The end members of passive continental margins are characterized as non-volcanic or volcanic depending on the nature of the transition zone. Differences between these two types are usually reflected by the differences of ...

In recent years the Oil & Gas Industry has been searching for new technologies to increase 3D seismic resolution and fracture detection for shale unconventional reservoirs. Since most shale reservoirs are thin-layered and ...

My dissertation focuses on establishing a link between the rock heterogeneities and the fluid flow-related velocity dispersion and wave attenuation in sedimentary rocks, through both theoretical and experimental studies. From ...

Salt-body delineation plays a critical role in oil-and-gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Common practices for building a salt model rely on interpreting the top of salt first and then interpreting the base of salt on ...

Reflection seismic imaging of complex faulting and associated petroleum reservoirs adjacent to onshore salt domes in the Gulf Coast region is both expensive and time consuming. Modeling studies show that gravity gradiometry ...

Reflections from the top and bottom of beds thinner than λ/4 cannot be distinguished from one another due to the limit of seismic resolution. It would be advantageous for geoscientists to image thin beds below resolution, ...

The West Waha and Worsham Bayer fields, West Texas are a gas producing province with about seventy percent of its production from the Ellenburger group. The Mississippian limestone, Thirtyone formation and Fusselman group ...

The spatial correlation function has been introduced to the specific geophysical problem of theoretical characterization of effective elastic properties of gas shales. The spatial correlation function has been described ...

Constrained Least-Squares Spectral Analysis (CLSSA) is applied to seismic data for (1) stratigraphic layer thickness estimation, (2) stratigraphic visualization, and (3) Hydrocarbon indication. Results obtained from these ...

In general, a reservoir is formed by laminated layers of shale, sand, and other types of lithologies. Each layer has different elastic properties that are described by its own stiffness tensor, density, and thickness. A ...