Imaging the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline and its Impact on Exploration in Fold and Thrust Belts

Andrew C. Newson

…The hydrocarbon exploration of the Western Canada Fold and Thrust Belt (WCFTB) (Figure 1) is over 100 years old. For the last 70 years it has been greatly aided by seismic imaging techniques which have provided an understanding of the deep structures. Even so, this process is still full of…

Land Seismic Acquisition Testing Strategies and Results – Southern Chad, Africa 2013-2015

Andrea Crook, Paul Stephenson and Chaminda Sandanayake

…Over the past four years, Glencore has acquired four 3D seismic surveys covering 1200 km2, 216 2D seismic lines covering 4500 km and twenty-three seismic acquisition tests in Chad (Figure 1). Seismic acquisition testing provided tremendous benefit by improving subsurface imaging, increasing operational efficiency and reducing costs. Test results were…

Marie Hong

An Interview with Marie Hong

…Marie, tell us about your early education and your work experience? I graduated from Queen’s University in the 80’s with a Geological Engineering Degree, Geophysics option. Our graduating geophysics class was small – about 15 people, with half of the graduates staying in Ontario to work in the mining industry,…

President’s Message

…There is a lot going on this month – so wrap up warmly, grab a beverage, find a comfortable seat and enjoy what the RECORDER has to offer this month. On this page we’ll have a quick look at CSEG membership renewal, Past President’s Luncheon, Chief Geophysicist Forum, Technical Luncheon,…

Executive Message

…Fiscal Responsibility In The CSEG When you do an internet search on Fiscal Responsibility the following definitions can be found and it is usually associated with government: Balanced budget – a budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts. It means keeping the debt at a sustainable level…

CAGC Column

…Let’s talk about Canada’s economy. The commodities boom, which had shielded Canada from the worst effects of the global financial crisis, has ended, revealing economic malaise. GDP and productivity have been growing at a plodding pace, firms do not innovate enough and infrastructure is overburdened. Consumer debt and house prices…

Committee Highlight

…CSEG Technical Luncheon Committee The CSEG technical luncheons have been a cornerstone of the CSEG calendar for as long as members can remember. Participants, companies and presenters alike, enjoy the list of speakers each year. Some technical luncheons have boasted attendance of upwards of 400 people in round numbers. Year…

Science Break: DSLR Cameras

…The amount of sophisticated technology packed into a modern digital single lens reflex camera is simply astounding. In this article we’ll look at three of a DSLR camera’s most scientifically interesting components: the SLR mechanism itself, the camera lens motor, and the image sensor. Single Lens Reflex A single lens…

Volunteer Spotlight

…Chief Geophysicists Forum At a 7am breakfast meeting, four times per year, the CSEG Chief Geophysicists Forum (CGF) meets. They act as a think tank for the CSEG and work on specific goals based on suggestions by the CSEG Executive, committees or individual members. There are presently 60+ members of…

Tracing the Industry

…Moving On... Sandra Snaith would like to let her fellow colleagues and friends know she has left the Seismic Industry to pursue her dreams. You can contact her at 403-899-5927, or personal email sandrasnaith@hotmail.com for coffee. Graduate Student Profiles An integral part of the geophysical and geoscience industry is the…

Grapevine

…CSEG Doodlespiel Registration Deadline December 18th On behalf of the 2016 Doodlespiel Committee, I would like to invite you to the 44th annual CSEG Doodlespiel. As Chairman of this year’s Doodlespiel committee I am excited to promote and participate in the 44th Doodlespiel to be held in Banff, Alberta January…

CSEG 2016/2017 Executive Election

…Marian Hanna Incoming President (Elected As Vice President In 2015) All over the world, lives are touched in some way by the oil and gas business. That impact can be positive, negative or somewhere in between but nevertheless, the impression we create as geophysicists in Canada is important. Our industry…

Imaging the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline and its Impact on Exploration in Fold and Thrust Belts

Andrew C. Newson

…LOFF8 is part of a unique experimental seismic program that was shot across the Laramide Structures of the Western Canadian Fold and Thrust Belt expressly to evaluate long offset, high intensity acquisition parameters. It is 52 kilometres long and runs NE to SW across the undeformed sediments of the Western…

Intro to November Focus: Programming in Geoscience

Matteo Niccoli

…There have been two instances so far during my career as a geoscientist in which programming has been the key ingredient to solving a problem. The first was in 2003 during my graduate research work at the University of Calgary. I was tasked with the analysis of multicomponent data recorded…

“Small software” to the Rescue

Steve Lynch

…Over the years I have heard Software Development described any number of ways. The one that fits best is to me the statement that it is “a celebration of the brute force machismo of mutant hero developers”. I don’t know about the hero part but I am certainly one of…

Open Collaboration: Hackathons and Tomorrow’s Subsurface Software

Matt Hall

…There’s a quiet revolution happening in subsurface science and engineering software. The last one happened about 12 years ago when powerful Linux and Windows PCs dropped under $20k and displaced Sun workstations, lowering the bar to fast, attractive 3D visualization. But, looking back, it happened in slow motion and at…

Feasibility in Setting up a Rayleigh Wave Explorer in Matlab

Enrico Caffagni

…Why.. programming? (begin) The word ‘Program’ (Wiktionary, 2006) derived from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from the verb προγράφω (prográphō, πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”)). ‘If I write before’, I should have already planned and thought what to write. Programming is conceptually…

Programming a Seismic Program

Evan Bianco and Matt Hall

…Programming is becoming an increasingly useful skill for the modern geoscientist. I don’t mean to suggest that all geoscientists should become software developers and start making full-blown desktop software applications. But programming can and will super-charge your work, making you more productive and more thorough. We can write code to…

Learning by Doing

Matteo Niccoli

…All the resources below were accessed on 18 August, 2015. Python Scientific Installation If you want to install Python, which you would need to run many of the resources in this section, and the IPython Notebook from Evan Bianco’s article, I recommend using the Anaconda free Python distribution, which can…

Marilyn Mawdsley

An Interview with Marilyn Mawdsley

…How did you get into the oil industry? I was born into the industry. My father was a geologist during the golden days of frontier exploration in Alberta. He started his career at Texaco which was later sold to Exxon in the late 1980s, long after my Dad left there.…