Explorer Emphasis Article

State-of-the-art 3-D seismic technology led to a major gas discovery — and perhaps much more — in South Africa.

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Seismic technology: What's ahead? A road full of advances in computing, digital recording, massive channel counts, 3-D imaging, time-lapse 4-D ... just to name a few.

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Did you hear the one about the fella with a cell phone for an office and no seismic equipment, jockeying with the big seismic industry's guys for a job?

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Explorer Regions and Sections

This month's column is by Jorge/Jordi Ferrer Modolell, general chair of the 2003 AAPG International Conference and exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

This month's column is titled '3-D Seismic Sweeps Through Time.'

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Explorer Article

Anthropology and energy exploration may seem to be strange bedfellows, but when it comes to global efforts in exotic locations, it's an increasingly valuable marriage.

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Explorer Article

Too much information: When it comes to oil and gas exploration, how much data is enough -- and when is it too much?

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

This month's column is titled 'Advances in Spectral Decomposition and Reflectivity Modeling in the Frio Formation of the Gulf Coast.'

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The recent discovery of a spectacular gas hydrate glacier outcropping on the sea floor of Canada's Pacific margin focuses attention on a potentially huge energy resource.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Following the Ceiba discovery, Triton Energy acquired 4,200 square kilometers of 3-D seismic and embarked on a multi-well exploration campaign that resulted in three encouraging but commercially unsuccessful wells and two additional discoveries.

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VG Abstract

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

Request a visit from Juan I. Soto!

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DL Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) seismic-reflection surveys provide one of the most important data types for understanding subsurface depositional systems. Quantitative analysis is commonly restricted to geophysical interpretation of elastic properties of rocks in the subsurface. Wide availability of 3D seismic-reflection data and integration provide opportunities for quantitative analysis of subsurface stratigraphic sequences. Here, we integrate traditional seismic-stratigraphic interpretation with quantitative geomorphologic analysis and numerical modeling to explore new insights into submarine-channel evolution.

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Request a visit from Jacob Covault!

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DL Abstract

Around 170 million years ago, the Gulf of Mexico basin flooded catastrophically, and the pre-existing landscape, which had been a very rugged, arid, semi-desert world, was drowned beneath an inland sea of salt water. The drowned landscape was then buried under kilometers of salt, perfectly preserving the older topography. Now, with high-quality 3D seismic data, the salt appears as a transparent layer, and the details of the drowned world can be seen in exquisite detail, providing a unique snapshot of the world on the eve of the flooding event. We can map out hills and valleys, and a system of river gullies and a large, meandering river system. These rivers in turn fed into a deep central lake, whose surface was about 750m below global sea level. This new knowledge also reveals how the Louann Salt was deposited. In contrast to published models, the salt was deposited in a deep water, hypersaline sea. We can estimate the rate of deposition, and it was very fast; we believe that the entire thickness of several kilometers of salt was laid down in a few tens of thousands of years, making it possibly the fastest sustained deposition seen so far in the geological record.

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Request a visit from Frank Peel!

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