Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
An ocean bottom seismic (OBS) node in the Gulf of Mexico passes an important repeatability test.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
Bottoms up: Ocean bottom seismic nodes prove their value – again – in the Gulf of Mexico’s Deimos Field.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By David Brown
Field (trip) of dreams: AAPG Honorary Member Roger Slatt is leading a research team in a reservoir characterization study of the Barnett Shale.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
Not everyone got caught unprepared for the latest swing in the world’s financial situation – in fact, some companies in the geophysical industry are seeing possible silver linings in today’s cloudy conditions.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Article
By John Sweet
Putting it together: Success at Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay was the result of a team effort involving geologists and geophysicists.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Bob Hardage
The methodology described here may benefit those who are confronted with the problem of interpreting complex structures from limited-quality 3-D seismic images.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 January, 2009
Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Bob Hardage
One technical barrier plaguing hydrocarbon exploration is the inability to see geologic targets below distorted salt layers that span large areas of numerous depositional basins. The complex geometrical shapes of most salt bodies distort trajectories of seismic raypaths to such an extent that uniform illumination of sub-salt targets cannot be achieved with conventional seismic technology.
If there is no uniform illumination of a target, a seismic image of that target cannot be correct.
A new technology that addresses this problem of non-uniform illumination of sub-salt targets is a concept called multi-azimuth data acquisition.
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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 December, 2008
Explorer Spotlight On…
Spotlight on: L. Frank Brown Jr.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 December, 2008
Explorer Emphasis Article
By David Brown
Drink up: Resource plays have uncorked an abundance of new opportunities, and almost all of them demand geologists be familiar with the “Sideways” approach. (Hint: Here a lateral move isn’t a bad thing.)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 December, 2008
Explorer Emphasis Article
The more the merrier: Geophysical crews set a productivity record in Oman by using two or more vibroseis trucks at the same time.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 02 November, 2008