as low as 30%. Improvements in the success rate can be achieved by using simple geophysical investigations to target the thickest zones of weathering.…

Grapevine

…Sigma Hosts 28th Annual Cocktail Party Talk about traditions! Sigma hosted its 28th annual Cocktail Party with great success! Sigma's long-standing tradition of hosting it on American Thanksgiving makes it one of the mainstays of the geophysical community cocktail party circuit. As always, the highlight was the large number of…

Multi-method geophysical prospecting of the Moviola lui Deciov archaeological site, Romania

J.M. Maillol

…Abstract An archaeological geophysics survey was conducted on the Early Neolithic site of Moviola lui Deciov, in the Province of Banat, Romania. Magnetometry was used for the main prospection effort and a test of electrical resistivity imaging was conducted on a selected profile. In addition, magnetic susceptibility measurements were obtained…

AVO Modeling in Seismic Processing and Interpretation Part III. Applications

Yongyi Li, Jonathan Downton, and Yong Xu

…Introduction AVO modeling plays an active role in three areas: new technology development, QC data processing, and assisting data interpretation. This paper attempts to discuss these issues, with emphasis on the applications of AVO modeling in data processing and interpretation. Data modeling is introduced for its theoretical background and its…

Kurt Marfurt

An Interview with Kurt Marfurt

…Here Kurt, the tape is on. Is this a digital recorder? No, it’s a tape – an old-fashioned one! This is low tech for a big technology company! Oh well, this belongs to the CSEG. I need to look into getting a digital recorder. Anyway, let me begin by asking…

AVO analysis in the presence of NMO stretch and offset dependent tuning

Jonathan Downton

…Abstract The effects of NMO stretch and offset dependent tuning on the estimates of AVO inversion and analysis may be quantified by an analytic expression. This expression shows that these effects primarily distort the AVO gradient while essentially leaving the intercept unbiased. The influence of these distortions is largely controlled…

Seismic Exploration off Canada’s East Coast

Doug Bogstie and Andy Dyke

…CHAPTER ONE: The Setting In December of 1901 Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first transatlantic signal from Cornwall, England to St. John’s Newfoundland. The signal was received at a site that has come to be known as Signal Hill, from where you can overlook both the North Atlantic and North America’s…